Following a brief head start weekend, Star Trek Online has officially gone live today! While many of you have been merrily playing for the last few days, there are still some launch day surprises to be had. For example, did you know that two new races are available to players at the C-Store? Federation Klingon and Federation Ferengi can both be had for 240 and 80 Cryptic Points respectively.

Of course, this has not gone without controversy, as there is a 27+ page thread "discussing" this surprise development on the official Star Trek Online forums.

Any of you planning to get your Worf on? Let us know in the comments below!

The probable sum up of the 27+ pages is Man .. why .. when they should be included for the cost of the game.

I am sorely dissapointed.

I'm really surprised people are taking this as a surprise. 

There was a time when the montly fee included everything. CCP includes also expansions.

I also recognize the monthly fee has not increased with inflation in the last decade, that is also true, but Star Trek Online is not an mmo and it doesen't require even a fraction of tecnology a  real mmo like EvE needs.

Cryptic is not gonna gain playerbase trust with this kind of greedy policy and the game will suffer.

Considering Cryptic's absolute failure at launching Champions Online and their launch day "debacle" with that game you'd think the folks running the show would have figured out how this was going to go over.  Sadly, some day we're going to be remembering when Cryptic developed MMO's because they're going to run themselves out of business if they keep *ucking this stuff up.  I really don't care about this that much but I personally think this is just a precursor to them "announcing" that respecs of your skill points will only be offered via C-Store purchase.  If they aren't planning on doing this then there is absolutely no excuse for not having respecs in the game already.  The engine for STO and a great deal of the game is just ripped off from CO and they had a functional respec system in CO at launch.  It isn't like it should be hard for them to code and implement that system now, unless oh wait they are going to get as many initial orders on the game as they can, make as much money up front as they can, and then drop this little gem after the initial free 30 days have ended. 

P.S.  Can the MMORPG staff please sticky this post so that I can reference it when I'm right?   thanks =P

lame... why would these races not be included in the full version people just paid for??. What a rip off. 49.00 US is no small fee. The game is nothing more than a "cash extraction software". Greed, not gameplay is the major design theme.

I feel bad for the people who bought Lifetime Subscriptions and are going to get nickle-and-dimed to death from the add-ons that should be free.

Then again they did have a 6 month red flag warning called Champions Online. 

This is why I will never touch a game run by Cryptic. I'm all for business wanting to turn a profit, but I refuse to pay an upfront investment, then a sub only then to have features via RMT that should be included with the box and sub cost.

I truly hope this becomes a lesson to other companies of how not to business.

There are quite a few red warning flags on this game now, i have to wonder really, when a company in the MMO industry survives by its reputation.. is cryptic feeling desperately suicidal lately ?

 since my post here got deleted and i got a warning let me elaborate a bit more on this

its an 'mmo' with a sub, it just released, these items are not cosmetic at all: this is what i consider a pure rip off and ill never buy a cryptic game.

also, how much dollars are these C-bucks?

Wowww Just wow.. I was about to report this post when I noticed Mike was the one who posted it. Was so hardcore advertisement.

Originally posted by Slineer

I'm really surprised people are taking this as a surprise. 

why are you surprised?

can you produce evidence cryptic warned players before they sold the boxes that factions were going to be sold via MT?

regardless of the pricing strategy cryptic chooses to addopt this is yet another example of how microtransactions can be abused by holding information back  from the players.

Cryptic is a Ferengi run and owned company. What did you expect?

Originally posted by Troneas

Originally posted by Slineer

I'm really surprised people are taking this as a surprise. 

 

why are you surprised?

 

can you produce evidence cryptic warned players before they sold the boxes that factions were going to be sold via MT?

 

regardless of the pricing strategy cryptic chooses to addopt this is yet another example of how microtransactions can be abused by holding information back  from the players.

Factions AREN'T being sold via MT.  These unlocks are for races in the Federation faction.  The Klingon faction comes with the game.

That's not to say that additional factions won't be offered via RMT, but this certainly isn't it.

Well... STO just went from "wait 6 months and see" to "never" in my book. And I'm not talking never unless they fix things, I'm talking for the first time in18 years of MUD/MMO playing I'm outright wishing for the complete and total failure of a game.

I'm going to guess there will be a pretty harsh backlash towards cryptic and they're going to decide to tone down their microtransactions, but you really have to wonder just how much they want to nickle and dime their players if they could get away with it.

maybe the rarity of defection by Klingon would show in lack of people willing to pay for it....that way there arent 1000 Fed Klingon running around ?.....dunno just a guess.....ive no desire to play one so i wont be buying this add-on...

Originally posted by Robsolf

Originally posted by Troneas

Originally posted by Slineer

I'm really surprised people are taking this as a surprise. 

 

why are you surprised?

 

can you produce evidence cryptic warned players before they sold the boxes that factions were going to be sold via MT?

 

regardless of the pricing strategy cryptic chooses to addopt this is yet another example of how microtransactions can be abused by holding information back  from the players.

Factions AREN'T being sold via MT.  These unlocks are for races in the Federation faction.  The Klingon faction comes with the game.

That's not to say that additional factions won't be offered via RMT, but this certainly isn't it.

i beg your pardon.

im not into star trek lore.

RACES then.

lets not undermine the point of the message, however.

fact is as i see it sto went through years of development, months of beta (opened and closed possibly), sold pre-order boxes and they choose to disclose that RACES will be available via RMT on launch day, and in my research i have found no conclusive evidence of what sort of items/ game features their shop will offer in the future.

Its no different than what companies are doing with console video games. Day 1 DLC is all the rage now. Let's not act like Cryptic is the first evil or anything. Some call it evolution, others call it a greed. Makes for good conversation.

Believe it or not, right now I'm laughin out loud thinkin to all the fools who bought STO.

Since months ago, it was clear to any mental healthy human being that Star Trek Online was just a piece of crap and a cash cow.

To all of you STO buyers, go and listen Rage Against the Machine (great) song:" THEY SAY JUMP, YOU SAY "HOW HIGH?"

Originally posted by Slineer

I'm really surprised people are taking this as a surprise. 

Indeed. Some people never learn. Some people never listen.