Basically because I love Trek and enjoy making characters in that world while also seeing the 24th century show storylines continue in some fashion (despite it not being canon). I'm aware STO is a pretty average and flawed MMO but the IP elevates it.
I play because even though they really haven't followed the canon with the way they handle ships or the advancement, I do still like the way they've done the stories. The episodes have been done well especially since LOR so I'm excited to see the story advance. It's like reading a really exciting series of novels and not having to be disappointed that the author stopped writing with so many things left undone in the lives of your favorite characters.
Conversation is irrelevant, views are irrelevant, conflict is irrelevant, you will be assimilated, you will know peace, order, we will raise your quality of life.
I originally started playing just after beta because its Star Trek. Since then Ive moved on to other games and come back However, I am getting bored quickly. Its all pew-pew and not enough exploration. I really enjoyed the Dyson and Borg missions as they felt very canon-esque and am hoping DR will as well, but I have a feeling it will be just more pew-pew. Its not a bad thing if thats what youre in to, but for me, it gets boring quickly.
I am eagerly awaiting the launch of Firefly Online early next year but will still be back to play some STO off and on.
I play STO because no other Scifi MMOs have both Space and Ground Combat.
SWTOR has Ground combat and very little space combat.
Eve Online - You are the skills you have learned. They determine just about everything you can do. IMO the whole skill learning system hinders what a Sandbox is and cripples the game from gaining more subs. No Ground combat.
Star Citizen - Still in production. Waiting:D
Elite Dangerous - In beta.
I play STO because no other Scifi MMOs have both Space and Ground Combat.
SWTOR has Ground combat and very little space combat.
Eve Online - You are the skills you have learned. They determine just about everything you can do. IMO the whole skill learning system hinders what a Sandbox is and cripples the game from gaining more subs. No Ground combat.
Star Citizen - Still in production. Waiting:D
Elite Dangerous - In beta.
EVE does have a ground game. You just have to play an FPS to be apart of it.
EVE does have a ground game. You just have to play an FPS to be apart of it.
Dust 514 and Eve Online are two different games on two different platforms. One is on PC the other on PS3. You can't pilot a ship in space then put your boots on the ground with the same Toon. They just share a server, Chat box's, and you can do/call in a OS that's it.
When was a kid, I was always fascinated with space, exploration and being a pioneer. Star Trek was something I came across at a young age and never let it go. I was a DS9 baby, I grew up with Voyager however and then I went back and watched the rest and I liked them all, even Enterprise. Star Trek Online for me is a chance to explore those worlds I watched as a kid, granted its just a computer game but going to Vulcan and standing on Mount Seleya where Spock and Kirk fought or P'Jem where Archer first battled against Shran, or Rura Penthe on Star Trek 6 is like being at monument of dedicated to my childhood.
Even Nemesis was not so widely liked by everyone a line from Schinzon really stuck even though the premise was not genuine story wise:
"Looking up at the stars and dreamed about what was up there" Schinzon
To me it kind reminded me of what I used to do on a really stary night up north where no ambient lights were around and its just you, a campfire and the night sky.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "This planet smells, it must be the Klingons"
Second for the friendships I've built along the way. TBH it's the one thing that's prevented me from leaving.
I went F2P 2 years ago, dropping my gold account because they (Cryptic) had IMO dropped the ball. The game was boring, repetitive and not worth my money. I earned enough dil ingame to meet my personal purchasing needs.
Things got better. Much better with Surface Tensions.
So I bought the Operations pack and dropped a C-note on dil and upgrades (soon to be). Maybe more before the end of the year. That will keep me coming back until Christmas.
I tried out EVE for a while and it was a nice change of pace being able to do non-combat roles. I only briefly played SWG and i made a shipbuilder/storekeeper there but it was hard getting into it. Here i am in my scrubby 1 room house selling TIE fighters and there are already people well established selling crapton of stuff. In EVE i went with a miner/PI toon. I actually did some of my PI stuff in lowsec. So i had to have specialized freighters with cloaks, microwarpdrives and the other boost thrusters. It wasnt even a dedicated blockade runner freighter just a mid tier freighter with a few mods on it and i had to do some tricky piloting to make sure i was never followed or ganked in lowsec.
Here is a cool story bro moment for you all too. One time i was leveling an alt in SWTOR and i had done so many alts that it was starting to get old. I got so sick of it one day that I snapped and rage logged off of SWTOR and i started EVE online up and got on my mining toon and did some double box mining in high sec.
