{"id":12821,"date":"2011-09-01T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12821"},"modified":"2011-09-01T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:36:47","slug":"star-trek-online-to-go-free-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/09\/star-trek-online-to-go-free-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Online To Go Free-to-play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of <em>Star Trek Online<\/em> will be happy to learn that by the end of the year, the game will not require a subscription to play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/STO-150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12822\" title=\"STO-150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/STO-150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Perfect World CEO <strong>Kelvin Lau<\/strong> said that a free-to-play model of <em>Star Trek Online<\/em> is now being developed. &#8220;&#8230;in fact Cryptic is working on the free-to-play model for Star Trek Online. This is going to be launched by the end of this year as well,&#8221; Lau said. &#8220;So I think with the free-to-play model we have bigger potential in the US market and also in China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cryptic Studios, which developed <em>Star Trek Online<\/em>, was purchased by Perfect World last March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Star Trek Online will be happy to learn that by the end of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443],"tags":[2482],"class_list":["post-12821","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":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821","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=12821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12823,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions\/12823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}