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I highly doubt cryptic had a say in this matter, the new masters (PWE) said they wanted it, so Cryptic jumped and made it happen. (every PWE game share the same forums/site layout) aka garbage.
If they did have a choice, they should have really asked the community, or hell change back.
Okay, this is in basically every way inferior. For some reason though not seeing Nagus' iconic and ever present Avatar until I get to the end of the message is extremely disquieting to me. It feels like all my friends had involuntary facial reconstruction surgery without telling me beforehand. Not cool.
Oh and why the frak did it force me to use rokesmith for my name instead of Rokesmith? What the TRIBBLE is that, its a name dag-nabit. Names are meant the be capitalized. Basic rule of the friggin language.
Apparently I lost my mail (with a bunch of DOffs in it).
Indenting and lists, though still options for formatting according to the forums, don't seem to work anymore (making it very difficult to set different bits of text apart from each other).
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All in all? I feel the need to use curse words. Perfect World hates us. I'm really, really starting to believe that.
Best of all, it seems that something broke and my forum account isn't linked to the actual account anymore, so I can't even use the store out of game anymore.
Apparently I lost my mail (with a bunch of DOffs in it).
I went to check that in game... your mail should still be there (Edit: It was mine I checked, which is still there). Not sure why it isn't here... maybe they separated forum mail from in game mail?
A general warning of a day or two might have been nice for the users. Even if that did result in our initial anger or frustration. Now, instead of just getting over initial confusion, we have users who are both angry and confused. Not a comfortable place to be, frankly.
This sincerely looks like a downgrade to me. Our signature BBcode is even gone. This took all day to accomplish?
The style of the forum isn't user friendly at all. The subforum headings blend in badly. I can't distinguish one subforum from the other. Nor can I minimize the subforums that I don't care to see.
I sincerely dislike the lack of avatar customization. If I thought it would do any good I'd suggest we all change ours to the Borg Collective emblem. It feels as if our forum community has just been assimilated.
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I went to check that in game... your mail should still be there (Edit: It was mine I checked, which is still there). Not sure why it isn't here... maybe they separated forum mail from in game mail?
Okay, this is in basically every way inferior. For some reason though not seeing Nagus' iconic and ever present Avatar until I get to the end of the message is extremely disquieting to me. It feels like all my friends had involuntary facial reconstruction surgery without telling me beforehand. Not cool.
Yeah Nagus' avatar was great.
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Lots of wasted space, I agree. Also for some weird reason my old display name is blocked. And all our past posts are now no longer associated with our original account. WHich means tracking old post back impossible, and updating old stickied post is impossible.
It means losing forum identity and history.
Really a bad change overall. Bran_Flakes, how could you let this happen?
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My display name has changed and the tool tip on the side said this would be reflected in-game as well. This has yet to happen. Has anyone's in-game name changed yet?
While I don't begrudge Cryptic or PWE wanting to move to different forums, I do have several thorns in my side:
1. I received ZERO warning. No emails. No in game bulletin. Heck, nothing on the front page of the STO website until the switch over already happened. Not cool guys, not cool. Bad PR.
2. The join date. I joined in January of 2010. NOT June 2012. If the accounts are truely linked then FIX IT. I'm sure for some it doesn't matter, but for others it was a matter of pride. For me it showed that I came in early, supported early, and have been here for the long haul.
This loss of personal history with the game is perhaps the most hurtful thing of the changes. (((the rest is relatively minor))) Sure, my account still lists the days subscribed (874 as on 6-20-2012) but that bit can only be seen by me. Anything I put in my signature could be falsified.
3. The avatar loss. Please please please tell me this will be changed. If it was to get rid of anti-PWE or anti-Cryptic images . . . well then giving us image space in our sigs kinda defeats the point of that huh?
Don't turn these forums in to bland vanilla everyone's the same -land. You only hurt the community.
On the positive side I like the new forum header with the star base and the galaxy class. :biggrin:
Addendum: The archiving of the old forums is also quite hurtful. No names, no history, nothing. All that we did on the forums for YEARS lost to some guy named "Archived Post" who joined in Dec 2007.
It doesn't make me mad, it makes me sad. And that's a million times worse.
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Subscriber since 1-28-2010
The new look of the forums is horredous.
And forcing me to change to a PWE account from a Cryptic account blows frothy chunks.
Standardized avatars? WTF?
Whomever is making the decisions about all these changes needs to be thrown off the top floor of a tall building...
Lord Krueg
KBF CO We are the Dead
join date Aug 2008
The new look of the forums is horredous.
And forcing me to change to a PWE account from a Cryptic account blows frothy chunks.
Standardized avatars? WTF?
Whomever is making the decisions about all these changes needs to be thrown off the top floor of a tall building...
I'd say thrown out the airlock. Fit the theme more.
