Topic: Many people playing anymore?

[marstone]

Have faith guys. It will happen.

[Age]

Been wishing i still had my disks more and more recently ....  need a modern 2010 version of SFC and we need it SOON

Welcome back the guy across the Straight anyway could ask these people for modern copy SFC.2OP

I wish  . . . Unfortunately, I think the problem with Interplay now is that it can't have *anything* to do with Star Trek now, even if it is an update of an old game and not the release of a completely new one.

They still hold the rights to the games they published and could make updated version of them.

[FVA_C_ Blade_ XC]

Been wishing i still had my disks more and more recently ....  need a modern 2010 version of SFC and we need it SOON

Welcome back the guy across the Straight anyway could ask these people for modern copy SFC.2OP

I wish  . . . Unfortunately, I think the problem with Interplay now is that it can't have *anything* to do with Star Trek now, even if it is an update of an old game and not the release of a completely new one.

They still hold the rights to the games they published and could make updated version of them.

Not without paramounts ok.

[Tulwar]

I just got cable.  As soon as I recover from surgery, I'll be able to plug my game machine straight into the modem.  Gamespy will work again!  I just hope I'm not the only one online.

[SPMaverick]

I've been playing DDO for the past year. I've been meaning to check out STO, but haven't yet.

Previously I played SFC 3, and still do a little single player occasionally as I do miss it. I have SFC 1 & 3. Don't know how I missed 2.

I think SFC 2 was EAW and OP was an expansion? But I believe I heard you don't have to have EAW to play OP? So OP works on XP but not on Win 7? I'm still running XP, but I thought I heard Win 7 Pro had an XP mode. Does it not work in that?

Quite a while back I was going to try and pick up a copy of OP, but either couldn't find it at the time or it was very expensive. I can't remember which now. Time to search again.

[Father Ted]

I have one of the last XP machines left on the market, which I grabbed for a bargain at Wal-Mart last year. The first games I installed were SCF2 and OP along with the updates. I went looking for a server that was inhabited, and there weren't any. I installed ME2, RoN, the entire Civ4 package(which is kinda boring), and the oldie, but still a goodie, Sid Meier's Pirates!, which is still, next to SFC, my favorite game, and the one I still play when I burn out on the others.

I have faith that DH, and the rest of the braintrust, will figure out a way to make it work. It may not happen next week, or next year, but as Billy Joel once said, I'm "keepin' the faith!"

[Tulwar]

There are a lot of used XP machines for sale around $200.00.  I'm told Win 7 will run as any previous version of Windows, so 98 or 2000 will work better than XP.  Other than that, get a Mac or Linux machine and see if a Windows emulator works.

[Age]

Been wishing i still had my disks more and more recently ....  need a modern 2010 version of SFC and we need it SOON

Welcome back the guy across the Straight anyway could ask these people for modern copy SFC.2OP

I wish  . . . Unfortunately, I think the problem with Interplay now is that it can't have *anything* to do with Star Trek now, even if it is an update of an old game and not the release of a completely new one.

They still hold the rights to the games they published and could make updated version of them.

Not without paramounts ok.

It wouldn't be Paramonts it woud be CBS that is thier licence is ok.CBS now owns the Star Trek name.

[KBF-SkullnBonez]

Scored a copy of both sfc2 and op in a used book store 

Now to install and see if i still remember how to play....

[Bonk]

Skull!    Good to see ya!

I have this feeling word is spreading... 

[Storvick_XC]

Been wishing i still had my disks more and more recently ....  need a modern 2010 version of SFC and we need it SOON

Welcome back the guy across the Straight anyway could ask these people for modern copy SFC.2OP

I wish  . . . Unfortunately, I think the problem with Interplay now is that it can't have *anything* to do with Star Trek now, even if it is an update of an old game and not the release of a completely new one.

They still hold the rights to the games they published and could make updated version of them.

Not without paramounts ok.

It wouldn't be Paramonts it woud be CBS that is thier licence is ok.CBS now owns the Star Trek name.

Age, Paramont owns the rights to all the Star Trek movies, CBS owns the rights to the tv shows. Thats how they worked out the merger.

