So it's once again time to update my review of Star Trek Online. And I gotta say, honestly, that a year of development time for 15 minutes of game play, per episode, is just sad.

If/when Perfect World/Cryptic gets their heads out of their own rear ends and make some real content like they used to maybe this review will be updated again. But currently? It's just a big waste of time. You get something to do once, maybe twice a year.. and then nothing.

Oh and their 12th Anniversary event? Nothing but pathetically recycled content. This game, and this company are the biggest jokes in gaming currently.

I am also still incredibly furious over the removal of the Foundry. When we had the Foundry we didn't even NEED Cryptic or PFW to add content for us. We had a whole plethora of amazing, creative, fan stories to play through as your captain. Some of them were absolutely phenomenal; amazing designs with extremely limited and neglected tools, stories that hearkened to the golden age of TNG, Voyager, and DS9.. It was fantastic.. and they threw it away out of pure damned laziness.

Yes, I've played this game for a long time (from the very beginning in fact; I even pre-ordered it. Believe me, I WISH it was still good). Yes, I still play it mostly out of habit and to check in on old friends. But no, I absolutely DO NOT recommend this game, even for free. It's just another example of Perfect World's horrible business model. I hope that whole company goes broke, but with all the whales still idiotically throwing money at this game, they'll probably survive for a few years yet sadly.

So it's once again time to update my review of Star Trek Online. And I gotta say, honestly, that a year of development time for 15 minutes of game play, per episode, is just sad. If/when Perfect World/Cryptic gets their heads out of their own rear ends and make some real content like they used to maybe this review will be updated again. But currently? It's just a big waste of time. You get something to do once, maybe twice a year.. and then nothing. Oh and their 12th Anniversary event? Nothing but pathetically recycled content. This game, and this company are the biggest jokes in gaming currently. I am also still incredibly furious over the removal of the Foundry. When we had the Foundry we didn't even NEED Cryptic or PFW to add content for us. We had a whole plethora of amazing, creative, fan stories to play through as your captain. Some of them were absolutely phenomenal; amazing designs with extremely limited and neglected tools, stories that hearkened to the golden age of TNG, Voyager, and DS9.. It was fantastic.. and they threw it away out of pure damned laziness. Yes, I've played this game for a long time (from the very beginning in fact; I even pre-ordered it. Believe me, I WISH it was still good). Yes, I still play it mostly out of habit and to check in on old friends. But no, I absolutely DO NOT recommend this game, even for free. It's just another example of Perfect World's horrible business model. I hope that whole company goes broke, but with all the whales still idiotically throwing money at this game, they'll probably survive for a few years yet sadly.