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Star Trek Online Free-To-Play Date Announced + Details on Changes to the Game

After months of speculation and reporting that the game would be moving to a free-to-play model back in September, Cryptic Studios has announced that Star Trek Online will go free-to-play on January 17th, 2012.

While an optional subscription plan will still be offered, on that date players will be able to not just play for free, but also download the game itself at no cost.

“We’ve always wanted the game to be free-to-play,” said Stephen D’Angelo, Executive Producer of STO and Chief Technical Officer. “in fact we tried to make it free-to-play at the original launch, but our publisher [Atari] didn’t want us doing that so we didn’t do that.”

Players will still be able to subscribe for a Gold Membership for $14.99 per month. Gold Members will receive two additional Bridge Officer slots for each rank, a higher level of free inventory, a Captain Retrain Token for each rank, eight Foundry Project slots, four hundred promotional points each month along with unlimited in-game chat and mail, forums and customer service.

Those who had previously signed up for the lifetime subscription will automatically become Gold Members and will not be charged additional fees.

Will Star Trek Online going free-to-play make you more apt to play? Let us know in the comments.

[Quote source: IGN]

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  1. Jade

    November 9, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    I only quit the game before because I couldn’t find [ground] PVP at night on the Federation side and couldn’t justify paying the subscription cost to sign on and get into matches over and over by myself against a full group of Klingons after waiting almost an hour (11pm EST). With F2P that won’t be much of an issue, and with a lot of the PVP glitches fixed, it may be even more fun. I’ll just have to see.

  2. Gorn King

    November 10, 2011 at 2:48 am

    Looking forward to this!

  3. Kelmar44

    November 10, 2011 at 11:49 am

    THAT GAME TOTALLY SUCKS

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