Perfect World Entertainment confirms Star Trek Online going F2P this year

@Crazy01 Although it is a bit of a starship downgrade to go to SWTOR, flying is all on rails like an 80s arcade game.

@Lucidus I know exactly how the game is trust me :)

@Lucidus

At least SW:TOR is focusing on one gameplay mode and not trying to do two like STO did. That resulted in messy, unpolished ground combat which you were forced to do for 30% of the time.Really, Bioware is doing the wise thing and focusing on ground combat and keeping space a minigame so they don't end up with a ridiculously unpolished section of the game.

@EMH The space is only a place holder they already said they plan on changing it but didn't have time to do both and ground and make them perfect. We wern't suppose to get any space until after release but people ask so they made something real quick for a place holder

@Crazy01 What made me quit sto was seemingly tone deafness of the devs when it comes to content. It still boggles my mind that they would spend time and energy to make Academy hubs with no quests just a nice view to the golden gate.

@Crazy01 Likewise saw this coming from day one. Was expecting this to happen before years end, no doubt. That or it would have gone belly-up entire!

@Seldra
But... it's bloody gorgeous...

@Crazy01 The TOR devs have never said that space combat is a "placeholder" until they can improve it later. IF they have link it.

@Seldra

Quests and missions for Starfleet Academy are being worked on as we speak. Check Daniel Stahl's latest Engineering Report, and the Massively article here about "Dinner With the Devs" for more on this.

@(Unverified)

If the overall quality of the game was currently high enough to pull in the subscription dollars they're looking for, they wouldn't shift to F2P.

I think Cryptic bit off more than they could chew a while before STO launched.

@Chareth Cutestory

Cryptic is just horrible they can do graphics well but the games lack content and programming.

When, I did the DS9 Mission a year after the release the Klingons was floating and jumping 40 feet in the air non stop trying to get to the second floor walkway. It looked like a child programmed it. Only, cryptic would let something like that pass QA.

@ZeroGee

With respect, based on your comments, I have to wonder exactly when you quit playing STO.

Since Daniel Stahl became the game lead, STO has added content right, left and center. Seriously.

Things have been slow since the launch of Season 4, yes, because of change of ownership issues, and the fact that the first segment of S4 introduced bugs they're still trying to wrestle to the ground -- but, in general, STO has been all about adding content.

Star Trek Online has never been a perfect game, but to say that its major flaw has always been lack of content just seems so demonstrably untrue to me at this point.

You may want to take another look once the game goes F2P.

Cheers,

@mysecretid you are crazy i just quit a month ago there is still nothing to do at max lvl. I have 7 max lvl chars and nothing to do on them. For the featured episodes i finish them as soon as the come out like everyone else. The new ground system redoing the old missions is not content its just fixing the game. Real content is missions missions and mission and end game stfs or what ever you want to call it. Now content is the because flaw for sto but it not like people think it is problem is there are behind the players in content now (if played from start) all they aren't catching up. Feature episodes are being finish as soon as they come out and then there nothing to do again. Real flaw is End-Game content which would give them the time to catch up

@mysecretid

If by adding content you mean revamping things on entirely superficial levels then yes you are correct (and I, well flatmate and I, still have an active account and it's been active since the game launched, he's a giant star trek dork and won't let the sub die for some reason) I mean look at the academy, no actual content, no real reason for it, just another place to visit and nothing to do. A lot of the updates are just changes to existing content without really adding anything (ie Vulcan update...completely superficial, space map update completely superficial, etc)

@mysecretid

I bought the game off Amazon for $2.50 cents it took less than 2 weeks to beat all the content and most of the achievements. Now, I was playing 4 hours a day but still.

@trinica LOL no wai! OMFGBBQ that is trufax! XD >w< PPL ლ(ಠ益ಠლ Y U NO TRY STAR TREKS