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Holiday Spirit
Dec. 14th, 2012 02:44 pmI can’t help but feel Star Trek Online and the Old Republic are like some sort of Goofus and Gallant case study in how not to be a complete dick to your players.
For Christmas, Star Trek Online created a new Q-themed winter area, with snowball fights and races and other things, and if you play enough you can earn a free Breen warship with a special energy-dampener weapon. There’s a cash store option to speed up earning it, but a dedicated player can get the ship – and the decorative scarves and jackets and pets and other things being offered – without paying a cent.
The Old Republic, on the other hand, has thrown together a ‘Life Day’ speeder, which looks exactly like a regular speeder only with Christmas lights and no special abilities… and then charges twenty bucks for it.
For Christmas, Star Trek Online created a new Q-themed winter area, with snowball fights and races and other things, and if you play enough you can earn a free Breen warship with a special energy-dampener weapon. There’s a cash store option to speed up earning it, but a dedicated player can get the ship – and the decorative scarves and jackets and pets and other things being offered – without paying a cent.
The Old Republic, on the other hand, has thrown together a ‘Life Day’ speeder, which looks exactly like a regular speeder only with Christmas lights and no special abilities… and then charges twenty bucks for it.