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Petition to Revoke FTP

ncissnciss Member Posts: 75 Arc User
edited June 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
There have been a series of continuing problems that the company refuses to address and we are currently looking at the FTP as the main source of the problem. Star Trek Online only has one server that we are aware of, but we are looking to the community to begin a petition against STO to remand the Free to Play. This FTP has brought every kind of child from World of ******** and beyond to our world where many of us are Betas' & pre-launch Lifetime Subscribers.

Many of us have put a lot of work & effort into this game including all of the people that have built the Foundry to what it is today. Many of the folks in the community, myself & my staff included don't believe this is fair to us. We all have so much invested that FTP should have NEVER been an option to begin with. Please take time to check the Forums and leave feedback. Also keep an eye out for the Petition to revoke FTP and sign it.
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  • blassreiterusblassreiterus Member Posts: 1,294 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    nciss wrote: »
    There have been a series of continuing problems that the company refuses to address and we are currently looking at the FTP as the main source of the problem. Star Trek Online only has one server that we are aware of, but we are looking to the community to begin a petition against STO to remand the Free to Play. This FTP has brought every kind of child from World of ******** and beyond to our world where many of us are Betas' & pre-launch Lifetime Subscribers.

    Many of us have put a lot of work & effort into this game including all of the people that have built the Foundry to what it is today. Many of the folks in the community, myself & my staff included don't believe this is fair to us. We all have so much invested that FTP should have NEVER been an option to begin with. Please take time to check the Forums and leave feedback. Also keep an eye out for the Petition to revoke FTP and sign it.
    You are serious, aren't you? Sorry to bursts your bubble but you're not going to get your wish (actually, let me rephrase that, I'm not sorry to burst your bubble)... I was Free to play before August 2013, and you're blaming the problems on those that didn't have to pay to start the game? sorry, but that "argument" is invalid just right there. Weren't the "bugs and problems with the game" present before the game went Free-to-play? So, blaming the Free players for what you perceive is not only incorrect but also insulting to those who play this game as a free player.

    Oh, in case you didn't catch my drift, I will not sign your petition, as this sort of thing is only going to descend into a flame war.
    Star Trek Online LTS player.
  • spacebaronlinespacebaronline Member Posts: 1,103 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    nciss wrote: »
    There have been a series of continuing problems that the company refuses to address and we are currently looking at the FTP as the main source of the problem. Star Trek Online only has one server that we are aware of, but we are looking to the community to begin a petition against STO to remand the Free to Play. This FTP has brought every kind of child from World of ******** and beyond to our world where many of us are Betas' & pre-launch Lifetime Subscribers.

    Many of us have put a lot of work & effort into this game including all of the people that have built the Foundry to what it is today. Many of the folks in the community, myself & my staff included don't believe this is fair to us. We all have so much invested that FTP should have NEVER been an option to begin with. Please take time to check the Forums and leave feedback. Also keep an eye out for the Petition to revoke FTP and sign it.

    Good luck with that - but I think petitions are against forum rules:(

    Cryptic does have a video response to this idea:P

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4
  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    1. Petitions are not allowed in the forums. Expect to see this shut down.
    2. I spent more on helping maintain the servers this month (buying Zen) than many LTS-ers but am apparently still part of the problem since I neither sub or am LTS.
    3. You have a STO STAFF?!?7
    "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
  • gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    You are kidding, right?? F2P is the best that has happend to this game, please you seem not to remember when atari was in charge!, i love to be free to Play now, and my family too, i wouldnt be able to Play with them if it where still paid.
    The forces of darkness are upon us!
  • quistraquistra Member Posts: 214 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    You have staff?

