Star Trek Online gets unlimited trial, former subscribers play free this weekend

I kinda feel bad for the lifetime subscribers...

Why would you feel bad for people that would pay lifetime for a game that was touched by the hands of Bill Roper?

Oh wait...

"First, potential subscribers can now download the game and play through the tutorial and first mission for free"

You know that's essentially resembling the whole idea behind Tortoga in AoC during the beginning right? Using the best-designed/most interesting part they can at the beginning of the character's life to try and rope in your subscription. Least that is the vibe I get from that statement.


One thing I'm really surprise is that Massively hasn't mentioned the current scandal, where if you trick five friends into buying the game and paying for a month, you get a free end-game ship, the Galaxy X.

They're probably busy tricking their 5 friends before announcing it ;)

Who plays games seriously on Macs anyway? Macs are a bloated commercialized joke, I think its people who dont know different but want to seem trendy that buy Jobs' proprietary bullshit. When did Macs even start comparing to PCs? When they decided to let PC components into Macs, Intel anyone?

Just barely 3 months, it launched on February 2nd.

People gave up when they rose to the ranks of Admiral and gained the best ship within 30 days.

After that you can grind your way up to ... well, paying for a different looking ship.

That's about it.

Now you can decide if when you die something moderately inconvenient will happen at the promise of a moderately interesting reward.

Do you always announce your periods?

FULLSTOP

How is it that you equate the fact that you enjoy a game as somehow proof that the game is good. Enjoyment is subjective, and doesn't hinge on quality.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it in the beta, up until the flaws in it became too glaring.
I enjoy UO, which might even have less subs than STO, and is so old as to barely get a reputation in the modern media.

Also, how is it that you completely miss the point people are making?
It's not the unlimited trial, because that's somewhat sensible.
It's the "Welcome Back Week", three months after the launch. At this stage, you're not supposed to be trying to bribe former subscribers back, unles the subscription churn post-launch was less-than-ideal.
Trying to draw former subscribers back after only three months could easily be interpreted as a desperate move, from a company that lost too many of its initial subscribers.