The ”repeated, unreasonable demands” of Petroglyph for more money, plus their ”unwillingness or inability” to finish means it’s time to sue.
Court papers state that Petroglyph should have finished the MMORTS Mytheon by November 15th, 2009 but that was then pushed back to February 1st, 2010. That date came and went though with the promise of March-end being the time to complete.
More money was needed to meet this new deadline but still no finished work of Mytheon was produced. One paragraph sums up True Games grief in the document:
”The repeated, unreasonable demands by Petroglyph for additional funds and concessions, combined with Petroglyph’s apparent unwillingness or inability to deliver the final product, poisoned the working relationship between TGI and Petroglyph, such that the entire multi-million dollar venture is in danger of collapsing.”
Mytheon entered into open beta testing in late April. ”It was NEVER conceived to be a full-blown MMO, which costs upwards of $15 million and three to five years to complete. The trend, however, over the last months has been to move this game to the scope of a full-blown MMO,” said Petroglyph CEO Chuck Kroegel, reports Massively.
Has the studio bit off far more than they can chew? True Games thinks so and wants the game source code to continue work on it themselves. Have you tried the open beta for MMORTS Mytheon yet, videogamer? Why not try it out?
