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The lighting is dated, the blue-based user interface even more so. Abrams fame as the new Emergency Medical Hologram in godawful dropshadowed text. In this video of the original entry tutorial, we are introduced to the game’s basic controls by the voice of Zachary Quinto of J.J. Comparatively, beta looked drastically different from the property that’s online today.
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Somewhere, there are at least three 480p handicam videos of Closed and Open Beta gameplay taken from over my shoulder, but I could not find them at the time of this writing. The resulting performance was not optimal, but I was tremendously excited just to participate.
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STOked also provided an excellent historical account of the acquisition entitled “ How Cryptic Saved Star Trek Online.” By late-Fall, 2009, Star Trek Online entered Closed Beta, which I somehow acquired a key for in the name of (a blogger site which represents one of my first web projects ever.) I was dual-booting Windows 7 Beta on my 2008 MacBook, which only supported 2 of its 4GB of RAM.
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We had acquired the license from Perpetual and Perpetual’s license had an expiration date on it, and we had to ship the game before the expiration date or we would lose the license. We were under a very massive deadline to deliver the game.
One wonders what Cryptic did with the original game and art assets and who technically owns them now.Īfter acquiring the rights to make the game in early-2008, Cryptic was legally compelled to come up with a completed product in two years’ time as then-Executive Producer Stephen D’Angelo explained on the 100th episode of the STOked podcast: I learned how extensive and beautiful their development had been. He and the STORadio crew accepted me into their Teamspeak conversations despite how strange and unsocialized I was. In the IRC channel, I met Sata – host of the now-defunct MMO Junkies podcast and ex-Perpetual developer. I originally went by the (very cringey) username “crazyhooligin,” under which my current STO account is still registered. It was exciting to find a community of people who were looking forward to participating in a Star Trek MMO as much as I was. In fact, this channel was the only reason I left IRC clients open on my computers for years. I was 14 in 2008 when I joined the original post-Perpetual Entertainment STO IRC channel when the game's license was first transferred to Cryptic Studios. The proposed solution was that players could own smaller ships like fighters and minor spaceships, but the big ones - like the Galaxy class - would instead be adventure hubs with explorable, detailed interiors. Instead of captaining one’s own starship, “players would have taken on the role of an officer who would be part of a crew of a starship,” echoing old legacy titles like Star Trek: Bridge Commander. Perpertual’s STO was significantly different from today’s MMO.
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“On information and belief, the assets transferred to P2 include Perpetual Entertainment trademarks and copyrights, the domain name, and assets related to Star Trek Online, including code and the license… Perpetual received less than market value for the assets it transferred to P2, and the transfer made Perpetual insolvent (or worsened Perpetual's existing insolvency).” A quote from the complaint as reported by Ten Ton Hammer: The company was sued by Kohnke Communications for allegedly selling “valuable assets like the Star Trek Online license” to an affiliated entity called P2 entertainment. As Justin Olivetti chronicled for Engadget, the license for Star Trek Online was originally bought and developed on by Perpetual Entertainment, which was assaulted by a lawsuit and extensive layoffs in December, 2006. The execution of today’s final, Arc Games-owned and maintained product is a particularly long and interesting one. This year, the game celebrated its ten-year anniversary (aligning well with the continued involuntary beat of this blog.) I’m currently in the midst of my annual check-in with STO and thought an exploration of this most-consequential video game of my life’s history would be an appropriate undertaking. The idea of commanding my own starship in a universe of other “captains” alongside a hand-picked bridge crew was a beguiling one to myself and many others. I entertained fantasies about a Star Trek MMO since first experiencing the genre through Eve Online and World of Warcraft in early adolescence. The ancient IP’s MMO is still Online, albeit with some disappointing discontinuations.
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