Play as a Borg in Star Trek Online
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Well, they couldn't very well let you play as a NON-liberated Borg, could they? I mean, members of the Collective don't make decisions individually, so you wouldn't have control over your own character. What would they do, have all the Borg players vote every time the Collective has to make a decision?
Welcome to Star Trek Online!
Congratulations! You have been assimilated!
From now on, your character will be controlled by the Borg Collective.
Click on "Comply" to continue "playing."
Welcome to Star Trek Online!
Congratulations! You have been assimilated!
From now on, your character will be controlled by the Borg Collective.
Click on "Comply" to continue "playing."
God it is so funny you say this.Anarien said:
After playing both the Open beta and Closed beta I have noticed that the only thing the Devs are doing is making the game more playable. But they are not making it a good game.
You can just AFK for the majority of quests and get the same rewards as the guy fighting the extra tough enemy because your there. There is no communication with the community. All suggestions and pleas are just getting ignored.
I am really enjoying this game. I also preordered. But do I expect to be playing this game past my free trial time? No probably not.
It's a fun game but not a great one and it doesn't seem, to me, worth a lifetime sub or 1 year sub, LOL.
Very sad stuff really. Another computer game fucked up by poor release dates and completion schedules. When will they learn?
I wonder how good the inherrant regen rate is? I wonder how good the debuff is?
This is a true conundrum, I really want this game, but what if it isnt any good? I wonder if the Borg will be available later if you buy the game, decide you like it, then get the lifetime.
This is a true conundrum, I really want this game, but what if it isnt any good? I wonder if the Borg will be available later if you buy the game, decide you like it, then get the lifetime.
While I realize the "liberated from a collective (of some kind), free and out of some kind of revenge" is a very, very old premise I'd never take a shot at it if it seemed reasonable based on established history. And with Borg it totally fits, especially with all that Seven of Nine stuff and the ending of Voyager. I haven't followed anything from there, but still, makes some sense to try.
That said, I don't think I'd want to play a Star Trek MMO, and I've also ready had my run of playing a Death Knight, so the relative concept has already been tread for me. I just hope for Borg players that what happens with them upon launch isn't like what happened with WoW's Death Knights (as they became a wickedly overpopulated buzz-class of mostly-all-of-them-suck-even-if-the-class-is-OP-in-some-patches obscurity, followed by none ever being taken seriously before it all settles down).
That said, I don't think I'd want to play a Star Trek MMO, and I've also ready had my run of playing a Death Knight, so the relative concept has already been tread for me. I just hope for Borg players that what happens with them upon launch isn't like what happened with WoW's Death Knights (as they became a wickedly overpopulated buzz-class of mostly-all-of-them-suck-even-if-the-class-is-OP-in-some-patches obscurity, followed by none ever being taken seriously before it all settles down).
Maybe I'm not getting lifetime subscription, but back when WoW first came out I'm sure many people would have opted to pay $240 if it meant never again having to send Blizzard a single dollar, and felt like they got one over on them. True, you don't know if any given MMO will last, but you'd think a fairly large company like Cryptic with a fairly popular IP such as Star Trek is a safer bet than most.
To be clear, the Amazon.com pre-order bonus is a liberated Borg bridge officer, the lifetime subscription bonus is a liberated Borg player character.
The lifetime subscription offer only lasts til February 1, the day before launch, assuming the limited supply doesn't run out sooner, and requires a pre-order. Each account comes with only 3 character slots, 5 if you take the limited-time lifetime or 12 month subscription offers. Klingon PvE content is limited to grinding random encounters and PvPvE objectives in open PvP maps, and they have much more limited ship customization than the Federation. Scattered among the seemingly innumerable bonuses and 2 separate special is almost every uniform actually used in the various series and movies, with the implicit promise that they will eventually be available in Cryptic's micro-transaction store.
Still, many accounts of the actual gameplay are positive, so take it all as you see fit.
The lifetime subscription offer only lasts til February 1, the day before launch, assuming the limited supply doesn't run out sooner, and requires a pre-order. Each account comes with only 3 character slots, 5 if you take the limited-time lifetime or 12 month subscription offers. Klingon PvE content is limited to grinding random encounters and PvPvE objectives in open PvP maps, and they have much more limited ship customization than the Federation. Scattered among the seemingly innumerable bonuses and 2 separate special is almost every uniform actually used in the various series and movies, with the implicit promise that they will eventually be available in Cryptic's micro-transaction store.
Still, many accounts of the actual gameplay are positive, so take it all as you see fit.
Not forgetting ATARI is being sued for millions by Turbine (>US$30 mill) and by the D&D IP holder Hasbro (clear license violation by ATARI).Slycne said:
ATARI does not have the resources to fight these suits.
Based on the legal briefs before the courts ATARI will have to settle, assuming anything apart from the total destruction of ATARI will satisfy Turbine and Hasbro. (If Turbine wins it may have the exclusive rights to D&D MMOs returned, killing any NWN MMO, a big incentive now DDO:EU is a success.)
