Paradox Cancels Magna Mundi

[tgb]

Good.  It appears they learned something from the SotS2 debacle after all.

Today Paradox Interactive decided to cancel Magna Mundi. It will not see the light of day under the current set up: Universo Virtual (UV) will not be part of this project any more.

The reasons for cancelling the contract with Universo Virtual include the following:

- Lack of progress; we have seen this project drag on and the code we have gotten has not shown significant improvement for many months. Some old and known problems persists and new ones appear with each delivery.

- Lack of trust; the leadership of UV has given a sunshine version of the project to Paradox and reacted with irritation and anger when we have pointed out obvious problems with the deliveries. It has come to a point where they claim the project is done, and the game is ready for release – despite the many critical issues found and reported on our end.

- Internal strife within the MM team; we have gotten information from members within the MM team desperate to save the project whom report to us that the project lacks active leadership. Key personnel in the project see what Paradox sees but instead gets silenced by the UV leadership.

All in all, these are not circumstances under which we can work with a team and it will now stop. At this point we have no more news than the above.

[bayonetbrant]

if you go to UV's "forums" you can see their response to the announcement.

Of course, it looks like their boards are 4 days old or so.

http://forum.universo-virtual.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4291

[Nefaro]

Ouch.

I wondered what was up with the continued delays. 

No matter what happened, I'm glad they didn't release it in a broken state.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Man, for Paradox not to release it, it must've been a disaster!

BTW, has anyone heard any word from the NWAC dev team?  They've been awfully silent on the whole freeze-up issue.

[Steelgrave]

Man, for Paradox not to release it, it must've been a disaster!

For sure! That's like being turned down for a date by the ugliest girl in class  :P

[Gusington]

^Hey at least I asked her!

Figures I was planning on getting this, my first foray back into Paradox titles for a while.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Given up on Crusader Kings II already?

[Gusington]

^Haven't started yet!! Ye of Little Faithe. Looking for that perfect companion book and I think I found it.

[son_of_montfort]

^Haven't started yet!! Ye of Little Faithe. Looking for that perfect companion book and I think I found it.

What is it?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

[Gusington]

Well for the Crusader Kings II Muslim expansion, this book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416567623/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Unfortunately it's not released until later this summer.

[Tpek]

That was such a stupid movie.

[Gusington]

^Say it aint so!

[undercovergeek]

That was such a stupid movie.

wha????????????  :o :o

it looks like it has all the right ingredients to be a classic too

[Gusington]

I like his sneakers.