Will You Play The Star Trek® Massively Multiplayer Online Game?

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Star Trek® Massively Multiplayer Online Game

 

The game will deliver action, adventure and combat mechanics unique to persistent world games. Its design includes a rich array of solo and multiplayer missions set in space, on planets and in starbases throughout the universe. At launch, it will take place during the 24th century timeline in the series with other aspects of the Star Trek universe to be interwoven and added through expansions.

 

"Players will encounter characters, places, and situations from their favorite Star Trek movies and television series; will explore incredible new worlds; and will cooperate with or battle friendly and hostile races throughout the game."

 

The game is expected to enter public beta testing in 2006 and to launch by early 2007. For more information, see the "Frequently Asked Questions" about the game.

 

http://startrek.com/startrek/view/gaming/online/index.html

[TetsuoShima]

For me it depends on whether I like the game when it's finished, gameplay mostly, and if the price isn't too high.

[Antilles]

Having spent 2003 beta testing Star Wars Galaxies then full retail for well over a year I swore Id never get involved in another MMORPG, they suck your life away, seriously. :)

[nuages]

I expect the Star Trek MMORPG to either be earth shatteringly awesome or to not work at all. And I imagine they won't let out a product thats that terrible so i expect it to be earth shatteringly awesome and i'm looking very forward to it. I've never played any other MMORPG but none have got me as intereted as this one.

[wahaha]

No. Don't have the time and don't even plan on being in the country by next yr, and I don't plan on coming back for a LONG time.

 

In fact I've never and will never play an online game. The only people who seem to do it are the ones who have too much time or are kids in school.

[str82u]

Maybe that's Paramounts new money making scam. Is this a pay for play type of game?

[TheBorg]

There is a 99.9% chance for that. In other worlds, we will be unable to use it at all in that case.

[qkghost]

Being a 7+ year veteran of the mmorpg; Ultima Online, and dabblings in various other online games (EQ, DAoC, SWG, among others) I've had vast experience in online gaming trends, mechanics developments, player bases and roleplaying communities. I expect a good future for STO, if the the developers have learned lessons from the failings of other previous online games.

 

As I've stated to my UO comrades, once STO hits beta, they shouldn't expect to see me for a very long time. :D I've been waiting for an online game to cater to my Trek addiction for many years and when I heard the news last year of the development of STO, I nearly fainted.

 

My main concern is the potential rp (roleplay) of the game. The best rp community, imho, that you'll find is within UO, due to the lack of environmental constraints that the original developers based the game on. I hope STO won't be limited to: find ship, destroy, repair, rinse & repeat. Much like the highly-popular, yet quickly grinding Worlds of Warcraft. I'd like to be able to rp the life of my character to the fullest, without constraints, wherever he finds himself in the galaxy.

 

Also I littled piffed about the choices for starting races. Romulans and Klingons were mentioned as 'possible' expansion races, I'd much prefer a promise here or there. I'm not big on the idea of rping a Tellerite. :p

 

(And yes, btw, it will most definately be pay-per play, as are all mmog/rpgs. I'd expect a monthly bill, tbh.)

[Zerotop]

depends if the game is good enough.

 

playing wow with my irl friends so its a bit hard o swap games.

[S0V13T]

I voted for no, becuase not only do I absolutely hate MMORPG games, I also absolutely hate the idea of paying monthly to play a frigging game. I own Soldier of Fortune 2, and Couterstrike, thats it. I got them for $5, like 5 years ago, and that's all the online gaming I can handle. I tried Ragnarok Online for maybe 1/2 an hour when people were still able to play for free, and it was the stupedest thing I've ever volunterilly done (minus the time the GF put make up on me when I was hammered, totally annihilated)

 

I can just picture a hundred Ferengis sitting around at a starbase or whatever trying to hock their wares with a voice bubble above their heads reading "Faz0r 4 sael - 1000 barz glod preseed latinem". That and I swear to god that I'd immediatelly leave the house, and play outside in the real world and trade my comp for a handgun with one bullet in the chamber the second I see a borg drone using one of those farked up Anime emoticons like ^-^ or the 13 year old girl Kirby Dance (>')> <(' ')> <(' <) that my 13 year old niece sends me to piss me off when I'm rocking out to Danzig, and breaking bottles and shooting off guns, and doing manly things.

 

Oh yes, and I can't wait for people to start complaining, and spamming the boards asking the mods to make them a Q or something, seeing federation officers with names like Lt. Commander Sepheroth6969, Admaral chibi_moon and mighty Klingon Warriors pussified with even lamer and lamer user names. I could go on forever on how badly 12 year old kids from all over the world will get together in this online game, and turn it into something that will make die hard fans, like us cry our selves to sleep.

 

Ahhhhhhhhh! *kicks the cat out the window, and storms off swearing loudly and smashing stuff*

 

 

[wahaha]

That's exactly why I don't play online games.

[qkghost]

SOV13T,

Valid points, and I agree to an extent.

