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General: Free to Play Star Trek MMO Interview
MikeB
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MMORPG.com's Garrett Fuller spoke to Gameforge's VP of Publishing Ralf Valm to discuss the newly announced casual friendly Free-to-Play MMO based on the Star Trek IP.
MMORPG.com: |
Tell us about how you got the Star Trek IP to create the game? |
Ralf Valm - VP of Publishing: |
We came into contact with CBS through our extensive international network. We were looking for an IP that would translate well into a free-to-play game and works for a broad consumer base. Star Trek is one of those brands that appeal to people all around the world and from all age groups. Under the license agreement, Gameforge will publish casual free-to-play browser and social media games, starting in 2011. |
MMORPG.com: |
What plans do you have to reach fans of Star Trek and bring them into the game? |
Ralf Valm - VP of Publishing: |
The Star Trek franchise offers a great variety of different universes, timelines and stories, which gives us a broad pool of settings to pick from for our games. Our expertise lies in developing and publishing free-to-play games that appeal to people all over the world because they are easily accessible and provide fun gameplay for years to come. For our upcoming games under the agreement, we want to bring both Star Trek and browser gaming fans high quality experiences that will entertain them for a long time. The first two games we will release in 2011 will cover different settings from the universe: One will be a Facebook game, the other a browser game. They will also be different in tone and style. |
Read the full interview here.
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Nice, thanks
I am against this game. Cryptic didn't release a great product, but their product has potential. Releasing a competing product agsint undermines that potential and will force the same market shares to choose between the two. I am against this project.
Seriously? Great product? I'll give you that it's fun for maybe an hour but that's all it is, just candy and once devoured you have a bad stomach ache.
I for one am for this product, we all know they whore out this IP. This game, even just announced has more potential than STO will EVER have.
Jamion, how is this a competing product exactly? You're talking about a browser run flash game for social networking sites & the like compared to a fully fledged 3D graphic intensive application.
Ugh another star trek mmo.... I think not >.<
lol. He said they DIDN'T release a great product. ^_^
I know you guys probably don't care but I posted this at 35000 feet while over Indiiana. That's how much I love you all. Plane on the way to E3? Who cares! Gotta work!
Is just a facebook and browser game. If these games can compete with cryptic's game than that's really sad.
Now THATs commitment. Enjoy the expo!
This seriously sounds like a clusterphuck of epic proportions. For those that didn't like STO this sounds like a much shallower dip into the deep pool that is the Star Trek IP. Cryptic released a good product that is moving towards being a great addtion to the franchise. These browser products are going to just come off as time wasters while waiting for your porn to download, and not deep and immersive products. More Choose Your Own Adventure books on one of them and the other sounds like a browser version of a shooter. Two games that are just going to dilute the pool of players, and just be waste of space in the Internet universe.
But I could be wrong and they could be decent games that I will definitely give a look when they become available for play. I would like to think that the game universe is large enough for all but with such an IP as Star Trek, I would like great care taken with any additional attempts to bring more games into the fold.
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Cool beans!
At least you're gonna play some awesome demos to tease us with (hopefully... or not) :P
@ Interview
Okay, first of all, they're not making one game to rule them all, they're making multiple F2P browser/social titles, pretty much like Zinga and all their games, except they will be most likely focusing many of them on a single IP. Anyway, not interested as it's not the platform I am interested in. This won't even complete with STO, unless it's like Free Realms, being pseudo-browser-based (because it just uses the browser to download and launch a client).
It doesn't even really sound like a MMO.
Glad to see that even CBS knows how badly Cryptic trashed the Star Trek IP with that engine rehash/reskin of an MMO.
Ah, the modern workplace! Have fun at E3!
"Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan
No; Cryptic released a shallow game disguised and billed as a AAA MMO, and they have already diluted their playerbase in STO without needing anyone else's help. At least this person is being upfront about what exactly they are making.
"Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan
STO + Great Product = Oxymoron
Star Trek Games have been utter shite for several years now, and STO continues that tradition. As an old Star Trek fan who left recently from STO, it's a bad state of affairs. It can't get any worse, so why not let this flash game go on? Not like STO is worth anything to begin with anyways.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
Well if it turns out to be better than STO (which should not be too difficult) why not, else a waste time & resources.
Personal opinion -
STO was far from the excitement of Star Trek as I remember it, and I saved a lot of money throwing it in the bin.
Even if they just rehash one of the older games, the price is a lot more inviting...
Nothing, Nada, Zip, Not a cent.
You want to play, you're happy to play it as much as you want. F2P are games funded by 'however much you want to pay'. Pay-to-play games are funded by a flat rate that, in STO's case, was too much.
Hahahahahahaha! You're not serious right?
Anyway, the term "Star Trek MMO" is becoming a sad joke of epic proportions.
Am I the only one who thinks that a Star Trek: Original Series Facebook game based on exploration and customization might just as well work?
IMO the concept would be much closer to the original than the action-based crap all Star Trek games inevitably get pushed into.. This might be a nice old-school relaxing thing where you go around weird cosmos, meet aliens, collect stuff and maybe solve puzzles.. Anyone remember games such as Nomad and the legendary Captain Blood?
As long as they stay away from the crappy xp grind and leveling shit the Facebook mmos are so infamous for (you get xp and level while GARDENING? oh pleeeease...) I think this game might have some potential.
And besides, they are a german firm. Germans have a board-game culture second to none and their games traditionally center more on cooperation and combination play rather than raw linear power and conflict (Setlers of Catan vs Risk, for example). if they carry over their expertise to flash and facebook mmos we might finally get some quality products on these platforms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Blood_%28video_game%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_%28game%29
The reason this is going the browser and Facebook route is because Atari owns the exclusive Star Trek mmo license. None of these games by Gameforge will be real mmos, but rather just casual little flash games. Perhaps mmorpg.com should have asked them for more details on that little matter.
http://trekweb.com/articles/2010/06/14/Gameforge-Announces-Web-Browser-New-Star-Trek-MMORPG-Game.shtml
"Atari holds the exclusive MMO Star Trek license and continues to support its subscription-based Star Trek Online with new content. Star Trek actors Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto are featured in that game. Nimoy will actually be on hand at E3 to promote Yoostar. "
It's amazing sites like Massively, the site I just linked, and mmorpg.com are all saying these are going to be mmos when their own accompanyng articles clearly show otherwise. Gameforge has no license to make a Star Trek mmo.
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I would give you a pat on the back and a big, fat BZ if it wasn't for the fact that you are headed to E3 and I'm...well...not! Woe onto thee the ugly face of jealously!
"One will be a Facebook game, the other a browser game"
Its funny how some people getting the impression that these clowns are making an MMO. They aren't. Browser / Facebook games are not games that offer the same level of depth as MMORPGS.
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True but unfortunately neither does STO.
"Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan