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wraithshadow13
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So one of the new things being advertised on STO right now is ARC. It's basically like Origin for PWE. Much like the core connect it doesn't work for Cryptic right now from what i'm told, but there are a lot of people giving feed back in the thread.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=727231
I was going to see what the feedback was here and there was no mention of it yet. Granted its still early on so they might not have posted it yet, but at the same time i couldn't help but think that if they didn't it simply meant more doom and gloom for the Champions.
What does every body think of the Arc? I'm really negative about it given how origin went as well as what little trust i have in Either PWE or Cryptic, but i'm still curious what others see in it. What pros and cons might we expect?
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=727231
I was going to see what the feedback was here and there was no mention of it yet. Granted its still early on so they might not have posted it yet, but at the same time i couldn't help but think that if they didn't it simply meant more doom and gloom for the Champions.
What does every body think of the Arc? I'm really negative about it given how origin went as well as what little trust i have in Either PWE or Cryptic, but i'm still curious what others see in it. What pros and cons might we expect?
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News: Is that really all that important for CO for which there is little news ?
Billing: sure I suppose.
Browse: Oddly enough I have the ability to access the forums or browse the internet without this. Perhaps PWE is not aware of the existence of more browsers than I care to count.
Support: Umm, yeah. Ive got tickets without response dating back to 2009. The one time I got a response to a ticket the CS agent berated me for bothering them by sending it in. Can't say that I really believe that moving the contact support button to a new overlay will improve matters.
Connect: I am not sure how this will allow me to see what games my friends are playing. Have other companies signed onto ARC ?
Notifications: In game events ?
Coupons: Will these coupons be usable outside of Cryptic/PWE games ?
More power to Cryptic/PWE. It is very nice to see them attempting to expand upon their product branding in this manner. Tying it all together like this could have a significant impact on cross title playing and revenue.
BUT,
Almost no relevance to CO.
'Caine, miss you bud. Fly high.
I'll wait until they make it mandatory to work up a suitable rage/quit thread.
Vanish in the air you'll never find me
The Trade channel has helped encourage more players on NWO to try out and play CO than Cryptic has tried to do on its own.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
I was Dubsy on the Old Forums. I am still @Dubsy in-game. Also, lol.
Less of an excuse for Cryptic games - their game engine, when set to "fullscreen windowed" mode, actually handles tabbing really smoothly.
bloatware, you can already run all of their games without some stupid oversaturated launcher, plus the websites, plus steam. Waste of money on their part. But don't tell em that you'll make the guy who designed that stupid thing feel bad.....if he can even understand you.
Yeah PWE I get it, everyone is doing it, but just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it cool.
Or, this ARC has as much use in CO as C.O.R.E. has with it's 'character display' and 'achievements/tokenshop'....
And the most likely option is......What's behind Door#2?
And playing by myself since Aug 2009
Godtier: Lifetime Subscriber
my response to the staff, on this topic.
I don't know why you hate steam. It is very useful and has tons of games. Sales very often. I've gotten so many top tier games on the cheap from that its ridiculous. Big money saver.
However steam is enough. I'm already annoyed that I had to get uplay so i could play FC3 and FC3 : Blood Dragon. If this arc becomes mandatory I will no longer play any PWE games. Which would make me sad because I love Champions. I have played it since Beta and have kept playing it even though pretty much my entire guild has stopped.
Steam is a security risk.
I'm on disability.... for "paranoia"
Steam and my mind do not mix well. even trying to make a Steam account causes bad psychological, and physical reactions in me, simply because the security risks are to vast.
I bought both Civ 5 and Skyrim from big box stores, they both have mandatory steam usage. I am not paranoid, but I am not sure why I have to run a third party program to start my games now...it's annoying. I have followed both those series since their first iterations, and due to this new trend to run third party programs I will probably be forced out of gaming.
Everyone wants to gather and sell your info...they never ask to buy it off you directly though
*smiles* you reminded me that I left out that I also played Civ from Civ to Civ IV, and mysteriously "lost interest in it" when I heard Civ 5 was going to only be run on Steam.
But this I like . Just saying I actually do like it.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
III and IV are better anyways. V has no histogram (my fave part) and no little movie when you build a wonder, and Steam.
I know way more peeps on Steam than I do on PWE games (though it would give me an excuse to try more stuff when bored). If it's not mandatory, though, it doesn't really affect me all that much, and thus it's hard to work up any specific feeling one way or another.
It seems to be a 'new common' thing for Asian-market game producers/developers (NCSoft has it, Sony has had it forever..). I suppose success breeds imitation after all.
[SIGPIC]Also, this poster rambles.[/SIGPIC]
Seeing how we didn't even get the notice until after i posted this, and even then we didn't get the forum post on it, i'm still worried that it's bad news for CO as it is, but if they make ARC a requirement that doesn't even work properly for Cryptic games then it does seem to be a rock bottom point for this game and possibly the other two.
The only real feature that would interest me would be if i were allowed to transfer Zen between games directly, but that would have to require stipend as well. I'm just that against this Arc thing, but we all know that's not going to happen.
Wonder if this means we get the spam messages across the middle of the screen like from lokcboxes or the scrolling acheivements list on the PWI site from all thegames.
Either way, I can't see any reason on that list to get this and if it does go in, it'll be turned off.
I play one game.
I can already talk to people in two other games.
Events get notified in our game already.
Billing- no use to me.
Coupons- I know where to find them.
Messages- I can already send to people.
Wonder how much they are going to start charging for it.
Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!
It's a launcher and updater.
It has some extra Steam-like stuff attached.
Mostly harmless.
They're not there in the beginning, but when your story ends / Gonna last with you longer than your friends
Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!
Reasonably certain it has something to do with DRM and the multiplayer mode.
Occam's Razor makes the cutting clean.
Oh and I would like to see wooden Cthulu...where is the link?!?!
Doesn't that break our blocking?
I've tried Shift + a key for some powers and it tends to make blocking not respond.
Its a shame they abandoned the Steam commnunity.
12 Million players to advertise to. A few thousand at least that accessed the forums there.
Abandoned. Forgotten. Wasted.