Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

We'd like to take a few moments to mention some passings of late. Yes, the world of MMO's is a difficult, Darwinian place where the fittest games thrive and flourish while the weaker ones wither away and die premature, gruesome deaths. As a testament to this, we present two recent passings:

GODS AND HEROES, ROME RISING: Though this was announced several months ago, Perpetual Entertainment has indefinitely postponed Rome Rising. What was to be an MMO based in the ancient world and populated with the likes of centaurs, gorgons and other mythical cratures, is now no more. Perpetual claimed that they were stopping development on Rome Rising to focus on their flagship project: Star Trek Online. But wait, there's more.




STAR TREK ONLINE: Having recently canceled Rome Rising, Perpetual recently announced the death of the eagerly awaited Star Trek Online. All you trekkers out there (Yes, we know that trekkies is considered derogatory) will have to wait even longer to travel to distant corners of the final frontier. Though there is some talk that the game will get a new developer (See, once again, Tobold's excellent post), it appears as if STO won't be around for quite some time.

Though we like Star Trek (that is to say we like The Next Generation, and we once knew a guy named George Kahn, which meant that every time someone mentioned him we could say "Do you mean, George....... KAAAAAAHN!!!), we weren't exactly on pins and needles to play Star Trek Online. And though the new Star Trek prequel movie is in production, we'd still like to see the world of the future brought to an MMO. With all the different alien races, ships and potential story line, it is a world ripe for MMO adaptation.

And as far as Rome Rising goes, we really were sad to see it go by the wayside. Yeah, sword and sorcery stuff is fine and all, but there is something we find so much more satisfying about the ancient world. Maybe it's historically based MMO's in general, but we find that the added ability to actually learn something about the world in which we live adds a particularly shiny facet to our gaming life. And since we also like to watch movies and read books, and then even talk about them with other people, the death of an MMO that would have allowed us to enter the labyrinth beside Theseus or cross the Styx in the ferryman's boat was something we're still trying to recover from.

Oh well.