Star Trek Online

Reviewing MMOs isn’t an easy thing. If you play for weeks and weeks, go through everything the game has to offer and end up with something like “the game is terrible until you reach hour 30,” you’re completely missing the demographic a review is made for – newbie players. If you spend too little time, you run the risk of missing some major feature that may or may not change your mind about the whole thing entirely. It’s a fine balance, and one that – when you have deadlines, multiple jobs, family and general life stuff – is incredibly easy to screw up. A suggestion from Star Trek Online producer Dan Stahl that review scores should be ever changing to represent the constant updates, fixes and expansions released for new games just makes the little reviewer inside me shrivel up and cry.