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New Star Trek MMOG Announced
jabagi writes "Perpetual Entertainment and Viacom decided to produce a Star Trek MMOG. Not many details yet, but beta will be available in 2006, and the game will be launched in 2007. Here is
the discussion on gamespy."
Paramount hates Star Trek, and is obsessed with ruining the franchise. An MMORPG where everyone insists on being a captain or admiral, where no story can take place, and they can make up more "iso" words.
Aren't they being sued for a Star Trek related game contract gone awry already?
In the area if MMORPG development, where so many projects seem to get canned after months or even years of development, I really don't think "announced" is newsworthy any more.
How about not publishing MMORPG stories until they're "finished" - at least finished enough to alpha test.
As a side benefit, we'll not have to read any of the "cancelled" stories the following year...
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Just wanted to draw more attention to this post, before ijits moderate it into oblivion. Not only is this post 90% serious in my opinion, it's accurate. I could not think of a better example of what MMO gameplay devolves to.
Someone figures out how to get rid of this crap, andit would revitalize MMO games.
Won't happen.
It'll be Star Wars Galaxies with "star wars" races replaced with "star trek" races.
They could have done what you suggested with Galaxies. Join the empire as a low level stormtrooper, rise through the ranks - kind of like an America's Army type of thing. Or be a crew member on a smugglers ship. Or become a bounty hunter, and get assignments from Jabba himself.
Nah, just another boring ass RPG game where you sit around levelling up all day. They forgot the MMO part, it seems.
Star Trek is all about exploitation and milking the last few bucks out of a dried out franchise. MMOGs are "hot", so there's a Star Trek MMOG.
Most Star Trek games have sucked ass, they've all been clones of popular titles with Star Trek characters. Descent Freespace, except you're in a Federation vessel, or Unreal with Klingons. I doubt this'll be different.
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