Star Trek Online For Consoles Scrapped, we so Didn’t Want it Anyway
The console version of Star Trek Online has officially been cancelled by developers Cryptic Studios. The PC title was hoped to launch on both the Xbox and PS3 but development has stopped because ‘œas it stands right now it’s a little difficult to make that final leap on the business side of things.’
Cryptic producer Craig Zinkievich told VideoGamer that it’s ‘œsomething we can readily do in terms of technology. We’ve had it up and running on certain consoles, and had plans and designs in order to take advantage of those platforms.’
Despite some lukewarm reviews, my inner Star Trek nerd couldn’t help being hopeful that STO would be a fun game on the console, but as with most PC to console conversions it probably would have turned out to be an uncontrollable mess with dodgy graphics. Those average PC reviews wouldn’t have helped any chance of a console version too, so perhaps it was foolish of me to even dream. Or hope. Or believe in anything ever again.
Via: CVG
Oh well, my beta experience made me hope for a playable console version as my pc is old :|
I played the beta, then stayed on for about a month after launch. Consoles aren’t missing much. It has common MMO problems, like stale, repetitive content, coupled with bad MMO problems of absolutely boring ground combat. Another still-born MMO rushed out the door without sufficient polish or content, right into the teeth of WoW.