Surely you wonder why I wish the wrath of a thousand suns upon Mr. Gerstmann. I first direct you to
this piece. It's short, read it through. If you like, you may also visit Giant Bomb's "Set Phasers to Fun" video series.
Now, thanks to that, I'm having to consider it seriously, myself. I wish you hadn't made me think about it, Jeff.
Oh Jesus Christ. Right now I'm looking at a list of upcoming releases, separating them into buy/rent/wait-for-Steam-sale columns. Checking my bills and seeing if my budget is in order. This sort of crap is why the terms "disposable income" and "impulse purchasing" were invented. Or should I say,
full impulse purchasing?!
Anything else I write here about the process of talking myself out of it will be pointless, merely a copy-paste of Jeff's writeup.
It's weird that I'd never have considered this option for any other game, not on my own or without considerable pressure. That is how thoroughly the appeal of
Star Trekhas compromised my judgment. To really go into why that is would read like more pale justification.
I've got nine days to decide. In the meantime I'll continue to play the beta,
almost hoping it will somehow stop trying to appeal me. I'll put up this list of things with the potential to dissuade me from making this insane decision:
1. Doing my taxes
2. Checking on my health insurance
3.
Final Fantasy XIV
4. Taking a deep breath.
Also, have these pictures of someone personifying the ships from the new movie.
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I've never watched Star Trek and have played about an hour of MMO games total in my life, yet I'm finding this game oddly intriguing. The space combat looks kinda neat, in particular. Meh, probably won't ever try it out, though.
The horror.....
GODDAMNIT JIM I'M A DOCTOR NOT AN OTAKU!
Of course we would be Klingon's who only speak french.
Now I don’t know a lot about MMOs, how long people play them or how often, but isn’t it only a good deal if you play it a certain amount of time until you know you’re saving more money than you would with a monthly fee? And even then would you be playing it because you wanted to or because you would be trying to get your moneys worth out of it?
Rather than doing an MMO they should've done a western RPG-shooter hybrid ... waiiit...
No one will stick with it if they don't have event content and PVP.
I like what I've been hearing about some of Star Trek, but I think they should have had the first two years of content laid out at least, rather than rely so much on user feedback in its first year. This is just because it takes time to adapt and balance MMOs to the needs of the players.
In the meantime, my Star Trek-style gaming fix will be Infinite Space from Nude Maker/Platinum Games. I do have to admit its nice to see two games of this theme and setting in one year and both of them be fairly good, though.
Same here. My current PC can't handle the game(Waiting on my laptop to ship that can) so I have only be watching the Giantbomb videos. But I'm seriously thinking about getting the lifetime subscription for the same reasons Jeff did.