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The end of this Lemurian Invasion event better be spectacular
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From the STO State of the Game published today (the 4th since our last SotG, for the record):
So STO has a 50-plus-strong dev team working 6-day weeks to crank out meaningful content.
Meanwhile, we're in the middle of an event that is, so far, half-assed even by half-assed standards, but comes with some wonderful new lockboxes you can spend entirely too much money on.
I'm rapidly running out of craps to give. I really, really hope they've been sandbagging us on the run-up to the invasion itself, and we're in for a great, fun surprise. I'm really, really expecting another buggy wet fart like the post-anniversary Destroid event.
I'm still not ready to publicly state what my (admittedly crazy) Cryptic conspiracy theory is, but this five-minutes-of-modest-Q-farming teaser is doing nothing to disabuse me of my notions.
Vent over. We now return you to your regularly scheduled cogentco outage, already in progress.
In the coming months, we will begin to reveal our vision for the future. We'll discuss and preview new adventures, new enemies, new events, and even more surprises that will define the roadmap for the years to come. We'll answer some long standing questions about how we view existing and future factions in the game, and we'll give details about how we plan to advance the overall storyline and resolve outstanding issues in the game. With the full effort of the development staff cranking it to Warp 9 (even moving to a 6 day work week!) this is poised to be the best year of Star Trek Online yet.
So STO has a 50-plus-strong dev team working 6-day weeks to crank out meaningful content.
Meanwhile, we're in the middle of an event that is, so far, half-assed even by half-assed standards, but comes with some wonderful new lockboxes you can spend entirely too much money on.
I'm rapidly running out of craps to give. I really, really hope they've been sandbagging us on the run-up to the invasion itself, and we're in for a great, fun surprise. I'm really, really expecting another buggy wet fart like the post-anniversary Destroid event.
I'm still not ready to publicly state what my (admittedly crazy) Cryptic conspiracy theory is, but this five-minutes-of-modest-Q-farming teaser is doing nothing to disabuse me of my notions.
Vent over. We now return you to your regularly scheduled cogentco outage, already in progress.
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They're not there in the beginning, but when your story ends / Gonna last with you longer than your friends
They're not there in the beginning, but when your story ends / Gonna last with you longer than your friends
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Same thing, Minus LTS and Archetypes, with some fancy tweaks here and there...
But then again i am just really paranoid lately.
So just ignore me...
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This fear of yours sounds like a very good idea.
Wait? Whaaaa..?
Completely agree with you. Just wanted to say how funny your post was. The way you phrased everything gave me a good laugh. Thanks I needed that. :biggrin:
You might be onto something there. I've also had such suspicions. What with this Phoenix Project they're working on and all. Though that could just be the revival of CoH.
Stop saying scary things!!!
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STO gets more/better treatment, devs and development time, because the license to that lore and universe does not lie with Cryptic. Lets imagine STO would get the same treatment as CO does currently: They'd lose that license before they can say klingon.
But Cryptic (or PWE?) has bought the license for the Champions Universe, which allows them to treat it as they like. Comparisons with STO are thus a bit... well, unfitting.
The Doctor on the PDB
Fahrenheit on the PDB
So....they (PWE) now own the pencil and paper game?
Occam's Razor makes the cutting clean.
They (Cryptic) have for years now. They bought the entire IP and license it back to the original owners so they can use it for the PnP. And now that PWE owns Cryptic...
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Oh. Ick. I actually liked the p-n-p version of the game long time ago.
Occam's Razor makes the cutting clean.
Half-assed by half-assed standards. Does this mean that the current "event" is "quarter-assed"?
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It can get worse.
They're not there in the beginning, but when your story ends / Gonna last with you longer than your friends
Ah, thanks for that. :biggrin: Now I just need to find where the event is on that scale.
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Do you know why I never did this even though I bought a heap of Cryptic points back in the day and with a bit more cash I probably could have?
One evening I tried to log into the game. Instead of the launcher, I got a notification from GoDaddy telling me that the service wasn't paid for. This didn't make me think the game was getting much attention from the company and might die off soonish.
They seem to be able to pay the bills regularly and "soonish" has turned into "lingering". But I've seen little to make me think that On Alert wasn't a "Hail Mary" to try and keep the game going a bit longer while everything got diverted to Neverwinter.
No use crying over spilled Gronds, though. I'll keep reading the forums for things that peak my interest and log in and play when that happens. Game goes, the game goes. It sticks around for a few more years, I'll keep doing what I'm doing.
Wait? Whaaaa..?
Tina gives me THE FEAR @_@"
But yeah BL2 is epic much better than the first one
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They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
Yes, it is 16 along with the permanent bonus of getting a free one every time a character hits the level cap.
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Phoenix project is no such thing, has nothing to do with Cryptic, nor anyone else.
Phoenix project is a fan-made... thing trying to "recapture the spirit of CoX" by doing.... things. Like a character creator. It has no funding, no company, no teams, it's all volunteer stuff.
And it may still be able to churn out more content than CO.
edit: to the OP - it will not be spectacular in a good way.
all of course right after the weekend once they've sold a few more C-store items and maybe a new reskin TP.
So far though the new event really lacks pretty much... everything. Rather than let this game die the slow horrible death it's been getting, they should bring on the Project Phoenix team to make this game the sequel it should have been to begin with rather than its current statusas the sequel that Meh.......