I'll point out that the main reason Jeff was so concerned about the failure of human-only games was because of Global Agenda's approach. Jeff and a number of us here have high hopes for the self-titled 'spy-fi' MMO, which combines first-person shooter and RPG. We were lucky enough to sit down with two of the game's developers this week, Todd Harris and Stew Chisam. We chatted about a number of topics, including the reasons behind their human-only choice of course. We also discussed the unique subscription option, whereby players can opt to pay a monthly fee to access exclusive content, or just buy the game and enjoy the main theme of GA cost-free.

You can see our interview, with complete transcriptions, in part one and part two.

Finally, as the release date of Star Trek Online gets closer, we're seeing a bit more about the game each week. Cryptic treated us to another video of space battles, this time around Starbase 24. The news that was on everyone's lips, though, was that Zachary Quinto, who starred as Spock in this year's hit Star Trek film, is lending his voice to the game. Shortly after the announcement, a video of Quinto working on the game was released. He'll be guiding players through the tutorial and will also be the voice of your ship's holographic medical officer.

This is all pretty awesome news and fans are gearing themselves up for a fantastic game, however, last night we discovered that players who opt to play as Klingons will not have much to do besides PvP, when the game is first released anyway. During an interview, Cryptic's Dan Stahl revealed that there's next to no PvE content for the game's second faction besides the Federation. Understandably, many fans are pretty upset that this hasn't been mentioned before, but Jack Emmert was quick to release a statement, assuring fans that if they wanted Klingon PvE content, they would have it.

“We are trying to get some PvE in (there's already a tad bit). And, if the players demand it, we'll add more content (like episodes). I want us to be agile as a company and respond to what the customers want.”

We'll see exactly what effect this has on the STO community over the next couple of weeks, but in the mean time, we'll be checking out the beta test  this weekend and reporting our findings next week.

That's all for this week MMO fans. I'll return with another MMO News Wrap-up after Christmas, so have a good one!

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