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Stargate Worlds, an MMO that never launched, gets its own rogue server that you can play right now (massivelyop.com)
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If you cast your mind way, way back, you might recall the promising MMO project that was Stargate Worlds. Based on the hit sci-fi franchise from the ’90s and 2000s, Stargate Worlds was announced in 2006 and progressed all the way to the beta stage by 2008. Unfortunately, the collapse of studio Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment in 2010 meant the end of hopes for this MMO, even as it was nearing launch. [...]

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

Hm... why make an old, unreleased game playable again instead of making a game from scratch? Wouldn't that be easier?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    How would making an entire new game be easier than patching up an existing game?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    If you have to reverse engineer everything, I imagine that's way harder than just writing it from scratch, no? I can't imagine they got the source code to the original game. If so, how? That would be interesting to know because there probably is copyright and it's supposedly a fan release.

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