Star Trek Online

Dicehunter · 1 Sep 2011 at 15:00

IMO i dont think STO will go F2P, even people in my fleet*guild* were disgusted with me that i even mentioned such a thing

SkeeterUK · 1 Sep 2011 at 15:00

Well even tho i hope they dont sell FE i can guess they will because CO is selling the adventure packs and sto equivalent are the FE so its kinda gona go p2p for FE.

Sleepery · 1 Sep 2011 at 15:11

DF1986 said:
IMO i dont think STO will go F2P

Read back a few posts

Anon-e-mouse · 1 Sep 2011 at 17:45

Well tbh it's been on the cards for a while, ever since Champions Online went F2P.

They really need to start squashing bugs though, game still has far to many of them.

dasyad · 1 Sep 2011 at 18:32

Think I'll wait for F2P before dabbling again then

JGBR · 2 Sep 2011 at 18:29

http://www.startrekonline.com/node/2600

Well thats the death knell for STO

it was predicted quite a few times, shame.

VaderDSL · 2 Sep 2011 at 18:56

Shame

they should have just made it a normal multiplayer game, not an MMO, Co-op mode bridge commander type thing, or mix between elite force/ship combat/strategy etc.

Cavallino · 2 Sep 2011 at 19:13

So what does that mean for the lifetime subbers?

Anon-e-mouse · 2 Sep 2011 at 19:49

They'll probably be VIP/Gold/Whatever for ever, and get a certain number of points each month.

CaptainRAVE · 2 Sep 2011 at 20:18

JGBR said:
http://www.startrekonline.com/node/2600

Well thats the death knell for STO

I completely disagree.

Champions Online has gone from strength to strength whilst being F2P.

Nothing much has happened to STO in a long time - it badly needs the F2P model.

JGBR · 2 Sep 2011 at 20:46

Well everybody wanted a EVEO competitor and many fans said of critical problems with STO in the first couple of months. While changes were made it seems the core issues were never changed and hence lead us to this point.

'Wes · 2 Sep 2011 at 21:36

CaptainRAVE said:
I completely disagree.

Champions Online has gone from strength to strength whilst being F2P.

Nothing much has happened to STO in a long time - it badly needs the F2P model.

Yep, all you have to do is look at games that went FTP, and you'll see their revenue increased.

JGBR · 7 Sep 2011 at 06:38

Free to play data is up:

http://startrekonline.com/f2p

see what you think

'Wes · 7 Sep 2011 at 08:22

JGBR said:
Free to play data is up:

http://startrekonline.com/f2p

see what you think

Took a brief scan before i went to work, i'll check it out during my lunch break, but i liked what i saw when i scanned it quickly.

Sleepery · 7 Sep 2011 at 08:26

That's not too bad, they're not really restricting anything that we have at the moment, other than chat access, and I generally stay out of that anyway. Looks like they hope to make most of their money from vanity items in the cstore.

CaptainRAVE · 7 Sep 2011 at 09:13

Seems pretty fair tbh. A lot of what they are "limiting" aren't really necessary features anyway e.g. energy credit storage limit - there is nothing to spend them on in the game anyway!

I still think this is the best move for STO and one they should have done a long time ago.

Sleepery · 7 Sep 2011 at 09:46

What's the energy credit limit?

SkeeterUK · 7 Sep 2011 at 10:16

Probably 1 million or 2, cant see it really being any lower.

Anon-e-mouse · 7 Sep 2011 at 11:11

Just a little miffed that the monthly stipend is only a measly 400 credits. I know it's the same amount as in Champions Online, but most STO store purchases are much more expensive than CO's store. Most of the Tier 5 ships are 3000+ points.. so it'll be 8 months just to get one.

'Wes · 7 Sep 2011 at 11:13

LOTRO is 500 per month, and the store has frequent price reductions, that's what Cryptic should do.