Star Trek Online Paid Extras Store Launches With Federation Klingon, Ferengi Races

They aren't holding a gun to your head to buy either race incase you didn't notice. Can whine all you want about microtransactions but they aren't required for your regular slot. Until they start nickel and dimeing you for every piece of gear you'll need to do anything then bitch.
Look at it this way your paying around 54 cents a day in WoW to login for your Frost Emblems with the daily heroic dungeon.

Wow, I was starting to convince myself to pick this up, but with the thought of them offering content through microtransactions on top of a monthly fee really makes me think otherwise.

What a horrible decision on their part. No thanks guys.

You won't see me playing this turd! Thats my final word.

That's right, suckers. Pay $50+ for the box, your $15/mo for your subscription and oh, while you're at it, toss more money so that you can actually access all of the playable races.

Fool. Money. Parted. Done.

How realistic is it for that Ferengi female to be wearing clothes!

I'm pretty irritated with Blizzard (selling in-game pets for insane prices) but it takes something like this to remind me that, despite some of their decisions, they're still a pretty reasonable company. I mean they release content patches that contain new raids and new instances with new gear (usually with unique models) on a regular basis for free and a paid expansion once a year-ish. This game has been out for a day and is already milking micro-transactions for races on top of its monthly fee?

The devil you know, I suppose.

You guys totally missed the episode where Picard bought Worf.

As far as I know everyone who pre-ordered received 500-1000 CP and those are the ones who will really want to have a Klingon or Ferengi. People who start playing 2 months after the fact probably won't care. And if they really do they can spend the $1 to get one of the playable races.

Much ado about nuttin'.

As noticed elsewhere on the intertubes, most pre-orders for STO come with 400 free points (allowing you to buy BOTH races and have tokens left over). Another aspect of this minor paywall is that both Klingons and Ferengi should be much rarer than the other Federation races according to the STO setting, so throwing up this trivial speed-bump will not only not prevent anyone that really wants to play these races on the Federation side, but will at least keep the numbers lower than if there was no restriction at all.

QQ more, scrubs ;)

Ah no wonder they didn't do any PvE Klingon content, you can just buy a federation klingon and do that content again!

So glad I got bored of this inside of a week of the beta

Wow, that's a load of bullshit.

A Subscription MMO with a micro-transaction store. Isn't $15 a month enough for them ?

Kind of ironic that one of the races are the Ferengis.

I can't say I'm exactly pro microtransactions, but theres always a lot of negative comments about them. So I thought I'd play Devils Advocate and mention some of the reasons for microtransactions.

Players nowadays always demand a lot of free extra content for their MMOs and most MMOs do release extra free content every month or so. That content requires content teams to produce which costs time and money. The content they produce has to try and please their whole customer base if possible "I'm paying my sub I deserve content my character can use as well" mentality.

Microtransaction content is different, they don't have to please everyone because if you don't like you don't buy it. They just have to please a percentage of their customer base enough to fund the time and cost involved in producing that content. In that respect microtransaction content can be a lot more specific and interesting that the normal free content produced.

Obviously I think there needs to be some good balance between the cost of the micro stuff and the price of the monthly sub and I don't think any MMO has got it quite right yet. But it could end up being a good thing when someone does.

Hurry up Guild Wars 2!

Sweet a store to buy stuff for an MMO you pay $15 a month for! Perhaps a $5 login fee is next on that cards? :D

Welcome to the current world of gaming as we know it on consoles and PC. Soon the web will follow for micro-transactions to access information alone so why the complaints? We will be able to tell our kids, "I remember when the web was free". People have to live off their work, unfortunately as it is.

The game is a blast and its sad that people will refuse to play it because of this. You don't have to buy it, it's a choice. At some point , it will most likely become a free part of the game anyway.

What is the purpose if you can make your own races anyway?

Well, you are able to make a klingon character in the custom alien selection, and even select any 4 traits. Unfortunately, you can't create custom Ferengi characters as the options aren't there for them. Considering that Ferengi and Klingons aren't Federation citizens, there wouldn't be much of a reason to have the characters be there in full force. I'm guessing there will be other non-Federation races like Cardassians (you can make them as custom, but not neck ridges) and Romulans (I'm assuming you can make them. Shouldn't be too hard).

I know people complain about this sort of thing but $3 isnt very much.

LOL

Worf is not happy.