Star Trek Online Q&A with Craig Zinkievich

Cryptic's Craig Zinkievich speaks with Ten Ton Hammer about the current state of Star Trek Online, the fast-approaching beta, how play input affects development, obstacles and more. Regarding beta selection:

Ten Ton Hammer: Is it a manual selection? Are you looking for people who are more active on the forums than others?

Craig: We will go out to the forums and look for a certain type of player. Often too, we’ll go to the demographic data collected when players apply for beta. For instance, we may be looking for people with specific hardware, or we may be looking for the type of player who plays a lot of MMOs, or someone who only plays a few. It’s not just going to the forums and looking for people that stand out. There is a whole lot of different ways that we manually select people.

At other points, we also do random selection. We want to make sure we get some people in who we wouldn’t otherwise select. So it’s a combination of both – shotgun random, and specific demographics.

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