New races being CStore is bad business? Well think about it like this. The average player will only want one race, the one they actually want to play and main, and will be able to afford like 5 dollars max for points to get it. The average big fan will buy all the new races/ship skins and make Cryptic some nice money. STO is a business, but not everybody will buy everything right? Don't look at it as everything being microtransaction, but as options for what to get.
Or you can just play an MMO that gives you almost all these options for free via free updates. Why waste your money when you don't have to?
Cause I lack another ST MMO to "waste" money on? Pretty simple, really. STO has no competition in it's IP.
Also so far I haven't "wasted" any money beyond lifetimes/retail. At least for me, nothing in the CStore is required to have a good time in the game except Caitians, and even that is debateable because everybody receives some points for registering their game. My Caitians are included in the price of the game, and since the money is already "wasted" on the box code, I might as well use up some of the points that came with it since they're not being used for anything else.
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Cause I lack another ST MMO to "waste" money on? Pretty simple, really. STO has no competition in it's IP.
Also so far I haven't "wasted" any money beyond lifetimes/retail. At least for me, nothing in the CStore is required to have a good time in the game except Caitians, and even that is debateable because everybody receives some points for registering their game. My Caitians are included in the price of the game, and since the money is already "wasted" on the box code, I might as well use up some of the points that came with it since they're not being used for anything else.