Originally posted by winter

 

Originally posted by Oculitus

 

Originally posted by Graff

Yeah! Now let's give this license to an experienced developer with some great games under its belt, like uh... Bethesda!!! Uh.... SOE!.... Uh.... EA? Er... help me out? Who could pick it up exactly who isnt already snowed under making one of their own? :s bah, STO is dead.

Obsidian perhaps?   Or Carbine?

 

 

Hey, Valve would make for an interesting MMO developer, despite the previous FPS focus.  Just brainstorming here.

 With all due respect Obsidian  couldn't make a good game to save their lives. They are too busy buying decent IP's off Bioware and then making buggy rushed out the door half complete games with them to make a quiick buck for Atari. (NWN2, Kotor 2) Can't think of the last decent game Obsidian made. K /rant off.

 

  Will just point out  there is a legal battle set to go on. it will not be resovled in a day, a week, or even a year. STO is going to sleep for a long time. Hopefully someday it will make it back to seeing the light of day. Though i wouldn't hold my breath on it being anytime soon.

 

   ie. Its dead Jim

 Give me a U !

 Give me a R !

 Give me a B !

Give me an I !

  Give me a N !

Give me an E!

Ra ra ra !

posted by SlaserX

"Bioware bought the payment/support systems from Perpetual, but with Bioware being bought out, pending the end of this year, I think EA is going to replace Perpetual's system with their own.

I dont see Bioware ending up with STO. I could see EA, but I dont know about that.

What I'm interested in seeing is, will STO be thrown up for auction, and who's going to buy it? What is Gravity going to be doing about their wht, 8? 9 million loss from Perpetual? It would be interesting to see them finally end up with the STO license.

As for Perpetual, who's to say they even did any development? There has been very little evidence of anything workable in the beginning. This may have been their plan from the beginning, defraud debtors and run off with their money and license to a valuable IP."

There is one company thats taken a well loved IP and has actually got the respect and love from the IP's fan base which is a very hard thing to do and that company is Turbine with Lord of the rings.

As for that screen shot, the first time i seen it i instantly thought it looked remarkably like SWG's Jump to lightspeed

PS. sorry forgot to quote so just pasted :p

Originally posted by Thecrow12345

I guess this is the final straw.  I could see the Star Trek License getting pulled from PE, and I hope it does.  Let us just pray another compitent company will pick up the license and start the game from scratch!

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Seeing Bioware have the tech the original STO is based on they could take up the license, does sound nice but what would lucasarts say about that?

A KOTOR mmo = more like KOTOR for the Wii

A Bioware STO = Yes please!

Perpetual wont survive this law suit there already in huge trouble, key word "liquidation" says it all really and means the STO mmo shall enter limbo until another company comes along and breathes life into it.

One part of me stays true to my fanboi obsession with startrek and cant wait to try it out but the other part of me wants to not think about whats going to happen to it between now and release, from what ive seen and heard it may turn out to be dungeon runners in space.

Originally posted by boognish75

I cant remmeber where this happened to me in swg as well, there were all these squares with ? in the center of them, it was bizarre.

Happened to me one other time in pre-cu the old Restus, there was one of those boxes up beside the shuttle port so i checked it out and it said "stop looking at me!"

Originally posted by knightaudit

Are you sure you went to Kashyyk? Looks more like the planet of lost mystery gifts to me.

Or maybe the planet of lost ideas to fix SWG after the NGE fiasco?

Either way ... weird ... but how are you enjoying your return?

But i will say i do like all these quests does take out a lot of the grind and if only the NGE was done differently..lets say by leaving the proffs the way they were and just implementing all the extra content like the quests i'd say the game would still be thriving and giving WoW a run for its money

Originally posted by Hexxeity

It looks like you are missing some graphics files.  Maybe you should verify files with the patcher?

Nope, all files are exactly as they should be

Sooo i resubed to swg not long ago to see how things are, so i logged in on my old commando and decided to try my hand at the ryatt trail quests i left for dead.

As always you have to hyper there (annoying!) but when i got there i was stunned at the view i had....boxes..to be exact every available stationary item like buildings, trees, bridges..even npcs where those default image boxes with the " ? " sign on them, i was speachless and very very lost because now there are no true pathways or npc's just an unending sea of boxes  

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s149/jinxit_2007/screenShot0001.jpg

or if your looking for a game that allows you to trade ingame currency for cold hard cash there is http://www.entropiauniverse.com/index.var 

I played the beta and my very first thought was "omg this is SWG-NGE with pretty graphics"  then i checked out the skill and ability system which i felt was very like Auto Assualt and then the crafting system...again very like Auto Assualt and then i tried combat which brings me back full circle to SWG-NGE. I honestly cant see it ever being revolutionary in the mmo market in its present form but i do think it will have a long life and a very big fan base of people that like the sound of a big gun.

It's me again :p in addition to wanting to see a deus ex mmo id love to see an actually horror mmo with real scares and where better to start looking for an IP for a horror mmo than none other than the grandaddy of them all Call of Cthulhu but id say instead of the usual mmo camera angles the resident evil 4 behind the shoulder angle would be pretty sweet

I'll start the ball rolling.

Deus ex freakin amazing game (not invisible war that was poop) it has everything for an mmo....extensive background, factions everywhere (templars, luminati, corps to name but a few) an awesome mix n match skill system and lots of yummy weaponry and armour :p

I dont think there will be another star wars mmo seeing sony are holding on  to the franchise  until the grim ( and painfully drawn out ) death of SWG and concerning the press statement recently from bioware/lucasarts, it said nothing about an mmo what it said was bioware and lucasarts are working on developing a new interactive product.....a kotor mmo?.......no......kotor for the Wii?......most probably, after all bioware have been focusing more on the next gen console side of the gaming market than the personal computer side.

I bet it's a Jade Empire MMO

Sigh, can we stop the SOE bashing for a sec, try reading between the lines. This is perpetuals first step into turning themselves  into mmo developing kings , originally sony was going to take care of the tech support stuff and costumer relations because they were going to be running the servers but perpetual have taken a very brave and decided to handle it all themselves. Blizzard started off this way to with world of warcraft and look at them now!

I hope perpetuals future in the mmo world is a bright one and i wish them all the best

PS.

swgemu, bring it on

Wait a sec , swg has become a pale shadow of what it used to be ..an original mmorpg and yes it had bugs and problems but instead of trying to iron them out soe decided to fire the original dev team and hire a team that decided to completely disregard its fan base. I was there when all hell broke loose but the worst part was soe closing all contact with the subscribers......closed down help lines......moderated the forums and crippled the chat system that was incorporated into the launchpad client! and they did all this for what, to introduce the nge? Has anyone really played the nge? Havent you noticed the "new game enhancements" that they seem to be so proud of are in actual fact a rather shabby clone of World of Warcrafts combat , expertise and pvp systems.

It's a wonder Blizzard havent tried sueing them yet.......