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STO "boredom" season yet AGAIN?
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I know this will go against lots of white knights and mighty defenders of Cryptic. But haven't you noticed another low phase for STO these days. As predicted by most, AOY was way too short and had more hype than real "beef". It did not measure up to standards with the half faction of what was LoR or even last DR expansion. At most probably should have been called just a "recruiting" event instead of an expansion.
Oh well...lots of fleets enjoyed the sudden surge of players who where just "looking" but did not stick around. Most that I talked to say the incentives were not "strong" enough and content was lacking. Coupled with the slap in the face of give aways to certain random people...some got pissed and only walked away again.
What would it take for Cryptic to realize that half a$$ expansions don't pay up much and should invest more time in content and really player retention. The recruiting event was good but very short lived. Lots of fleets who enjoyed the surge now are getting inactives and so are the queues. Boredom seems to be settling down again and year after year with no change in sight. Very soon the metrics will take over again and all of a sudden Mr EP will panic and create another bandage to stop the bleeding.
Consoles will help in the short term but nothing beats like incentivizing playerbase with robust content and more ways to enjoy "end" game. Grinding is a model and at times could be boring. Other MMOs make it "fun" to grind and STO needs to find that soon. I'm sure they will throw us a bone or two soon with a CE or MU event before winter event happens. I could care less about consoles but is there anything ELSE planned for the rest of the playerbase before winter 2016? It will be a long...boring fall yet another time again.
Oh well...lots of fleets enjoyed the sudden surge of players who where just "looking" but did not stick around. Most that I talked to say the incentives were not "strong" enough and content was lacking. Coupled with the slap in the face of give aways to certain random people...some got pissed and only walked away again.
What would it take for Cryptic to realize that half a$$ expansions don't pay up much and should invest more time in content and really player retention. The recruiting event was good but very short lived. Lots of fleets who enjoyed the surge now are getting inactives and so are the queues. Boredom seems to be settling down again and year after year with no change in sight. Very soon the metrics will take over again and all of a sudden Mr EP will panic and create another bandage to stop the bleeding.
Consoles will help in the short term but nothing beats like incentivizing playerbase with robust content and more ways to enjoy "end" game. Grinding is a model and at times could be boring. Other MMOs make it "fun" to grind and STO needs to find that soon. I'm sure they will throw us a bone or two soon with a CE or MU event before winter event happens. I could care less about consoles but is there anything ELSE planned for the rest of the playerbase before winter 2016? It will be a long...boring fall yet another time again.
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Join Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
And look at the prices for the lockbox weapons. It seems the expansion is very popular.
IMO, any post which contains the words 'troll', 'white knight' and what more to describe anyone who might disagree with your point of view, should be considered as inflammatory.
Especially if they're in the first sentence of an opening post.
Edit: you should be able to create a thread without resorting to name calling and attacking everyone who might disagree with your POV beforehand in the first sentence OP. I encourage you to do so.
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There's not much point in creating mulitple faction-unique episodes arc if their background won't make much difference in the end.
Personally, I hope they do away with the faction thing entirely. Just remove the restrictions, and have all the current species as playable species of the same faction. We're supposed to form an alliance after all so there's really no reason to keep separate factions. Instead, turn them all into one big faction with different species. Some species like the Klingons would then have access to different stories but ultimately there would be no big difference.
This would also make it possible to create new playable species without a need to create an entirely different faction. Just a few special episodes to explain the background of the character and how they ended up serving the Alliance. We could have more different species then, even some exotic ones like the Undine, Voth and Heralds and they could focus entirely on creating different experiences at the species, rather than the faction level.
Of course the species would have to be really different, and not just 23rd century versions of already playable ones. I hope that AoY sets the stage for future additions: a handful of episodes to explain why you are in the Alliance, and then you get access to the cross-faction content (which would have to be lowered in level of course, but this is another advantage as the latest episode arcs are generally more worth it to play than some of the earliest ones).
As a few people in this thread has already stated, there is always September 8. It will be really depressing if Cryptic doesn't produce anything special for the 50th Anniversary of the first episode of Star Trek. We got a mission and a Sash for the 25th Anniversary for TNG and the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek is a far more monumental event than the 25th Anniversary of TNG.
I wish they didn't attempt to do consoles AT THE SAME TIME as the 50th Anniversary so the expansion could have been more expansive. 50th Anniversaries are rare.
Horrible timing. It could have been better thought out.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin
At this point it's tough to imagine we'll ever see meaningful endgame content, but at least the journey up to that point is still good fun
The Kelvin ships are very fun to fly and I have used them exclusively since I acquired them.
Some days, this place is living proof of a joke I tell my driver trainees:
Q: How many truckers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. They'd rather waste time cussing about how dark it is in here.
I'm okay with someone thinking I am a white knight. Because it means I stand for something.
As long as you're calling me names on the forums. you're leaving the decent people alone.
Besides, every minute you waste on me here is one less minute you are playing STO.
Not only am I cramping your style here, I get to suck up your game time as well. Win-win for me! Ta-Da!
Actually consoles aren't going to help us any even in the short term, it's already been stated that there won't be any cross platform play. PS4 and XB1 will have their own servers and we won't see any of them in our dead queues.
Please add more of it. Give us a faction holding or a way to return to our time. Give us a complete set of 23rd century boff abilities purchaseable at that holding. Make members of this 'faction' feel a little more special.
If I had to guess, and if the Delta recruitment as well as my own behaviour and that of a lot of my fleet and channel mates are indicators, a lot of those AOY characters are going to be disappearing when the ultimate account unlocks have been reached. Commendation, Reputation, Specialization and Admiralty, which do have good rewards, take a bit more time to unlock compared to what we had last time, so we'll probably see AOY recruits for a longer period of time than Deltas until they're retired.
What seemed a bit strange to me was the decision to add temporal marks and tokens to the "old" mirror space battlezone. It was the first time I can remember that any old and existing content made newly released queued events completely redundant right from the start.
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But but .. what about the forum PVP. Think of the children man (err targ)!!!