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Why no official game?
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They're making movies.
HobbitFan
Explorer
They are making movies but it looked to me like interest spiked with the 1st film and fizzled with the 2nd. I don't think there were permanent gains in terms of new fans or brigning old fans back.
There are lots of Star Trek fans, generations of them, out there....there's just not anything sustaining interest currently.
I'm interested. I imagine I'm not special or unique. Star Trek Into Darkness made nearly half a billion dollars, so it certainly has an audience. Much more obscure stuff gets RPGs all the time. Nah, it's not about lack of interest.
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I don't know where you get that idea.
Box Office Mojo claims the first new movie (in 2009) grossed over $395 million worldwide. They say Trek Into Darkness (2013, so no appreciable inflation) grossed over $467 million worldwide. I can't see how rising $72 million can be interpreted as "fizzle".
AverageCitizen
Explorer
I have no idea why you'd think that. I know teens that had never seen a single episode of Star Trek who watch the movies all the time. It's the only one they can agree on when they get together for a movie night. Star Trek is huge right now, thanks to JJ's soft reboot. Even mild mainstream interest is worth way more than a niche fanbase, no matter how diehard they are. And the interest in the reboot isn't mild, they were both among the most successful blockbusters in the year they were released.
EDIT: added equivocation
billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
Well, duh. What else would you expect from a thread in which we are invited to speculate why there isn't a licensed Star Trek RPG right now?
"I didn't personally like it" is not the same thing as "There isn't anything new going on Trek wise aside from Star Trek online" and "interest spiked with the 1st film and fizzled with the 2nd. I don't think there were permanent gains in terms of new fans or brigning old fans back".
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Beleriphon
Totally Awesome Pirate Brain
Its only because we'll never know for sure. I have training as a paralegal (the independant Ontario, Canada kind, not the American legal secretary kind) some I'm at least familiar with copyright law in Canada. US copyright law is a different beast, and while the idea is the same the law approaches copyright in a different way.
But yeah, my point ulimately is that if AOL is making money off of something they sponsor, then you can keep a record of past RP stuff because it would allow somebody to sign up for AOL of the express purpose of reading those logs. Is that stupid to most people? Of course it is, but its also the way legal arguments work. If I were representing Paramount that's the argument I'd make, and it isn't a horrible one either.
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