    Anyway, this is a total farce, and F2P has actually improved the game and driven up traffic and interest. No signature from me.
    The artist formerly known as PlanetofHats.
    Actual join date: Open beta, 2009ish.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Wait, you guys don't have staff? I get mine from Spherion. They do all the interviewing, background checks, etc, etc, etc. I just tell them what I need and they humor me... :cool:
  • gofasternowgofasternow Member Posts: 1,390 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    After all of the nerdrage and hatred and everything else, I NEEDED this laugh.
  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    op, while I try to be polite online I only have one reply to this. your an idiot.

    there would be no game without ftp. pre ftp it was actually going under. not the whiny doom mongering that we get now.

    I have a staff, got bored one summer and curved me one. good for knocking the fail out of some people.


    p.s. yes I like bad puns

    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • asovanraasovanra Member Posts: 139 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    You're better off generating a petition requiring that Crytpic let go certain employees who are directly responsible for the bottomless decline STO is on. What would happen if we all did such a thing?

    1. The person who creates the petition, banned for life from any game owned by cryptic.

    2. Any person who signs such a petition will also be banned for life from STO and the STO forums for "harrassing an employee"

    3. Cryptic will go on doing whatever it wants, laughing at every person it bans
  • krysinskikrysinski Member Posts: 18 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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  • spacegoatcx#8996 spacegoatcx
    spacegoatcx#8996
         Member Posts: 175 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    So let's get this straight:

    You somehow feel entitled to demand that PWE/Cryptic revoke the very thing that essentially rescued this game from certain doom and has seen it grow and expand extremely positively both in content as well as financial income for all involved.


    This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Perfect World Entertainment Community Rules and Policies . ~Bluegeek
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  • inkrunnerinkrunner Member Posts: 407 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    No.

    EDIT: Also, Forum TOS violation.
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  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPwxgml0Q3A

    That's my reply
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,965 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Some of the responses that came to me in regards to this thread, in no particular order:
    • Lolwut?
    • Dude, if a 6,000+ page thread asking for Cryptic to make the Galaxy-R actually usable doesn't get movement from Cryptic, something this absurd definitely won't.
    • Petitions are a terms and conditions violation. Have fun being temp banned.
    • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *passes out from lack of oxygen*
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    lerpyderp wrote: »
    You somehow feel entitled to demand that PWE/Cryptic revoke the very thing that essentially rescued this game from certain doom and has seen it grow and expand extremely positively both in content as well as financial income for all involved.


    This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Perfect World Entertainment Community Rules and Policies . ~Bluegeek

    hey thats mean


    <---- fails under alll 3 for the most part. :P

    dumb thing adding quotes from old posts

    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • peetapipmacpeetapipmac Member Posts: 2,131 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    His staff he says! Hahahahahaha!!!!!!
    It's not my fault if you feel trolled by my Disco ball... Sorry'boutit.



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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    I don't have a proper reaction pic to how bad this thread is. The facepalm just isn't enough. So there's that.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,965 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    I don't have a proper reaction pic to how bad this thread is. The facepalm just isn't enough. So there's that.

    How about this one?
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
    — Sabaton, "Great War"
    VZ9ASdg.png

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  • cptjhuntercptjhunter Member Posts: 2,288 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Darn, my flamethrower is in the shop for repairs.
    Troll crying about Trolling.(Golf clap)
    Thanks for the laughs OP.
  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    I don't have a proper reaction pic to how bad this thread is. The facepalm just isn't enough. So there's that.

    https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSEMgYK3TmdzubmBEJmDSjtcl5BZGNJegGZ-iZ5Ga02jtwWhGMl


    http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11112/111124372/3284524-3512358927-impli.jpg

    https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTSP4B5XP7jnHQ9BpwCCM0Oa0UPq6YWqp46yREncQZbrbHRHf8cZg

    https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQSA5gKnh7bVCC2C1k2URrRwfO3_RVEvLaEEQiFAhOKizLRvAmFOw

    any of these work for you?

