The Stargate game

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-08-09 04:41pm

OK is there any new info on this and what was link to official site?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-08-09 04:47pm

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2005-08-09 04:48pm

It seems that JoWood wasn't satisfied with the quality of the programming team, and pulled the plug on it for the time being.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-08-09 04:50pm

BTW, the site's still up, though no longer updated.

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2005-08-09 06:56pm

From what I've been reading it, it looks far more likely that Perception was getting annoyoed with the complete lack of marketing and advertising from their publiser and were threatening to shop around for someone else. So JoWood terminated the contract and made a money grab.

Frankly I think its absurd that JoWood are claiming they own the source code and rights to the game...when Perception came to THEM originaly looking for someone to publish THEIR game after THEY got MGM's permission. Hell if the game is so horrible that JoWood want to TERMINATE the contract rather then try and put the date back, why the hell would they be interested in the Source Code anyway? Because if they find a new developer they are going to be starting all over again for all intents and purposes. Nah, this is just a thinly described grab.

And while I agree an October release date was probably too soon, they were steadily cleening the game up, it was really only in alpha form at E3 and apparently they didn't think it was ready for a showing at all, but JoWood was refusing to do ANYTHING so Perception did it themselves as best they could.

Hell, looking at JoWood's last efforts in the field of gaming they sure have no ground to claim something is crap...

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2005-08-09 08:16pm

Interesting. It seems that the games quality issues are directly related to JoWood's bad business planning.

Rightous Fist Of Heaven · Post by **Rightous Fist Of Heaven** » 2005-08-12 11:16am

Dunno if people are already aware of this, but noticed this bit of news on Gamershell

Stargate SG-1: The Alliance Not Cancelled

A week ago, JoWooD announced that the development of Stargate SG-1: The Alliance has been cancelled because developer Perception Games "does satisfy neither our quality requirements nor the fans expectations". In response to this, Perception announced that the company is the official licensee of MGM on Stargate SG-1: The Alliance. Any suggestion that JoWooD has rights to Stargate SG-1: The Alliance upon termination of the contract is incorrect and not based on commercial or legal fact. Development on the game will continue uninterrupted at Perception’s Sydney studio.

So it seems that the only issue now is to find a new publisher for it.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2005-08-12 12:19pm

VE3D posted Perception's response to JoWooD:

Perception wrote:Sydney, Australia, 12th of August, 2005; Perception Pty Ltd would like to rectify certain statements that have been made to the press by JoWooD Productions. To be clear, Perception is the official licensee of MGM on Stargate SG-1: The Alliance. Any suggestion that JoWooD has rights to Stargate SG-1: The Alliance upon termination of the contract is incorrect and not based on commercial or legal fact.

Development on the game will continue uninterrupted at Perception's Sydney studio. Perception is committed to giving fans the best gaming experience possible.

Ben Lenzo, CEO of Perception said, "We view it as unfortunate that JoWooD would elect to make such misleading and libelous comments to the media and the marketplace. Over the last 9 months, JoWooD has openly acknowledged being in breach of contract in a number of areas including many legal and confidentiality breaches as well as several financial defaults for work performed by Perception and accepted by JoWooD."

Perception has tried to work with JoWooD to resolve these issues for months but to no avail. This resulted in several breach notices being served on JoWooD, giving them ample time to remedy. As these newest issues had not been resolved by the August 5th 2005, Perception gave notice that all outstanding issues would need to be resolved by Monday August 8th 2005, or Perception would terminate its contract with JoWooD.

"It's disappointing to hear of this so called termination via the press on the basis of a "get in first" tactic. This further suggests that JoWooD do not understand the terms of the contract. We are not surprised by their behavior or lack of appreciation for the goodwill Perception has afforded JoWooD on many occasions," said Lenzo

Perception has begun personal prosecution proceedings against both the CEO, Albert Seidl and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of JoWooD, Andreas Rudas, for the libelous comments made in their press release and will use all legal remedies available to it for the substantial monies owed to it by JoWooD.

"Perception will not allow its name to be tarnished in such a manner and view such matters extremely seriously and will always protect the reputation of our staff, our products, licensing partners and the company."

Perception will not discuss any further the outstanding issues with JoWooD in public as legal action is underway. We look forward to the release of Stargate SG-1: The Alliance.

This is going to be interesting, to say the least.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-08-12 02:16pm

If they can pull the libel case into an Australian court, JoWood & Co is up the creak without a paddle.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2005-08-12 02:23pm

This story is getting fucking weird...

Hopefuly the game does get a delay so that game play issues can be settled and fixed. As I said before, the game had merit, its just the E3 video looked very bad.