To put it bluntly, the new forums are complete ****. This wasn't a welcome change at all. The fact all the old threads are now archived with no names is disgusting.
Now that we have standardized avatars it's harder to easily recognize people either.
Also we now can't access mail from the forums. WTF? Seriously, everything with these new forums is a step back. And why? For what reason were they changed? There was nothing wrong with the old forums and PWE could have maintained them as a legacy system for STO. :mad:
Cheap and tacky, that?s what you get with F2P. Way too slow for my liking. Doesn?t help having to set up a PWE account to use the forums. No I?m not linking my Cryptic account with this one, over my dead body. They will have to drag me kicking and screaming. Guess I won?t be reading the forum any more. :frown:
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Not told...nor explained in advance.
No...but we got no choice but to use this medium.
One thing I find amusing though.... Apparently I last visited these forums Dec 31, 1969.
The whole forum revision is a temporal anomaly! (So if it is like the old Apple III boards it is actually ahead of its time) :biggrin:
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I completely agree.
I highly doubt cryptic had a say in this matter, the new masters (PWE) said they wanted it, so Cryptic jumped and made it happen. (every PWE game share the same forums/site layout) aka garbage.
If they did have a choice, they should have really asked the community, or hell change back.
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I want a forum name change though, I likes my Cryptic one better.
These new forums suck.
A lot.
No BBCode in sig.
It's uglier.
No custom avatars.
Apparently I lost my mail (with a bunch of DOffs in it).
Indenting and lists, though still options for formatting according to the forums, don't seem to work anymore (making it very difficult to set different bits of text apart from each other).
...
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...
All in all? I feel the need to use curse words. Perfect World hates us. I'm really, really starting to believe that.
I went to check that in game... your mail should still be there (Edit: It was mine I checked, which is still there). Not sure why it isn't here... maybe they separated forum mail from in game mail?
Like, did you guys do this on a test server first or just slap it all onto the Live site right away?
edit: And am I seeing correctly that the French and German subforums are totally gone?
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What would be the purpose of testing it on a test server? They just release it the next day regardless.
Can the new forums queue into an STF?
This sincerely looks like a downgrade to me. Our signature BBcode is even gone. This took all day to accomplish?
The style of the forum isn't user friendly at all. The subforum headings blend in badly. I can't distinguish one subforum from the other. Nor can I minimize the subforums that I don't care to see.
I sincerely dislike the lack of avatar customization. If I thought it would do any good I'd suggest we all change ours to the Borg Collective emblem. It feels as if our forum community has just been assimilated.
Seems like other people have lost theirs in-game.
Yeah Nagus' avatar was great.
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It means losing forum identity and history.
Really a bad change overall. Bran_Flakes, how could you let this happen?
1. I received ZERO warning. No emails. No in game bulletin. Heck, nothing on the front page of the STO website until the switch over already happened. Not cool guys, not cool. Bad PR.
2. The join date. I joined in January of 2010. NOT June 2012. If the accounts are truely linked then FIX IT. I'm sure for some it doesn't matter, but for others it was a matter of pride. For me it showed that I came in early, supported early, and have been here for the long haul.
This loss of personal history with the game is perhaps the most hurtful thing of the changes. (((the rest is relatively minor))) Sure, my account still lists the days subscribed (874 as on 6-20-2012) but that bit can only be seen by me. Anything I put in my signature could be falsified.
3. The avatar loss. Please please please tell me this will be changed. If it was to get rid of anti-PWE or anti-Cryptic images . . . well then giving us image space in our sigs kinda defeats the point of that huh?
Don't turn these forums in to bland vanilla everyone's the same -land. You only hurt the community.
On the positive side I like the new forum header with the star base and the galaxy class. :biggrin:
Addendum: The archiving of the old forums is also quite hurtful. No names, no history, nothing. All that we did on the forums for YEARS lost to some guy named "Archived Post" who joined in Dec 2007.
It doesn't make me mad, it makes me sad. And that's a million times worse.
If you find yourself participating in a discussion, and you know nothing can ever persuade you to alter your view, please recognize that you are not being objective about the subject at hand and further discussion with you is futile.
=/\= Fleet Admiral Shin
Subscriber since 1-28-2010
And forcing me to change to a PWE account from a Cryptic account blows frothy chunks.
Standardized avatars? WTF?
Whomever is making the decisions about all these changes needs to be thrown off the top floor of a tall building...
KBF CO
We are the Dead
join date Aug 2008
I'd say thrown out the airlock. Fit the theme more.
Now that we have standardized avatars it's harder to easily recognize people either.
Also we now can't access mail from the forums. WTF? Seriously, everything with these new forums is a step back. And why? For what reason were they changed? There was nothing wrong with the old forums and PWE could have maintained them as a legacy system for STO. :mad:
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