Star Trek Online offers two new races in online store

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It IS nickle-and-diming the players. The Ferengi (body parts at least) was in since the earliest part of Closed Beta. Supposedly they recently took them out for a graphical glitch(I cannot confirm this or not), but now it's in the store.

But, what they're doing right now is charging extra for content that was already part of the game's initial development process. THIS IS WRONG! They've basically held back the content for the sake of charging extra for it to squeeze a few more bucks from the sucke.....er, I mean, customers that already are paying $50-80 for the game AND $15 a month (or the $250 up front for the Lifetime).

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You may not like it, but it's a bit silly to say charging players for additional content is wrong in any unqualified sense. If you buy the content, then you're saying "Playing as a Klingon is worth more to me than however much money 240 Cryptic points is worth," or whatever, so you're still getting something out of it. If it's not worth it, don't buy it, and you're no worse off. Cryptic isn't stealing your money, you're giving it to them (or not, as the case may be).

If you it's a poor business decision, or it harms their brand image, then that can be debated. But Cryptic could charge a billion points to give your character a British accent and still no one would be forced to pay for it.

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