I read somewhere that the company in charge of this recently went bust, or something and were selling off this game, i also heard that a large well known media giant has bought the rights for it, and now its going to be changed from the original plans to aim it at the casual gamer, ofc this could all be bullsh*t but im sure someone here can confirm this.

Ive lost interest in this since they starting the "dumbing down" process. In all fairness I can understand why they have had to chop a lot of features, it seemed from the word go that they had clearly been far too ambitious when planning what they wanted to do with the game. Ill still try it when it is released, and Ill be applying to join the beta, however I cant get excited about it anymore. Between Pirates of the Burning Sea and City of Heroes/City of Villains I have enough "lite" MMOs to choose from, I was hoping Star Trek Online would be a bit more hardcore and intensive, alas that wont be the case now.

With the awful casting for the new movie and the MMO being chopped to bits (this happening after the sham that was Enterprise and the farce of Star Trek Legacy) the future for the Trek franchise doesnt look good. To be honest theyd be better killing off Trek completely for a decade or so and bringing it back in the future for a complete overhaul.

city of heros was only any good when you kept getting banned for having a near perfect dr doom