{"id":344,"date":"2010-07-22T16:04:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=344"},"modified":"2010-07-22T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T23:55:40","slug":"captains-log-percharacter-cstore-services-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/captains-log-percharacter-cstore-services-ruin\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain\u2019s Log: Per-character C-Store services ruin everything ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Geez louise! It’s time for another installment of your favorite Thursday Star Trek Online<\/em><\/a> column, Captain’s Log<\/a>. Despite the lovely weather<\/a>, the final volume of awesome<\/a>, that crazy-good movie<\/a> and a parasailing donkey<\/a>, everyone seems to (still) be talking about one thing: the C-Store<\/a>!<\/p>\n

In last week’s Captain’s Log<\/a>, we glanced at micro-transactions in STO<\/em><\/a> on our way to discussing the game’s future in an increasingly freemium<\/a> world. Readers had plenty of comments to share … and that was before Cryptic Studios<\/a> dropped a hydrogen bomb in the form of new per-character services<\/a>. Players erupted late last week, and the flames are still burning in a forum thread more than 115 pages long<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I would be remiss to gloss over the controversy, so let’s examine why folks are so upset at Cryptic this time. It’s not as if much else is happening in the pre-patch lull<\/a>, amirite?<\/p>\n

Continue reading Captain’s Log: Per-character C-Store services ruin everything ever<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Sci-fi, MMO industry, Opinion, Star Trek Online, Captain’s Log Geez louise! It’s time for another installment of your favorite Thursday Star Trek Online column, Captain’s Log. Despite the lovely weather, the final volume of awesome, that crazy-good movie and a parasailing donkey, everyone seems to (still) be talking about one thing: the C-Store! In last week’s Captain’s Log, we glanced at micro-transactions in STO on our way to discussing the game’s future … Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[270,251,310,309,306,308,307],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-online","tag-captains","tag-cstore","tag-ever","tag-everything","tag-percharacter","tag-ruin","tag-services","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t