{"id":308,"date":"2010-07-22T00:03:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T07:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=308"},"modified":"2010-07-22T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:42:20","slug":"captains-log-the-c-store-and-the-perils-of-going-freemium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/captains-log-the-c-store-and-the-perils-of-going-freemium\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain’s Log: The C-Store and the perils of going freemium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to another installment of Captain’s Log<\/a>, in which we explore — and sometimes complain about — the uncharted depths of Star Trek Online<\/em><\/a>. This is your captain speaking from behind a rickety card table in a basement somewhere in the murky New Jersey Nebula. Isn’t moving the worst?<\/p>\n

Last week, we learned a little bit<\/a> about Daniel Stahl<\/a>, the brand new executive producer on STO<\/em><\/a>. But not enough to prepare us for the crazy truth bomb<\/a> with which he torpedoed the official forums<\/a>. On Sunday, Stahl suggested that he could see STO<\/em> going free-to-play<\/a>. Seriously. I had planned to discuss the Cryptic Store<\/a> this week anyway, and this fits in nicely, given micro-transactions’ importance to the free-to-play model.<\/p>\n

Would Cryptic Studios’<\/a> switching STO<\/em> from subscriptions to an F2P<\/a> model be a godsend or a hellish nightmare? (Hint: It would wind up somewhere in the middle.)<\/p>\n

Continue reading Captain’s Log: The C-Store and the perils of going freemium<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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