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Rhode Island Governor Sets MMO Launch Date For 38 Studios

Posted on Friday, May 18 @ 12:04:31 Eastern by Keri_Honea


The drama between Rhode Island and 38 Studios just gets better and better with each passing day. Today, Rhode Island's governor, Lincoln Chafee, announced at a press conference that 38 Studios' MMO will launch in June 2013.

The MMO—code-named "Project Copernicus"—is based on Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, but that's all that has been announced. The MMO is not even supposed to be at E3 this year, so a June 2013 release date seems rather optimistic. I can smell day-one patches and game-breaking bugs from here.

38 Studios is supposed to start paying back the $75 million loan from the state by January 2013. In response to how the company will be able to afford the payments, Chafee explained that 38 Studios' is currently seeking help from private investors a/k/a not Rhode Island taxpayers. 

"I said from the beginning that it was a risky enterprise," Chafee said to the press in regards to the situation.

No lie, Governor Chafee. No lie.

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Related Games:   Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
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  • ReinhardtBII
    ReinhardtBII
    Joined: Oct 2007
    Posted: May 18th, 2012 at 12:48 pm
    Yes, sir. We can ensure that the company will never be able to pay back its loan, by forcing it to launch product years away from completion.
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  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: May 18th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
    Not only that sir but finding private money to play with can take months, even years sir, and as SAAB will tell you, knowing that a company is in or may face bankruptcy makes matters worse, sir.
    0 1
  • MasterRabbi
    MasterRabbi
    Joined: May 2007
    Posted: May 18th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
    But Blizzard makes all the money, it's so easy. Why can't I do it too?
    0 1
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: May 18th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
    ...KOA started out as an MMO, was turned into a single-player RPG, and now they're making an MMO based on a single-player RPG that was once an MMO?

    Okay. Nothing could go wrong with this. I'm sure they didn't lose shittons of money.
    0 0
  • Squiggy
    Squiggy
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: May 18th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
    Halo was originally going to be an RTS, then they turned it into a third person shooter, then a FPS, which they later made an RTS based on.

    The iPhone was originally going to be the iPad, but turned it into a phone, then made a tablet based on the phone that was once a tablet.
    0 2
  • CaptainPicard
    CaptainPicard
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: May 19th, 2012 at 2:19 am
    Squiggy you just blew my mind!! thx for that tidbit :)
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