[Age]

Been wishing i still had my disks more and more recently ....  need a modern 2010 version of SFC and we need it SOON

Welcome back the guy across the Straight anyway could ask these people for modern copy SFC.2OP

I wish  . . . Unfortunately, I think the problem with Interplay now is that it can't have *anything* to do with Star Trek now, even if it is an update of an old game and not the release of a completely new one.

They still hold the rights to the games they published and could make updated version of them.

Not without paramounts ok.

It wouldn't be Paramonts it woud be CBS that is thier licence is ok.CBS now owns the Star Trek name.

Age, Paramont owns the rights to all the Star Trek movies, CBS owns the rights to the tv shows. Thats how they worked out the merger.

They do not CBS owns the name This was posted by Vic back in 2005 on front page of STG.

I've known about this since June/July.  I bet a lot of others dont know though smile

ViaCom, the owners of Paramount and therefore the owners of Star Trek itself is in the middle of a split.  The board of ViaCom votes to split the compant into 2 seperate entities, ViaCom and CBS Corp.

The split itself was proposed by the CEO Mr Sumner Redstone and is pencilled in to be completed by the first half of 2006.  Shari Redsone, Sumners daughter was announced as a nonexecutive vice chairman of the current Viacom. It is no secret that Mr Redstone himself is in his 80's, so therefore the new companies Viacom and CBS will be led by Viacom co-presidents Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves.  Mr Redstone himself has said that in 3 years he will drop his CEO title.

The CBS company will include CBS and UPN networks, Viacom TV station group, Infinity Broadcasting radio unit, Viacom Outdoor, CBS, Paramount and King World TV production operations, Showtime, book publisher Simon & Schuster and Paramount Parks. 

The Star Trek franchise will no longer be under the ViaCom banner, it will now be owned by CBS.

Redstone himself has said that the age of the media conglomerate is over, i dont have a lot of respect for that Paramount itself did to the trek franchise, but i have a LOT of respect for Redstone, a man in his 80's who still has the conviction and drive to steer the worlds biggest media conglomerate into it's future.

The future of Star Trek will now more than likely lay in the hands of Leslie Moonves who was quited as saying that star trek neede to be layed to pasture for a decade, looks like Moonves doesnt share Redstones "chance taking" enthusiasm which may start a slow decline in Star Trek franchising and merchandising.

The trek gaming sector itself will of course (hopefully) be on course.  STG hopes that in the future, once the dust settles in CBS and ViaCom that we may get an interview with there representative for Star Trek gaming.

As the rest of the trek sites bury there heads in the sand of the MMORPG (with the noteable exception of trek-online who still have some perspective), they forgot to look out the window to see whats actually happening to the people and companies who REALLY matter, not Perpetual or the MMORPG, ViaCom and Lang are the folks who matter.  I wish Harry the best of luck in the coming months.  I personally heard this will be an easy transition, but a company the size of ViaCom splitting doesnt have "easy" written on it.

[Storvick_XC]

wierd since all the Star Trek people I talked with (some of the actors and some of the people that worked on the shows) all said CBS owns the rights to the tv parts of Star Trek and that Paramont owns the rights to the movies.

The following is from Memory Alpha:

TV - CBS Television Distribution, CBS Paramount Network Television/CBS Television Studios, CBS Corporation (2005 – present)
Viacom had purchased the CBS Corporation in 2000. They split in 2005. The old Viacom then became the CBS Corporation. Its holding Paramount Television became CBS Paramount Network Television. CBS Television Distribution formed soon after and took over distribution of past Star Trek shows. In 2009, CBS Paramount Network Television became CBS Television Studios; CBS Television Studios has production rights for new Trek series, though it has not (yet) produced any under that name.

Movies - Paramount Pictures, Viacom (new) (2005 – present)
In the 2005 Viacom/CBS split, the old Viacom became the CBS Corporation and a new Viacom was created. This new company owns Paramount Pictures which owns the Trek films. Paramount Pictures produced Star Trek under license from CBS Paramount Television.

[Age]

Yes but CBS holds the right to the Name Star Trek in otherwords they own it.That was a hand written letter sent to Vic. by Mr Redstone as Vic. wrote to him.