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zombiehunter64
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what do you think do you think people are starting to get board with the game and that it might go the way of star wars galaxies online
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I've seen no particular evidence in regards to this game dying. If you have, feel free to quote the references or proof. ^_^
Original Name: -Gen-Alaris
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Like all other MMO's... all other games for that matter, content come in waves, and people eventually get bored with it...
As long as Cryptic keeps adding missions and other things to do, it will do fine.
Yes unfortunately the game is very slowly dieing. I can't begin to believe with PWE basically ripping people off with a joke of incentive of GOLD subs, and basically charging for every new thing, in the game.
It's a slow death, but yes there are people leaving and getting sick of some things. The only ones that will be left, are the extreme hard core fans. The game is just not stream lined enough to keep new people or non Star Trek fans.
Unfortunately this is the only non-cookie cutter MMO left out there IMHO. (I believe PWE knows that and is capitalizing on it, STO is unique in it's own right.)
I am torn, I don't want the game to fail, but if that's what it starts to take to get Cryptic and PWE with a fire in the loins then so be it.
Pushing out content constantly and just not fixing things and not responding to peoples issues or tickets, does not make a game better.
I have been playing MMO's since I was 14. When a company starts to do what Cryptic is doing, it WILL fail.
Agreed, and to the OP: No.
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You just made that up. Activity is way up, logins are way up, everything is way up. The game has never been healthier.
BUT IT'S ALL GOING TO DIE!
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Kirk's Protege.
You havn't been around long have you?
in 2011, barely no content (including c-store TRIBBLE) was released, and yet, almost 2 years later, the game is still here.
And the PvP queues being empty in STO is probably he poorest element to base the games ability to survive on, since that element has never been very attractive to most players.
No doubt dude there was a jump of most likely older players coming back with LOR. But it's going to slow way down again. I have seen this before, it's nothing new. But I can't see the actual numbers and if I company refuses to release them, that's not a good sign.
The most imporant thing in anything is retention. If i was a brand new player coming to this game, nothing would of kept me playing this. There is too much real world transactions, what is keeping me playing is my fleet and the cool people in it. That is it.
If you want to hold on to the dream you can, but for me and playing this game for 3 years, the zones are slowly getting less people.
IF you can't see that I don't know what to tell you.
I don't see this game is dying, and I'm nowhere near getting bored with it. IMO the game is a LONG WAY from disappearing.
Seriously, OP, the doom and gloom, this game is dying, have been going on since launch.
The game continues to grow, Cryptic has added STO Dev's (think they are around 40 now, this is almost doubled in the last year or so).
Are there things that could be better, absolutely. Could <insert game play section here> use more love, and you all know we can use more <insert wishlist item here>.
Personally I'd love to see some numbers, as well as some fleet progression numbers. Everything I see, player attendance (cheeks in seats) is picking up, and quality is definitely on the up swing.
Sit back, and enjoy the game.
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you really need to think of an intelligent thread topic to start OP.
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/agree. My STO toons are in moth balls myself and have been since I seen a $125.00 expansion pack advertised well before LOR. All the P2W included in STO and the price keeps going up and up and up.............
Sorry. but this is not the only "non-cookie cutter" MMO out there at the moment. I'm actually playing AO (for the 1st time) and even with the 12 year old graphics, it brings me back to the great gameplay in SWG that was lost a couple of years ago. Altho, Funcom is updating the graphics to Age of Conan style in the near future (several U-tubes up of the new graphics now). 12 year anniversary is going on this weekend with give-aways, events, added content, etc etc etc. One of the freebies is a jet-pack and that game does include atmospheric flight. Good weekend to try AO.
As to answer the OP question of this game going the SWG route? I doubt it. If and when STO does die out, I don't believe that we would ever see player made EMUs of STO.
The game maybe dying for you ..... Maybe a different approach is needed for you , A new toon , maybe join a new fleet , pick a new type of ship . Play different missions , start on a new Faction.
