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1. Star Trek Online launched yesterday. Hence the news.
2. Champions Online is embroiled in controversy thanks to their latest patch. Hence the news.

So... kinda the PR team? But not really?

Sera, I want to know your thoughts on Star Trek Online, so I compiled a nice little questionnaire for you. Please mark [x] in one box below!

Star Trek Online is..... :

On the whole a good game [ ]
On whole a bad game [ ]

@Mr. Angry

Er... um... it's not that simple?

On the whole, I'm not that impressed. But I like the ship combat. But that's because I liked Pirates of the Burning Sea's ship combat.... and this is the same thing.

Also, I'm not a Star Trek fan, so I'm a bad person to ask that of.

Sera i find that a joke. For over a month Massively has been spewing stuff about STO every chance they could. Opinion columns, screenshots, guides to everything. At the same time Global Agenda gets mentioned only now and then. There were days when there was up to 6 articles dedicated to STO.

Even today there are at least 3 articels that have to do with Cryptic. So don't tell us you aren't getting something back form this. And that all of Massively just enjoys Cryptic games this much that they can't stop talking about them.

The same thing happened with Champion Online.

@ Seraphina Brennan:

1. Global Agenda also just came out. Where's the mention of that?
2. Sakura Park.

You folks have made my point very well. I certainly understand that STO is a new game. I understand that there's controversy going on with CO. But I also look back on previous new games or controversial situations and the amount of coverage hasn't come even close to this. Good grief, even Wrath of the Lich King didn't see such a blizzard of articles (pardon the pun) and that was only the biggest number of potential interested readers on the planet.

Unboxing the STO collector's edition? (http://www.massively.com/photos/star-trek-online-collectors-edition-unboxing/) Are you serious?

Go crawl back in your hole. Wow, what a freak.

That's unfortunate what happened to Daeke. Reminds me of when Tiggs was fired from SWG because she went and did the unthinkable by telling the community the truth about SWG's coming NGE changes at the time.

Now it happens to Daeke, he goes and answers a question someone asked with the truthful answer that the new zone was going to be something you had to purchase and they let him go for not following the Cryptic playbook of lies.

Nah, not really. If a game charges a subscription, I expect to have access to ALL of it's features. In fact, the only things I would ever pay extra for are "OOG" services or products, like character transfers, guides, merchandise, etc.

It's kinda like magazines, I suppose. I pay a subscription fee for those too, they get delivered to my door, then I get to read them... from the first page to the last.
I don't pay a mandatory fee PLUS a micropayment for each page with an interesting article on it. That would be silly.

Now, I understand these games are persistant, so they need to have dedicated servers, not to mention the staff to maintain them. That's fine.
That's exactly why I accept to pay 15€ per month, instead of 2 or 3€. Also, I believe that price is fair for the amount of entertainment I get every month.

What I fail to see is the FAIRNESS in having to pay 60€ for the game, 30/40€ for each major content expansion, a mandatory 15€ monthly fee PLUS 2-10€ microtransactions for in-game and in-character stuff like: traits, skills, races, zones, dungeons, cosmetic items, etc.

I'm sorry, but I would rather give up gaming altogether and turn my attention to other forms of entertainment, than support a business model like that. But I can only speak for myself, of course. I'm sure others would disagree.