MMO’s aint everyone’s cup of tea, and if you dont wanna buy it then don’t. Download the inevitble free trial and give it a chance.

I’m also quite happy for Cryptic to take as long as they want developing the game, rather than rush it onto the shelves. Perfection takes time.

The only positive side is that this game will bring all the serious Star Trek roleplayers out of the woodwork, so you might see some very in character serious guilds (fleets?).

Perhaps you should read my post again, but slower. I was quoting #6. Hesht when I put this statement up.

“Every MMO out there is a carbon copy of WoW just with some of them having different level caps. Any MMO you make will be like WoW, and every other MMO ever made”

Read my entire post, I basically said whet you just said. There is a degree of familiarity between then, but there are differences, some minor, some huge, but the foundations of MMO’s are nearly the same. Run, eventually get mount, get quest, perform quest, level, apply points somewhere, join guild, auction house your extra loot, and craft.

You repeated my point when you said : “There are some general similarities, which you would expect as you would with, say any rpg, RTS or FPS, they are genre conventions.”

Read it again my friend.

Before EA pulled the rug out. E&B was the best overall space mmo game in my opinion. The game Eve may be great but it doesn’t have the 3D ship combat control that Earth and Beyond had that made it fun to manuever in space and loot your victim’s wreckage to get upgrades for your ship or items to sell or trade back at a space station.

Steve

“Every MMO out there is a carbon copy of WoW just with some of them having different level caps. Any MMO you make will be like WoW, and every other MMO ever made”.

I really cant agree with this statement. Its not factual.

COX which Cryptic made was significantly different from WOW on may points. There are some general similarities, which you would expect as you would with, say any rpg, RTS or FPS, they are genre conventions.

I’ve played MMO’s since EQ and I’ve tried most in the market.

Cryptic really don’t owe a lot to Blizzard and I doubt STOL will be a carbon copy of WoW for a number of reasons.

Certainly you will tell me you know better.

#5: Of course it will. Every MMO out there is a carbon copy of WoW just with some of them having different level caps. Any MMO you make will be like WoW, and every other MMO ever made.

To some degree, you are correct. I beta most games, and there is a degree of familiarity between them all, and this is done for two reasons:

1) It’s a formula that works well, and not only for MMO’s, but more recently for console and PC games as well adapting the “WoW” formula.

2) Familiarity with layout and functionality keeps people in the game (and paying). Learning an entire new system to play an MMO can frustrate a person and result in subsequent quitting (just ask anyone that played pre-nge SWG. How many subscribers did SOE lose?). You’ll find variety in the details and nuances. For instance, Lord of the Rings Online maintains that w-s-a-d, questing-leveling thing neatly. However, there is so much more to the game between the lines that it holds its own just fine. There is enough of a difference that it’s not simply WoW-lite. A few games are good for this.

I try to give every MMO a chance. Even if something is a clone of something else, it may be nothing more than the genre the game takes place in that keeps a person playing, especially if it’s done right. Star Trek Online may be WoW in space, but if I am going to play one or the other, I like space a lot more than I like dungeons. That alone would tip the scale for me. Besides, Now Cryptic is Atari, which for me instills a lot of confidence in their ability to produce.

Have you played Atari today ?