Star Trek Online Devs Sued by PR Firm
By Chris on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 at 11:09 AM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Games Industry
Perpertual Entertainment, the developer that has been working on Star Trek Online, is being sued by public relations firm Kohnke Communications for breach of contract and fraud, among other allegations. The lawsuit contends that Kohnke was asked to create promotional items for the canceled Gods and Heroes game after Perpetual was aware that the game would be canceled. It goes on to state that Perpetual’s request was “fraudulent, oppressive, and with malice” and that the developer never had any intention of paying Kohnke.
It’s further alleged that Perpetual sold company assets to a satellite company and then proceeded to file an “Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors,” which, essentially, is an easier and cheaper way of dealing with bankruptcy.
It’s a complicated situation that’s bound to be ugly – these things always are – and certainly isn’t a good sign for anyone waiting for Star Trek Online.
You can read more at Game|Life or TenTonHammer.
All the MMO’s i wanna play get screwed. All the way back to Mythica, then Imperator, Gods & Heroes, now Star Trek?! Not to mention Earth & Beyond getting shut down not to mention the legendary crap that happened to Star Wars Galaxies. I wonder if Blizzards servers would explode if i played WoW?
Good-Bye STO…the chances of this small-time developer coming back from this is slim to none.
As much as i wanted to see this game in action, i had a feeling it wasn’t going to see the light of day.
While surfing for upcoming game releases that were in the back of my head that I thought I should check in on, I came across this complete mess.
More research into this indicates that much of the developed works with STO has been sold off to a SF Bay area software company. The internet is an amazing place and one such listing for game developement in the Bay Area happens to be one of the larger of game developement companies….UBISOFT. HMM interesting how UBISOFT already have a number of Star trek titles under their belt…smells a bit like 1+1=2 to me.