You have GOT to be kidding. SG1's writing has gone to hell since last season, and turning it into "Far(scape)Gate SP2" has had laughably depressing results.

Inserting cookie cutter characters from another show was just disasterous. SG1 should have died and let Atlantis take over when RDA and Don Davis decided to leave the regular cast. Then maybe the drama of one of the Stargate shows would at least be able to hold a candle to the dramatic quality in Galactica (Don't turn this into a Starbuck discussion. Let it go).

As forthe game, I can speak from direct personal experience that the poster who said that the game was a victim of politics, rather than quality is absolutely correct. There was a Game I worked on that involved IP from Warner and assets from "the cancelling publisher" that needed components from both to move to a new publisher. The proverbial "suits" at the "the cancelling publisher" let the deal lie on the desk until the project was no longer viable. Even though they would have received a drop check for $850K for the assets.

That should show you just how much sense the game industry makes.

Condolences to the Dev team...I do indeed feel your pain.

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.....and not surprisingly people like Overon and wildone were once again proven to not know what the heck they are talking about while shooting their mouths off anyway.

Suggesting that "Good games don’t get cancelled" is as about a Clueless and infantile statement as you will find on this board. Which is saying a lot, because about 90% of the posts here are clueless and infantile.

I wanted this game so bad, with the voices of all the original members of SG1, this would have been super.

But I guess MGM didn't think the game was good enough to be related to the SG1 franchise, so maybe it's a good day?

Firefly gets cancelled but Andromeda went on to make how many seasons? How many did "Enterprise" get for that matter? Surface is also on it's second season, that show isn't too hot either.

SG1, BSG, and Firefly are some of the best scifi shows ever imo.

Good movie. Stupid TV show. If it was any good it would have been cancelled years ago

A point proven by both Firefly and Futurama - the good shows get cancelled and shows like Battlestar Galactica get a second season. (Ok, I know Futurama had four seasons, but my point stands).

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Just to address a previous comment:

"Good" (and even Great) games get cancelled in this industry *all the time*. Games that make money are eventually shipped. Sometimes games that ship are both good and money makers, but don't confuse the two. Rarely do we actually get good games, we just get money makers the majority of the time.

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I love Sg-1, and I was looking forward to this game. I wonder what the are going to do with all of the unused assests such as the voice recordings by the actors. It would be nice to see a company like Raven step in and take this over. Or maybe MGM will stop stonewalling Perception and let them finally publish the game.

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From one of the staff members at Perception:

"For the last couple of months, we have had several good offers from interested publishers. They only needed one thing - MGM's approval. Since MGM are the owners of the Stargate license, everything needs to be approved by them, even new publisher contracts. So, when we approached MGM about these contracts...MGM basically sat on their hands and did nothing. They didn't flat out say no, but they didn't say yes either. They expressed concerns with areas of the game. We addressed those concerns. Still no publisher approval. We showed them other offers from publishers, and that said publishers were asking for more information on the license. Did MGM provide it? No, even though contractually they were supposed to.

In the end it was pretty obvious MGM wanted the project canned for some reason that eludes everyone except them, but they didn't want to be the ones to do it. So, they just sat on their hands and did nothing for several months, to the point where Perception could not afford to keep working on the game knowing that they didn't have MGM's approval, and will probably never get it. Developers need publishers to fund the creation of a game. Without the publisher, the developer gets no income. Without MGM's approval, Perception couldn't sign a publisher. So the equation is pretty simple. There's only so long a developer can hold on financially without publisher backing.

As of about Friday the 20th of January 2006, at about 1pm Sydney time, the title "Stargate SG-1: The Alliance" was terminated for all SKU's. This also means the entire development team was "let go". I am now out of a job. After putting blood, sweat and tears into this thing for the last year and a half, and pulling some ridiculous hours on more occasions I can count, it's all for nothing."

I don't think you can infer anything about the quality of the product.

I think you can. Products that the publisher thinks can earn a profit get published. If the money put in is greater than the money the publisher expects to get out is when games get cancelled. If the publisher is putting money into development and the result is not up to par, the cost/benefit analysis results in cancellations.

Good movie. Stupid TV show. If it was any good it would have been cancelled years ago.

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"good games don't get cancelled"

hmmm... clearly you don't work in the game industry!

This game has been cancelled due to politics by the sounds of it. I don't think you can infer anything about the quality of the product.

Well relatively speaking, I don't think the movie was lame and tv show either. Relatively speaking to the dozens of other stuff out there. Stargate is better. In my not so humble opinion.

Eh, I'll admit the movie was pretty lame. It fits in to the TV series well enough, but the TV series is much better done in comparison.

A lame movie, lame TV show..game prob would have followed

Well relatively speaking, I don't think the movie was lame and tv show either. Relatively speaking to the dozens of other stuff out there. Stargate is better. In my not so humble opinion.

A lame movie, lame TV show..game prob would have followed

Good games don't get cancelled.
So I find it unlikely that the game was being developed in a quality product.


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As O'Neill would say: Doh!