Well Hopfully it is a good thing. STO is my only current MMO, not been active alot at the moment but i will be back! ^^

I to am hopefull this will be a good thing :D never thought much of atari anyway fingers crossed :D

I don't think F2P is any closer, they also own the company that makes Torchlight, and by all accounts, that company didn't change their business model after our new overlords bought them. If STO was going to go F2P it will still do so on Cryptic's terms and schedule.

What I did like to see though, is that Perfect World are interested in the Cryptic Engine, that could mean more investment into that for more features and such. I just hope the games using the engine are still safe.

For this, I am going to take a "wait and see" approach. However, with this coming out only a week after Atari announcing their intent to sell, its obvious this deal has been in the works for some time, especially for what Perfect World have bought them for, nearly $50 Million.

I am cautiously optimistic about this, hopefully this means a press release from Cryptic sometime this week over it all. Least the new overlords are in a more finanically stable situation.

As for the no time travel, if STO had to go over to a Chinese market, it is likely they would do a seperate server, like they have done with WOW's expansion. I think their first expansion only came out there a few months ago, yet didn't affect the release we all get.

is F2P a bad thing? The forum junkies on STO official forums seem to slate it something rotten

F2P seems to be closer now than ever before. Will they let Cryptic continue to work the way they have been or will they be made to keep time travel out of missions??? :silly:

well at least its sold. I read the official forums, god people get easilly excited/offended lol

Might be a good thing that an Asian company has bought it, might shake things up a bit.

Being the fickle creatures we are a lot of people will jump ship when Star Wars Old Republic comes out anyway. Its only a game peeps :kiss:

Hey guys,

Someone indicated this in fleet chat and thought i'd forward it on.

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=217425

http://gamutnews.com/20110531/12089/perfect-world-and-atari-announce-agreement-for-the-acquisition-of-cryptic-studios.html

Will be interesting to see the direction STO takes.

For LOTR fans out there (like me!) the two Hobbit films have been named

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: There and back again.

Read the IMDB article

I've been interested since August 2009. (Finally found my little wallpaper kit they sent me and right clicked to see the date I saved them to my computer)

the closed beta is limited and no one is guaranteed. Even I am not and I ran a mini closed last month which was a semi end alpha pre beta to iorn out a big bug. Most of the codes if we get them will be going on a most active list in sto/rift from stonewall and those that post here. In regard to you headlock if your getting in guaranteed have you had the mail yet telling you about the aplication process? If not id either resubmit on the website for the beta or wait to see if we get the fleet ones. Anyhow I have submitted a error free apllication so will hopefully get an answer soon.

im supposedly suppose to get into the cb guaranteed since i was in conan !

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I would definitely be interested. I generally run STO on full specs with my new card and it looks awesome. It would be cool to try a new game with some Stonewallers since I'm not really interested in DCUO or SW: TOR ^_^

Episode 286 - Deep Space Nine - "Emissary, Part I" - 1/03/1993

http://allstepisodes.com/linkdatabasems.php?n=3101

A new crew is assigned to a former Cardassian space station: Deep Space Nine. It is a joint Federation/Bajoran force, with Commander Sisko in charge, but his life is dramatically changed when he is declared the Emissary to the Prophets by a Bajoran priest.

Enjoy!

Yeah, I hold you personally responsible for piquing my interest in The Secret World. We both have high-end systems (we can run games like Fallout 3/New Vegas and STO on full details settings at 1900 x 1200). I can send you full specs if you need them. As for hours available for gaming, we might have too many, at least in my mind. I've beta tested most of the big name MMOs from EQ through DCUO and played all but a scant handful since UO.

Hey Flounder,

I just spoke with MarkNine and we're both "Very Interested" in beta testing Secret World. We both have pretty good systems and can both put in 10 hours of testing each week. So you can count us both in!

Im putting feelers out for how many people in fleet are wanting to beta the secret world.

There are a few conditions to be met though which is must be able to offer at least 10 hours per week to testing. also your machine must be a fairly good one. (basicaly if your machine doesnt run games good now it probably wont pass the inital test for the beta requirments.

The idea is the beta codes alow you to register and then it will ask to see your spec (no you cant input it it looks for itself) Anyhow I know a couple of peeps are intersted so just wanting to see howe many exactly and then I can aplly for codes.

I did some testing back in November and there was a large amount of folk from the UK doing it too.

I'm looking to get my teeth stuck into the game when it eventually launches but I'm not going to get my hopes up by listening to rumours ;)

problem is its the 29th/30th may now and the star wars website still has it that testing isnt happening yet. Your best bewt is to sign up to the website and register for beta.

SWTOR testing begins soon in Europe
by Matt Daniel on May 4th 2011 1:30PM

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/04/swtor-testing-begins-in-europe/