I’m really having a great time. I’m a huge Trek fan so this game something I have been waiting for, and the fact that I’m playing with some other Stardockians and community members makes it even better.
I finally got my “big” ship, and I kept the customization more towards the Constitution-class style.
Get Star Trek Online from Impulse.
In-person RPGs are perhaps my favorite 'art form' of all and I love both computers and Star Trek stories. But I quit even reading about MMO RPGs several years ago because the genre seemed to be just a morass of the worst sorts of social-dynamics problems that live RPG groups tend to experience.
I don't care about 'winning' anything and I'm very bored/annoyed by repetitive UI tasks that do nothing but enhance stats and/or inventory. Is there anything 'new' about this latest Trek franchise offering that might actually hold the interest of someone like me? Are there discrete 'campaigns' where human referees manage the introduction of new players to the setting?
The Siffy Channel's campaign to get an 'advantage' by ordering through them has not left me encouraged even though I've enjoyed a couple of re-run moments thanks to their investment in the new Trek offering.
How about just a GOD AI running interstellar war and assigning missions for territory battles and such.
Do they have a free trial at all? I looked at the official website but couldn't find one.
I haven't seen one either, although selling lifetime memberships would probably scare me off even if it ran well over satellite. That just screams year one server shutdown...
Well looks like I won't be getting this at least until summer where I can actually get my money's worth of gameplay.
I'm a Stardockian and a trekkie. So in Star Trek Online my ship is named the Kol (also a Constitution Class)
And, again, it sucks that Impulse isn't allowed to offer a game worldwide.
Looks intresting but thousands of hours on WoW is enough for the rest of my lifetime for mmorpgs.
i bought it on impulse yesterday.. started the download.. it went most of the day and all night.. Get up in the morning.. pc was locked up and had to start the download again
I am so not getting this game, cause I have to pay nearly $60 for it and then a subscription fee every month, which I find ridiculous despite being a trekie fan
A few mmorpgs are worth that much, WoW for one. The game is horribly addictive and will ruin your life until you manage to quit it, but its worth doing at least once so you know what its like to be addicted to crack without actually having to try it. I also hear guild wars is a decent choice as it had no subscription fee but IIRC guild wars is getting aged. Might want to just wait for guild wars 2 or something.
15 bucks a month aint too bad
Sure $17 bucks a month is much, but my only problem is the initial cost of nearly $60, now if it was like $30, I wouldn't mind as muchg
54$ for me woo meh.. I played WoW but never paid a dime.. free servers but atleast with this game.. its just 60 bucks.. no 40$ addons ya need to buy to play with everyone else.
oh well. From what i've seen i'll be more interested in this game than i was WoW. And im not a huge startrek fan either.
My favorite is if you don't join the game at startup and everyone else had level 1000 toons with weapons of lolwtfbbqPWN +1000 and your the level 1 dupe who can't do anything. Or when there are like 4 expansions out and your have to but the original game for 50, then 4 expansions at 25 each, just so you can be the lvl 1 dupe. And pay 15 a month for the privilege.
MMOs are a raw deal.
Finally got the game downloaded(2nd attempt) and installed.. go to start it up and the bloody servers are down
And if you get in right at the start, you get to deal with an obvious beta with limited content. It's lose-lose with MMOs really. I don't even know why MMOs charge full retail price for the initial product-key. I'd probably give more of them a try for a month or two if it was free to make an account, and then the usual $15/month to play. But $60 + $15/month + whatever expansions they release? I weep when I think of how much so long-time WoW players have spent by now. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if some people have spent over $1000 on it by now.
I'm on at @RavenXavier . Everyone feel free to "Friend" me . See you all in game.
MMOs with actual content, yes. You need to keep playing to get the latest gear. STO is a different story.
The game is already down to $40 on amazon.com. Wait 3 months and you can get it for $30. 6 months and it'll be $10 during a Steam sale. And trust me, there is no being "behind" in STO, because there is no end game content. And when they do add content to the game, Cryptic will charge for it (see Champions Online).
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