Pumping Irony

Ok, I’ll give myself half a point for this one: in my 2008 Predictions I said Perpetual (now called P2 Entertainment) would lose the license for Star Trek but the IP would not immediately get picked up by another studio. While catching up on my reading backlog now that I’m home from this week’s four-day trip, I noticed Wired’s Game|Life posted an article stating P2 lost the Star Trek license but the IP has indeed been assigned to a new, as yet unnamed, development studio. Interestingly, it appears only the IP itself and the game content has been transferred to this new mystery team, but none of P2′s actual STO code. This means Trek fans will have to wait even longer as the new team has to start coding from scratch.  Personally, I think this is great news and the best thing that could have happened to the IP. With Perpetual’s abysmal track record, shady dealings, poor treatment of employees, and lazy, uninspiring development of STO itself, Trek fans in particular, and MMO gamers in general will be far better served by a real studio developing an MMO set in Roddenberry’s utopian future, not some fly-by-night outfit like Perpetual/P2 whose name thus far is only associated with criminal, disastrous behavior.

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