Ooohhh! Jimmy's Down!

Once again we're forced to report on Perpetual Entertainment, or rather, P2, or rather, that company that used to be Perpetual Entertainment and P2.

Reports (or rumors, or rumors of reports. We're not sure.) are that P2 has now shut down. After a recent slew of bad news, the MMO company appears to have ended their run. Here's a quick list of why:

1. Terminating your flagship project: Gods and Heroes
2. Pulling out of development for Start Trek Online.
3. Getting sued by your public relations firm.

It's too bad. Both of their projects looked interesting. But, and we hate to harp on this, it's just one more sign that the MMO community is not broad enough to support so many games or game developers. Dedicated cult following is how we have come to label the MMO community. The MMO players are out there, but it doesn't look like anything other than WoW has been able to capture any significant portion of those who wouldn't normally play them in the first place.

And not to get off on a tangent, but taking a look at the handful of posts on gaming blogs about this story/report/rumor, we wonder how all this information gets disseminated. No, we don't have any industry insiders or cool remote-control bugs that we can send into places to be the proverbial fly on the wall. All we have is a computer, a connection to one of the internets (the blue one, we think) and the ability to listen to whatever our helpful office leprechaun tells us when he finds us passed out in the mornings. What we do isn't journalism. (Though we do write in an online journal, nay, Blog.) It's us writing our thoughts about the industry in which we have a miniscule part in and occasionally think about. So all these reports of the rumors, or the rumors of reports, or reported rumors seemed strange to us. It kid of reminded us of high school, where someone hears something and it quickly goes through the grapevine. the things is, the only people who care about it are the people who talk about it anyway. The people who don't care about it don't give it a second thought. So it begs the question, even if the rumors are true, does anyone care besides the people who report on the rumors? We don't know.

Besides. The leprechaun is getting jumpy. It's time for our 10:41 whiskey sour.