When Sigil Games Online released Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, it wasn't due to the game being done, but more closely related to (mostly understandable) "financial issues." The MMO was a bit buggy and a tad unfinished, two things that reflected in the game's review scores.

Sigil Games Founder Brad McQuaid, who co-designed the original EverQuest, updated Vanguard players about the current state of the game and where it's headed. In short, co-publisher Sony Online Entertainment is going to be more heavily involved in Sigil and its game, but to what extent, Brad's not telling.

Following up on SOE's "discussions with Sigil regarding the future of Vanguard and Sigil Games in Carlsbad" McQuaid writes:

It means that right now Vanguard is doing decently but not as well as we hoped. If you haven't read my last long post that outlined some of the things that went wrong during development, etc., please do. So the bottom line is that SOE is going to be getting more involved with Sigil and Vanguard - our relationship is going to become even tighter - much tighter. At this point I can't say much more than that.

Brad goes into GREAT detail about the upcoming changes and how they got their in his forum post below. Invested parties and MMO armchair analysts should peruse. Michael McWhertor

Update on the future of Sigil and Vanguard coming soon... [Vanguard Forums]