I just logged in to witness another one of those discussions where people suggest the developers of Cryptic don't do anything. There are players who could possibly be neds claiming the developers have not started working hard. The comment I seen today, not much different from one I saw yesterday was something along the lines of Cryptic needing to hire developers that actually work!
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Are you one of these players who think that somehow the game exists yet the developers don't do much at all?
Do the developers at Cryptic work or is there some magical force holding this game together and patching it with changes every week while the large team of humans behind the scenes just sleep, eat or play the game?

If it's magic I want the spell that handles updating the blog, forum and c-store for my e-commerce websites. Oh and the magic spell that does marketing that would increase my sales. Then maybe I can stop working such long hours. :cool:
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This isn't limited to STO, either. The idea that there really is an entire world on the other side of the invisible wall is in pretty much every gaming community out there, when in reality the only thing on the other side of the wall is an infinite void of glitched graphics and nothing.
lol thats a good one ye.
Who glued shut the frigging the doors, can we get something strong to unstick them and access the rest of our interiors please?
Free Shiny New Ship
Featured Episode Series launching next week.
F2P Launch that didn't result in the servers exploding.
Nope nothing there. :rolleyes:
I think you are stretching that last one a bit. The servers were ready to implode daily and only a daily restart helped. That's not things going without a hitch.
"implode" lol
I think someone is making guesses and whatever the case. Downtime has been well warned, short and routine. All positive in my eyes and it obviously shows the developers are so busy they have a strong schedule which they stick to for the sake of the days work.
No guesswork. Devs explained exactly what was going on, why they had to restart and that they were working overtime to fix it.
Hopefully, I'm just speaking of past experiences here and not being prophetic.
Wait, the blog and forum updates? Developers? What?
In any event, I know a few services that can and do effectively update and assist your blog, specifically for e-commerce sites. SEO and all that.
Wait, marketing? You've lost me. This game's developers and this game's marketing department have a long history of not being on the same page.
The whole F2P thing was supposed to give them the ability to hire more folks, did they not make enough money off it?
"Dev" is way too broad a term.
it covers the guys who deal with the basic server OS, to the storywriters, planners, environment artists (expect a taco to appear in this thread sooner or later
and for EVERY SINGLE THING YOU SEE AND DO IN GAME its taken some level of input from almost every member of that dev team in some way...
so do the "dev's" do anything? you can bet your rear they do.... and just because its not the big flashy shiny-new any particular player wants at that given moment in time, its pretty insulting to insinuate they're not doing anything at all..
so yeah, regardless of if you think the games direction isnt right, or ship X needs improvement Y or it should all be "WoW in space" or "diplomacy online - the sleep inducing edition" or having thousands of factions based on races that appeared on occasion.. (anyone want a Excalbian faction? no ships! you wait on a rock for someone to pass and lure them in!!)... whatever your "problem" with the game is, dont insult people who's workload is probably as high as your own, if not higher, and who's work priority isnt set by them..
show a little common human decency and respect for crying out loud..
Positions are still open. They say they still want to hire folks. Dunno what happened.
It went F2P a couple weeks ago. Even given the best of conditions, it takes a couple months to find people and that is even assuming the best candidates actually apply.
There is a lot going on behind the scenes. The change of ownership put the devs in a bit of a bind. And priorities change with the new ownership. So even if they had a grand plan under Atari, that all went away when PWE took over. It has been stated that PWE places a major emphasis on content. And that will come. But it will take time.
As mentioned, Cryptic needs to find content guys and then those content guys need to be trained up on Cryptic's proprietary game design engine. Even if Cryptic hired five content guys on March 1, it'd still be close to July before we saw any major addition to the game.