{"id":30817,"date":"2012-01-16T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30817"},"modified":"2012-01-16T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:33:38","slug":"star-trek-online-goes-free-to-play-from-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30817-star-trek-online-goes-free-to-play-from-tomorrow","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Online goes free-to-play from tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life forms and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before – but you couldn’t afford the petrol and extortionate intergalactic highway tolls?<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s not quite<\/em> the same thing, but Cryptic Studios<\/a>‘ Star Trek Online is jumping to free-to-play at maximum warp tomorrow, and a vicarious trip around the universe is better than no trip around the universe.<\/p>\n

The new system allows for both premium and free player subscriptions, with some limits imposed on free account features, including available character slots, fleet creation, in-game chat and mail options, forums and customer service access.<\/p>\n

Free accounts are also ad-supported.<\/p>\n

\"Star<\/a>

Star Trek online<\/p><\/div>\n

Star Trek Online launched in February 2010 to a mostly underwhelming reception, managing only 65 on Metacritic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A year later, Cryptic temporarily reduced subscription rates in an attempt to increase player numbers, and finally announced in September 2011 that the game would be moving over to a free-to-play model.<\/p>\n

Source: Star Trek Online<\/a><\/h5>\n

Related article<\/h3>\n

Star Trek Online going free-to-play this year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cryptic Studios makes it so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":30858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,1995,1994,1993],"class_list":["post-30817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-cryptic-studios","tag-free-to-play","tag-star-trek-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30856,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30817\/revisions\/30856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}