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Not unexpected news. Hopefully whoever gets STO actually does it justice.

If it's Cryptic Studios or Blizzard, I'm sure they will do it justice. I can't vouche for many more than that.

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Originally posted by PunisherX

okay... i dont want to sound critical or mean, but... how the hell do you know what i want? yes, i do want to see a star trek massively multiplayer online game. wanna know why? ive always dreamed of commanding my own starship and because america and the rest of the planet wont get there shit straight and decide to put all their money towards battles and war and fighting and shit... i dont see that kind of technology coming out for at least another 50 or 60 years and by that time... ill probably be dead. the only way i can fulfill a dream like that is behind the world of virtual reality and video gaming and stuff like that... and my want is to see a star trek or some other mmorpg like star trek to come out.

Re-read what I wrote.

S*D

Hi all,

  There "may" be something to a rumor that cryptic isn't the ones who picked up the STO Ip, afterall.

Bethesda has created and online/hosting division at the end of summer/start of spring 2007.   As of 2weeks ago, 'Bethesda online' has still been hiring in many key positions for MMO development and hosting.

They already have many single player games in the works with the ST Ip and aren't new to the ST Ip either, if I recall corectly. 

 It just might be that STO is there break into the MMO market. ../shrug

P.S.-   Ahem,  Dearest STO Gods - .,.Please bring in playable characters and get on the launch of this bad boy, already.  ...I'zz wanna be Star Fleet 'nigh Star Fleet Hardware whilst snackin' on teh space doritos.(ships only, lol, might as well be Mr. Tri-corder)

i dont know why you wouldnt... i think star trek needs to make a comeback. but with the problems that their current holder has caused (the star trek owners not the game developers) they will have a long way to go... the work may be hard, but well worth it

Originally posted by PunisherX

i dont know why you wouldnt... i think star trek needs to make a comeback. but with the problems that their current holder has caused (the star trek owners not the game developers) they will have a long way to go... the work may be hard, but well worth it

There are few people who want a Star Trek MMO more than I.  I have been looking forward to getting back into the ST universe since the end of Starfleet Command 3, which is a while ago.

My point, which you seemed to have missed, is that I hope the game is a hardcore sim with Romulan, Klingon and Federation playable characters and ships.

For example, EVE is a highly successful, but not highly popular hard-core sci-fi game.  I would much rather have 200,000 ppl playing a very complex Star Trek sim than 3 million playing some Star Trek flavored™ piece of space garbage.

I have seen what Star Trek Flavored™ games look like.  Legacy, a thousand curses upon Maddoc software.  It is not pretty.

So my vote is for a FULLY realized Star Trek universe, with cloaking pain in the ass Romulans (thats me!) Brutal Klingons and Federation Boy Scouts.

Yours in Accurate Sim Plasma,

Star*Dagger

im sorry i missed your point... i do understand where you're coming from, but why cant there be a mix... a popular star trek game that stays hardcore and true to the star trek series... instead of some 'star trek flavored game' as you so efficiently put it

Originally posted by Tordak

Hi all,

  There "may" be something to a rumor that cryptic isn't the ones who picked up the STO Ip, afterall.

Bethesda has created and online/hosting division at the end of summer/start of spring 2007.   As of 2weeks ago, 'Bethesda online' has still been hiring in many key positions for MMO development and hosting.

They already have many single player games in the works with the ST Ip and aren't new to the ST Ip either, if I recall corectly. 

 It just might be that STO is there break into the MMO market. ../shrug

 

P.S.-   Ahem,  Dearest STO Gods - .,.Please bring in playable characters and get on the launch of this bad boy, already.  ...I'zz wanna be Star Fleet 'nigh Star Fleet Hardware whilst snackin' on teh space doritos.(ships only, lol, might as well be Mr. Tri-corder)

Interplays time is just about up, and no mmo in development. So I'm thinking Bethesda knows their going to be the ones making the mmo, not Interplay ( and thank God for small favors, as Interplay sucks big time ).

Bethesda also has the option of making an Elder Scrolls mmo, which has been asked for repeatedly by Bethesda fans and would be alot easier to make ( since they obviously know everything about the Elder Scrolls lore ) and less of a pain as far as giving Star Trek fans what they want as well as attract non-Star Trek fans to the game also.

So, in my humble opinion, Bethesda is not, and will not, be the Star Trek mmo devs.