{"id":10675,"date":"2010-11-08T10:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2010-11-08T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T18:37:18","slug":"free-to-play-star-trek-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/11\/free-to-play-star-trek-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-to-play Star Trek Online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Cryptic Studios and Atari announced that the MMO <em>Champions Online<\/em> will become free-to-play next year, players are wondering if <em>Star Trek: Online<\/em> could be next.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Champions Online<\/em>, players will\u00a0 be able to download the game and not be obliged to pay a monthly subscription fee, which they must currently do. Atari hopes that premium content, including costumes, adventures packs and new superpowers, will bring in sufficient revenue for them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/STO-150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10676\" title=\"STO-150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/STO-150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure people are wondering whether we&#8217;ll do it with <em>Star Trek<\/em> and the question is really how well it does for <em>Champions<\/em>,&#8221; said Cryptic boss<strong> Jack Emmert<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Emmert encouraged players who want to see <em>Star Trek: Online<\/em> go free-to-play to support <em>Champions Online<\/em>, showing Cryptic that there is support for the change. &#8220;Does it work or doesn&#8217;t it? We&#8217;re not sold one way or the other with <em>Star Trek<\/em> yet,&#8221; said Emmert. &#8220;If people want <em>Star Trek<\/em> to go free-to-play then get in and play <em>Champions <\/em>and help make it a great success, because that would send a strong message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just hoping to open it up and increase the fan-base,&#8221; said Emmert, &#8220;and we&#8217;ll just wait and see. I&#8217;d love it if we got [the results that <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons Online<\/em> got when they went free-to-play], but hey, if that doesn&#8217;t happen, it doesn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Cryptic Studios and Atari announced that the MMO Champions Online will become free-to-play next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443],"tags":[2482],"class_list":["post-10675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","tag-star-trek-online"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/merchandise\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Merchandise<\/a>","tag_info":"Merchandise","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10681,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions\/10681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}