Gods & Heroes cancelled

The Gods & Heroes web site has closed down with a message saying that Perpetual will focus their efforts on their PEP (Perpetual Entertainment Platform) and Star Trek Online and that Gods & Heroes have been put on indefinite hold.

I can’t say that I am entirely surprised by this, but I think they could handle it a bit better. It was not that long ago they announced that they had started to sell pre-orders of the game and most likely some people have been buying these, just to get to see this.

While the game did have some work do be done before being ready for prime time, it will still have been in a more ready state than Star Trek Online is at judging from info seen on the games. Obviously they and/or their investors consider the Star Trek a much stronger name to attract future customers than roman mythology – including any features that is pushed for the games.

Gods & Heroes preorder

If one visits the Gods & Heroes website they announce that pre-order of the game is available and beta participants who pre-ordered the full game will get some in-game bonus items. it seems you need to get into the beta to get the items though and they do write thet one is eligble if one is accepted into the beta.

Now, they have pretty much been running sort of a lottery giving out beta keys for some time now, so basically anyone has at least the chance to get a beta key. But it is a bit different from other games where one is given beta access just by pre-ordering.

Looking at the Amazon web site, the game is currently estimated to be released on February 1st, 2008. So there will still be some time. The game has been in closed beta for quite a while now and one would assume they are taking their time to fix issues in the game and get it polished for release, about 4.5 months left if that release date is kept.