{"id":426,"date":"2010-07-24T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=426"},"modified":"2010-07-24T15:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T22:08:30","slug":"star-trek-online-pushes-pre-order-bonus-items-to-the-c-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/star-trek-online-pushes-pre-order-bonus-items-to-the-c-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Online pushes pre-order bonus items to the C-Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/sci-fi\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sci-fi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/business-models\/\" rel=\"tag\">Business models<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/news-items\/\" rel=\"tag\">News items<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/opinion\/\" rel=\"tag\">Opinion<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/star-trek-online\/\" rel=\"tag\">Star Trek Online<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.massively.com\/media\/2010\/06\/sto-store-epl-615.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Are you a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\"><em>Star Trek Online<\/em><\/a> player who wants a Borg bridge officer or access to <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/USS_Enterprise_%28NCC-1701%29\">the original USS <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/USS_Enterprise_%28NCC-1701%29\">Enterprise<\/a>,<\/em> but missed out on the limited-time offers for them? The good news is that you no longer have to be bereft of the pre-order perks just because you came into the game late. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/tag\/Cryptic\/\">Cryptic<\/a> is offering a variety of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/store\">the pre-order items and bonuses on the C-Store<\/a> as part of a large update to their stock. Among the new items are uniforms for <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine\"><em>Deep Space Nine<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/The_Wrath_of_Khan\"><em>The Wrath of Khan<\/em><\/a>, playable Joined Trill, and of course the original Constitution-class <em>Enterprise<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.startrekonline.com\/showthread.php?t=162951\">a fair bit of furor<\/a> about the new additions to the store. Lifetime subscribers are especially upset about the changes, as some of the additions were specifically aimed at them &#8212; and unlike pre-ordering customers, they didn&#8217;t pay the same price as everyone else. While the developers are understanding, they&#8217;ve stated repeatedly that they see this as best for the game and the players. It certainly is a net benefit for non-lifetime <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/Star-Trek-Online\/\">Star Trek Online<\/a><\/em> players, but it certainly isn&#8217;t going to tone down the controversy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/store\">the game&#8217;s microtransaction system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/media\/feedlogo.gif\" alt=\"Massively\" style=\"float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/06\/16\/star-trek-online-pushes-pre-order-bonus-items-to-the-c-store\/\">Star Trek Online pushes pre-order bonus items to the C-Store<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\">Massively<\/a> on Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<br style=\"clear:both;\"><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/store>Read<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/06\/16\/star-trek-online-pushes-pre-order-bonus-items-to-the-c-store\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/forward\/19517954\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/06\/16\/star-trek-online-pushes-pre-order-bonus-items-to-the-c-store\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/06\/16\/star-trek-online-pushes-pre-order-bonus-items-to-the-c-store\/\">Massively<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Sci-fi, Business models, News items, Opinion, Star Trek Online Are you a Star Trek Online player who wants a Borg bridge officer or access to the original USS Enterprise, but missed out on the limited-time offers for them? The good news is that you no longer have to be bereft of the pre-order perks just because you came into the game late. Cryptic is offering a variety of the pre-order items and &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/star-trek-online-pushes-pre-order-bonus-items-to-the-c-store\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[289],"tags":[423,251,424,249,422,421,247,248],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}