Were you affraid to try Star Trek Online?

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*Note this is a news story, all ranks and otherwises indicated are from the Star Trek Online history, and do not reflect any STSF.net connect. I RPed it because it'd be fun*

 

Andrew Lyon seemed to become one with the bat'leth, slicing at borg drones as they kept coming. He has always been hands on, but it was days like this he wished he was one of those desk drones he hated, hitting his combadge, "Lyon to Met, where are my reinforcements Met?" (Met being short for Metroplex)

 

His third officer responded, because the first and second were down here trying to make a dent in the number of drones, "Sir, we're fighting off 2 cubes, reinforcements are incoming, but the nearest ship is 2 hours away."

 

"I confirm Met, Lyon out", he said as he pulled the klingon blade from the neck of a now terminated drone. Unlike Picard they were pushing forward a small 7 man away team trying to make it to a central point of the local borg hive mind. Help was coming soon Redshirt had said help was coming soon...

 

((The below story is from Gamespot.com, check under news))

<<From Lord of the Rings Online to Age of Conan, success stories abound for massively multiplayer online role-playing games that flip to a microtransaction-driven freemium business model. With Cryptic Studios' Champions Online going the freemium route in January, it should come as no surprise that the MMOG specialist has similar intentions for Star Trek Online. Freemium isn't exactly a space where no man has gone before.

Cryptic Studios confirmed this week that it intends to transition Star Trek Online to a freemium business model by the end of this year. The studio expects to have additional information on its pricing and execution strategy for Star Trek Online available next week.

News of the announcement first arrived during a Perfect World postearnings conference call last week. In that report, chief financial officer Kevin Lau confirmed that a freemium version of Star Trek Online will arrive in the US and China. Perfect World bought Cryptic from Atari in May 2011.

Star Trek Online received middling review scores when it first launched for the PC in February 2010. The game operates independently from any of the events established in the film or television series.

Players assume the role of a starship captain operating under the banner of either the United Federation of Planets (better known simply as "the Federation") or the Klingon, who are locked in an intergalactic struggle. The hive-minded Borg will also play a role in the MMOG.>>

Edited September 4, 2011 by AndrewLyon