Star Trek Online going F2P in January

[emTr0]

w00t another MMO goes F2P in January! I've never played this but the screenshots look good.

The big news is that we have set a launch date for Star Trek Online to become Free-to-Play (F2P), and that date is Tuesday January 17, 2012.

With the date now being public knowledge, I can share two other announcements.

First, we will be starting the Gold member stipend benefit on December 1st. This benefit grants 400 free Cryptic Points each month to each subscriber to STO.

The stipend is granted on the “anniversary day” for your account. This is the day in the month which corresponds to the day after your subscription would renew if it was monthly. 3-month, 6-month, 12-month, and lifetime accounts use the day of the month in which they were started for this purpose. This means that you won’t necessarily get your stipend right at the beginning of the month, but it will be coming for you at the appropriate time during December and each following month. Stipend points from STO can only be spent in STO.

We are starting the Gold member stipend early as a way to thank our loyal customers during this transition period prior to the launch of Free-to-Play.

Second, we will be bringing the new build from Tribble to Holodeck somewhere in the range of December 1 to December 8.

Testing with the new game changes has been going really well on the Tribble server. The development team has been pleased with the results and feedback, and we think we only have a few more weeks of iteration and testing before the game changes will be ready for the mainstream players.

We’re excited to bring all the great content and game play improvements from the test server to the majority of the player base during the first week of December.

Mark your calendars. Star Trek Online F2P is coming your way!

Stephen D’Angelo
Executive Producer
Star Trek Online

[Sin]

That game was like a bad version of an already bad game called, EVE Online.

[emTr0]

That game was like a bad version of an already bad game called, EVE Online.

Damn, really? I am disappoint.

[maynard]

any P2P that goes F2P failed.... it's not a good thing.... it's what MMO's do when they don't know wtf they should do anymore cause they aren't make enough money... it's basically a last ditch effort 2 keep the game going...

ive also seen people play this a lot and it's beyond horrible.

[emTr0]

any P2P that goes F2P failed.... it's not a good thing.... it's what MMO's do when they don't know wtf they should do anymore cause they aren't make enough money... it's basically a last ditch effort 2 keep the game going...

ive also seen people play this a lot and it's beyond horrible.

Well, studies have shown that F2P tends to make more money than P2P on occasion. This is because of in-game purchases like special items and pro accounts. I guess that only happens to the lucky ones though. Don't ask me for links, I read it a while back.

[maynard]

lol the only time it makes more money than P2P is when the game is going bankrupt... hence why they go F2P with ingame P2P options as a last ditch effort 2 bring in more money by upping their user base and in turn making better odds that people will pay for the advantages.

this game is garbage... don't get your hopes up.

[Sin]

The SWTOR Beta is F2P.

It's pretty good, has a bunch of graphical bugs though that I've caught, but nothing huge. I've had my gripes about it throughout the beta process on the forums, ie: (travel time, levels 15-25, etc...) but other than that, there's nothing game-breaking about it for me.

[emTr0]

The SWTOR Beta is F2P.

It's pretty good, has a bunch of graphical bugs though that I've caught, but nothing huge. I've had my gripes about it throughout the beta process on the forums, ie: (travel time, levels 15-25, etc...) but other than that, there's nothing game-breaking about it for me.

Still waiting on my weekend invite link. I got the email but it's for an upcoming weekend testing event. I hate them for the tease...

[KɅΞW]

EvE is fun yo, but don't play it if you can't cope with losing a ship worth $45 in real life, and you can play it for free if you make enough isk (in-game currency) to buy the game time, which is not hard at all.

[emTr0]

EvE is fun yo, but don't play it if you can't cope with losing a ship worth $45 in real life, and you can play it for free if you make enough isk (in-game currency) to buy the game time, which is not hard at all.

I'll have to check that out. Is the trial enough time to get in-game currency to extend?