With Champions Online having recently gone free-to-play, what can be done to give Cryptic’s other ailing MMO, Star Trek Online, a shot in the arm? The developers think that a dose of user-created content might be the thing, and so The Foundry will allow players to do just that.
The long-running, free-to-play Star Trek Online has expanded once more - and this time it's the new Both Worlds season that comes to Xbox and PlayStation.
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Fans are getting their Janeway fix with the latest update. Perfect World Entertainment Inc., a leading publisher of online games, and Cryptic Studios announced Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager will make her Star Trek Online debut in Shadow’s Advance.
Was never really a big Voyager fan I did watch it they reused a lot of the same story arcs time travel, slip stream, the borg, thrown closer to home. Best aliens I like that were introduced in the series were the Hirogen would love to see the Klingons take them on in a war.
The big issue was it was hard to have any consistency as you knew they were not going to mysteriously get home and Villains had to be infrequent as they were going through their space and would in time be out of range of their influence. There was a plan for the ship to get home via a new technology early in a mid season and then have them go to and from the Delta Quadrant and Federation as the story needed but that was nixed. I think not showing what happened when they actually set foot on Earth was a huge issue. I am hoping Picard addresses it.
There were plans to show a few episodes of what happened to the Voyager crew once they came back to the Alpha Quadrant but that fell through. Voyager was ok but it's not TNG or DS9 those two series I liked Enterprise with Scott Bakula was good I could never get into the Captain Kirk Star Trek that was before my time.
DS9 was great. I have not been able to get into Discovery. I do not like the characters or stories. I do not expect Xmas lights but the fact that it is 10 years before Kirk yet the ship is so much more advanced even before they went into time has not worked for me. Mainly dislike the characters. Prodigy lost me at the first episode but Lower Decks has grown on me and I have liked Picard.
Pretty neat feature
Ive played the trial of this game. Though I like it I dont think its worth paying a subscription for it. It feels and looks like older Star Trek games. I hope this goes free to play with micro transactions.
I recently downloaded and played the trial version and agree with Steve30x, I don't feel the game is worthy of the high subscription fees. It's sad to see most MMOs follow the "industry standard" fees ($15 per month), what could help them is if the reduced it to something more acceptable.
But then again it brings me to something that really bothers me about ST:O. They charge you $15 a month AND then they have paid DLC too!! IMO you can't have it both ways, either people pay you a monthly fee and all content (except for expansions) is free, or the game is free to play and you charge for DLC.