 

However, dedicated roleplayers often have a tendancy to band together and form their own communities, to try to enrich their playing environment and avoid the very things you mentioned. With proper leadership and talented folks creating scenarios, events and plots, mmorpgs can be a fascinating and very worthwhile avenue for immersive and in-depth rp.

 

To sum, idiots can always be ignored.

[MarkusSVK]

I don't play any mmorpg's since I'we seen my friend to be totaly adicted of a game(he looked like an alcoholic).Today he sais that he would never ever play a online game again.I play games like SFC3 to relax for a hour or so but it is better to go out meet some friends or a girl(the better alternative :p ) and have fun.

[Vektram]

If it's good enough and cheap enough.

[Zerotop]

just want to say that grinding is volantary :)

 

and wow has very little of that compared to l2 and other mmo.

 

Today games need to have constrains otherwise it gets to big and hard for the devs to keep up with imo..

 

And a game based on whatnot will never be as good as books or movies..

 

 

[Skippy]

I voted for no, becuase not only do I absolutely hate MMORPG games, I also absolutely hate the idea of paying monthly to play a frigging game. I own Soldier of Fortune 2, and Couterstrike, thats it. I got them for $5, like 5 years ago, and that's all the online gaming I can handle. I tried Ragnarok Online for maybe 1/2 an hour when people were still able to play for free, and it was the stupedest thing I've ever volunterilly done (minus the time the GF put make up on me when I was hammered, totally annihilated)

 

I can just picture a hundred Ferengis sitting around at a starbase or whatever trying to hock their wares with a voice bubble above their heads reading "Faz0r 4 sael - 1000 barz glod preseed latinem". That and I swear to god that I'd immediatelly leave the house, and play outside in the real world and trade my comp for a handgun with one bullet in the chamber the second I see a borg drone using one of those farked up Anime emoticons like ^-^ or the 13 year old girl Kirby Dance (>')> <(' ')> <(' <) that my 13 year old niece sends me to piss me off when I'm rocking out to Danzig, and breaking bottles and shooting off guns, and doing manly things.

 

Oh yes, and I can't wait for people to start complaining, and spamming the boards asking the mods to make them a Q or something, seeing federation officers with names like Lt. Commander Sepheroth6969, Admaral chibi_moon and mighty Klingon Warriors pussified with even lamer and lamer user names. I could go on forever on how badly 12 year old kids from all over the world will get together in this online game, and turn it into something that will make die hard fans, like us cry our selves to sleep.

 

Ahhhhhhhhh! *kicks the cat out the window, and storms off swearing loudly and smashing stuff*

 

 

I like your style S0V13T. I tip my hat to you.

[S0V13T]

I didn't mean to come off so aggressivelly against the game. It's the kids and idiots that I have a problem with, eh? It seems to me that the stuff I was ranting about in my previous post , although is reletivly common place in games of this kind, just wouldn;t work in a Trek title. I mean, come on everyone knows that Star Trek fans are some of the most hard core, die hard kind of fanatics When it comes to demanding perfection.

 

How many topics, have the members of this forum alone started pointing out some minor stupid thing in the continuity (you know who you are, I'm one of 'those' too) and claimed that that one tinly oversight ruined the episode, or the movie? True trek fans have one quality in common: We love to nit pick, and we're masters of attention to detail. Those qualities WOULD make a MMORPG in the Trek Universe one hell of an awesome game, becuase the fans out there like us would't do ANYTHING that I mentioned.

 

We can usually spot an episode of Trek that was written by someone that genuinely loves the franchise, and scripts that were written by someone "pushing the product" who's only doing it for a paycheck.

 

Now imgine that your in that game, surrounded by other people that are as hard core, and dedicated as we are here, that'd be awesome, I'd gladly buy the game, and play per month if I thought it'd be that kind of cool experience. With enough imagination you'd feel as if you're in the holodeck, living in the 24th century.

 

But I can garentee this: The second you encounter some dumb mother farker who dosen't know sh!t about Trek contunity, who is only there to get rare items and sell them on ebay, "thta iz taklin liek dis, omg stfu ensign fagg0t omg u hot lets cybar!" it'll make all of us Trek fans sad, that there wasn;t a 100 question online test about the trek universe that everyone had to pass before they were allowed to join a server. It'll cheapen the whole Trek experience, becuase one bad apple sometimes CAN spoil the whole bunch.

[PlaidMan]

Being someone who was heavily into diablo 1 and 2 and betaed that ragnarok game someone mentoned previously, I have to say that I think S0V13T is right. The game could be continuity error free and it is likely that the other jerks in the game alone could simply ruin it for the harder core star trek fans. It is likely that I will not be able to find time to waste on this game and would be unmotivated to do so if I could, because of the previously mentoned idiots and jerks. But, if I did get this game you can bet your ass that I'd figgure out exactly how to avoid these people as much as possible first thing when I got into the game.

[weareborg]

Why pay to play an MMORPG when you can have a STar trek MMORPG for free. If you have Star trek voyager elite force (Torrent available here) you can download RPGX, a mod that changes it into an MMORPG.

[ank329]

It really depends on the price for me.