Is it a Liberated Borg with a Romulan skin?

Might be the main reason, why this is never going to happen ... they already charge 40 bucks for some ships ... so the price tag on an expansion would have to be ridiculous like 100-200 bucks ... and thats probably the time when people are going to realize they pay less on other AA Games ... you just don't pay 50+$ for an Expansion Pack, this is not how this works (yet) ...

Nope that's what the whole Raptor Wing Teaser is about

I disagree. The reason Cryptic wanted 'Season' to enter the vocabulary of users is to emphasize just how regularly additions would be made across actual seasons. It failed. People don't care. People want to be able to see everything on release day, or at least be able to quantify it. I think we'll see more use of 'Update' and generalized gaming terms going forward.

Nah. It means they will give you Seven Seasons and then maybe a couple of Films






Woo-hoo! It can fly an assimilated Scimitar!

Hm. I wonder if the Scimitar will be the 1000 Day Ship for the Romulans. It ~does~ have a transformation.

No. This would be stupid on their part.

If they put a faction behind a paywall, they won't sell as many c-store stuff, fleet ships, costumes, inventory slots, and so on. The current model is working well for them and a paid expansion would be quite... Adventurous.

If a Romulan faction is released (and it won't happen in may) we might see a Romulan pack with a character slot, 2-3 costumes, 4 fleet ships modules, some skill points boosts, but a paid faction? It's very unlikely to happen.

I dunno, they have put ships and races behind a paywall.

Not necessarily have to, but I know what you mean. When I was originally typing up that post I nearly put 7500 zen, but I stopped, looked and that, and I thought... "Well that's stupid."

But a C-Store option is the only way they could offer an expansion for Silvers where they don't have to pay for it, if they do a pay option. Outside of a convoluted piecemeal setup, there's really no other way to put it up for money. And I really can't see them totally locking an expansion off from Silvers.

Ahh, but the trick is, everything behind a paywall in STO is also not behind a paywall. It's easy to write that fact off because of how godawful the grind can be to get past the paywall, but the fact that alternative even exists, and it renders everything in STO acquirable without dropping a dime, is still significant.

I really dont think so. PW have their content free across all games and charge for extras. the only reason we have gold and silver is because it started out a pay to play game and we have lifers here. in an ideal world for them STO would not have a sub at all.

they have little interest in making gold that attractive. they will give us advantages when its no skin off their nose to them (the neverwinter beta invites for lifetimers etc) but i would be shocked if they started putting anything new that is related to content behind subs.

Sure they don't "have to", but it would be hard to justify selling single Ships for 20$, Costumes for 8$ while selling an entire faction with at least 2-3 Ships, Costumes etc ... for less than 50$

If they really do this, KDF and FED players might be pretty pissed for spending 20$ on a ship etc ...

*Quietly points to the Chimera*