Star Trek Online release date set

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I don't think they have a choice on the release date anymore, it's a shame because this IP has so much potential to be an incredible MMORPG setting. Like Champions Online, we'll probably get an unfinished, super rushed, buggy, and unstable flash in a pan game that has people talking about how much potential it COULD have had if it were properly developed with more time.

An MMO with just over a year in development will be exactly as it sounds like, then again we shouldn't be surprised since Atari was also the same company that had a game mass produced based off the film E.T., that was rush developed.

Sadly this game won't and hasn't been about creating the best possible Star Trek experience available, it's been about showing the cold feet MMO wannabe companies that they can license the Cryptic Engine and create a quick and cheap MMO too.

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You talk how if the game dont go to receive updates or changue after launch.

MMO are long tern games, and their best shape begin moths after launch. Not are singleplayer games that live or die in their firsts weeks.

A MMO can be awful for everyone in his launch (EVE) but gain momentun and receive succes many moths or years inclusive after launch.

Perhaps in people perception games can be considered succes or fail in their first moth, but the MMO reality is different. The SWG-NGE disaster was years after the SWG launch.

Also the STO engine is the same that the CO engine, CO has been how a "beta" for STO, for that many bugs and crashes experimented in CO will not appear in STO.

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I disagree. While I to have been victimized of rushed release dates and buggy launches; something in my gut says these guys have their stuff together. I expect a pretty decent release.

You have to keep in mind that Cryptic bought the game, content, and rights from Perpetual. A lot of the leg work was already done, they just redesigned a few areas and built content.

In reality the game has been in development for a pretty long time, I think this seems just about right.

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