Better it be a company that can handle the name of Star Trek than a company that would simply end up ruining it.

Another blow for the Star Trek universe...no new series, no recent movies, a game that looked promising finally scrapped...

It's all about the money folks...everyone wants a WoW formula.

I have been sitting on my hands for two years, and this is all I get from these guys? some one just need to get the job done. Good thing perpetual is stepping out of the game making arena. After this there is no way I would get one of there games!

They shut down the production of Star Trek: Online? NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Okay.... so....so.... they are going to sell the license to this off to a better company... right right?! It would be good if they could make it 63% exploration and 47% combat and then have the two shift during story arcs.

Weird, after just reading an article about it like a couple weeks ago... x.x

I could see it now a big fat rich texan (the secret owner) who likes Star Trek plays the game for a bit, running perfectly, a nice long MMO of Star Trek, and he goes "This games gotta be more casual (gunfire), i challenge Perpetual to a dual" then the project probably gets so stupid it would probably be funny if they showed us the changes that were made. Character completion in 30 hours? lol who knows, it just sounds fnuny.

The only other thing i can think of is these guys made a game that just utilized the license and nothing else.

Sad. This was on my radar...and now I have to wait another forever for this to become a tangible, "worth-my-time" game. Hey Cryptic Studios - buy this thing and build us a toy to play with!

Is it just me, or does anyone else shudder when some one enters in the word "casual" into a video game converstaion?

Well at least Bioware is still gonna do KOTOR.

Another one bites the dust...R.I.P. Star Trek Online...

Shame...coulda been something special.

What a shame. the original 60's Star Trek would have been a great setting.

A dark day for Star Trek indeed, though this turn of events may actually prove to be for the best. Only time will tell...

Weak sauce. As much as I don't like MMO games, I would have liked to see a quality Star Trek game come out. If not quality, at least a popular one.

I guess I'll have to figure out how to get Judgment Rites working in DOSBOX?

So a couple months ago they abandon Gods & Heroes after the pre-order is already on store shelves so that they can focus all their efforts on Star Trek Online. Now they abandon Star Trek Online so that they can become an "engine-only" company!? What the heck is going on with this company? Why did they spend years working on Gods & Heroes and Star Trek Online just so they could abandon both projects as they were nearing completion? There's something going on here that they're not telling us. Time to start thinking up conspiracy theories...

hmm

This will come out about the time "Duke Nukem Forever: The Holodeck Edition" comes out.....like....never.

Sad to say but I think the only people who did NOT see this one coming like "an asteriod the size of Texas" was the people working on it. They had no clue they where on the Hindenburg of project and someone forgot to put up the no smoking sign.

Lost in Space

Anotherone bites the dust.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!

Oh well. At least they didn't just make an awful, rushed game that would have put a bad taste in people's mouths so that no one else would attempt another one. Evidently " givin' her all shes got capn'" just wasn't givin' her enough. (OK, I just couldn't resist at least one joke...sorry)

Though these are the good news- Perpetual is incapable to produce a quality game, so I hope a good company will continue developing Star Trek Online.
And their Gods & Heroes Beta was a horrible game indeed.

back to WoW i guess I was looking Forward to this ALOT specially since the fgirst ingame pics looked great aww imma go drown my sorrows in beer cya

I've never really been into online gaming but the Treky inside of me is waiting for this to come out.

thats interesting.. visted their studio back in january of 07. they were based right smack in the middle of san francisco. Their Gods and Heroes game actually seemed pretty promising. I'd like to see these guys make a Star Wars or a Star Trek game.. maybe even Alien. http://www.infinity-universe.com/

Man, that really sucks... although not really that surprising. I'll be waiting until the next developer tries their luck at making a good Star Trek MMO... even then, lets hope they know what they're doing.

Reverse the polarity. That'll fix it. .

Who didn't see this comming a lightyear away?..

Just between us - the Pirates MMORPG will be really crummy too and shouldn't have been made either.. but shhh...

I knew Star Trek had been stuck in development hell. Now they'll have to pass the buck to another development company...

thank god. i hated hearing so many star trek jokes. im sorta the younger brother of the star trek fan that never really bothered to watch it really.

They probably spent all of the money just to get the license

This is sad. I was so looking forward to losing hours of my life to this....

i like the EXPENDABILITY Poster. that's soooo funny and yet so true!

Well this is really for the better... if the company was struggling, no good game would have ever come from it. At least now, a more qualified company might pick the game up. Im not much of a Star Trek fan... but still hate to see struggling companies release half assed, under developed, and buggy games that they rush to release becuase they simply need the money.

Well looks like that game is dead. Star Trek Online was as good as cancelled from the day it was announced. There is just no way to make Star Trek work in a MMORPG type game and still make it "feel" Star Trek. When you watch the shows, they spend a good 80-90% of the show on the ship and very little time on the ground. Star Wars is much better for a MMO game, and if they can get the KOTOR MMO game right (they messed up SWG big time) it could be good.

I'm supprised SOE hasn't jumped on this they already messed up the Star Wars MMORPG why not go farther and do it to Star Trek too?

I saw this coming... It was just too good to be true.

Star Trek - Legacy was a cheap produced way to short and way to buggy game.
The Stargate Ego Shooter got cancelled and now Star Trek Online too...
Space Sims like Star Wars X-Wing Alliance or Wing Commander are a dead Genre since years...

only bad WW2 Shooters and RTS everywhere plz SHOOT ME!

Dammit Star Trek looked so promising and now this.... *sob sob*

God has spared us the torture of the nerdiest game ever created..... be grateful and hope some other devil spawn-organisation doesn't pick the project up.

Gods and Heroes may not be over if they were to find someone to buy it. Same goes for the Star Trek online license.

At least there is no bad star trek MMO yet.

Wow, how sad. I just hope that the boys running Star Trek over at Paramount don't take this the wrong way and decide to stop making PC games all together, cause that would suck.

Dang ... thats a bummer

Ack!

One more thing. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!

Sue me, I couldn't resist.

Aw hell, just shunt the warp plasma through the deflector manifold, divert phaser power to the structural integrity field, intra ship beam Ensign Ricky to sick bay and use a tachyon field to time travel to (insert current year here), get Mark Twain to help you write the thing while listening to Foghat and start all over! Wow, all that reminded my why I quit watching Star Trek in the first place...LOL

Damn it.......

Khaaaaaan! A shame as I was looking forward to this. As a side note I like how Tor mentioned Bioware's MMO is rumored to be KOTOR as we all know how much he believes that it is. I sure as hell hope he's right too.