Cryptic COO Jack Emmert took some time to talk to MMORPG.com about the Klingon faction and what they're really all about. We got all the details on this controversial announcement that they'd be a PvP-centric faction, including the first reveal of exactly what races you get to pick from. It isn't just Klingons.
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“With any video game there are always hard choices to make,” said Emmert by phone as he walked around their Los Gatos, California office complex. “It’s just a simple matter of you have a certain amount of time and you have a certain size team and you have to make decision about how you’d make the best product at launch.”
The decision was thus made to make sure that the Klingon faction was a big part of launch. He admitted that there was no way with an IP as big as Star Trek that they could do everything everyone, himself included, wanted. He lamented the lack of Romulan and Cardassian factions specifically as things he’d have loved to have included given unlimited time and money.
Read it all here.