The Games not perfect - point me to a Free MMO that is ... point me to a paid one that is .....
But at the moment we are getting new content every other month in events , ships , story mission , all of it can be free if you grind. (am not saying that's fun).
There are other games out there ..... but so far for me , nothing has come close to compare!,
Although for me a Red Dead Borg Zombie overrun mission would be perfect..... Endless borg , you know your going to get assimilated just a matter of when and how many borg you take with you before you go !
This game is nowhere near its peak yet. Come back in 5 years or so
Not as good as it could be.. yep, definatly..
How to get it as good as it could be... Got me! Wish a lot if not all of the free to play stuff would just GO AWAY AND STOP TAKING DEVELOPER TIME.. You betcha..
Old truism.. You get what you pay for... and when you buy items from the game store your getting that virtual item... no assurances that the money paid will be used to hesle deveopment of the game forward.. only that it will encourage more shiney bits.. Thats how the market works.. Trust.. I trust the PWE?PWI to concentrate on what makes the most amount of money in the shortest amount of time... which does not mean that the consumers of the product are going to get the best possible product that operates without error..
I'm a gold memeber.. but am so through purchase of a LTM.. I paid in advance.. But the game does not cater to subscribers.. it catters to the f2P crowd, and rewards F2P players with more items to spend more money on. And getting more money from them is the corporate and there by the studio's focus. Content is going to be trotted out to retain customers, and provide something to bling about in promoting the product. But the games real money is made from purchases of Zen.
Can it be sustained? As long as consumers of the product think with thier emotions yes, it can. Rather dissapointing to me. But thats the way of the world these days. Will STO ever be as "big" as TOR or WOW... not a chance... whole different mind set on the part of the owners of those products.
I play KDF faction side (at this point I have exactly one fed character that really I never play anymore but am loath to delete because that SCI toon has the Well temporal ship, and it was such a amazing thing to get that i refuse to delete it. But on the KDF side we've seen that the time and development follows the crowd with the majority of number and there for the money.
I don't blame the studio or thier owning company.. Business is a reactionary process centered around making money. Its endemic to the beast. Quality first is a mind set that is more and more difficult to achive... Big money means that a product only need be sufficiently good to keep people buying it. STO manages to do that.
Conclusion: The Game isn't dying.. far from it. But it will reach a saturation point where costomer retention will become an issue. I don't think STO is at that point yet. A couple more years might put it there but for now its quite the cash cow as noted in PWI's annual reports.
SO there.
When Cryptic improve the PvP, people will go into PvP matches. PvP hasn't been a priority of Cryptic's yet, but it will be at some point
2) ot a game for casuals if you want rep gear
3) not a game for a spendthrift if if 2 is also true and you want c-store gear
4) not a game if you and a few friends want to go through the starbase fleet grind if 2 is true (your own fleet) since additionally you may need that dilithium for rep, rep items, doffs, and carrier pets/weapons.
now, if you have more money than sense, all you have to do is buy zen and throw it on the exchange and you're all good.
this has the worst end game grind of any mmo, even managing to beat out dcuo with it's forced cinematic repeats...since this does the same stupid thing as well. it has one of the most obvious cash grabs with zen to dil conversion negating the daily cap. and who to thank?
the players, when starbases hit and everyone was pushing to become the first or one of the first fleets with a high or max tier starbase....money poured in and someone at cryptic saw huge dollar signs...so next revamp, doffs cost dil, then slowly everything else gets confined and ordered around dil...
dying? probably not, it's the only star trek based mmo out there, no matter how horribad it is. if it wasn't star trek? it would be dead. cryptic gets away with a lot that would never fly and hasn't in other mmo's if they didn't have the IP.
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Holy TRIBBLE! Someone with a head on their shoulders not defending Cryptic! Finally someone stating FACTS, not just trolling.
Thanks dude, finally.