Comme vous le savez sûrement, le jeu est sans éditeur depuis le mois de Juillet (cf. affaire Jowoo vs Perception). D'aprés une de nos sources (fiable) au sein de l'équipe de développement de Perception en Australie, il semblerait que MGM ces derniers mois aurait tout fait pour que la recherche d'un nouvel éditeur n'aboutisse pas. Quand à Perception sans source de financement ils auraient decidsé de mettre un terme au projet au début du mois de Janvier, l'équipe est donc dissoute et le projet abondonné. Perception ou MGM devrait publier un communiqué de presse dans ce sens dans les jours à venir.

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Voici le message qui nous à été adressé :

As many of you know, for the last year and a half I've been on the development team at Perception in Sydney, working on the title "Stargate SG-1: The Alliance". Many of you also know the legal trouble and the falling out we had with ex-publisher JoWood back in August last year. Since then we have been trying to secure a new publisher for the game.

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.

My experience in game development is now three titles, two of which were never released, and one that was but I wasn't credited for because I left the company before they finished it. Go me!

We expect MGM to make an official press release about this sometime next week. If they won't then Perception will probably issue one. In the meantime, I ask you guys to keep this information to yourselves. This is an exclusive scoop for you I know, but until it is "officially" announced in a press release by either MGM or Perception, please don't spread it around. I'm trusting you guys on this.

Thanks a lot MGM, you bunch of complete prats. Go screw yourselves.

PS: Les propos n'engagent que leur auteur.

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MAJ : Il semblerait que d'autres anciens membres de l'équipe s'expriment peu à peu :

http://www.stargate-thealliance.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6783&page=1&pp=10