I don't disagree at all, I'd very much like to see an upgrade to the game mechanics on the ground mission side. Something a bit more Elite Force would be spectacular. But, for what it is, I still think it's the best Star Trek game we've seen in a long, long time.
In fairness, visuals aren't everything, but ST:O was released over 12 years ago.
The amount of subscribers (total player base) for ST:O is about 2.729 million, of which 77,780 people play daily.
I don't know if this is a sufficiently large user base to warrant a re-release of ST:Online (or make ST:Online 2) with better graphics engine and game mechanics.
Could they do it?
Yes I think so.
But the problem is the game dev team is running on 'skeleton crew' it seems and no new major content is scheduled to be released.
In fact, the existing Cryptic engine still has some room left for upgrades, but I think the general consensus is that they probably won't be doing something like that.
On another hand, they DID drop support for some old GPU's and introduced Lighting 2.0, but I don't think they will be making further changes to it.
Given the influx of new live action and animated Trek series on TV with fairly diverse content, whether there is a new Star Trek MMORPG game at some point with modern graphics and better game mechanics remains to be seen.