    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • asovanraasovanra Member Posts: 139 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    lerpyderp wrote: »
    This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Perfect World Entertainment Community Rules and Policies . ~Bluegeek

    I will definatly take offense to this posting because it is harrassing the original poster. Do you know if the original poster is a "suburban white male"? So what if that original poster is a suburban white male, what does that have to do with anything? Is the original poster guilty of something for being or not being white?

    He? Has a gender been establshed? I don't believe so, and who cares if the comment was said by a male or female, what does it have to do with the actual complaint?

    Single? How do you know the original poster is single, and if this person is, what does being single have to do with the complaint? Are you trying to generate some harrasing claim against people whom are single?

    Unemployed? Why would this person be unemployed? Did the original poster say that he/she was unemployed? If the original poster was unemployed what does it have to do with the issue?

    I seriouly hope your comment is deleted and that your are banned from the forums; it's ignorent assumptions like these that really distract from the sharing of ideas on these forums. :mad:


    I need to remind people not to reply to any posts which violate forum rules ~ Bluegeek
  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    How about this one?


    http://www.bubblews.com/assets/images/news/565146340_1385946271.jpg]more like this one
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    http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1145998/star-trek-battles-channel-got-canon/p1
  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    asovanra wrote: »
    I will definatly take offense to this posting because it is harrassing the original poster. Do you know if the original poster is a "suburban white male"? So what if that original poster is a suburban white male, what does that have to do with anything? Is the original poster guilty of something for being or not being white?

    He? Has a gender been establshed? I don't believe so, and who cares if the comment was said by a male or female, what does it have to do with the actual complaint?

    Single? How do you know the original poster is single, and if this person is, what does being single have to do with the complaint? Are you trying to generate some harrasing claim against people whom are single?

    Unemployed? Why would this person be unemployed? Did the original poster say that he/she was unemployed? If the original poster was unemployed what does it have to do with the issue?

    I seriouly hope your comment is deleted and that your are banned from the forums; it's ignorent assumptions like these that really distract from the sharing of ideas on these forums. :mad:

    Boy tell us how you REALLY FEEL.
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    http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1145998/star-trek-battles-channel-got-canon/p1
  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    talonxv wrote: »
    http://www.bubblews.com/assets/images/news/565146340_1385946271.jpg]more like this one

    *coughs* beat you too it, 2nd link on mine :P

    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    nightken wrote: »
    *coughs* beat you too it, 2nd link on mine :P

    I noticed, but I like the caption on mine more.
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    Star Trek Battles member. Want to roll with a good group of people regardless of fleets and not have to worry about DPS while doing STFs? Come join the channel and join in the fun!

    http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1145998/star-trek-battles-channel-got-canon/p1
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    How about this one?

    It is not enough. This is the only facepalm that can deal with this thread.
  • ovinspaceovinspace Member Posts: 310
    edited June 2014
    The OP neither lists what problems are being referred to, how F2P is responsible and how removing F2P will correct things. My guess is that an equally likely scenario would be that demanding subscriptions sees many players leave, revenues drop and the resources to fix the unnamed issues are never produced.
  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    starkaos wrote: »
    It is not enough. This is the only facepalm that can deal with this thread.

    http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m499/fnawesomewes09/Cant-tell-if-troll-or-just-stupid.jpg This could work too
    afMSv4g.jpg
    Star Trek Battles member. Want to roll with a good group of people regardless of fleets and not have to worry about DPS while doing STFs? Come join the channel and join in the fun!

    http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1145998/star-trek-battles-channel-got-canon/p1
  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    also good job everyone for uniting againstthis level of fail instead of joining in.

    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • contrarydecisioncontrarydecision Member Posts: 274 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    asovanra wrote: »
    I seriouly hope your comment is deleted and that your are banned from the forums; it's ignorent assumptions like these that really distract from the sharing of ideas on these forums. :mad:

    What part of this pointless and stupid idea to somehow REVOKE FREE TO PLAY as the game's business model is deserving of being shared, let alone deserving of being spared from the ridicule it deserves?
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