It's entirley possible for a game developer to purchase not only the copyright liscense of a franchise but to purchase all pertaining assets of a copyrighted liscense that includes any concept art and code and with perpetuals version of star trek online that would include a nearly finished game.
As for the ticker on cryptics site, i have a funny feeling it's counting down to the opening of the official star trek online site http://www.startrekonline.com/
"It's entirley possible for a game developer to purchase not only the copyright liscense of a franchise but to purchase all pertaining assets of a copyrighted liscense that includes any concept art and code and with perpetuals version of star trek online that would include a nearly finished game."
Ah..STO was hardly a nearly finished game, it was not even close to a beta release, they were still in the design phase on much of it. You would also have to throw out a lot of the code as Darron Stinnett had them going down a path to oblivion with his introverted ideas.
It shows a planet blowing up. How is that a prelude for Star Trek?
You mean you haven't seen Generations? (The Veridian system being obliterated by the forced nova of it's sun, taking the crashed Enterprise-D with it)
Or the TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine"? (Which destroys planets then uses the remains for fuel)
Or the Species 8472 Planet Killer (From the Voyager episode "Scorpion" - capable of channeling fire from bioships into a beam powerful enough to destroy a planet)
It's as Star Trek as anything else space-related. Granted it'd be nice to see some actual Trek ships or something, but it's at least a start, and as others have said it's directly from the Perpetual concept art.
Personally, I think it might be the prelude to STO. But another little voice says, "it might be just the artwork from one of the people that Cryptic has signed on when Perpetual fell apart."
Need to squash little voice
your arguement is so persuasive, so filled with knowledge and insight. You back up your argument very articulately, with suggestions of improvements and raising examples to glorify your position....oh wait, you didn't
After looking closely at the pic from all the links provided, I believe the planet is not blowing up. The perspective is from within a Planet Ring at close up. Look at the planet beyond and it seems to be whole. A planets ring is made up of small asteroids circling the larger body.
But, I believe most are correct here. Speculation and rumor seem quite clear here. Cryptic has STO.
Well not really called it, I just put the dots together and decrypted the developer.
Yeah I read your posts and info trail that lead to it, and might I say WELL DONE. I did not have any doubts after that. All these new developments do is point out that they are almost ready to confirm it "officially".
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http://trekmovie.com/2008/01/14/perpetual-looking-to-transfer-development-of-star-trek-online/
It's entirley possible for a game developer to purchase not only the copyright liscense of a franchise but to purchase all pertaining assets of a copyrighted liscense that includes any concept art and code and with perpetuals version of star trek online that would include a nearly finished game.
As for the ticker on cryptics site, i have a funny feeling it's counting down to the opening of the official star trek online site http://www.startrekonline.com/
It shows a planet blowing up. How is that a prelude for Star Trek?
"It's entirley possible for a game developer to purchase not only the copyright liscense of a franchise but to purchase all pertaining assets of a copyrighted liscense that includes any concept art and code and with perpetuals version of star trek online that would include a nearly finished game."
Ah..STO was hardly a nearly finished game, it was not even close to a beta release, they were still in the design phase on much of it. You would also have to throw out a lot of the code as Darron Stinnett had them going down a path to oblivion with his introverted ideas.
You mean you haven't seen Generations? (The Veridian system being obliterated by the forced nova of it's sun, taking the crashed Enterprise-D with it)
Or the TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine"? (Which destroys planets then uses the remains for fuel)
Or the Species 8472 Planet Killer (From the Voyager episode "Scorpion" - capable of channeling fire from bioships into a beam powerful enough to destroy a planet)
It's as Star Trek as anything else space-related. Granted it'd be nice to see some actual Trek ships or something, but it's at least a start, and as others have said it's directly from the Perpetual concept art.
*flexes Geek muscles*
It's the same artwork
Personally, I think it might be the prelude to STO. But another little voice says, "it might be just the artwork from one of the people that Cryptic has signed on when Perpetual fell apart."
Need to squash little voice
your arguement is so persuasive, so filled with knowledge and insight. You back up your argument very articulately, with suggestions of improvements and raising examples to glorify your position....oh wait, you didn't
It's the same artwork
Woah. Ok, I can see it now, heh.
After looking closely at the pic from all the links provided, I believe the planet is not blowing up. The perspective is from within a Planet Ring at close up. Look at the planet beyond and it seems to be whole. A planets ring is made up of small asteroids circling the larger body.
But, I believe most are correct here. Speculation and rumor seem quite clear here. Cryptic has STO.
Yeah I read your posts and info trail that lead to it, and might I say WELL DONE
. I did not have any doubts after that. All these new developments do is point out that they are almost ready to confirm it "officially".