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General: Star Trek: Infinite Space Announced
SBFord
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Gameforge has partnered with keen games to bring Star Trek: Infinite Space to browsers everywhere in summer 2011. The free-to-play game is based on the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine timeline and is being called a 'casual' game.
“Bringing keen games on board to develop Star Trek – Infinite Space was an easy decision to make as keen has a strong history of producing outstanding titles,” said Ralf Adam, VP of Publishing at Gameforge. “Our production team will work closely with keen games to bring the vision we have for Star Trek – Infinite Space to fruition.”
Read the full press release here.
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So STO is not casual enough? We need another space sim in the final frontier to get all those folks who think they don't have to "pay"? There is only so much starship combat folks will want. For what its worth, I hope its good.
Time to ruin the Star Trek universe even more? You would think after STO that developers would see that its not easy to please ST fans. I highly doubt any browser based casual game is going to geather any amount of ST fans to make it worth the development. Who knows, maybe I am wrong and ST fans like simply browser based games..
This will probably be like what Clone Wars is to Star Wars. I'm not interested at all currently.
I have heard that some players in the tween-teen age group aren't allowed to play anything but browser based games.
I look forward to this new addition to Star Trek Universe. I wish that they would put more time into fixing the mapping and tracking features first, though.
omfg not again...
Well I read the article, and ther was nothing in the article about how game play would be. Not only that but the game company is in germany. So you got to wonder will I need to speak german to play it.
I am so not interested in browser based games. I treid that pos call battlefield hero's and that was enough for me.
How can this be an mmo when its more of an fps. Were really way outside the box calling browser based fps games an mmo.
I wonder whats up these times. Why is everyone making browser based games. Sorry but gamers aren't waiting for browser based games. Sure you can advertise with "no need to download, play at work!" yeah great, my boss will apreciate it that i play games during work time >.<! Also i still have to find a browser based game im able to play longer than a hour...cause so far they suck are way to slow in progress speed to call it a game (yeah im talking about those lame build and expand games where you can only do one action at a time and have to wait a hour or more to see something get complete...you can't do shizzle the rest of the time).
Let developers make real PC games again instead of browser based crap and "free" to play MMORPG's that are more generic than you grandfathers war stories and more expensive with those webshops where you have to buy stuff if you want to progress...stuff that easally costs you a few dollars per item and need so many of that crap that you would be cheaper off paying 15 dollars a month than have to buy 20 tickets for a dungeon with 2 euro per 2 tickets.
I would try it. As long as they don't get so one sided with the content like STO. Being a browser game doesn't matter to me. I never had no issues with them being slow.
"Let developers make real PC games again instead of browser based crap and "free" to play MMORPG's that are more generic than you grandfathers war stories"
I don't know, the sentence above kind of describes the outlook on any Star Trek game made so far, MMO or not. So far they have all been generic as hell and crap.
As for the F2P, I've played F2P games more successful than the Star Trek game franchises.
A game is just that... a game, not an emotional crutch.
Given the short dev time of STO and the number of box sales (and the fact subs are still being paid), I think they just learned that Star Trek fans will buy anything. Well, enough of them will. I saw the writing on the wall and didn't get STO.
That said, STO set the bar so low on a "Star Trek Experience" that it wouldn't be hard for this new game to be more authentic. Unfortunately, even if it is so, that wouldn't tell us if the game actually was authentic as opposed to just being less atrociously inauthentic. Nor would it tell us if the game was any good.
Anyhow, we should keep our skeptic hats on.
It might do very well, if it is made to be played on the iphone and ipad.
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Most countries in Europe have their children in school near fluent in English by the time we in the UK or US are even learning the basics of other languages. Heck, i remember going to Norway when i was around 10yrs old and kids at 6 there were talking to me in English and i only knew how to say thank you in Norwegian at the time.
Most EU countries Education systems put ours to shame in the English speaking ones.
It's going to be hard to be worse than STO presently is.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
Man, you gotta be kidding! Gameforge might be located in Germany, but the translate every game into (at least) 20 languages! So, don't worry, you don't need to torture your brain with new knowlegde.
I can tell the rest of you the following: I've been to gamesom 2010 and attended the Gameforge booth were they announced the game the first time. It's made in Unity3D, an engine that's been used to make computer games before. You wouldn't believe what kinda grafics the browser can display already. I was stunned - and I'm working in the business for quite a while.
If mmorpg.com is interested, I could write an article about browser based gaming and the upcoming titles.
Btw: I can understand everyone who doesn't like browser based games or free-2-play in general, but...well,.... how do I say it nicely... the publishers just make f*cking load of money with these games.
Unless it lights my computer on fire, kills my dog, and burns my house to the ground while at the same time stealing my car and picking my pocket, It can't suck worse than STO. I plan on keeping an eye on it.
Kids have been learning Spanish in alot of grade schools across the country for about a decade now.
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That's disappointing. I thought this was going to be set in the original series time. Now 2 games in more or less the same time-how boring.
Aren't they the ones doing the Battlestar Galactica game as well? If so anyone else smell a carbon copy?
I've got nothing against browser games, any diet should be able to cope with the odd lite snack as long as they don't get in the way of the main meals it's just a shame STO doesn't have enough 'meat' atm.
Anyway looking forward to hearing more especially if it'll play on my work PC at lunch.
even this browser game will be better than STO
There is no "ruin" for any IP these days, it's all about the cash. Look at Star Wars, and people still shell out the money for what others think is garbage. What do you think Darth Vader woud say about a toaster that burns his face in toast? c'mon now.
So how many people actually own one of those? A good friend bought her daughter an ipad for college. Guess what, we were back in the store getting her a laptop already when she found that typing papers on an ipad is a very laborious process. So much for gimmicks that lose when it comes to practicality. Just a fad.
As for another Star Trek game, when they throw the casual label out there, they are not looking for MMO players, but the facebook ones.
These browser games are very cheap to make, it makes the F2P Copy & Paste Grinders look like AAA MMOs.
I agree.
I hope it's good. Never done a browser game before. Free to play is ok with me.
I used to think nobody would play browser games. Then I met a fellow IT guy who was called into a real estate office to fix some comps I couldn't get to before the day ended. Guy starts talking about how he's a HUGE online game fan. I could tell he was pumped up as he loaded a web browser to show me "one of the coolest online games that will ever exist". It turned out it was a Fantastic 4 themed board game where you selected a player, they spawned on a hex map and moved around attacking other avatars. Like a 3d version of Overpower or something. It looked so cheap I thought maybe it was one of those promotional type games. I never thought someone could get so pumped over a piece of garbage. Now when I see these games I realize there is a ton of money to be made from what any of us would consider complete trash.
I agree. The Enterprise-D looks good in the picture also xD At least they got that right.
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