Star Trek Online - A Casual MMO?!?

[Dr.Finger]

Yeah buh wha (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50065)?Shacknews has receieved a considerable amount of new information regarding today's Perpetual news from a source close to the company, who requested to remain anonymous. Some information was gleaned from a letter detailing various changes to the company and Star Trek Online, which was recently distributed to all Perpetual employees. Perpetual has been acquired by new ownership, reportedly a media company looking to use Star Trek Online to make its first major inroads into the video game market. Along with the acquisition comes a partial retargeting of Star Trek Online to what our source describes as a "more casual" experience, one which may potentially eschew subscription fees in favor of the practice of charging real money for optional in-game items, a practice popularized by various Korean MMOs.
Word hit a couple months ago (http://evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37542&highlight=perpetual) that Perpetual Entertainment was canning it's Gods and Heroes MMO, ostensibly to focus on Star Trek Online. Now it's going to be turned into a 'casual' MMO (translation: a cheap grindfest with tons of microtransactions) by a new publisher? The magic eight-ball does not look favorably upon this one.

[Karmakin]

The ideal Star Trek MMO design has already been done. You can play it for free here. (http://www.puzzlepirates.com/)

I'm serious.

A Star Trek MMO needs to be engaging in a way and allow multiple players to each man their stations and for it to still be engaging without becoming boring. Puzzle Pirates is actually the best model for a faithful Star Trek MMO.

[Lekon]

I was pretty much out on this game the second they said you wouldn't be able to walk around your own ship. *that* killed it for me.

Even Star Wars Galaxies was able to pull off ship interiors.

[lockwoodx]

picard blows it (http://picardblowsit.ytmnd.com/)

[Banacek]

What a shame. They ruined the only MMO I would play. Figures.

[Your Good Twin]

Well, if you consider WoW a casual MMO, then this doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing.

The problem is there are only a handful of developers in the world that can actually pull off good MMOs, and they're all tied up.

[Zeal]

KHAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!! (http://www.khaaan.com/)

[Telefrog]

Word hit a couple months ago (http://evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37542&highlight=perpetual) that Perpetual Entertainment was canning it's Gods and Heroes MMO, ostensibly to focus on Star Trek Online. Now it's going to be turned into a 'casual' MMO (translation: a cheap grindfest with tons of microtransactions) by a new publisher? The magic eight-ball does not look favorably upon this one.

Please, from what I saw, Gods and Heroes was borked from the word go.

1. To think that a Star Trek MMO wouldn't be casual-focused is crazy. It's a Paramount property. I doubt they would intend it to only appeal to hardcore trekkers or gamers as mush as we may think it should.

2. With the way Perpetual crapped up G&H, I have no doubt that this would've sucked regardless of a 'new' focus.

[Heretic Machine]

I was pretty much out on this game the second they said you wouldn't be able to walk around your own ship. *that* killed it for me.

Even Star Wars Galaxies was able to pull off ship interiors.

They already said that? Yeah, what the fuck... talk about misuse of the license. 99% of the god-damn action takes place inside the ship.

[Stooby]

This announcement shreds any hope I had of enjoying the game. RIP STO!

[Banacek]

They already said that? Yeah, what the fuck... talk about misuse of the license. 99% of the god-damn action takes place inside the ship.


Exactly. What a pointless game now.

[LongStepMantis]

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[Draknodred]

I can't wait until making shitty MMOs is no longer the cool thing to do.

[Lekon]

I can't wait until making shitty MMOs is no longer the cool thing to do.

A-fuckin-men.
Someday they'll figure out "We can't fight WoW with more grinding "fun"" when 9.34 million people already like the grinding "fun" of WoW.

[Kem0sabe]

I said it when they canned Gods and Heroes and ill say it again, Perpetual will never take a project to term, these guys are some incredibly inept losers.

Way to sidetrack your fans, when you file bankruptcy right at the moment you ditch Gods and Heroes and then claim your just refocusing your efforts to STO.

[Shifter]

Investors will learn soon enough not to dump money into MMO development teams with no background and no team.

[Generation ABXY]

So, you're pissed because Star Trek Online is a casual MMO, even though you were never really going to play it in the first place because it isn't WoW and - by your logic, anyway - any MMO that isn't WoW should just be canned and/or never started to begin with? Wow, you guys aren't hard to please are you?

[Dr.Finger]

So, you're pissed because Star Trek Online is a casual MMO, even though you were never really going to play it in the first place because it isn't WoW and - by your logic, anyway - any MMO that isn't WoW should just be canned and/or never started to begin with? Wow, you guys aren't hard to please are you?'m not pissed one way or another, I don't play MMOs, but this one just has the stench of doom on it right now.