Disney just confirmed that  Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned has officially been canceled. 
 
Link:  http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/10/14/disney-confirms-armada-of-the-damned-cancellation.aspx
  

I'm sorry, I wasn't following the development of this game: was it supposed to be good or something? I ask because well, it's a licensed game, and a Pirates of the Caribbean one no less.

The fuck??  That game looked great!
 
@RsistncE said:

" I'm sorry, I wasn't following the development of this game: was it supposed to be good or something? I ask because well, it's a licensed game, and a Pirates of the Caribbean one no less. "

Yeah, it looked pretty neat.
 
That sucks.

teh fuck

poor disney, hemorrhaging money so badly they have to cancel promising editions to their multi-billion dollar franchises. i guess it wont be long until we hear about chapter 11 and all that. oh wait, no- its friggin DISNEY. they PRINT MONEY. and they can't keep one of their subsidiaries afloat while it restructures? pathetic. i was actually looking forward to that game. it looked like it would be a lot of fun. despite the obvious fable derivations. (i love fable, so if a fable clone was well made, i'd love it too.)

why?

Wow, I'm really surprised  to hear this. It looked like a great game, and its weird that development was dropped all of a sudden, especially because they had a hands-on build at E3.

The game had a lot of good ideas, and some promise. But personally I wasn't at all excited for it. I wish I knew why. Maybe it was because it was a single player only game. Maybe I would have preferred  if it was more multi player focused. What's more awesome than gathering some real friends and looting ships as your individual pirate? 

:( I wanted my unofficial Sea Dogs 3 dammit!

disney i am dissapoint  
 
not really disney has been shit for years now.

:(

100 laid off at the Vancouver office, hopefully that wont effect the guys making tron up there. Dont want Johnny V losing his job

dang! It looked pretty awesome... 
 
Here's a trailer of it 
 

God dammit Disney! One of the only games I've been looking forward to recently. 
 
I bet we will see it one day, maybe in different form.

It really doesn't make sense given that the new film comes out next year and the game would be ready to release alongside it with plenty of time to polish it up.  I'm just wondering if it's not canceled but being retrofitted to tie-in to the film.  So technically this game is canceled but what it turns into is the new game.  It's happened before where a project gets scrapped then comes back later with a new name.  Deus Ex: Clan Wars was canned, then came back as Project Snowblind.

In the words of Master of Orion II heroes: 
NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!

You know what, fuck you Disney, that game actually looked like it could be awesome
 
Stupid corporate idiots

In the words of Master of Orion II heroes: 
NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It sucks that it was canceled. Period.
 
But hopefully it was canceled because it wasn't good, and not because it was too ambitious.

Disney obviously decided there wasnt enough racism in the game to carry its brand 

Fuck, this actually looked pretty good. Sigh...

Well that sucks donkey balls, I was really interested in this game.

" Well that sucks donkey balls "

=(

Aww shucks

That is pretty messed up because the game looked pretty cool.

Le sigh

Fuck, I was really excited for this :(

This game looked excellent, I was excited for it and am disappointed it is cancelled. :{

It clearly needed more work than was let on. No big loss.

well fuck :(

Shit.  
 
Lack of pirate games is kinda pissing me off. They need to drop Sid Meier's Pirates! on XBLA/PSN.

i bet you its because some marketing schmuck thought  no jack sparrow = no sales.

I need my pirate fix damnit!

They choose the game that actually looks like it has potential, good job Disney.

Fuck, that was really looking like a great game as well, I love high quality pirate-themed entertainment and it's a shame to see AotD go. Possibly more worryingly this seems like a bit of a blow for the licensed games industry as a whole.

I had never heard of it until Jeff spoke about it after E3? He was really excited and it sounded like it had a lot of potential. Curious as to who will finish(Obsidian?, Bioware?) since he sounded as if the game was pretty far along the development cycle.

Always sad when games get canned and devs get laid off, I think this had to do with them not hitting development milestones and Disney wasn't willing to give them more cash, I mean it was supposed to be out this year and we didn't hear anything about it, obviously development had fallen behind Disney's original plan.

Shame. I was looking forward to this one.

ok everytime i see this title i always think it says amanda and i was like wtf stupid name for a game is that then i looked closer for the THIRD time and realised it said armada. 
i know this has no real relevece to the topic but i needed to say it

" The first PotC game was great too, as it happens. "

" @Jimbo said:

" The first PotC game was great too, as it happens. "

That's probably because it was actually the sequel to Bethesda's Sea Dogs, except renamed "Pirates of the Caribbean" partway through development and given minor new elements like skeleton pirates after a deal was made with Disney. *The More You Know* "