...and here come the comics already...

Originally Posted by Brillig

Ironically, Horizons is still alive, after a fashion.

Originally Posted by Starsman

So is Shadowbane.

Originally Posted by Jaybonaut

I actually have more news on this.

Apparently this was all dropped like a ton of bricks on the studio this morning, with no warning whatsoever. They had huge plans for the game in the upcoming months. This also happens to be the exact same week that Guild Wars 2 hit from the same publisher and the NDA was just lifted on Planetside 2 beta today.

The rumors are that when Cryptic sold the rights to the game, they kept the engine and licensed it to NC Soft Norcal, now known as Paragon Studios. It was for a 5 year license and that license is ending.

Since Cryptic went to Atari and Atari went to Perfect World, they didn't want competition in the superhero genre and either refused to renew or made it too expensive on purpose.

Originally Posted by Starsman

Heck if y ou look around you will find Meridian 59 is still up and running. THATS epic track record for an insanely old MMO.

BTW, in the forums of the strip listed above, saw this extremely interesting tidbit:




It makes a lot of sense... I was aware of the licensing and knew it would get in the way of any open-sourcing or re-sale of the game... but should it be true that Cryptic was the one behind the killing.... it would make sense... and it would drive me crazy insane....

Originally Posted by JayboH

This guy always makes comics on the announcement of an MMO dying by using a bug zapper scenario, and he whipped this thing up immediately.

Originally Posted by Brillig

For a year like this, he probably has a couple of spares, just ready to fill in the names.