this company doesn't care , it will keep flogging the dead horse until it dies , then sell the company for next to nothing and laughing all the way to the bank , its not about making good games these days it just about how can we TRIBBLE our players over to make more money for ourselves . ive been tryin the game for the last couple of days , lucky for me I was thinkin of dropping some cash on this game , after this patch , im not so sure now ......ill wait for a bit
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "SWEET JESUS ITS TAKING LONG ENUFF"
it's a very poor point if you're 2000 out of 20000+. Silver players would die to get that kind of luck that doesn't involve having to get on erratic times and avoid peak hours
My point is: Why are LTS members raging about login queues, when they get bumped past 20K people?
I could accept that they may not have been prepared as they could have. It's always possible.
But looking at the sheer number of people queued? I find it very hard to believe they could have anticipated something on this scale. They could have taken every precaution they could have thought up pre-launch, but they aren't psychic. They couldn't look into the future, see what was coming, and then fix it.
It's understandable to be frustrated, but some people are going way too far in their assumptions of just how prepared Cryptic could have been.
A new Star Trek movie came out recently and with this anticipated update with playable Romulans coming to the game how could anyone not expect a lot of people coming to try to play the game?
This is Star Trek their are a lot of fans from all over the world I am not surprised one bit by how many are trying to play the game except I though their would be even more.
I do not know how anyone could not of expected a large number of players showing up. They should of been prepared for this many people after all we are not talking about millions or even hundreds of thousands. I have seen games with no such fan base that Star Trek has be able to handle a large increase of players showing up why cant they handle it for this game?
its better leave the game for a day.im gonna do it and hope in a day there to be some progress.im bored of trying ot play like that.if there is no progress they wont see me soon.having 22k ppls waiting to play whole day is ridiculas.
at the end what we can do...complain till we get logged in after 3-4 hrs waiting so we crash or gotta go out for 1 hr+ and what...again wait 3-4 hrs till we can enter and play and not be able to switch chars?
if they really believe in that i wanna try the drugs they take
and last 30 mins i saw queue got down by nearly 4k with means ppls leaving cuz they dont wanna wait anymore.and Cryptic is losing from that.matter of time rest like me to leave aswell!
Yes very very good idea. YALL leave it for a week.
So i can play
That works out to about a one hour wait (based on a 15000 spot, which I usually wind up at, taking about 45 minutes). This roughly places spot number 2000 as being six minutes of wait time.
Six minutes? Go smoke a bowl or microwave a Hot Pocket. Change of underwear. Maybe find a window and verify what time of day it is? Hell, if you have a good enough resource and a strong wrist, you can crank one out in six minutes.
Lets see, I've spent around $80 on this game in the last few weeks. Thus far I waited five hours yesterday to play for a grand total of three and a half minutes, only to get knocked off, then be alerted that I am quere 14,015/14,015.
Currently I've been waiting for about an hour and a half and am 7592/19647. I'm hoping this time I get to stay logged in long enough before getting dropped to choose if I want to make my Romulan character male or female.
A few Master Keys sounds like nice compensation - _ -
"Why all the sales"?
And a merry freaking Christmas to you too, Ebenezer.
-jonsills, 'Cryptic Why the sales..instead of Fixing XP leveling and this game?'
this must be such an embarrassment for a company and a game this big - to have 20 THOUSAND people queuing up to play it - how many players can the servers handle anyway - 200 or so???
it seems to me, the players that are always crying about something, have some sort of federation avatar . it must just be something about the type of player that actually likes the federation that makes them a crybaby that truly believes they are better than everybody else.
wait in line and stop the complaints. Ques Happen. I have played online games starting all the way back to Ultima online when it was only PVP, and a couple of servers. as the population grew and this might be something that this game should consider is regional servers so Europe asia north americia and so have their own . but if and or until then STFUA. can only hear bird chirping so long before you pull out the BB gun and shot it.
Trophies for killing FEDS ahh those were the days.
Its a big launch with a lot of stuff and a HUGE number of people wanting to play with all the additions right now. It'll settle down to more normal levels in a few days, or they'll upgrade the hardware to handle the new average load. But day 1 of any launch is always buggy and lagtastic and this is no different (and actually smoother than like S6 for example). If there are still these issues in a week then yes its problem (after a week it should be all new problems :P ). Its been just over a day. I wanna build my Rom toons too but I'd rather do it when things are working right than kicking and lagging constantly. If it means a couple days of queues, well thats life. A little patience isn't a bad thing.
