I've been playing STO for a long time now, probably since 2010. I stopped getting vet rewards a while ago because I let my subscription lapse and found out that this game is just as fun with F2P as without.
I played SWTOR from its release for about a year with a paid sub. Some of the stories were great, and the PVP (at least before level 50 with all the dull grinding) was fun as well. After I had gone through the stories worth going through though, paying fifteen bucks a month to do boring endgame TRIBBLE wasn't worth it.
I have never gotten mad at Star Trek Online. SWTOR, however, is irritating in how obviously greedy the developers are. They claimed not to want to do holiday events. That changed when they realized they could sell stuff in their overpriced micro-transaction store. That kind of hypocrisy gets me mad and makes me want to go back to good old dependable STO. At least here I'll always have a guaranteed fun experience from the latest FREE episode or FREE foundry mission.
I've played both games since open beta. I lapsed my sub in TOR for awhile and my second max lvl char was totally done F2P, I didn't pay for a thing and still played the complete game. It is widely acknowledged that the first year of TOR was a train wreck (as was STO's) and it has grown by leaps and bounds since, if you get a chance check it out its a much better game.
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I've played both games since open beta. I lapsed my sub in TOR for awhile and my second max lvl char was totally done F2P, I didn't pay for a thing and still played the complete game. It is widely acknowledged that the first year of TOR was a train wreck (as was STO's) and it has grown by leaps and bounds since, if you get a chance check it out its a much better game.