Interview: Perpetual Downsizes Gods & Heroes Team, Moves Launch

WarCry spoke to Perpetual Entertainment Co-Founder earlier today as news broke that the company had laid off 30 to 40 members of the Gods and Heroes team. Others were re-assigned to Star Trek Online. The company had hoped to launch Gods and Heroes this fall, but based on Beta feedback, opted to give the game more time and move its launch to early 2008.

"We've never set an official launch date for Gods and Heroes," Co-Founder Chris McKibbin told us. "Driving to the fall, that's been our goal."

For the last several weeks, Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising had been in Closed Beta testing. While it is, according to Perpetual, content complete, they felt it needed more polish before it goes to market. "Our feeling was driving hard to make a fall launch would lead to less than high quality results and we've seen that in other launches," he said. "We've made the decision to give the game more time. What we really want to do is to deliver a polished and high-quality game."

For our interview with Chris McKibbin, click below.

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