Smirks Live stream -THIS FRIDAY;

dius1981

So Smirks live stream this Friday - 21st November.

How many disappointed customers will turn up I wonder?

Will he gloss over the TERRIBLE Delta Grinding, post launch concerns / complaints from customers?

Will he address issues with the new T6 Pathfinder variant?

'Why wasn't this ship included in Delta Rising pack?'

'I just bought the Intrepid pack, why wasnt I told a T6 variant was coming out?'

'I just upgraded my Fleet Intrepid to T5u, why wasnt I told before I did that a T6 Intrepid was in the works?'

'Is this shocking turn of events a sign of things to come, will we be buying all our ship again as a T6 variant? At a premium price?'

If you could ask Smirk just 1 question, what would it be?

Im going just to see what he has to say.

Popcorn and booze, at the read Captains...:D

D,

knuhteb5

dius1981 wrote: »

So Smirks live stream this Friday - 21st November.

How many disappointed customers will turn up I wonder?

Will he gloss over the TERRIBLE Delta Grinding, post launch concerns / complaints from customers?

Will he address issues with the new T6 Pathfinder variant?

'Why wasn't this ship included in Delta Rising pack?'

'I just bought the Intrepid pack, why wasnt I told a T6 variant was coming out?'

'I just upgraded my Fleet Intrepid to T5u, why wasnt I told before I did that a T6 Intrepid was in the works?'

'Is this shocking turn of events a sign of things to come, will we be buying all our ship again as a T6 variant? At a premium price?'

If you could ask Smirk just 1 question, what would it be?

Im going just to see what he has to say.

Popcorn and booze, at the read Captains...:D

D,

A smart businessman would have offered the T5U upgrades for cheaper and/or purchasing a T5u would give you a discount on the future t6 variant of the same ship. People would have bought a lot more T5U Tokens across their alts and wouldn't feel as ripped off as they do now. Better yet, delta rising should have been delayed until more t6 ships were ready for launch, but that ship has sailed. Essentially, STO's T5U and T6 controversies boil down to bad business practices and poor communication. We should have been told T6 and T6 Fleet were coming out before T5U was offered and T5U shouldn't have been as expensive.

How much dipping do we even have going on now?

In the case of the intrepid:

T4, T5, T5U, now T6, and eventually Fleet T6. That's quintuple dipping and Cryptic should be ashamed that they are selling pixels at such a high rate.

dius1981

knuhteb5 wrote: »

How much dipping do we even have going on now?

In the case of the intrepid:

T4, T5, T5U, now T6, and eventually Fleet T6. That's quintuple dipping and Cryptic should be ashamed that they are selling pixels at such a high rate.

A perfect summary of things to come.

This Live Stream should certainly be lively...;)
Can't wait LOLz

D,

knuhteb5

dius1981 wrote: »

A perfect summary of things to come.

This Live Stream should certainly be lively...;)
Can't wait LOLz

D,

I'm sure smirk will employ Cryptic's oft used duck and dodge technique of posting a vague, semi-conciliatory response on the forums about how they're looking into it and that it will be "addressed." I'm sure they'll put these issues on the proverbial front burner or radar, and it will be the main topic during "brain storming" sessions. Can't wait!!!!!

banatine

I kind of want to watch the livestream just to watch the people tear it apart. I hope that there are so many angry voices that they simply don't have the time or patience to shut them all up.

That said, It's not fair to take all that rage out on Smirk and Trendy, they are just trotted out to say what they are told to say. They have little to no real infuence on cryptic, so it's a bit like punching the dummy because you hate the puppeteer...

dius1981

banatine wrote: »

I kind of want to watch the livestream just to watch the people tear it apart. I hope that there are so many angry voices that they simply don't have the time or patience to shut them all up.

^^ This...

