Star Trek Online: No More Standard Edition


He's dead, Jim.

At least one of you read the Where To Buy page in the past few days and noticed just one issue with Star Trek Online:

Purchase On:

  • Standard Edition
    • Amazon (unavailable)
    • Direct2Drive (unavailable)
    • Gamersgate (unavailable)
    • Impulsedriven (unavailable)
    • Steam (unavailable)
  • Digital Deluxe

I quickly sent an email to Cryptic as to why the standard edition of the game has been removed from every digital distribution source, and received the following in response:

“Since we lowered the prices on the digital deluxe and are happy to offer the DDE value to any customer, removing the standard seemed reasonable, as there’s no compelling reason to confuse customers with two digital SKUs that are pretty much priced the same. I guess another way of thinking about it is that the DDE now becomes the standard, only it grants more perks – we’re giving anyone who buys STO digitally that value..”

So the Digital Deluxe edition is becoming standard, and the standard edition is being retired. At $14.95, the deluxe edition is the price of a month’s subscription anyway. Thank you to Ivan Sulic from Cryptic for the quick response.