Worth playing?

[Jegon]

Is it worth it currently? Is it P2W? How healthy is the playerbase?

Seems like an underrated game but with a solid fan base.

[TheDancingPig]

This mmo is worth playing, it's also best free to play model i've seen.. two purchases I reccomend, ec cap increase and account bank unlock thats it.. very cheap. methods to get things for free..

I find like any game playerbase is full of time wasters, (sorry cannot escape the fact that multiplayer games will contain this element) good news is that there is a select few that you will meet that are worth the time!

If joining a fleet, be wary of fleets that runned like a military installation that headache is not worth it. get a casual fleet, best advice on fleet I can give..

easy mmo leveling aswell.

[TheWolfDrone]

In my limited time with the game, it's more pay to save incredible amounts of grind and time. You can beat out people who spend loads easily with a large amount of time invested in things here . I am a fan of games like this in a sense but this one for some reason does irk me in a few ways. Not really even sure why it is that way, as having like most people played WoW , i know that time investment is a big thing for these kind of games. It can be fun and all but i've got plenty of games that just in general feel better than this. I was going to make my own topic and such pertaining to what i just said, though decided to say to hell with it.

The game can be fun, money can be spent to save you semingly weeks if not a month or multiple months of time investment here and there. For me in certain games, that amount of dedication and what not just seems to work, it's fun for the most part and most steps of the way. In this game i've found it to be more like working another job... Just my oppinion of the game and what not here.

[N a v y 3 0 0 1]

"I've dropped probably over $1000 in STO over the years I've been playing it."

Lol, what a wast of money! i probly could get all your gear in time with grinding EC/dill farming! and, it all would be free!

[Salty]

play this for sure but don't pay! ... if you really need to throw your money away there's lots of homeless people that need the cash to buy beer with.

[Hotklou]

Greetings. Returning Lifetime Veteran player speaking here. Talking about ethics and complaining about what could have/should have been doesn't help at all. So I'm just gonna go ahead and say that if you've got friends and you're in a productive, active guild, you're good to go. The community is also surprisingly friendly and helpful. Ask them something and within minutes you will get a response. I had a problem trying to figure out the Exchange a while back and asked for help. Dozens of players gave me advice and eventually I got it right. I've only got one piece of advice for you: Don't pay real world money for STO, with just a bit of grinding you can achieve anything.

[TreyUwU]

Messaggio originale di Mulzz:

Is it worth it currently? Is it P2W? How healthy is the playerbase?

Seems like an underrated game but with a solid fan base.

Yeah it's worth it story side, the content is nice for someone new
Not P2W since no PvP, but if you want that shiny ship, warm up your credit card since most of T6 ships (aside from event ones) are at 3K zens
Sure you can make zens without spending money, but it'll take you an insane amount of time with one char, and it's just not worth it
They only added that dilithium>zen transfer only to say "look, you can also have things for free entirely" but in reality it's totally different and out of reach with one char, you have to dedicate and insane amount of time to grind dilithium only, and it gets old real fast
Also, they like to stealth nerf some "old" ships, even T6 ones, looking at the imperial class T5-U or the command series, that's also why you don't want to spend your money

It does not have a nice F2P model, but even with that flaw, it's enjoyable


Playerbase is meh, PvE queue are only launched with the random option, or just find an active fleet and tag with 4 other dudes to play PvE

Ground play is really boring, space gameplay is kinda cool when you have the right equipment.
If you just want to play for fun without worrying about anything, you can do it.

[Arith]

Messaggio originale di Kamiyama:

Messaggio originale di Baroon Valm:

not P2W at all, Player base depends. and it's worth it.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it's hardcore P2W.

I am unable to find another example of an MMO that is more P2W than STO is.

You clearly have not played star wars the old Republic,

Sto at least gives you a locker (bank) and free customization options

[jonnin]

a small payment goes a long, long way. My advice? Its a free to play game. Fire it up. If you like it, keep playing. If you keep playing, when you reach max level, then consider investing about $20 into the game. This helps keep the servers running and the devs paid etc, and its enough to do 3 things:
- it lets you unlock the energy credit cap
- it lets you buy the jem hader race which starts new characters at a high level
- it lets you buy character slots.
with that, you can finish leveling up the JH characters and use them to start farming in game currency that can be sold for zen (real money currency) and fund everything you want or need. I have found about 5-10 farming characters is plenty. More than 10 takes too much time per day for me, and less than 5 is too little income to make reasonable progress.

its not necessary but if you want to have a really strong build you need some real money currency to get ship traits, the ships you want to fly, and a few other things. Without those you will have to work extra hard to build your character well.

[Shadow]

The last time I played this game was in 2014 and when I came back my character was still there lmao

[Shadow]

Op, the game is good but they could have made it like star wars the old republic, those guys get content over content non stop while in sto we don't that often, also I wish they updated the graphics to star wars old republic engine but oh well

[wirednight]

Messaggio originale di Shadow:

Op, the game is good but they could have made it like star wars the old republic, those guys get content over content non stop while in sto we don't that often, also I wish they updated the graphics to star wars old republic engine but oh well

Well lets be honest here. I love SWTOR, but at the same time, the "non stop content" isn't really content. SWTOR gets the same bi-annual mission content, and the rest of the "content" is generally very small, 5 minutes, "don't forget the plot" or "grind for seasonal content, content".

[Shadow]

Messaggio originale di wirednight:

Messaggio originale di Shadow:

Op, the game is good but they could have made it like star wars the old republic, those guys get content over content non stop while in sto we don't that often, also I wish they updated the graphics to star wars old republic engine but oh well

Well lets be honest here. I love SWTOR, but at the same time, the "non stop content" isn't really content. SWTOR gets the same bi-annual mission content, and the rest of the "content" is generally very small, 5 minutes, "don't forget the plot" or "grind for seasonal content, content".

Those guys (SWTOR) seem like they will be around for a long time meanwhile I feel the dev's are giving up with Star Trek Online. I want this game to be playable even 10 years from now but lately I feel that the lack of content in the game is a bad sign.

[AlienZeratul]

Are you guys really talking / answering to a 5 year old thread? The question was from 2019 .,.. how much necro do you want? -yes

[Pinkspring]

Messaggio originale di Jegon:

Is it worth it currently? Is it P2W? How healthy is the playerbase?

Seems like an underrated game but with a solid fan base.

Pretty much, yes.
No P2W mechanics. T6 ships ARE noticably better but not needed and the game frequently hands out free ones besides.

Story is solid, instanced content is..Okay. Has some dedicated fleets.

This is basically a casual MMO with a healthy playerbase. You can play it and have a good time.

[[88th] ColPresumptuous]

Messaggio originale di Pinkspring:

Messaggio originale di Jegon:

Is it worth it currently? Is it P2W? How healthy is the playerbase?

Seems like an underrated game but with a solid fan base.

Pretty much, yes.
No P2W mechanics. T6 ships ARE noticably better but not needed and the game frequently hands out free ones besides.

Story is solid, instanced content is..Okay. Has some dedicated fleets.

This is basically a casual MMO with a healthy playerbase. You can play it and have a good time.

errr... the ops post is over 5 years old...