I know a fleet or 2 that will be there to voice their concerns... more or less

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lordmalak1

knuhteb5 wrote: »

A smart businessman would have offered the T5U upgrades for cheaper and/or purchasing a T5u would give you a discount on the future t6 variant of the same ship. People would have bought a lot more T5U Tokens across their alts and wouldn't feel as ripped off as they do now. Better yet, delta rising should have been delayed until more t6 ships were ready for launch, but that ship has sailed. Essentially, STO's T5U and T6 controversies boil down to bad business practices and poor communication. We should have been told T6 and T6 Fleet were coming out before T5U was offered and T5U shouldn't have been as expensive.

How much dipping do we even have going on now?

In the case of the intrepid:

T4, T5, T5U, now T6, and eventually Fleet T6. That's quintuple dipping and Cryptic should be ashamed that they are selling pixels at such a high rate.

If they're not double-dipping, how can they make money ?

Whales can only feed them for so long.

stardestroyer001

I'm tempted to show up and add something to the "discussion" as well.

dius1981 wrote: »

If you could ask Smirk just 1 question, what would it be?

Damn that's a hard one. The best one I could think of right now is,

"When will the new content be rebalanced for PvP?"

But I know the answer will be either, "it is balanced, stfu fool", or "We're working on that! Please buy more T6 ships so we can get better metrics on what needs to be fixed". Either answer is unsatisfying.

EDIT: "When will your management place greater accountability on the Devs*, so the player base has a reason to trust their work and continue playing this game?"

*substitute Devs for a single Dev name. Y'all know who I mean.

tacofangs

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

aoax10

tacofangs wrote: »

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

I am hoping this is sarcasm since the new floor was never brought up. lol

xiaoping88

tacofangs wrote: »

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

I love your work. I really do.

And here is the "but": this game got serious, serious problems. I won't be part of the crowd voicing those concerns via that channel, but I totally understand if the lifestream will be hijacked.
You can only ignore your community that much. Not you personally, but I think you know what I am talking about.

khamseenair

tacofangs wrote: »

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

I'm bringing a party nullifier just to be the guy who stands in the corner and refuses to party. :P

admrenlarreck

Taco based on the posts that Ive seen here, you better bring the flame proof suit. Sounds like you are going to need it.

wast33

khamseenair wrote: »

I'm bringing a party nullifier just to be the guy who stands in the corner and refuses to party. :P

< luvs ya lmao (really did)

1 question? ok... how about: "when will we see ANYTHING for pvp, and if it's just a livestream event?"

solarwraith

tacofangs wrote: »

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

Oh there will be excitement at that livestream, just not for Club 47; there are going to be a lot of Johnny Storm impersonations I suspect.

aoax10

wast33 wrote: »

< luvs ya lmao (really did)

1 question? ok... how about: "when will we see ANYTHING for pvp, and if it's just a livestream event?"

I think since the way things are going, PVP is slowly being taken out of the game for it's final end. No more PVP.

solarwraith

aoax10 wrote: »

I think since the way things are going, PVP is slowly being taken out of the game for it's final end. No more PVP.

PVP? What's that?

coolheadal

Live Streaming is merely a way to build a Better Online Gaming Experience by Boosting Morale in Game Players. Game Players don’t feel motivated to participate in the Online Game, productivity drops and absenteeism rises. Their lack of enthusiasm has a big impact on your bottom line.

Whether you attend or not is really up to you? No one can force you to attend. But in all good online game player would attend though.

Scoring Points is really a concern with me taking so long to level up on my KDF and ROM to level 59 to 60. Like even if I did all prior missions to get to level 50 the scoring on repeated missions is only like 675 and 1K if you do older patrols in the Alpha-Q instead of Delta-Q.

svindal777

dius1981 wrote: »

So Smirks live stream this Friday - 21st November.

How many disappointed customers will turn up I wonder?
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Hasn't really been very many on any of the 2 or 3 others that have been done since DR launched.

wast33

aoax10 wrote: »

I think since the way things are going, PVP is slowly being taken out of the game for it's final end. No more PVP. [...]

heresy! "pewpewpew", u die :P ... seriously: i know ... though a question that not could be asked often enough imo!

dius1981

tacofangs wrote: »

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

I lold.

