I’ve been playing quite a bit Star Trek Online lately.  Well, I say quite a bit – I think I’ve logged maybe 10 to 12 total hours in the game of actual playtime, so I guess it’s not all that much.  But this post isn’t so much about Star Trek Online the game, which might be fun, as it is about what the game serves as only the latest example of – and that is Cryptic’s absolutely terrible new player experience.  Now when you use words like “absolutely terrible”, obviously you’re going a long ways down subjective road, and everyone has their own chocolate and vanilla.  But for me (and it’s my blog), each game Cryptic makes seems to only make the starting experience worse, until the point has come when I’ve got to say my piece.  Read on if you’d like to hear it..

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