leon30: I've heard only positive things about Star Trek Online, and have an eye on the steam starter's pack :) If anyone played it with it is it worth it ?
I don't like MMOs in general, but I have tried a few, and honestly I think it's the best one I know. It still has a lot of the usual MMO problems (repetative "kill X number of enemies" missions, very little, if any at all, of actuall role playing), but there is also a fair amount of interesting quests with good stories, space combat is really good, and it's fun to manage your own ship, your crew, go on away missions (though the ground combat is rather weak). It's not the Star Trek RPG I always wanted, but it's good. I did eventually get bored of it, but it took some time. And it really is free to play, I never felt like I need to buy stuff to enjoy the game.
Mind you, I have not played it at all in over a year, and such games change, so I don't really know if I'm still accurate.
I'm not a fan of The Old Republic. It feels like a game trapped between a single player RPG and an MMO, undecided in what it wants to be, and it ends up not being very good as either of those.