Ha! Didn’t see that coming… right. As reported by WarCry, the crooks folks over at P2 Entertainment (also known as the fraudulent-company-formed-to-escape-liabilities, formerly known as Perpetual Entertainment), will no longer be developing Star Trek Online. The license and content have been transferred to an unnamed San Francisco Bay area company. The code remains with P2. Not hard to understand as they are now in the MMO platform business. I am not surprised at all as I have heard around the industry that STO license is being poached by multiple companies.

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NCSoft just announced that they will be closing the doors to Auto Assault on September 1st, 2007, citing financial losses as the reason for the closure. It’s always sad to see an MMO closes, especially one that tried to be different but failed to execute fully. No one at NCSoft has been laid off due to this. There’s no plan at this time for ArenaNet to buy back AA from NCSoft (NCSoft owns the IP). See also a short interview with NCSoft.