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Elite Dangerous coming soon. What is Cryptic doing to keep players at STO???
stuart1965
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Recently I saw the trailer for Elite Dangerous which is coming real soon,and it looks really great.
The bit that particularly appealed to me,was about 400 billion star systems or planets to explore and find. I looked at the patch notes for it,and there are alot more tweaks and fixes than STO.
Alot more bugs are sorted out too.
CRYPTIC,please wake up and smell the coffee,and get something drastically done about STO,the bugs, server not responding alot, rubberbanding etc.
Cryptic need to stop living in a world of denial all the time,or it will mean many players leaving STO. Get the game sorted out properly and no half baked jobs.
Communicate with the playerbase and update them regularly.
Less players on here means less money for cryptic/pwe. think about it.
The bit that particularly appealed to me,was about 400 billion star systems or planets to explore and find. I looked at the patch notes for it,and there are alot more tweaks and fixes than STO.
Alot more bugs are sorted out too.
CRYPTIC,please wake up and smell the coffee,and get something drastically done about STO,the bugs, server not responding alot, rubberbanding etc.
Cryptic need to stop living in a world of denial all the time,or it will mean many players leaving STO. Get the game sorted out properly and no half baked jobs.
Communicate with the playerbase and update them regularly.
Less players on here means less money for cryptic/pwe. think about it.
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Or just google it
https://www.elitedangerous.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm_0S9hNMMc
Launches 16th, next week.
ED is a Sim rather then an RPG. It will be great for people who like that style of play - but just as STO is still here even though Eve is around it will still be here when ED, and eventually SC, comes out.
STO it and will be my favorite game, the rest are secondary...
Oh yeah, [X] game is coming out soon! Y'all better watch out now! The hype's gonna get ya! CHOO CHOO!
I look at Eve, and think about how that should crush STO.
I look at Star Citizen, and think about how that should crush STO.
I look at Dreadnought, and think about how that should crush STO.
Heck, I look at Spore, and think about how it would crush STO if it were a modern MMO.
But in the end, none will crush STO because none have the Trek logo on them. The only reason anyone forks over money into this hideous system is because it is thinly wrapped in Trek names and looks. The only thing that could crush STO is another Trek MMO, or PWE's own stupidity. I am inclined to believe it will be the latter.
Aye, everything is awesome!
The thing about that game is (a) it's new, and hence buggier than STO during LoR's release turned up to eleven, and (b) it uses the Genesis engine to make those random star systems.
You remember the Genesis engine? The piece of technology responsible for the Third Borg Dynasty?
I'm no Cryptic fan; I loathe the upgrade system's price factor, and the ongoing skill points issues are freaking annoying, and I'm not afraid to tell them when they TRIBBLE up, but posts like this are really, really hilarious and for all the wrong reasons.
You want to know why there are so many bug fixes in ED? It's because it's buggier than a Louisiana swamp. The thing with STO is that all of the easy bugs have been fixed already; the only ones left are those annoying ones so deeply embedded in thousands of bits of code that fixing, say, the Tides of Ice completion issues broke it entirely.
ED just has a metric butt ton of easy-fix bugs on top of all the hard stuff.
And as for 400 billion star systems...yeah, right. More like 5 or 6 missions with different art, over and over and freaking over.
No, thanks. I'll stick with STO, despite its issues.
Cryptic will do nothing about it, devs are waiting for ED as much as the next person. THEY LOVE IT!
It's not really a world of denial, it's a world of a licensed IP that will always have a built-in fanbase and therefore playerbase.
As long as they can get some of the massive world of Trekkies to pay insane prices, it's always an inverted Kobayashi Maru as far as the profits are concerned.
They could completely stop development now, and as long as they cut the staff down to just CS while continuing to use a shared systems team amongst their games, this game could probably remain profitable on life support for a decade or more.
Games with no major IP license (*cough* Anarchy Online *cough*) have managed to adopt this model and remain cashflow positive for almost that long. No reason for PWE to do much more than milk the franchise except in cases they can expect huge day one metrics and sales.
Yeah, that happens all the time when another game is around that has even the most remote commonalities with STO.
Elite Dangerous is not an MMORPG. It's a space sim. you fly mostly smaller ships with small or single man crews, try to get rich trading, pirating, body guarding or bounty hunting.
It's not a Star Trek game. It doesn't have Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans, Starfleet, Phasers, Photon Torpedoes, Quantum Torpedoes, Q, Borg, Betazoids, Changlins, Jem'Hardar, Cardassians, Defiants, Galaxy Class ships, Vor'Chas, Bird of Preys and so much more that is part of Star Trek.
I am sure some people here will want to check out Elite Dangerous. Some may stick with it, because they were always more interested in a simulation game, prefer flying your own privately owned armed freighter over a huge starship representing a galactic nation, and they were never that much into the Star Trek trappings.
This is probably due to my personal preferences, but I think Dreadnought looks the most like a STO rival simply due its gameplay. It is also "tall ship combat", and they seem to have a neat mix of space magic in it like Star Trek Online. Unlike STO, the setting will likely work relatively well with the space magic they have. Though if it doesn't have to offer "story play" with PVE and all and becomes focused singularly on arena fights (like Star Trek Online PvP) the gameplay might turn stale, ultimately. That said, I think STO PvP fans should look very closely at that title, it could be what they always wanted.
But... It's no Star Trek either. It will have to establish its own IP and that could prove challenging, and is likely not very helpful from a marketing point of view.
I call for the names of the powers on high. Move this thread or let it die. Smirk, Askray, Geek of Blue, I call forth the power of one of you. Guardian Spirits of the Forums, STRIKE!
I'd argue that not trying out something you may be interested in just because of pure pointless spite towards some random person on the internet that you'll probably never see or meet in your life is equally naive as believing that it is ED that will bring STO down.
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From what i have seen it has nice movement mechanics, but STO has star trek and actual diversity in ship types amongst other things.
And even if ED was a credible rival then how do you suggest STO changes overnight? They have an existing engine and models to work with so it is not as IF they could change rapidly.
Some will play STO some Elite some SWTOR and others play STO + Elite + SWTOR. It's a misbelief that the release of Elite will crush any game. Every game has target customers.
I agree with this. I would try it if real exploring is in the game. Not just the same cookie cutter TRIBBLE in every quadrant.
Both being niche titles, I don't see them making a dent in STO.
agreed, now if ED or SC had a star trek licence things would be different...people play STO because of trek, not because it is a particularly good game.
There is probably a higher probability that MMOs create their own dents without other games touching them.
And THAT'S the reason I will never play ED. Ever.
OMGERD that brings back memories... bad memories...
Too bad it's PvP, or I would tell Geko what he can do with his game.