I haven't spent any money is over 2 years here, the game has been going in the wrong direction that long.. can they turn it around? No way. Just look at all the whales in this thread, shame on them for supporting the disgusting actions of cryptic.
I haven't spent any money because they game is a money grab, I'm against that. I make more than enough money to become a whale if I wanted, but its not intelligent or responsible.
Sad part is that for all the whales that just got harpooned, more will take their place.
The even sader part, when PWE took over, it was known their game model burned out games in 4-5 years, then the get put on life support. Judging by Stahl's jump ship and new project, this game is on the path to life support, the new missions are really poorly made, the quality of what we got is terrible, and no investment into game client has been made in a long time. So as the bugs pile to toppling levels, do you really think cryptic cares? They aren't here to make the game fun or enjoyable, because they've never tried to do that.
Nice analogy...where's moby **** when you need it. Cryptic is as blind as Captain Ahab and don't see the repercusion of the silent players who ALREADY left STO :mad:
Are they truly silent, or actively warning people on venues other than the forum not to join the game? Definitely a factor Cryptic should worry about. On average a dissatisfied customer tells a HUGE number of people about their experience and it takes at least 10 happy customers to at least break even with that. And that may be a generous figure, as when I learned that in school, so owl media was nowhere near the force that it is now.
In other words, especially with the outlay I suspect Cryptic had to make (lots of voice and likeness rights in addition to normal development costs), this could have a real, devastating impact on Cryptic's ability to recoup its investment if things do not change in a sustained manner for the better.
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I can't decide which is most laughable, crafting or upgrading
On one hand crafting has the missing promised modifiers, but then upgrading costs millions of dil - per character
They also wanted crafting to be crafting; to deconstruct items for materials, so it was released entirely unfinished but upgrading kills modifers and there are items not working
You could probably build 11x t5 starbases for the dil cost of upgrading 2 rear weapons but then crafting time-gates are like 8 months.
Both are un-finished, copy-paste recycled content dil lottery sink timegates so it's really hard to decide
What happens if they have another expansion similar to LoR in a year, but adding a Cardassian faction?
After LoR, people made new characters, leveled them up, bought them stuff- in many cases a lot of nice stuff.
A fourth faction (or "faction") now, though? A new character is all the work it was before, then all that work doubled by 50-60 leveling, then all that work doubled *again* via the upgrade system, and after all that work you're still at an instant and huge disadvantage thanks to the specialization system. A disadvantage that can never be made up
Somehow I do not see long-term success in these systems.
What happens if they have another expansion similar to LoR in a year, but adding a Cardassian faction?
After LoR, people made new characters, leveled them up, bought them stuff- in many cases a lot of nice stuff.
A fourth faction (or "faction") now, though? A new character is all the work it was before, then all that work doubled by 50-60 leveling, then all that work doubled *again* via the upgrade system, and after all that work you're still at an instant and huge disadvantage thanks to the specialization system. A disadvantage that can never be made up
Somehow I do not see long-term success in these systems.
You bring up a good point. DR has pretty much killed alts (at least, for anything other than doffing). No one but the super-rich can afford to upgrade their alts the way they did their mains. Peeps are not going to be so keen any more rolling an entire new, fully decked out toon.
Yeah, sadly unless there are major adjustments I cannot see a workable new faction at this point.
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Nice analogy...where's moby **** when you need it. Cryptic is as blind as Captain Ahab and don't see the repercusion of the silent players who ALREADY left STO :mad:
In other words, especially with the outlay I suspect Cryptic had to make (lots of voice and likeness rights in addition to normal development costs), this could have a real, devastating impact on Cryptic's ability to recoup its investment if things do not change in a sustained manner for the better.
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On one hand crafting has the missing promised modifiers, but then upgrading costs millions of dil - per character
They also wanted crafting to be crafting; to deconstruct items for materials, so it was released entirely unfinished but upgrading kills modifers and there are items not working
You could probably build 11x t5 starbases for the dil cost of upgrading 2 rear weapons but then crafting time-gates are like 8 months.
Both are un-finished, copy-paste recycled content dil lottery sink timegates so it's really hard to decide
After LoR, people made new characters, leveled them up, bought them stuff- in many cases a lot of nice stuff.
A fourth faction (or "faction") now, though? A new character is all the work it was before, then all that work doubled by 50-60 leveling, then all that work doubled *again* via the upgrade system, and after all that work you're still at an instant and huge disadvantage thanks to the specialization system. A disadvantage that can never be made up
Somehow I do not see long-term success in these systems.
You bring up a good point. DR has pretty much killed alts (at least, for anything other than doffing). No one but the super-rich can afford to upgrade their alts the way they did their mains. Peeps are not going to be so keen any more rolling an entire new, fully decked out toon.
Greed comes before a fall.
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