Topic: Paramount hath spoken

[AdmWaterTiger-11thFleet-]

The Star Trek Gamers Directory and the Star Trek Gaming Universe interview is in the bag:

http://www.stcd.sgnonline.com/hlang.htm

Enjoy.

Blues News will be linking also.

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WaterTiger

[Hyperion]

They have spoken, but not actually said much regretably, more of the "have faith" drivel.

i especially liked this response


STGD/STGU:   The big issue ... bugs. The last few games for Star Trek have been received poorly by the gamers. A lot of bugs were found in the games which gave ST gaming a lot of bad reviews. Would Paramount take a more tighter control of QC (Quality Control) in any new games which may appear in the future? Or will it be left to the publisher and developer again?
     
Harry Lang:   Paramount/VCP does not have it's own QC department. Our partners do have QC departments and spend hundreds of hours playtesting each game. We also play all the games on our computers. But as you know, there are many, many different computer configurations. We do understand the frustration with bugs and it's our intention to be as diligent as possible in identifying and fixing problems prior to release.

 


I could almost hear the B/S piling up 

[J. Carney]

That was about what I smell... er, um, heard, when I read the interview. *cue cow sounds in the background*

All I got out of it was that the next time, they would be sure to do an all-eras game, so that they would be able to screw all the varrious Trek timelines at the same time!

[AdmWaterTiger-11thFleet-]

Hey, don't shoot the messenger.

It's his first-ever interview with a Trek fan site and more than Paramount has ever said about the future.

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WaterTiger

[Hyperion]

Paramount --- truth, Paramount---truth, Paramount---Truth

I cant help but giggle when i try to say those words together

Ill give Paramount credit though, unlike Enron and Worldcom at least we know up front were going to get shafted up front

[J. Carney]

Hey, don't shoot the messenger.

Hey, if I'd have shot, you'd be belly up with your boots on... I never miss

It's his first-ever interview with a Trek fan site and more than Paramount has ever said about the future.

You ain't just whisteling Dixie, there, good sir. Much obliged to you guys for pulling that off.

You think next time you could all chip in a $20 and see if we could get them to beat the crap out of B&B before they kill Trek completely?   

[EmeraldEdge]

You think next time you could all chip in a $20 and see if we could get them to beat the crap out of B&B before they kill Trek completely?   

I'm in, $20 for that kind of entertainment, and deliverance of justice is a bargain.

[AdmWaterTiger-11thFleet-]

You think next time you could all chip in a $20 and see if we could get them to beat the crap out of B&B before they kill Trek completely?   

I'm in, $20 for that kind of entertainment, and deliverance of justice is a bargain.

Hmmmmmmm. Y'all make it seem like Paramount is the "bad guy".

Hmmmmmmm.

 

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WaterTiger

[EmeraldEdge]

If they'd beat B&B they'd certainly have a good shot at becoming the greatest GOOD GUYS in Trekdom. heh.  The reference there was to B&B being beaten, not more direct Paramount guys (although they are responsible for keeping the other two in charge for so long).  Of course the whole concept of physical violence against the aforementioned couple is in jest, and in no way denotes a true desire to do them physical harm.

[J. Carney]

Oh... and and the PC ... OH MY!!!

Sorry, I thought that that would be taken as the joke that it was meant to be. If everyone thinks it is disruptive to the post, I'll pull it.

edited for my suck-@$$ spelling!

[AdmWaterTiger-11thFleet-]

Since the topic here was posted, karma drops -5

Karma: +15/-52

OK, message recieved.

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WaterTiger

[Sirgod]

Didn't Dan Do an Interview For Sfc3.net along with The Taldren Developers Right Before The Game and Movie shipped?

Stephen

Edit. It was An Online Chat, My Bad.

[J. Carney]

Didn't Dan Do an Interview For Sfc3.net along with The Taldren Developers Right Before The Game and Movie shipped?

Stephen

Edit. It was An Online Chat, My Bad.

Yeah, I remember that. It was a little less informative on the future of Trek gaming than this- which sticks to the 'certain to remain uncertain' theme they have been co adamant about.

[Victor1st]

The pointof the interview was to let folks know that things will get better.  Ive been saying it for the past year but as usual not one person listens.  Now your hearing it from the horses mouth, well, maybe not a horses mouth, Harry doesnt look like a horse but you get my point.

You should read it carefully...

STGD/STGU:   What do you say to the folks who think that Star Trek gaming is dead?
     
Harry Lang:   I say wait a few months and they will see it is not.

and...

STGD/STGU:   You have said that "things will get better", is there any rough timescale for when things will start to get better?
     
Harry Lang:   I can't give you a "timetable," I don't want to make promises we can't keep?but there should be news before year-end.

Thats the questions that speak volumes even though its only a few lines.  In a few months things will be seen by the entire community (and we need to remember here the SFC series is NOT the entire community) that will signify new events and things happening in the trek game world.  By the end of the year it will be blatantly obvious that things have changed.

Right now folks ANY news is good news.  We should count ourselves lucky that we got this amount of information our of Paramount considering the current situation between them and Activision.

[Hyperion]

I think the point were trying to convey that Paramount has not shown a lot faith in the fans, the trend at this point is that who actually like star trek dont like enterprise in the first few years. Granted many of the shows have begun this way but i think peoples patience With Paramount is wearing thin.

The total fizz of "nemisis" when it came out should have at least been a red flag for them, plus a string of regretable Star Trek computer games (any one remember the star trek chess computer game?) And this is not the first time that we have heard (it's gonna get better). Instead all the bloody secrecy tell us what your doing so we can have some input into what your developing. The idea that people are just gonna cash machines any more for star trek games is over

the faster tall foreheads at Paramount realize the better the franchise will be

[AdmWaterTiger-11thFleet-]

Read the last line.

our goal is to recreate this illustrious franchise for all to enjoy.

Key word.

Harry is that way. You have to look carefully.

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WaterTiger

[J. Carney]

Read the last line.

our goal is to recreate this illustrious franchise for all to enjoy.

Key word.

Harry is that way. You have to look carefully.

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WaterTiger

Recreaet for all to enjoy = suck out the brains and soul and leave it a mindless husk of a copycat FPS that will sell like hotcakes while it drains the player's IQ points and makes thm believe that we faked the moon landings, that the Atkins diet really makes you keep weight off, the Mary-Kate Olsen really did go to rehab for anorexia and that Elvis is alive and well and eating fried peanut butter and bananna sandwiches in a trailer park outside Saint Paul, Minasota.

[AdmWaterTiger-11thFleet-]

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and that Elvis is alive and well and eating fried peanut butter and bananna sandwiches in a trailer park outside Saint Paul, Minasota.
 
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He is alive; he is here. His Cadillac was towed from a nearby Taldren gas station and he can't afford the impound fee.

Look him up here @ d.net. ELVIS IS ALIVE!

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WaterTiger
 

[AdmWaterTiger-11thFleet-]

Psssst.

Look who signed in.

Latest Member: Harry

[Hyperion]

" in a trailer park outside Saint Paul, Minasota. "

I thought he was in Dildo Newfoundland? he's a fisherman going by the name of "bouy!"