Star Trek Online Going Free-To-Play In January

tekgoblin writes "Cryptic Studios, the developer of the Star Trek Online MMO, announced that they are switching to a Free-to-Play model on January 17th. Free subscribers to the game will be able to play, but will not get the same benefits as paying subscribers still get. Free accounts will be Silver, while paid accounts will be called Gold. Silver accounts will be able to pay for features that Gold members will get as part of their paid subscription. These features include but are not limited to respecs and extra character slots." EverQuest II is jumping on the free-to-play bandwagon as well.

Re:it's dead jim?

[Anonymous Coward]

According to Cryptic: "unique logins, concurrent users, and revenue totals have increased by "over 1,000 percent" since Champions Online went free-to-play"

Champions Online is their other game.

Disclaimer: I'm about to start a new job at Cryptic, but I don't have any inside information at this time.

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