Star Trek Online To Boldly Go Free To Play In 2011
Star Trek Online is going to be taking a big-ticket sci-fi licensed MMO into free to play territory sometime in the fourth quarter of this year, beating sci-fi heavyweight EVE Online to the punch. It’s not that EVE has even talked about being free to play — their item store generated such a furor that its customer base just might have to be dragged kicking and screaming into a f2p model — but there are likely plans on the drawing board for such a move. There have to be.
This also makes us scratch or heads over what Knights of the Old Republic will end up doing. Maybe a WOW-style free to play where you get the first 20 levels free and need to subscribe to get into the good stuff? Either way, paying for a boxed copy of a game seems so archaic. I could definitely see CCP dropping the initial setup fee for EVE as part of a f2p model down the road. You want more people to try your game, even if it’s a pared back version of it. Otherwise how will they get hooked?
The Star Trek Online announcement was carried over on Evil Avatar and more details on what subscription “gold” and free to play “silver” players will be able to do is on the main site.
Tags: eve online, free to play, knights of the old republic, MMO, star trek online
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