Cryptic Pisses Off Star Trek Online Early Adopters With Sale

This Friday, Atari began a promotion which gave $10 off the purchase price of Star Trek Online and offered more free time in game than those who bought it at launch.

Welcome, you noble purveyors of Federation policy and fierce warlords of the Empire! Welcome one and all!

Wait now... Let's just take a moment to de-cloak, disarm and drop our shields, shall we? This State of the Game is of interest to you all.

So very, very much has happened over the last few weeks! It feels like every single time I began to write a new State of the Game, we'd have to quickly

Throughout the Star Trek Online beta tests and launch, many players have been asking for one major feature: the ability to explore their ships. Executive Producer Craig Zinkievich told IncGamers this week that Cryptic would love to make this happen:

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Last week, Cryptic Studios finally released the widely-anticipated Star Trek Online. It was well-received by the majority of its followers, earning praise from Star Trek fans as well as veteran MMO players. However, just prior to STO's official release last Tuesday, a handful of community-driven issues were consistently popping up in Cryptic's forums and in-game, during its beta-testing phase. We rounded up about a dozen of the most commonly-raised gameplay issues

The Star Trek franchise has a long and rich history of published, original novels. Throughout the years, spin-offs and tie-ins of every Star Trek series and movie were published, including comic books and graphic novels. To coincide with Star Trek Online's recent launch, publisher Simon and Schuster just revealed the details of its upcoming MMO tie-in novel, The Needs of the Many.

The Needs of the Many is written by Michael A. Martin, will be released directly to paperback and is

As we've already mentioned, today marks the official launch of Star Trek Online. Well, players got a little surprise when they opened the in-game Cryptic Store and saw that there are two playable species available for purchase: the Federation Klingon and the Federation Ferengi.  The Federation Klingon species costs 240

Executive Producer Craig Zinkievich may have already outlined Cryptic's future plans for Star Trek Online in this week's State of the Game address, but the team has gone one step further and provided even more details on a new "What's Next" page on the official site.

The page provides a list of free updates that Cryptic plans to implement in Star Trek Online over the next two months. The Borg will be invading in three new high-level Episodes, and one of them involves Q transporting you back in time to do him a special favor.

The page also gives details on the upcoming Raid Episodes and Alpha Quadrant changes that range from a new Klingon ship to new ground maps. More information can be found after the jump.

Executive Producer Craig Zinkievich has published what will probably be his last State of the Game address before Star Trek Online launches on Feb. 2, and he reveals that the game's first update will "be out before you know it." The update will add more PvP, Klingon exploration content, more ground fleet actions, more ship costume pieces, and more playable species to the MMO.

Zinkievich says that 5-player "raid-i-sodes" will be released every few weeks for the next three months, and a series culminating in an encounter with the Borg queen is on its way. In fact, he states that you can expect to see a lot more Borg in the future.

As if that's not enough information to assimilate (Borg pun!) before the game's launch, Lead Designer Al Rivera has written a post that explains Star Trek Online's skill system. The team wants your questions about the system for its next Ask Cryptic segment.