I no longer 'play' Star Trek Online. As a result of the heavy grinding, I sign into the game, click to complete the R&D projects, setup the next two projects, sign out, and then look for a job. I have been too busy looking for work. Once Everything calms down, I may 'try' playing Star Trek Online again.
I have been suffering from heavy anxiety and severe depression.
Started playing STO because a old friend of mine who was a hardcore StarTrek fan kept on hurassing me to play STO with him.
After about a year of his complaining i finally gave in and started playing. (Unfortunatly he passed a way).
We both started our own Fleet and had a couple of real life buddies joining the party.
They stopped playing the game and we ended up both building the fleet together.
He passed away over a year ago and siince then i am continuing upgrtading the Fleet.
I have 2 members who hardly put any time in it.
Our.my fleet is now Tier 3 going on 4. Have to say it is ******n hard work to do this by myself.
I was thinking about creating a post that i am recruiting new players into our fleet but hey... who wants to join a Tier 3 fleet with 1 active player in it? So im not even going to bother
We both bought lifetime sub. and thats why i am playing still...... love for the game, we allready made it till Tier 3 so why not go to the end and im still having fun.
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I was Klingon before Klingon was cool.
I am eagerly awaiting the launch of Firefly Online early next year but will still be back to play some STO off and on.
SWTOR has Ground combat and very little space combat.
Eve Online - You are the skills you have learned. They determine just about everything you can do. IMO the whole skill learning system hinders what a Sandbox is and cripples the game from gaining more subs. No Ground combat.
Star Citizen - Still in production. Waiting:D
Elite Dangerous - In beta.
EVE does have a ground game. You just have to play an FPS to be apart of it.
Never been a gamer, except for my beloved PES 5 where Elite is REALLY Elite ;-)
Dust 514 and Eve Online are two different games on two different platforms. One is on PC the other on PS3. You can't pilot a ship in space then put your boots on the ground with the same Toon. They just share a server, Chat box's, and you can do/call in a OS that's it.
Even Nemesis was not so widely liked by everyone a line from Schinzon really stuck even though the premise was not genuine story wise:
"Looking up at the stars and dreamed about what was up there" Schinzon
To me it kind reminded me of what I used to do on a really stary night up north where no ambient lights were around and its just you, a campfire and the night sky.
Second for the friendships I've built along the way. TBH it's the one thing that's prevented me from leaving.
I went F2P 2 years ago, dropping my gold account because they (Cryptic) had IMO dropped the ball. The game was boring, repetitive and not worth my money. I earned enough dil ingame to meet my personal purchasing needs.
Things got better. Much better with Surface Tensions.
So I bought the Operations pack and dropped a C-note on dil and upgrades (soon to be). Maybe more before the end of the year. That will keep me coming back until Christmas.
I tried out EVE for a while and it was a nice change of pace being able to do non-combat roles. I only briefly played SWG and i made a shipbuilder/storekeeper there but it was hard getting into it. Here i am in my scrubby 1 room house selling TIE fighters and there are already people well established selling crapton of stuff. In EVE i went with a miner/PI toon. I actually did some of my PI stuff in lowsec. So i had to have specialized freighters with cloaks, microwarpdrives and the other boost thrusters. It wasnt even a dedicated blockade runner freighter just a mid tier freighter with a few mods on it and i had to do some tricky piloting to make sure i was never followed or ganked in lowsec.
Here is a cool story bro moment for you all too. One time i was leveling an alt in SWTOR and i had done so many alts that it was starting to get old. I got so sick of it one day that I snapped and rage logged off of SWTOR and i started EVE online up and got on my mining toon and did some double box mining in high sec.
I have been suffering from heavy anxiety and severe depression.
I wish I had more time to play.
I wish I was in a better state of mind to play.
grrr...
After about a year of his complaining i finally gave in and started playing. (Unfortunatly he passed a way).
We both started our own Fleet and had a couple of real life buddies joining the party.
They stopped playing the game and we ended up both building the fleet together.
He passed away over a year ago and siince then i am continuing upgrtading the Fleet.
I have 2 members who hardly put any time in it.
Our.my fleet is now Tier 3 going on 4. Have to say it is ******n hard work to do this by myself.
I was thinking about creating a post that i am recruiting new players into our fleet but hey... who wants to join a Tier 3 fleet with 1 active player in it? So im not even going to bother
We both bought lifetime sub. and thats why i am playing still...... love for the game, we allready made it till Tier 3 so why not go to the end and im still having fun.
I don't worry about crafting, PvP, amassing money and/or dilithium. Just hunting for a good mission.
Nice escape.