Topic: Star Trek Online

[FA Frey XC]

Ships have to have custom components in an MMO, the formula to keep people on the hampster wheel is endless grinding for Phat Lewt.

 If you can't put that Phat Lewt in your ship, MMO players would not play.

This is not ST.  This is UO/EQ/WOW with a ST skin.  They don't particularly care about Trek Fans if they can pull in the normal MMO demographic.  This means canon will take a far second seat to shiny.

You can expect to see bizzarro uniforms and a multitude of stupid particle effects you can apply to your chars eventually, and probably purchaseable by Microtransactions.. that is the new model, pay a sub AND pay for fluff, and people spend literally thousands per year on that garbage.

If you care to see the future of ST Online, check out Star Wars Galaxies and see how far from canon game developers can really go, and with full blessing of the license holder.. money trumps canon, and these games, with the exception of Eve, are aimed right at that multi million subscriber WoW demographic.   MMOs will incorporate elements solely to attract the average MMO player, without regard to anything canon.

I would bet money the average PvP kiddie who rolls Klingon has no clue what era his kewl Enterprise series Raptor is from, and if they did, could care less.

I completely disagree with this, and in my personal opinion, Star Trek : Online is f*cking amazing.

I'll discuss this in my next post.

Regards,

[Tulwar]

Well, there you have it, there's so much interest in STO here that we've resorted to disscussing SFC in a thread about STO.  To be expected I suppose . . . perhaps I should send an e-mail to Cryptic offering my regards to Captain Dunsell. 

It's not so much the interist in STO; it's that there is so little going on here.

[Darkdrone]

Hey all

well i got to say been playing sto from beta on and off for awhile and now got the full game
i`ve loving the game its pretty good

space combat is good and i like the feel too it

and i really like the land side of it
being a player of world of warcraft for few years paying for the game
i`m use too it plus it gets updated all the time

if the same is done with sto it should get better as time goes on with alot more stuff added to the game

as for non-trek design??? alot of the ships are in there plus alot of new designs added to the game

you can make up your own race even if you dont want to be one from the show

yes you cant mod it but in the long run playing mmo you dont have time to mod
the game too busy playing it.

enjoy it for what it is a good sci-fi space mmo

DD

[Terradyhne]

enjoy it for what it is a good sci-fi space mmo

you say it its yust a sci-fi mmo but than i have toask why these idiots have to stick the name Star Trek on it !??

and its like i thought, the wow mmo player will like this but to hell this is nothing but more destroying the spirit of good ol Star Trek and the thoughts of the young guys on this as they see only the mmo parts and the great graphics of this game.
but for me its not worth it to pay to play anny online game.