P2 Entertainment - formerly Perpetual Entertainment - has ceased development on Star Trek Online, according to multiple sources at the San Francisco based developer. The news does not, however, mean that the game is canceled. The license, as well as the game's content - but not the code - have been transferred to another Bay Area development studio where work will continue. It is not entirely clear at this time what this means for the individual developers who worked on the project at P2...
...Without the code, whoever takes over Star Trek Online will be faced with a lot of work to complete the project, which means that fans may have longer to wait for a completed Star Trek Online.
I didn't like the direction they were going with it anyway.
XBL: Darek Silver | Wii Friend: 5602 6414 0598 0225 LibriumArcana - Roleplaying, Fiction, Irreverence Trekker (TOS, TNG/DS9-Era) | Warsie (semi-movie purist) | B5'er | TransFan Cult of Vin Diesel: While it is well known that James Earl Jones performed the voice of Darth Vader, it is less appreciated that Vin Diesel performs the voice of James Earl Jones.
No suprised in the least, once I heard that a Bollywood company had gotten ahold of it, I had hopes of one day challenging James T Kirk to a dance off... but alas those hopes are to be dashed.
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
Perpetual fucks up...again. The sun rises and the sky is blue. But to the few rabid I had the joy of debating...ST would live on regardless of the retards who were now in charge. Sad they killed it by giving it to people with the finesse of a butcher.
MM /CF/WG/BOTM/JL/Original Warsie/ACPATHNTDWATGODW FOREVER!!
Sometimes we can choose the path we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all
A Star Trek game suffering from mismanagement? INCONCEIVABLE
"There is no "taboo" on using nuclear weapons." -Julhelm
What is Project Zohar? "On a serious note (well not really) I did sometimes jump in and rate nBSG episodes a '5' before the episode even aired or I saw it."- RogueIce explaining that episode ratings on SDN tv show threads are bunk
Ghost Rider wrote:Perpetual fucks up...again. The sun rises and the sky is blue. But to the few rabid I had the joy of debating...ST would live on regardless of the retards who were now in charge. Sad they killed it by giving it to people with the finesse of a butcher.
Who are Perpetual and what have they previously fucked up?
Meh The upside is that someone might end up making a worthwile game out of Star Trek IP... But as long as the WoW model keeps dominating the market, that's not likely.
Apparently, it looks like Cryptic, the development studio behind City of Heores/Villains, has picked up the license. They've not directly confirmed it, but they havent denied it and they have made a few moves which indicates they've got it (such as interviewing for retention key team members from STO's development etc).
Looks like with no code the game will probably have to start over in terms of development.
Ghost Rider wrote:Perpetual fucks up...again. The sun rises and the sky is blue. But to the few rabid I had the joy of debating...ST would live on regardless of the retards who were now in charge. Sad they killed it by giving it to people with the finesse of a butcher.
Who are Perpetual and what have they previously fucked up?
They are a small company in San Fran, but the reason of their previous fuck up?
For five years they were making Gods and Heroes. Hell they got up to Beta testing and were about 3 months from release.
Then suddenly they pull the plug on the game, a game they've been dumping money into for the past few years. They get the ST IP(They didn't say this, but the timing was a little close), and well now the rest is history.
MM /CF/WG/BOTM/JL/Original Warsie/ACPATHNTDWATGODW FOREVER!!
Sometimes we can choose the path we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all
This could turn out to be a blessing in disguise if it prevents Trek fans from suffering their own version of SW:G. More likely though, it'll just delay it by a few years.
