I recently came to the conclusion that I would start a fansite soon. I do, of coruse, hope to break into the game industry and get a job as a community manager and the best way of doing that, is to actually do the job before hand. I ran a few fansites in the past, but they were for the WarCry Network, and the site wasn't truly mine. I wanted to give it another go, but this time starting from scratch. I was planning on doing this once BioWare announced their MMO. I wanted to do that, because I wanted to start a fansite up early as to lower competition and get myself noticed. Its not so much that I want to start a fansite, but I want a big one.
Then Cryptic officially announced Star Trek Online . Now, admittedly, I'm not the biggest Star Trek fan in the world - far from saying I dislike it, quite the opposite. However, this announcement leaves a huge IP, a compelling universe, a space MMO, and no fansites for it yet. It seems all the prior ones when Perpetual was developing the game had fallen off the map. It even turns out I know their community representative.
Thus Station K-7 was born in a join effort between myself and a friend.
This isn't to say I won't start a BioWare MMO site up when it does get announced - the idea of starting a small mini-network sounds rather fun.
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