Yes, because they haven't had the tech to update it yet. Geko confirmed that will change though, however. Besides, so what? That doesn't have anything to do with R&D.
Again, so what?
Well considering that it is different now(as in it changed a lot since the alpha version nearly a month ago), yes I do.
Cryptic is a business. They need to make money to keep the game running and provide salaries to their employees. It's hardly "milking Star Trek Online players for all their money", as nothing in the game except subscription bonuses requires players to spend any money at all. They're not extreme about it at all. No P2W at all in this game. If you wanna play a P2W game, play Flyff or PWI. STO's monetization is tame compared to those games.
They have? Where? How?
Wait what?
But they haven't. They're still working on a lot of areas and have implemented updates for many game features. The crafting update being the most glaringly obvious one as of recently. The exploration cluster removal was specifically to get rid of content that wasn't on par with the rest of the game so they could replace it with a new system. Your claim makes no sense when examining facts.
That's not an exploit. That's benefiting Foundry content creators and players alike. It's a mutually beneficial method.
Games lose players all the time. But it's also important to take into account players that are joining and staying.
Know what. Don't respond to any of my post, live in your happy, foundry self-promotion land.
In my defense, I've been playing since 2011 so I missed that one. Still, my point kinda' stands because since I've been playing STO, which is around 3 years by now, the practice of releasing .5 season releases was not present until the beginning of this year.
And also the point stands because if we take the assumption that Cryptic wanted to do the update quietly without any announcements for real, then calling the thing S9.5 in a blog is a bit redundant.
Time to close this thread, I think... it is now redundant and obsolete.
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Know what. Don't respond to any of my post, live in your happy, foundry self-promotion land.
Man, that's ancient! :eek:
In my defense, I've been playing since 2011 so I missed that one. Still, my point kinda' stands because since I've been playing STO, which is around 3 years by now, the practice of releasing .5 season releases was not present until the beginning of this year.
And also the point stands because if we take the assumption that Cryptic wanted to do the update quietly without any announcements for real, then calling the thing S9.5 in a blog is a bit redundant.
Translation: I can't argue with you so I'm going to insult you, stick my fingers in my ears and yell la la la
Not even that. I don't want to argue with someone who can't form some basis on agreement. Even if the agreement is that we disagree.
I just know what Foundry missions not to play.
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