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Cryptic Might Consider Implementing Free-to-Play Model for Star Trek Online
by Jeff Mattas, Nov 04, 2010 3:40pm PDTCryptic's head honcho, Jack Emmert, revealed today in an interview with Eurogamer that Star Trek Online could become free-to-play in the future, provided certain stars align.
Emmert is apparently looking to Champions Online, another MMO that just shifted from subscription-based to free-to-play, as a guinea-pig of sorts. "We're not sold one way or the other with Star Trek yet," he said. "If people want Star Trek to go free-to-play then get in and play Champions and help make it a great success, because that would send a strong message."
Champions Online's free-to-play model splits players into groups of subscribers and free-to-players. The free-to-play members don't have access to all of the bells and whistles that subscribers receive, but can still play most of the content for free, with á la carte purchasing options also available.
When asked to comment on the ultimate likelihood of Star Trek Online going free-to-play, Emmert said, "If we did Turbine's level of success that would certainly merit the discussion," before qualifying, "There are more people than just I on that decision and I can't begin to say it would be an automatic 'Yes, we'd do it.'"
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If any of you have played ST:O you know what I'm talking about. Ship combat is cool, everything else sucks.
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It's a nice approach, but "free-to-play" is a bit of a misnomer, unless you want to call a game like Borderlands free-to-play because it has a demo.
The space combat was decent, but I can't understand how they failed to get the fundamentals down - i.e. half the game.
(got to RearAdmiral 5 in 2 weeks)
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Companies don't brainstorm in the public, that statement was meant to soften the blow so when it goes f2p, it was because "people wanted it".
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I see what you did there....
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