I doubt this will come to those paying for the game. I did read it will happen for Champions for their F2P members, but not paying. So as a lifer for STO and looking at how this will be carried forward, I am not worried. Free members can't get everything a paying member does.

Its good they would offer the service to free players at all, so what an ad is played? Might encourage people to pay to play. I honestly do not think they would be, frankly as stupid and idiotic to put that in.

I think it is a very clear indication that STO will be going free to play (possibly soon?). It might just be a leak onto Tribble as I am guessing they use the same chat server for both games.

All in all, not worried.

Guys, I think we are overreacting a bit here. Sure audio ads while using voice chat would be annoying, but lets consider, what motivation would Cryptic have to shell out lots of money for this service for a test server. I say we wait and see how things play out in holodeck before we grab the torches and pitchforks.

Mind you, if this happens in holodeck, a service we pay a fee to use, then I will gladly lead the charge on Castle Cryptic.

I do wonder where the ads are coming from. I've used Vivox on many platforms, past and present and I've never seen/heard of ads in the voice stream so not sure if these ads are coming from the Vivox side.

But all that said I wouldn't be surprised at all if Vivox has a cheap service that had ads in it and Cryptic are using that service while the update is on Tribble only, and switch over to the ad-free service once the update comes onto Holodeck. Save a few bucks while it's in testing.

Why are we paying a sub for a game with a cash store AND NOW ads!? Has STO failed that bad? Did they sell too many lifetime subs and now more than 50% of the player base have them and they aren't making enough a month now? I have no idea.

Let us all strike. I wounder how long it would take Cryptic/Atari/Perfect Worlds to change this if just for 1 day a huge part of the player base didn't log into the game.

Sorry ads make me rage.

F-WORD!!

I don't plan to use Vivox but if a single ad ever plays out of my speaker system I'm quitting the game without question.

This is absolutely out of order for a pay to play game.

Well

On the plus side, it may make me spend more time in Vent with the rest of the fleet :laugh:

I'm so glad they're putting ads into a game that people are paying a subscription for and that I fronted the money for a lifetime subscription for. Like Nick said, I wonder how much time and energy was spent putting this feature into the game that could have gone into something that would actually *GASP* draw paying customers to the game.

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Someone was looking at the Eula and such, it seems it might be a bad idea to auction them for ec's. Instead i will be donating them to the fleet as prizes for contests.

Thank you Sean!!

This utterly sucks balls and is completely inexcusable. More money grubbing instead of trying to improve the game. I see no reason why we need Vivox in the game at all. It's a crappy service that just got crappier.

Episode 318 - Deep Space Nine - "Armageddon Game" - 01/30/1994

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=3213

O'Brien and Bashir help two warring races erase all knowledge of a deadly biological weapon, but are not trusted to keep what they have learned a secret.

Enjoy!

Hey fleet!

If you didn't know already, the recent Tribble update introduced audio ads that will be played through the Vivox voice chat system. While there has been no official word on whether this was an accident or if it will go to Live, the devs are not saying much other than "your feedback is important." While I understand you can turn off the voice chat, if I wanted to use it, I couldn't imagine running a STF and listening to commercials.

To share your feelings about it, because the devs are listening, make sure to post here: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=222331&page=2

you think they dipped the dart in anything before they put it there?

Someone was looking at the Eula and such, it seems it might be a bad idea to auction them for ec's. Instead i will be donating them to the fleet as prizes for contests.

Is there such thing as a Vulcan Cougar?

The answer is Yes! Kim Catrell!

This picture makes me think her and Nimoy rubbed fingers off screen

Fox Animation dynasty creator Seth MacFarlane made a really quick cameo in one episode of Enterprise. Not sure if he was in any other episodes, but I just thought it was funny that he was in the show. He didn't have any lines, wonder why they didn't trust him to say anything :)
Que Star Trek cut away joke...

Everyone's favorite gender bending chameloid. If only they had her make out with Kirk while she looked like Kirk...we could have all been scarred for life.

Her is Kurtwood Smith, also known as Red form That 70's Show

I had forgotten he was the Fed President in ST:VI, then I found out I forgot he was another alien, and even a Cardy

This subject has been on my mind lately, as the SyFy channel has been really milking there Star Trek Syndication licenses lately. I keep seeing all these celebs who I forgot, or never even knew, had made cameos and guest star appearnaces in Star Trek from TOS to Enterprise.

I thought posting pictures and sharing geek powers, members could post screen shots or promo photos of celebs they have caught in full alien makeup, or holstering a phaser. All in good fun.

I have a few pics I already looked up from a couple of the celebs that I have seen in recent episodes/movies. Bonus points for actors who have played multiple roles, like Red from That 70's Show! Super space president!

@MrBlueGrey

So many of those people just clearly need a warm hug.

Yes, the comments are unfortunately, but not surprising. We can't allow their negativity and lack of understanding to spoil our fun.

Pride will be our blast! Not to mention, our fleet is on the frontpage of one of the most popular MMO blogs on the web. That's certainly something to be proud of.