Does anyone really expect Cryptic to invest in additional servers in order to tolerate an influx of players that will only last... a week? a month maybe?
Don't get me wrong, long term, STO will have more people playing because of the expanded content; but numbers like we're seeing this week will not last. You can't expect them to invest in major expansion to cover a relatively short term deluge of interest.
These log on queues are a sign that Cryptic probably played this whole thing correctly from a business standpoint. And when Cryptic plays things correctly, the game does better for everyone in the long run.
Jolan Tru, Cryptic. I'll be patient in my queue, and I'll enjoy the game when I get in.
I keep seeing massive amounts of forum threads about people complaining that it is taking so long to get into the game since LOR launched.
To those people I kindly say SHUT UP AND THINK YOU NUMBSKULL!!
STO was in some pretty dire times, and it's still amazing through all the initial hardships that it even made it through development let alone launch and three years later. It survived through what would normally devastate most into wishful thinking oblivion.
Thanks to their determination, and us players sticking with the game an investing in its future by purchasing zen and items, the dev team has grown and they have been able to give us this great expansion.
Sure there's times we all get frustrated at some of the things Cryptic does, but in the end they have and are continuing to give us a really enjoyable game.
The login queue just proves we were right to invest in the potential we knew the game had and what the dev team could really do some amazing stuff if they had the right resources. So when I'm stuck at 25,042 of 25,454 eagerly waiting to get in the game, I take comfort in the fact that so many are trying to get in and how much brighter the future of the game is with all these new and returning players.
Now with all that said....Cryptic get some more Servers or I'm holding Bransflakes favorite spoon and Tacofang's tacos hostage until our more servers demands are met. (just kidding of course)
Every time I go to play STO there is a waiting list 20,000 people long. This is completely unacceptable. I don't have 4 hours of time to play a game. Never mind wait to play a video game. The end result of this is not an increase in the popularity of the game but a marked decrease in the number of people that will be willing to join. Think about it if you had just downloaded the game for the first time or are a new fan of Star Trek because of the recent movie you will be completely unwilling to wait and will probably uninstall the game almost immediately. I'm pissed off and I have two max level characters and am a huge Trek fan and I'm on the verge of an uninstall. The reality is that no part of this is amazing or magical, this is a company that makes millions of dollars selling a game and they are not doing a good job. A waiting list of 20,000 plus people is insane and almost any new player is bound to be discouraged . Cryptic has millions of dollars and a server or two is not going to bankrupt them. This concept of playing the turtle and waiting for the popularity to die down is going to do exactly that, make the popularity die down. It's a failing strategy. As for me I'm going to just go play Star Craft which is 10x as popular and I'll be in a game in less than 5 minutes. Have fun waiting and I'll see you guys in a week after all the new players and supposed growth have gotten frustrated and done an uninstall.
So it's about apologies and not handouts, yet you insist an apology (notice that I spell that word the same way every time I type it?) isn't enough and want a handout...which you say it's not about, yet demand over and over and over again.
Maybe BranFlakes could get you a personal spellchecker... :P
well no i do really just want an apology but in my head though buy giving us an item that would be there way of sincerely apologizing to everyone. personal apologies for millions of players isn't really doable but the consensuses doesn't seem to agree so im trying to change my request. as long as i get apologized to i don't care. i was trying to help everyone but not everyone seems to want it so apoligise to me and ill be fine.
.Forget it. And there are players who've spent thousands more than you
Yup, and we're stuck in the queue as well. Got in after 3 hours, changed toons, kicked back to the queue for another long wait.
This will eventually be resolved. It just sucks that a good effort by the devs in developing something new for STO will be remembered for the incompetence at it's deployment.
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Agreed! Queue All Payments And Lets Make Them Understand The Maning Of Angry Customers!
"SWEET JESUS ITS TAKING LONG ENUFF"
Except it did with Pandaria and has before that too.
He said good MMO.
Not "Frustrating job".
You mean other than those times WoW goes down for a full week.
Or the Diablo II days of the bi-daily 1 hour server failures.
I'm sure you meant other than those, of course. ;-)
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My point is: Why are LTS members raging about login queues, when they get bumped past 20K people?
A new Star Trek movie came out recently and with this anticipated update with playable Romulans coming to the game how could anyone not expect a lot of people coming to try to play the game?
This is Star Trek their are a lot of fans from all over the world I am not surprised one bit by how many are trying to play the game except I though their would be even more.
