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cavalerius
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So, first things first; congratulations Cryptic for a good-looking federation ship finally. Well balanced design, 25th century looking I suppose, with good stats. Power creep is prominent though; but it is shiny...
Now to get to the main point, which isn't a request for Cryptic, but rather a question for the players. Many of us have already invested heaps into this game. We've either boldly grinded where no one has grinded before with days clocked into the game, or committed casual genocide on an intergalactic scale with the galaxy's meanest ship, bought for a few thousand zen.
Would you still support Cryptic if it was all erased?
Imagine the (highly unlikely) event where Cryptic has recognised the full potential of STO and their 'secret project' is a completely remodelled Star Trek Online, with the majority of the Cryptic team working on it to provide such things as an upgraded engine, mass immersion, exploration and everything else we wish for, with much less bugs than there currently is. Essentially they make a near perfect MMO to rival the best out there.
Only catch is it's a different game, and characters aren't transferrable. Money invested isn't refunded from the original game, and the original STO is shut down days later.
Would you play and support Cryptic, or nerf em for wasting your time and money?
Now to get to the main point, which isn't a request for Cryptic, but rather a question for the players. Many of us have already invested heaps into this game. We've either boldly grinded where no one has grinded before with days clocked into the game, or committed casual genocide on an intergalactic scale with the galaxy's meanest ship, bought for a few thousand zen.
Would you still support Cryptic if it was all erased?
Imagine the (highly unlikely) event where Cryptic has recognised the full potential of STO and their 'secret project' is a completely remodelled Star Trek Online, with the majority of the Cryptic team working on it to provide such things as an upgraded engine, mass immersion, exploration and everything else we wish for, with much less bugs than there currently is. Essentially they make a near perfect MMO to rival the best out there.
Only catch is it's a different game, and characters aren't transferrable. Money invested isn't refunded from the original game, and the original STO is shut down days later.
Would you play and support Cryptic, or nerf em for wasting your time and money?
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You were doing so good up until this point. I almost thought you were asking from an objective viewpoint.
As for your question, this is my answer.
Like a separate TOS game, for example, or a separate JJverse game using a tweaked version of the engine and under license from Paramount.
It remains my largely baseless conspiracy theory that Dan Stahl is working on one of the two.
Something like that would need its own leveling curve, its own ships, and its own spin on mechanics. And could probably benefit from using Neverwinter's ground mechanics as a design choice from the ground up.
But that's a different thing that pulling the plug on STO's servers if it's simply a companion game in another era of Trek with its own mechanics, provided STO also remains in active development.
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Same here. Definitely. Much as I love playing STO ... I would happily let the dream version of STO blow my mind on a regular basis.
I would love a non-mmo game ... which got DLC updates.
A high quality, fun, Star Trek game.
I hope STO get's better ...
Even though there is no such thing as 100% balance, but with the right person running things that understands how this game works and put any effort into balance between Factions and put them on par or atleast near par with each other is good enough than what we have now...
After all this is a MMO game, not a TV show that put the main focus on one side with their Bias.
Everquest 1 still exists. As does Everquest 2. And Everquest Next is getting ready to launch.
So if they made a sequel to Star Trek Online, yes I'd probably play it.
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Myself along with you.
No.
And that is because the outline shows this game shutdown to herd people to the new game with a negative incentive for it.
Now if they did another version of STO. A TOS version with all they know now? Sure I would pay for both gladly.
If they went STO2 with some of the option we have now. F2P, gold subscribe, Lifer, and kept this one running as it still makes money? I would play both till the better game won out and I spent money there.
But the close down the servers to force a migration would send me away from the company as well as the title.
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Same here.
However, if they did an upgrade to STO, and transferred things over, I would love to play it. By upgrade, I mean that it is the same game, just with changes to make it more fun. The characters can be transferred, and the bugs are gone. Also, there is an upgrade to the AI, so that it is more challenging, and not just hard. (There is a difference in being challenging and just being hard).
If they just close the game and start a new one (even if it is better), without doing something for the ones that have invested time, energy, and funds into it, that would show a lack of appreciation for their customers. That is just my opinion though.
I've been thinking about how they should roll out a STO2 with a much needed new game engine while keeping this one still active, then eventually bleed out STO and get everyone switched over to STO2 by bribing the players to switch over in some way. The more I thought about it, the more I thought they shouldn't do it.
For me, it would need to be another Star Trek Online game, with a different name and with a different company and more partners involved.
This isn't to ding Cryptic, but their team size and being with PWE, it doesn't match what Star Trek demands for. Star Trek is more or less as popular as Star Wars, but Star Wars has big time players and publishers making their games with a much, much larger balance sheet. To me, this is what Star Trek needs.
Short answer: No.
I would only point out here that SWTOR could not last as a Subscription game for a year. Bigger companies do not always make more successful MMOs.
I think they may actually be at the point where they could swing that now and PWE might bankroll it.
STO was already PWE's most successful North American MMO and I believe Geko said the last year was a record year for them in terms of revenue.
Shelling out for a companion game (again, not a shutdown; a second game) would probably make sense, particularly if they could port space combat and ships over and if costume work could be shared between the games.
I'll take your word for it with the licensing. There have been other Star Trek games made in the meantime, but probably because they aren't MMOs they are safe to do so.
And I agree with you on SWTOR, I don't play it, it's just bad, but none of the less, it would be really nice to see what 'could' transpire should a ST MMO game be given a much larger company and balance sheet.
For a STO 2 to be considered STO would need to be financially lagging; and as you stated, their revenues have been, by all indications, quite good. With a year's worth of Expansion Pack 2 on the horizon I do not see them going through all the trouble of getting a new STO license yet.
This thread will give me nightmares.
It would be a hard thing for me to get over...