Star Trek Online stops development

[Shando]

Details here (http://news.curse.com/details/5074/)

It's closing in on 4 months since Gods & Heroes was cancelled (http://news.curse.com/details/3132/) and Perpetual Entertainment had to go through a round of layoffs. Now, not only are they dealing with legal issues (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50323), but P2 Entertainment -- formerly Perpetual Entertainment -- has now ceased development of Star Trek Online.
According to WarCry's breaking news (http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/breakingnews/2802-Breaking-News-P2-Out-As-Star-Trek-Online-Developer), P2 has transfered the license and content of the game to an unnamed Bay Area developer, who will continue developing the project -- though the game's code itself will not be continuing on to its new home.
P2 Entertainment is now going to focus completely on continuing development and licensing of their Perpetual Platform -- previously licensed by industry leaders like BioWare -- as well as a shift toward the casual games market.
Keep checking back -- we will of course be following closely and report any new developments, especially once we know who has taken over the work on Star Trek Online.

Shando

[Sontor]

Good. It was clear they were on a path to disaster for quite some time.

Hopefully the "unnamed Bay Area developer" will have some idea what to do with an MMO with such an established canon and huge built in fan base.

[Shando]

Looks like Cryptic Studios might be that "Bay Area developer." (http://www.w00tstudios.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=20)

Shando

[Sontor]

Interesting... I was a fan of CoH in the early days.. but I didn't care for the wild swings of game balance that Statesman started implementing... (Jack Emmert?)

That said, Cryptic is more promising than the previous group.

[Aamen]

Good. It was clear they were on a path to disaster for quite some time.

Did you know something we didn't? All I saw about ST:O was some bits of news, a couple of screenshots and concept art and that's it. The devs weren't talking too much either.

[Sontor]

Did you know something we didn't?

Probably not.. that opinion was mostly based on about a month worth of lurking that I did on the official forums. What little bit I saw from the devs was uninspiring. Frankly I saw better ideas and game design suggestions from the fanbois who were posting like mad.

[Sontor]

^^ oh and, no Klingons at release? Ridiculous.