Star Trek Online VIP Q&A with Craig Zinkievich

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Star Trek Online VIP Q&A with Craig Zinkievich

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Posted October 26th, 2009 by B. de la Durantaye

Your Questions, Cryptic's Answers

As part of our Premium Membership Program, members get a chance to ask their own questions of the developers for various MMOGs. This week, we talked to Cryptic Studios about Star Trek Online. Craig Zinkievich, Executive Producer, was more than happy to answer questions from our readers ranging in topic from ground vehicles, to some hints about crafting, to instancing and raiding.

We definitely plan on having microtransactions in the game. I know it was a pretty big bruhaha when Champions Online announced it, but pretty much everyone understands that it’s for cosmetic things. If there are any items that you can get with microtransactions, you can also get them in the game. It’s not a microtransaction advancement model, most of the items are cosmetic - costume pieces, that sort of stuff.

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i <3 you TTH

EDIT: Just finished reading and it was an awesome interview. Alot of great questions were asked

sweet im so glad its all on one shard means i can kill you americans mwahahahaha

theres only 2 things that concern me at present:-
1)the seeming lack of ship manuvers i thought that would be a big part i mean in the series look at the fancy menovers they pulled when in battle but you i imagen would need a good reverse thrust to do it from whats been said but i still aim to prove them wrong and pull of some awsome manuvers lol

2)the said trying to make it easy to get in to from the start i j...

I am not going to play STO only because Cryptic will not do it justice. This game could be epic in every way but Cryptic won't place enough resources into it to make it so. I know it is way to early to say this but this is how I feel. They are going to make it on the cheap. Plaster a box with STO and sell it.

I did not like the idea if you buy Champions Online we will let you beta test STO. Were they just trying to sell more copies of Champions just so people could beta test STO? Pro...

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Originally Posted by Bartholomew

We all know how Star Wars failed Imperial. Its been debated for years. We don't have to debate that subject on a Star Trek thread.

The trailer Cryptic put out wasn't very impressive. I know trailers are intended to create hype. Trailers are always way better then the actual game. If this is the best trailer Cryptic can put out, then it kind of proves my point that they are making STO on the cheap.

It appears to me that Cryptic will try to put out a product without depth, way to muc...

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