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Perpetual Entertainment bails on Star Trek Online photo

More news from the world of Captain Obvious and his sidekick, Blatant Bullsh*ttery: Developer Perpetual Entertainment (now renamed P2 Entertainment) has announced they will not continue development on much discussed MMO Star Trek Online. The game is not formally cancelled however -- the game's content and license have apparently passed into the hands of another developer in the Bay area in San Francisco, where lucky slaves are just beginning on years of hard labor.

Key to this tale of woe is that while the new developers have the content, they do not have the code for the work-in-progress, pushing this game's possible debut from "the next few years" to "possibly next decade." Sorry, guys -- if you were looking forward to interacting in this universe, the next best thing may be to cosplay as Scotty and go to a con. Again.

By the way, Perpetual? You might want to look for a new line of work. After blowing off Gods and Heroes (not ot mention its staff) right before its launch and all that messy Kohnke lawsuit business, things just don't look that great for you guys. Don't go the Britney route and completely lose it in public -- it's just not flattering.

[Via WarCry -- Thanks, John!] 


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king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 14:05
king3vbo
Yah, totally didnt see this coming.
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 14:06
MrSadistic
It was most likely going to suck, more or less. So I guess that's good it was canned for now.
Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 14:18
Im OK
No big loss. *shrug*
metroid's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 14:39
metroid
a trekkie living next door just killed himself,last thing i heard was:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
(oh god the irony just hurts)
PrinceofCannedPeaches's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 14:42
PrinceofCannedPeaches
And they named themselves .... Perpetual? Whaaaaatthafuck?
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:07
Necros
Wasn't this basically known a while ago in this Penny Arcade comic?
DrNutt's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:17
DrNutt
Looks like this MMO going to perpetually be in development hell.
Holiday's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:16
Holiday
I swear Star Trek games are cursed. CCP must be having a big arsed party right now. God will we ever have a decent sci-fi spaced themed MMO to replace the the crap with is EVE Online?
AirborneToxicEvent's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 21:43
AirborneToxicEvent
Damn, that sux, but guess we don't have to indefinitely postpwn the wedding.
Technophile's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 21:47
Technophile
Color me not surprised at all.
morbo47's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 22:47
morbo47
Necros, that comic was about their PR firm suing them for cancelling Gods and Heroes or whatever it was called, and not paying them the fees they were owed. It wasn't related to Star Trek Online.
Fading Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 03:00
Fading Star
That sucks.
tropicalchris's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 07:32
tropicalchris
This is completely unprofessional of them. This game could have been the next Star Wars Galaxies but better...the screen shots, news feeds, etc. on their site made the game look like it was goign to be amazing. Could they not have teamed up with Activision to make this title since they have done previous Star Trek games? Really pathetic on their part...
Kaijin's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 07:48
Kaijin
Activision is blizzard now. They wouldn't have wanted to create competition for themselves.
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