Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the start-up company developing the Stargate Worlds massively multi-player on-line role-playing game (MMORPG), is apparently experiencing financial difficulties ahead of a previously promised early 2009 production release of the game. Someone has anonymously started a website counting up the days since the CME employees have been paid:
http://days-since-cheyenne-mountain-employees-have-been-paid.com/
A manager at Cheyenne Mountain responded with this statement, posted here:
“At Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, we have always been upfront with the media and our fans that we are a start up. Like many start ups, we face the same cash-flow issues that all pre-revenue companies face. We have maintained a core of dedicated investors, but the new economic realities are forcing us to seek out additional sources of funding and that’s what we’re doing.”
“We continue to move forward on the Stargate Worlds project. We recently completed a successful phase of closed beta testing and we will start a second phase early in 2009. We invite all of your readers to come to our site, check out our fantastic community and sign up for our beta.”
Let’s hope CME overcomes their cash-flow issues. While still very rough, the beta version of the game shows great promise. After all that work, we hope Stargate Worlds does not go the way of the previous Stargate video game, Stargate SG-1: The Alliance, which failed early in 2006.