I do not know how anyone could not of expected a large number of players showing up. They should of been prepared for this many people after all we are not talking about millions or even hundreds of thousands. I have seen games with no such fan base that Star Trek has be able to handle a large increase of players showing up why cant they handle it for this game?
no there is none.but u can do that:login and go play on another game or watch a movie for 2-3 hrs
I never said anything of the sort.i'll just be glad to get in the game.if it ever happens.:cool:
Yes very very good idea. YALL leave it for a week.
So i can play
That works out to about a one hour wait (based on a 15000 spot, which I usually wind up at, taking about 45 minutes). This roughly places spot number 2000 as being six minutes of wait time.
Six minutes? Go smoke a bowl or microwave a Hot Pocket. Change of underwear. Maybe find a window and verify what time of day it is? Hell, if you have a good enough resource and a strong wrist, you can crank one out in six minutes.
I don't see the problem.
Currently I've been waiting for about an hour and a half and am 7592/19647. I'm hoping this time I get to stay logged in long enough before getting dropped to choose if I want to make my Romulan character male or female.
A few Master Keys sounds like nice compensation - _ -
And a merry freaking Christmas to you too, Ebenezer.
-jonsills, 'Cryptic Why the sales..instead of Fixing XP leveling and this game?'
Oh yeah I wasn't disagreeing with you at all. I got your point.
Poor Q. I can't imagine how horribly violated he must feel.
"SWEET JESUS ITS TAKING LONG ENUFF"
and why u think Cryptic admins just wont log in 20,000 accounts to keep u in queue
You know we're having a conversation here that isn't about pandering views for your stream, so have some respect for the topic at hand.
Also, running a stream of you playing STO and telling people that WANT to play STO and can't to watch it is equivalent of rubbing their nose in it.
wait in line and stop the complaints. Ques Happen. I have played online games starting all the way back to Ultima online when it was only PVP, and a couple of servers. as the population grew and this might be something that this game should consider is regional servers so Europe asia north americia and so have their own . but if and or until then STFUA. can only hear bird chirping so long before you pull out the BB gun and shot it.
Its a big launch with a lot of stuff and a HUGE number of people wanting to play with all the additions right now. It'll settle down to more normal levels in a few days, or they'll upgrade the hardware to handle the new average load. But day 1 of any launch is always buggy and lagtastic and this is no different (and actually smoother than like S6 for example). If there are still these issues in a week then yes its problem (after a week it should be all new problems :P ). Its been just over a day. I wanna build my Rom toons too but I'd rather do it when things are working right than kicking and lagging constantly. If it means a couple days of queues, well thats life. A little patience isn't a bad thing.
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Hehehe, threadmerge ninja'd
Don't get me wrong, long term, STO will have more people playing because of the expanded content; but numbers like we're seeing this week will not last. You can't expect them to invest in major expansion to cover a relatively short term deluge of interest.
These log on queues are a sign that Cryptic probably played this whole thing correctly from a business standpoint. And when Cryptic plays things correctly, the game does better for everyone in the long run.
Jolan Tru, Cryptic. I'll be patient in my queue, and I'll enjoy the game when I get in.
And a merry freaking Christmas to you too, Ebenezer.
-jonsills, 'Cryptic Why the sales..instead of Fixing XP leveling and this game?'
Every time I go to play STO there is a waiting list 20,000 people long. This is completely unacceptable. I don't have 4 hours of time to play a game. Never mind wait to play a video game. The end result of this is not an increase in the popularity of the game but a marked decrease in the number of people that will be willing to join. Think about it if you had just downloaded the game for the first time or are a new fan of Star Trek because of the recent movie you will be completely unwilling to wait and will probably uninstall the game almost immediately. I'm pissed off and I have two max level characters and am a huge Trek fan and I'm on the verge of an uninstall. The reality is that no part of this is amazing or magical, this is a company that makes millions of dollars selling a game and they are not doing a good job. A waiting list of 20,000 plus people is insane and almost any new player is bound to be discouraged
-collapsing is not expanding.........
well no i do really just want an apology but in my head though buy giving us an item that would be there way of sincerely apologizing to everyone. personal apologies for millions of players isn't really doable but the consensuses doesn't seem to agree so im trying to change my request. as long as i get apologized to i don't care. i was trying to help everyone but not everyone seems to want it so apoligise to me and ill be fine.
Yup, and we're stuck in the queue as well. Got in after 3 hours, changed toons, kicked back to the queue for another long wait.
This will eventually be resolved. It just sucks that a good effort by the devs in developing something new for STO will be remembered for the incompetence at it's deployment.