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ussweatherlight
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What is it counting down to? At the moment, it says 11:15:21:50. That's 11 and a half days. What is in 11.5 days? It's not May, like the date in the pic.
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Take this as you will...
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This is what I was thinking. That announcement should be pretty spectacular to do a countdown.
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'Tis a bit odd iddnit? Not even the F2P release got a countdown, so whatever in the heck this is, the devs must feel it's big.
You guys need to start looking at the big picture. This is an International game, Americans aren't the only ones playing it, and it is owned by a Chinese company that specializes in Free 2 Play markets.....
This is part of their formula. Here is what the announcement is:
1. Romulan Lock boxes with Romulan Battle Cruiser rewards.
2. A season 8 episode with 5 new missions spread out over 5 weeks.
3. Maybe some new Zen junk, like uniforms.
4. Maybe some new Fleet/FTS content involving the new romulans.
5.... and this is the big one, more worthless TRIBBLE for you to waste money on.
So enjoy
Eisaak
Care to make a bet on that one? :P
Last week in the podcast it was said it takes more time to do a costume than a ship, hence why they moved outfits to lockboxes.
I am not saying they will be good uniforms, but follow the pattern, Ferengi lock boxes = some Lobi dresses. Cardassian lock boxes = some jewelery. Tholian lock boxes = some armor upgrades. Temporal lock boxes = time uniforms. Winter Wonderland = snow suits and boots. Fleet system = Oddy uniform, Romulan Embassy = really ugly 2000 year out of date Romulan Ambassador off duty uniform. So there will be something new to wear.
All lock boxes come with one "Ultra Rare" Ship or two .4% payout(in this case Romulan War Birds). All lock boxes come with a revamp of some Mirror of normal ships. This takes ten minutes to move a console around and throw a new paint scheme on a model.
Lock boxes are Perfect Worlds bread and butter so that is going to be the new big thing every time they get a chance, and since they didn't make any huge announcement on the last few lock boxes, they will throw in a 5 episode season which we are overdue for.
Lastly depending on what price point they are trying to hit per player and how popular the Lobi store is, they may throw a few more things into the Lobi store. My bet is that if these new MK XII weapon/space sets/ground sets upgrades are doing well they may move a few more upgrades that way... COUNT on the Adorian Space weapons getting a Lobi MK XII boost soon.
Eisaak
Now you're just gonna get in trouble for giving up the goods.
I was simply saying that countdowns to non-product launches are commonplace.
that was a month and a half
I think so you firing up the trolls
And nobody specifically mentioned trailers until you did. You've been caught.
That makes me sad.
If you have something to say, say it. If you have something to release, release it. (Of course, in case of STO, test it first, then test it again and again.)
It's just dumb to have a teaser starting a countdown to a preview starting another countdown ...
It's probably working in ramping up interest for the subject, but it's just dumb for us consumers to put up with it.
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Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
I dunno. It's new. That's something.
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Officially, it's being considered an authorized countdown, to authorization of the official countdown.
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I don't think the countdown is just going to be a whole bunch of information, cause in truth, we pretty much already know enough about this next update. We know it's going to focus a lot on the Romulans, Sela and D'Tan likely. We know there is a featured episode series coming with it, and we know that the Iconian are going to guest star.
If the idea was to release some info telling us that then they might as well remove the countdown as we already know. Short of a trailer / teaser, there's not much else they can be doing. There wont be no update / download at the end of it, that wont come until May.
in 11 days an announcement, every week one episode with the last mission in 1st may week,
when hopefully we get to play Romulan Faction.
Hollywood produces online teasers for their trailers now. Nothing out of the ordinary
Is it the countdown to when your plan for Taco world domination takes effect?
Funny enough, stuff like that has happened elsewhere. There was a rash of countdown timers and teaser sites for games just a few years ago. Seemingly every major release had one, sort of like how every other movie out of Hollywood was "based on a true story" for a couple years. So a "countdown to a countdown" gives me vague memories of a Metal Gear Solid unveil or something which did almost exactly that.
So really, on some level everything can be traced back to Hideo Kojima, is basically what I'm saying. La Li Lu Le Lo...