The MMO endgame problem

Now before you say, "Wait all you play is single players!!". I have played Stark trek Online, Maple Story and Trickster online. I have never played WoW or SWTOR, mostly cause those two charge.

Anyway, what I have noticing while playing STO, when I used to play Maple Story and all the news coming out of SWTOR, is what the hell do we do once we hit the level cap or beat the main story??

My experience with STO has been to hit the lvel cap of 50/51 really fast, I only casually play and I am 1 level short of the cap, I could only imagine if I played regularly. I also haven't done like ANY of the main story, there are like 6 "episodes" and I've maybe done part of 2 to finish 1 episode, the rest I have done has been space combat, the main reason why I played. I mean I could finish the Federation side, then be a Kilngton, then what would I do? It not like I can make a new character and have a totally new experience, so would I be bummed out about the money I spent on cool ships, yes but I'll move on.

Maple Story has a high level cap, but they keep adding stuff for low and high level characters, they also add new classes which create a slightly different experience..but not really same missions over and over..it just breaks down to how you beat the baddies into the ground.

I would have more to say on trickster online expect I moved to a windows 7 PC..and there program never caught up with the times..sad it was a very Anime-esuqe game.

SWTOR is the newest to suffer under this weight, from listening to people who play the game--since I don't . Is the lvel cap is hit very very quickly, and once you play through all the characters story mode, it falls under what do you do?? Since BW is rushing to make post game content, they are losing subscriptions right away, whatever they are going to do, they need to do it quick before they lose more subscribers.

Now WoW, talking to my friend Pixie-chan..has a level cap but is always adding massive new content, but I mean will they fall to the way side as well?? Will the Master of MMO's join the others it has stepped on to get here..?

So what do game company do, cancel out the level cap?? Make sure post-story endgame content is ready close to release date of the game?? Go free to play from the start and just charge for the cool stuff??

Saving the Federation with your friends.

For a few months now Star Trek Online or just, STO has been free to play, so of course since I refuse to spend monthly for any game I picked it up a while ago and decided to take a look. You can download the game directly from their site or it is playable through Steam, I found the direct download to be a little less glitch filled.

So the first thing you do is build your captain..I had an idea going into this game, how cool would it be to have a bad ass highly over powered ship run just by hot big breasted women who pose sexually?? Is this a stupid man idea, yes--Has other people probably done this, yes. And my answer is as always, so..? So that is where I went. Also going into this game I wanted to fulfill a small wish of mine, to Pilot a Defiant class vessel..considering Ill be long dead if that ever happens, the Defiant is my favorite ship so I wanted to fly one.

So I got my piece of crap starter ship and went along my way, but here is my problem..I loathe the missions that take place on the ground, it's like.."Here is the bad ass awesome ship you can tweak to be exactly you want, and mod the shit out of it... Now beam down and wander around for a while with clunky combat system" SO because I mostly enjoy space battles, I am very behind in the "story" the down side is the story is where you get the best space gear..so I am going through it at a very slow pace..mostly to get to the gear I want to get to. Luckily if you just want to space fight there are enough different missions and experience to be gained without setting foot on a planet, which is more my style.

For a while I was balancing to different types of ships a cruiser which is more of an over all balanced which can broad side enemies and can hold more engineering consoles(tactical, engineering, and science are you console choices) the cruiser also has more HP..but a shitty turn rate given how big they are. And an escort which have more tactical console, fewer HP but can turn faster they can also equip high speed "cannon" type weapons, they are designed just to fight mostly. As I went up in my ranks I used the escort more and more untill now my cruiser just sits in dock collecting dust.

Now this game is totally free, they even give you ship and personal weapons and armor as you level up, there is also different ways to get different cash resources to buy your self the best gear..so you can play without spending a cent. But if you want better bridge crew, or more red shirts npc to send off and do missions.. or in my case if you want all your favorite ships from previous Star treks, your going to have o shell out some cash.  What bothers me is the exchange rate is more or less you spend $10 and you get 800 points...which is a ratio I don't like..but until later its not that much of a hassle..

SO would I recommend this to anyone else, of course!! If you love free games, Star trek, space fighting, or if your really into the whole MMO group bonding thing, which I am totally not. Then check this out!