I would not buy a 2 year ticket to any game relying on ATARI being a functioning company (until those suits are settled).
You just answered your own question.Cpt_Oblivious said:
One of my WoW guildmates said (and I agree) that it's worrisome if they're offering a lifetime subscription for only $240. Assuming a $15 a month plan, that's only 16 months that the developers anticipate this game lasting. You can say 2 years if you want to consider that that the bigger payment plans are usually on a discount, but that's still a pretty short-term lifespan for an MMO to shoot for.
Basically, they want as many people to buy the lifetime subscription as possible because they know that it's how they'll squeeze the most money out of people (and more importantly, out of the game). Trying to entice them with ex-Borg characters as a carrot-on-a-stick is trying to distract people from the fact that the lifetime subscription is just a money-grab from a company that doesn't expect a long life from its game.
Having not done any research at all, I would estimate that under 20% of people who buy lifetime subscriptions actually get their full money's worth out of it. The other 80% become quickly bored with an MMO that's far less impressive than all the "WoW-killer" hype pumped it up to be.
At first, I thought this was really cool. Then, I remembered this is the same game where they were talking about using the ships in the old cliche trinity of tank, healer and dps. Yeah, I'm really thrilled about spending $240 to play an emo goth.
If they had allowed players to actually play the Borg in some sort of a pvp thing, that would have been interesting. However, I don't know a single game developer with enough balls to let anyone play a game where you get to be the Borg without being the Borg version of a quadriplegic with down syndrome. So, they proved me right and then some.
If this game was the awesome that it should have been, it would be flight sim in the tradition of games like Freespace combined with the complex systems and technologies of the Star Trek universe. You would probably have to read a phone book sized manual just to get the ship out of dock and would be completely inaccessible to the mainstream idiots. Sure, you'd eventually learn to auto-pilot the menial tasks but you'd at least have done them manually a few times. The micro-managing nut jobs would be completely OCD about controlling their ships and flying entirely manual and getting a slight advantage on those of us who are slightly more sane and do most things automatically. It would by far be a completely different game than what people are probably going to get.
I'm sure this game will be even worse of a bastard than the last Star Trek movie. Sure, the movie was visually great. I even really enjoyed the ships. However, everything else was full of fail. The acting was by far the worst part.
I could go on but probably only a small part of the people here would even get what I'm saying. The rest are posers who will probably try to tell me how great the movie was or are so blinded by their own fanboy obsessions that they can't see the fail in front of their face.
If they had allowed players to actually play the Borg in some sort of a pvp thing, that would have been interesting. However, I don't know a single game developer with enough balls to let anyone play a game where you get to be the Borg without being the Borg version of a quadriplegic with down syndrome. So, they proved me right and then some.
If this game was the awesome that it should have been, it would be flight sim in the tradition of games like Freespace combined with the complex systems and technologies of the Star Trek universe. You would probably have to read a phone book sized manual just to get the ship out of dock and would be completely inaccessible to the mainstream idiots. Sure, you'd eventually learn to auto-pilot the menial tasks but you'd at least have done them manually a few times. The micro-managing nut jobs would be completely OCD about controlling their ships and flying entirely manual and getting a slight advantage on those of us who are slightly more sane and do most things automatically. It would by far be a completely different game than what people are probably going to get.
I'm sure this game will be even worse of a bastard than the last Star Trek movie. Sure, the movie was visually great. I even really enjoyed the ships. However, everything else was full of fail. The acting was by far the worst part.
I could go on but probably only a small part of the people here would even get what I'm saying. The rest are posers who will probably try to tell me how great the movie was or are so blinded by their own fanboy obsessions that they can't see the fail in front of their face.
Wait a minute, this game requires a subscription and has a micro-transaction store? I need to stab someone in the face now.Squigie said:
I get the funny feeling that a few months down the line when their subscription base isn't as high as they thought, they'll make the Borg available to everyone to try attract new subs. Much like SWG did with the jedi class.
Translated: I could go on but probably only a small part of the people here would even agree with me. The rest are people who understand how great the movie was and aren't blinded by their own fanboy obsessions that they can't see the fail in front of their face.LordZ said:
Next time offer some evidence demonstrating how the world is wrong and how your opinion is the correct one before calling everyone else a poser like a twelve year old.
You mean evidence like how the plot itself not only breaks the timeline of the entire Star Trek universe but outright denies it ever happened? How about the fact that not one of the things that was great about Star Trek even made it into the movie? How about the actors? I could rail on them all day for their Buffy the Vampire Slayer portrayal of a series that has nothing to do with teen angst.hypothetical fact said:
Congrats on being the very poser I was warning about. Anyone who enjoyed Star Trek for being Star Trek and not another teen angst action flick like the New Moon series already agreed with me. The majority of the people on the world once believed the Earth was flat. Saying that you're of the majority means exactly squat. Next time you want to argue a point, how about you bring more than just your opinion.
