Surprising approximately no one, Star Trek Online announced last year that it was making the jump to free-to-play. Players with a current or past subscription have had access to the new model since January 5th, while everyone else will have to wait until the 17th.
If you're curious what the difference is between the free-to-play players (Silver) and those who continue to shell out the money (Gold), Cryptic has laid it all out for you in this convenient chart. You can also follow any news updates about the new model on the official website's blog.
I'm not big into Star Trek, but I sure do love trying new MMOs for the price of nothing so I'm sure I'll give it a shot eventually. I truly feel bad for those players who paid for the lifetime subscription though, since it seems much of that money is now going to waste. I can only hope there isn't a poor soul out there who bought lifetime subs to both Champions Online and Star Trek Universe.
[Thanks, SephirothX!]
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5:00 PM on 01.09.2012 | 
You know there is, and you know he'll be bitching in global chat about it.
Or LOTRO.
Or TOR, if they offered it. Trololololol.
http://www.startrekonline.com/f2p_features
I bought a lifetime subscription when the game launched. At this time, lifetime subscriptions were much cheaper. It ended up paying for itself after 18 months; more than 6 months before the game goes free-to-play. On top of 6 months of having the game for free when there was a subscription fee, I now receive $4 a month from them in Cryptic Points, thus ensuring I will never, ever spend actual money on in-game stuff.
So yes, I'm a poor soul for getting more than 6 months of free game time and $4/month from the company here on out.
But then again with Mass Effect filling in the gaps maybe there simple is no market for such games...
No shut up. Space.
Fuck your other MMOs, spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.
Space. Pew pew pew.
Also, I'm addicted to managing my Duty Roster for fun and XP profit.
thanks for the link :)
it's much cheaper to buy this game and all DLC considering that building only one simple mock-up will cost you over 500$ and that's not counting train set(that costs sometimes over 400$) and time you'll have to spend building everything by yourself.
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