I like u Taco, I really do. Your the only one at the moment who regularly interact with us.

So wanna take this opportunity to say - Thank You... For bucking the trend.

I can honestly say none of the negativity, for my part at least, will be directed at you my friend.

That said, you have a lot of angry customers here...

We will be vocal, & hopefully heard.
Count on it...

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sunfrancks

tacofangs wrote: »

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

Looking forward to all the exciting and new things we can do, other than the dancing we could do before! :P

mightybobcnc

Hey Taco, what does the shader network for the floor lighting look like? :P

dius1981

rushatsi wrote: »

dear dius 'n' friends,

smirk dont know nutin'... don't waste ur breath. keep it up, u only make urselves look like jerks.

Teeeeheee

Smirk... is that you on your private account.
For shame

Jk

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coolheadal

See you all going to check it no matter what, because it's live and you like to see where they're thinking is today in STO! See you all there then..

cervantx

tacofangs wrote: »

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

Yay because thats its what Star Trek is all about, go boldly to useless areas of the ESD to dance and enjoy yourself.

coupaholic

That's the new club thing right? If Smirk is smart, he'd stick to the script and nothing else. That's what I'd do at least. Even attempting to answer minor questions would be playing with fire.

Nah, just sit back and let chat go to hell. The viewer numbers will still climb so as far as Cryptic is concerned it'll be a success regardless.

aoax10

coupaholic wrote: »

That's the new club thing right? If Smirk is smart, he'd stick to the script and nothing else. That's what I'd do at least. Even attempting to answer minor questions would be playing with fire.

Nah, just sit back and let chat go to hell. The viewer numbers will still climb so as far as Cryptic is concerned it'll be a success regardless.

A successful failure at that. It will be a hate rate.

hyperionx09

All I care about is if we get an account-wide Tron/Daft Punk costume that we see a patron wearing in one of the preview pics.

And if they will fix the procs on RomPlas DBBs and CorPlas DBBs and Torpedo.

And if we'll get a Guardian X. I'll pay 3000 for a Guardian X. It just needs to keep GWellI capability.

And a Jupiter 3 pack consisting of Tac Cannon Broadsider that would rival a possible Vaadwaur Cannon Broadsider, an Eng Siege Dreadnought that would put both the Galaxy X and theoretical Guardian X to shame BFG-wise, and a Sci Defiant Supercarrier variant with 2-3 Defiant "frigate" hangars. I'd pay for that too.

And T6 Odyssey, Vesta, Dysons, Bortesqu, Scimitar, and Andorian Escort packs replacing the existing T5 ones with free upgrades for existing pack owners to T6. Because I sure as hell am not paying for separate packs when the existing ones are 90% there already (just missing a Mastery trait, extra BO station, and a Hybrid/Intel station) unless each pack offer 3 Epic Rarity Class/Intel Boffs with 4 Superior Space traits (one Tac/Sci/Eng each), include a Lt.Cmdr Universal/Universal Spec Boff slot on each ship (for compatibility with existing and future Specializations), and 2 Epic Rarity Doffs themed to each ship pack.

Oh, and most importantly (well, importantly after the Tron suit), if we can just buy Nerve Tonics at the Club 47 bar.

medalionemissary

tacofangs wrote: »

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

Unlike others, I am not expecting Smiirk and you to suddenly address every complaint on the forum in a PR livestream event celebrating something positive

So yes, we will all break out disco balls at the new Club 47

angrytarg

tacofangs wrote: »

I'm really glad to see so many of you are so excited to join in my livestream tomorrow to show off and talk about the new Club 47! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys grooving on the dancefloor, and enjoying yourselves.

That's a sneaky way of saying "and we'll only talk about the new Club 47!", right?