Stargate Worlds Beta Commences October 15; New Screenshots

October 3, 2008 6:23 AM

Publisher FireSky has announced that closed beta testing of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment's MMORPG Stargate Worlds will start October 15.People interested in testing can sign up at the Stargate Worlds website. More testers will be added as the beta progresses.

New screenshots were issued as well, those can be found here.

Based on the now-cancelled TV shows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Worlds launches early 2009.

Maarten Goldstein

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Raspyn

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October 3, 2008 6:27 AM

I love Stargate, and this has the potential to be fun for a few weeks. However, I am really doubtful that this game will have the "legs" to maintain subscribers over the long haul.
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  - three-d
    
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    October 3, 2008 6:47 AM
    
    Dunno about Raspyn, but I would base my suspicion of the same problem on one simple fact: all MMOs boil down to being the same exact game in the end. Nothing can make a great licensed property bland and boring quicker than announcing and developing $LICENSED_PROPERTY: the MMO.
    - pillzer
      
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      October 3, 2008 7:06 AM
      
      Someone will have to change the MMORPG formula sooner or later.. Let's hope it can be this game... (yeah I know I don't believe it either)
      - Gwyndion
        
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        October 3, 2008 8:10 AM
        
        The area where there is still a lot of potential to explore... are games along the lines of Planetside. That game was so cool in so many ways... but it hasn't been done again in a good way.
    - thetangent
      
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      October 3, 2008 8:11 AM
      
      I totally agree with this. It's pretty sad, and why I usually stay away from MMO's, though my love of Stargate may make it difficult to stay away from this one. The lack of Stargate games has always confused me.
  - Raspyn
    
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    October 3, 2008 7:15 AM
    
    This "assumption" is somewhat based on Conan's recent release. Sure it was somewhat fun when you were in Tortage, but as soon as you hit level 20 the game went downhill fast. The big thing with Stargate that will really burn it, IMO, is that it will very likely be heavily instanced. So unless you're at Stargate Command, there will be very little massive feel to the MMO that you are paying for.
    
    In addtiion, this game is all based around ranged combat, and is heavily straying from the tank-dps-healer trinity mechanic. Furthermore, sci-fi MMOs for whatever reason, have a much harder time trying to break into the MMO market. Tabula Rasa, anyone?
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      October 3, 2008 7:26 AM
      
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      - Raspyn
        
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        October 3, 2008 7:29 AM
        
        The Conan thing is kind of a gut-feeling about pretty graphics with no game mechanics or real gameplay "meat and potatoes" to back them up. I dunno, perhaps I'm skeptical to have a pretty-looking MMO that actually plays well.
        
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  - Cruciform
    
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    October 3, 2008 10:13 AM
    
    The only thing going for the TV series was the chemistry of the cast, and the quality of the written dialog (humor, etc).
    The stories themselves were often repetitive, the environments little more than boilerplate (another medieval village in the BC woods), and lacked any real dramatic tension.
    
    So an MMO is like that without the cool cast.
    - Goblin au
      
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      October 6, 2008 3:37 AM
      
      No thanks to SciFi for pulling the majority of Stargate's budget to fund Eureka.