Comments on: Perpetual Puts Launch Title On Hold To Focus On Star Trek Online

By: Hon. David Kulessa

Hon. David Kulessa — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:07:39 +0000

It’d be one of the few MMORPG’s I’d ever bother buying. I hope it ends up being an awesome game.

-TGP-

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:37:55 +0000

It’s a joke, that game was due 6 months ago and has been in the pipeworks 2 years before that…..it will be lucky to get released because they are trying to make the best and changes in computers keep changing the game…in essence the goalposts keeps shifting (JUST RELEASE IT)

By: Joe Mama

Joe Mama — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:53:56 +0000

STO is doomed. It is vaporware that will never happen. Perpetual was and is the wrong developer for this title. They have had the license for STO for three years and have little to show for their marginal efforts.

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:55:09 +0000

I still play the 25th anniversary using dosbox, can’t beat insulting people with bill shatners voice!

By: Star Trek Life

Star Trek Life — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:59:04 +0000

I would not want to be PE’s shoes now. They have a LOT of expectations with STO. And so far have not proven they can making anything but a WoW-clone, and they will get eaten alive if STO is a WoW-clone.
Seriously. Like Trekkies having real-life raids at Perpetual HQ.

By: Trekee

Trekee — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:11:55 +0000

I’ve worked in the games industry in the past, and the fact is that most games never make it to the shelves. The publishers are fairly risk averse, and the game will be reviewed every month with the bottom line and an every changing marketplace foremost in their thoughts.

So games tend to pulled at the last minute because they looked at it what is almost the final version and decided not to blow the dev costs all over again on marketing and production, which normally cost about the same.

They would look to STO and think, wellllll, we can blame that and look like Trek heroes, but in all likilihood, the game was either deeply broken, or just not all that special and the publisher canned it.

STO though will be a massive, massive undertaking and will be held up against WoW and Star Wars Galaxies (which was supposedly quite good at first then was ruined) but does benefit from more ‘lore’ than the rest of them put together, and the lore really does help shape the thing.

Much as I don’t want to give up on WoW, I’m quite looking forward to running around Deck C yelling “P0WNZ3RD U C4d3T!!!!!1111one”.

Mark III Auto Modulating Phaser Rifle FTW!!! I’m sure.

By: Petey

Petey — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:51:36 +0000

#10: I agree that they probably want to ride the Trek hype machine. It makes sense seeing how the movie’s garnered more fan reaction (and more importantly more mainstream attention) than any other Trek project in the past two decades.

Anyway, GNH isn’t exactly the groundbreaking setting that STO is.

By: Mike Broadhead

Mike Broadhead — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:10:29 +0000

Thinking about it, my guess is that they want to have the game ready as close to Trek XI as possible. With all the buzz it’s been getting lately, it would make perfect sense. Ultimately, they probably can’t afford to fully develop two games at once, so they take the GNH staff and put them on STO to get it out in time… I would bet GNH is going to be released a year after STO. I really doubt it would be shelved forever, unless STO is such a big hit that they just develop new content for STO.

By: Mike Broadhead

Mike Broadhead — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:54:07 +0000

Wow that’s surprising. I am guessing there is way more to the story than we can know… Gods and Heroes won lots of E3 awards last year, so it’s not like it was a bad game.

By: Luca AKA RuFFeD_UP AKA Lukas

Luca AKA RuFFeD_UP AKA Lukas — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:52:17 +0000

STO STO STO STO!!!!!