I pre ordered my CE from gamestop. The perks are :

 •Limited Edition Collectible Box
•Exclusive Art Book
•Buddy Passes (Allows your friends free trial play)
•Exclusive Die Cast Starfleet Comm badge (pin)

Gamestop perk:

Reserve Star Trek Online and receive a GameStop exclusive in-game Starfleet Constitution Class Starship. This unique, upgradable starship comes equipped with blue phasers and an extra engineering station mod slot.

Yep....leaving the game also. The grind in this game is just absolutely horrible. I have grinded and grinded and grinded just to finish out a level or get bumped up 1....yes 1 level. I have been playing mmos and yes this has to be one of the worst grindfests available. Sorry, it is what it is. Not to mention the obvious lack of any kind of a GM presence in the game is odd. The chat box when u sign in still says "thank you for pre order and enjoy the headstart time.

Well....geez look at the forum flames go. The game isn't even out yet and people are bashing it, anything Cryptic does with its site, box art, etc is a failure, yada yada yada, etc etc etc. Never before I have I seen such knick knack bull$hit people pick out. I think STO will be the first mmo that I will play and stay completely off the forums on that one. You know as well as I do there are going to be things people just aren't going to like. Fine. You like it you play it. You don't then go play something else.  

Originally posted by Kaocan

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by benmou13

is that an escort ship? jheez that looks sexy

 

It's a modified Miranda class, so it's one of the lowest tier ships. www.startrekonline.com/ships

 

Where are my damn Warbirds?? Who gives a crap about the feds - I want my Romulan Warbirds!

http://www.startrekonline.com/dyncontent/startrek/uploads/Star_Trek_Online-PCScreenshots25151sto_051909_01.jpg

They have the screen shot of it, but not in the ship registry?? They going to make me play a fed only??

 

No....Everyone will begin as Federation only. Once you complete the basic tutorial you will be able to choose Federation or Klingon. As far as the Romulans go the timeline will help you understand why they are absent VIDEO

Are you guys crazy? This game is gonna  be awesome.

Originally posted by Shannia

Originally posted by Ad-am

Well, closed Beta will probably end by December. Open Beta will probably begin in December and end in January which will give them a month for fine tuning what they got. My gut instincts tell me the game is far from finished. I am kind of expecting this to be more of an online game than a mmo. I don't know....there seems to be a lot of unanswered questions. I am hoping for the best.

 

I paid for Closed beta.  If I get less time in closed beta than what I get in open beta, then I know for a fact that I will not purchase the game, period.  Letting people in that paid 6 months/life times subs for Champions Online just before open beta = marketing scam. 

Well according to the official site they just started closed beta on 10/22/09. The site basically says they are starting the closed Beta testers by numbers only allowing a certain number and adding more as they have increase the stress tests. Hopefully you are somewhere in one of the phases. Either way the confirmed release date is 02/10/10 so closed beta/open beta will occur within 3 months. I estimate open beta is usually 3-4 weeks before release.

I personally would not have paid for 6 mos or lifetime to champions just to get a beta spot. It avoids issues like this. I tried CO and it was okay but it was something I didn't see myself being subbed long term to.

Well, closed Beta will probably end by December. Open Beta will probably begin in December and end in January which will give them a month for fine tuning what they got. My gut instincts tell me the game is far from finished. I am kind of expecting this to be more of an online game than a mmo. I don't know....there seems to be a lot of unanswered questions. I am hoping for the best.

Cryptic has officially confirmed the release date as 02/10/10 on the STO web site. Gamestop is officially taking pre orders.

According to this source HERE

Originally posted by jadonc

Give me crafting or give me death. I want to gather materials, I want to sell them in an easy quick method and have a mailbox that works 99.9% of the time.

P.S. as part of the gathering, I want to BLOW S**T UP!!!

I read somewhere that as part as the "gathering materials" there will be combat involved because each faction has to control the area, resource, etc to gather it. I will have to dig it up. If I find it I will post it. 

thats what happens when you flock to the Heavy server populations when there are other servers with no lag, no wait times

Roll on Ariel

Originally posted by Delanor

Originally posted by Xasapis

I think he was referring to the hype generated by the company, as opposed to the hype generated by the fans.

 

He might very well be, but I was not and he responded to that, which made me laugh as did the review.

Heh, well up until a few days ago there was only a few hundred posts under this title. There wasn't a huge "wow killer" picture being painted on this game.

So yeah, please tell me where you saw the super hype generated by NCsoft ? As I said before you either going to like Aion or hate it period. I like it so far and I'll respond to the Eurogamer review to keep the thread on topic. I disagree with the Eurogamer review...he is reviewing the game in Beta for pete sakes.

D2D, File planet, heck you can go to gamestop.com and select a download site. But why would you want to download 10+ gigs ? get out of the house, breathe some fresh air and buy you a  copy

Everyone has had issues with the patch downloader. Sometimes you have to close it out and restart but it's mainly because of the high volume of traffic of people downloading.

The queues were for the influx of people signing in for the head start. If you rolled on a heavily populated server you got the queues. They should go away after everything gets settled down.

Yes, if you picked up a retail copy on 9/21 the key will not be activated until 9/22. If you had a pre order code that was to get you into the beta weekends and gives you access to the head start. I believe they gave you 24 hours to enter a retail code after the head start is over.

Originally posted by Swanea

If ya don't have GW I would love the Code for the wings! :P Just PM me it if so!

yea sure! I don't play GW. I am at work at the moment so check your PM box for the code tomorrow.

Originally posted by Delanor

Originally posted by SgtFrog

Game has only been live for 30 hours and Eurogamer has decided to put up a review already, this site is extremely unprofessional, that is not enough for any game

im starting to think Tasos had a point when he went mad at Eurogamer

 

Why? It is a fair review and completely honest. And a score of 7/10 seems about right. I think it is a strong point of Eurogamer that it continues to demystify the hype around games in general and mmo's in particular. Apart from being informative it was fun to read.

Well it is his opinion. It's not quie fair to review a game that noone has even reached the level cap of fully explored the Abyss. In all seriousness....Aion had little to no hype on the hypo meter.

Yea, no issues here whatsoever using Vista 64bit.