When I was a child I played a game called “telephone”. It’s a common game and I am sure that most of you have heard of it.  The idea is that one person starts with a story.  It is repeated around the room quietly and you see how it turns out at the other side.  Invariably there are so many different versions of the same story that it bears little resemblence to the original.

“From what I gathered, you’re complaining at the people that are complaining at the people that are complaining.” – Night04

The quote above is something I found on the Star Trek Online forums which, thankfully, will be wiped for the launch of the game tommorow.   Still, somewhere between the ludicrous threats of class action lawsuits by slighted gamers and those who put Cryptic on pedastals so high you couldn’t reach the top with a hook and ladder truck – lays reality. There is little doubt that Cryptic was as surprised as they say they where at the interest in the head start.  While there are those in the blogosphere who will sneer at the downtimes over the last weekend, my mind went instantly to a show we had not to long ago with Saylah from Mystic Worlds as guest.  She pointed out that she didn’t mind ques to get online because that meant that when she was online there would always be someone to game with…and like it or not, Star Trek Online is popular.  Heck, the Star Trek genre is older than many of it’s fans.

Even thought I played in the closed beta, and the open beta the launch of a new mmo, especially this mmo, is exciting.  There may have been a few problems during the head start days. On the other hand anyone who claims to have seen an MMO launch with out any difficulties at all is likely living in some fantasy world.

Like Craig Zinkievich once pointed out, there is alot of ground they can cover with the game, and years of exciting times ahead.  As the hours tick away toward the official launch of the game the line delivered by Simon Pegg in the recent Star Trek movie comes to mind.

I think it’s exciting.

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Julie Whitefeather

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