Sad news indeed.

Last October, I broke out a post about Marvel Universe Online (and even showed a teaser video) - It was supposed to be an MMORPG co-developed by Cryptic Studios and Microsoft. With the upcoming release of Iron Man in theaters, it would have been a perfect coup to market and launch this game.

Apparently, your dreams to play Iron Man or Wolverine won’t see the light of day.

1Up has announced during an interview with Microsoft Game Studios head Shane Kim that they have officially stopped development of the game.

Kim’s official statement after the jump.

“I’ll confirm. Marvel and we have agreed to end development on the MMO,” Kim said. “It was an amicable decision… It’s just something that we felt that, for us and for them, it would be better if we ended development. Which is disappointing, because that had a lot of promise. But sometimes you have to make these decisions.”

“I don’t think it’s necessarily a case of what went wrong [...] I don’t know that that’s the right way to put it. For us we look at our priorities and all of the things we have to do. It’s a tough space. It’s a very competitive space. And it’s a space that’s changing quite a bit. When we first entered into the development and agreement of the development of Marvel Universe Online, we thought we would create another subscription-based MMO. And if you really look at the data there’s basically one that’s successful and everything else wouldn’t meet our level or definition of commercial success. And then you have to look [and say]: ‘Can we change the business model for that? Is that really viable given how far we are in development? And so forth. Does Marvel want to do that?’ There’s a whole bunch of factors.”

Goodbye Marvel MMO. It would have been nice.

Via 1Up

Image Credits: Marvel