Not really impressed to be honest.

As much as I hope this game succeeds, I will wait a bit to hear more about gameplay before I get too excited. I don’t want to play WoW in space, I’ve already been playing WoW for 3 years.

You had me thinking at first, that this was the costume design for the new movie. YIKES! Close one.

Note to: ST Costume Designer

High (exposed) black boots please.
I’ll pay an extra quarter for that.at the box office.

The PR firm was already working for them. The argument is that Perpetual hid the fact that they were planning on declaring insolvency, continued to use the PR firm’s services, (basically Enron style, they are being accused of telling everyone that everything is okay while they’re readying the lifeboats.) and then when they declared the company insolvent (a kind of bankruptcy.), they hid the Star Trek Online license by selling it to their new shell company (P2) which was in fact selling it to themselves on the cheap. This is bad because under the law, the Star Trek Online license was an asset that probably would’ve been sold to pay off its creditors when the company was liquidated.

So what they’re accused of is actually very illegal if you read the briefs. Under new California statutes, they could be prosecuted if found guilty. Even if they’re not found guilty, this comes at a particularly bad time because Perpetual/P2 is desperately trying to find a publisher, and this makes it all the more difficult.

That’s what I understand so far. Mind you, I’m NOT saying they’re guilty of this, just that it’s very serious if they are found guilty, and it still might be even if they’re cleared, unfortunately. But you have a good point in that right now we only know Kohnke’s side of this, and we won’t find out Perpetual/P2’s side of it until they file their response, which legally they have to do within thirty days.

Here’s a summary of the documents that someone posted on startrek-online.net:

http://www.startrek-online.net/messageboard/showthread.php?p=156623#post156623

Second, that whole court case, I think you ought to copy the entire article rather than just part of it. Perpetual Entertainment, inc. will only lose that case if it is found they hired the PR firm with the malicious intent to not make the games the PR firm was working on. That firm is suggesting Perpetual planned to cut the other game and hired the firm anyway, used their work, and then sent the game into suspended status. That’s bad if it’s true. But I honestly don’t even believe that to begin with. Perpetual realized a Star Trek movie was coming up and saw all the hype and probably changed their plans for release. Makes sense to me.

Anyway, everyone relax.

Seriously, this game looks nice. I’m actually a huge fan of MMORPGs…I’ve played WoW, Guild Wars, and Everquest….and I have to say this game looks appealing.

If it’s as addicting and full of quests as WoW, that $15/month thing might fly. BUT if it’s similar to Guild Wars in interest level…another payment option might be better.

And of course it has to be based on fighting, lol. Unless your character is Picard….

If this game has a huge world, with many different species, etc…I’d like to say that I might stick to it for several years ^^ so make it good, Perpetual!