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A letter to Cryptic and the mods
lystent
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As some of you know I was insta banned for a grammatical mistake. I have done a formal apology, and that that got me insta banned again (for discussion of moderation and posting private correspondence... whatever that was. I attempted to debate that charge, but never got a word once the ticket got moved to the moderators. Also, it has as bad punishment as 'hate speech'). Now I got a word for your deft ears, and I know it will get me banned as well. But anything will get me banned anymore, because I am on your list. It is a shame things have to be like this. Especially since I was only trying to help you. To be honest, you guys are pretty freaking hilarious! Pathetic, but hilarious. See, you guys have totally lost your plot. You lost your plot when making the more recent alterations to the game.That got people like me complaining. We were complaining because we wanted the game to be better, not worst! But you ignored us and made the game even more worst. And worst than that, you stuck with some dirty play. Silencing us, for reasons you searched hard for. You worked hard to find dirt so you can silence us. And you think silencing us makes everything better? Do dead ques and an angsty community look better to you? You folks have been doing many bad things against your players and need to stop before you are in the red. Yes. In the red. Your tactics may be keeping you in the black now, but you have one heckuva bite coming up. You folks need to fix your ways and restrengthen your community before that bite hits, or else it is your job. If you try a new game, your reputation may follow you and curse you further. You want that risk? I played STO because it was a good game. I stopped playing STO because it is a bad game. Just another failing WoW as far as I am concerned. Prove me wrong! Rebuild this game!
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Seriously some people don't know how to let things go.
Listen, we cannot let these people be like this. It is bad for us, them, and the game.
Your problem, which you clearly show by being unable to even drop something that you know will get you banned, is that you cannot let go. STO is never going to be what you want it to be. Cryptic will try to make as much money as they can from STO before the license runs out in 2018 and then that will probably be the end of it. PW has a life expectancy for all their games. It is planned that way.
You can accept it for what it is or you can bang your head against a nail. The choice is all yours, and only yours.
What proof do you have that the game is doing badly? and the Steam Charts are not an accurate source.
You wouldn't go to a Construction site and tell the workers there how to properly construct a building, so what makes you qualified to tell the Devs how to build their own game?
That doesn't make you qualified to teach Game design to game developers, your "Suggestions" make the game better in "your eyes".
And again what proof do you have that the game is in a bad state?
I don't know what you did, but it must have been nothing short of bludgeoning a baby to death.. with the body of another baby.
I'm shocked to see that it's even possible to get banned in a game that has no in game GM's and no moderation at all outside of the forums.
90% of the conversation in Zone chat would get people banned from any other MMO in existence. I seriously can't imagine what you must have done.
Gotcha, that makes more sense.. thank you.
You can literally do anything you want in game, it's a complete free for all.
Maybe it is all my years of experience with finding what makes a good game, or maybe it is, oh I don't know, my college education perhaps, or maybe it is watching this game sour on many players over that time I have known it. This game is not what it use to be, and I may not have the right to complain about it, but I have the obligation to do so, like many other players. I know some gamers personally who looked at this game. One person couldn't stick with the game long enough to reach endgame, another shrivels at the sight of pay/time gates (which is what STO really has become). Have you really asked yourself what STO is underneath those pay/time gates? It was a whole lot more back then, but how about now? And have you asked yourself what the developers have in their power to accomplish in improving this game? As a game writer, I feel very deeply that there can be much done with this game, if the developers put their heart to it, and put their wallet's thoughts on a leash.
Trollolol.
Edit: This is not a troll thread, this is an open letter.
If you have a college education in game design then why don't you apply for a job at Cryptic and fix the game yourself?
I don't exactly trust your judgement, and once again I'm still waiting on proof that the game really is in a bad state and not just your opinion of it.
Saying that players are going "sour" on it is a symptom not proof, do you have any proof whatsoever? any facts to go on besides your "expert" (and I''m using that term loosely) opinion?
Or am I just talking to a lamp post? allbeit a very stubborn lamp post.
Anyways, what is it that you hope to accomplish?
You say that without the slightest bit of irony.
Hey now. The University of Phoenix online college, has helped thousands of fast food fry cooks move up to ringing the cash register, with their business degree program.
Show some respect.:P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM
Damnit Virus I'm trying to be serious but that is making me want to smile.
There is now way I'll work for a company that puts profit ahead of gameplay (this tells you on how much faith I have in this letter). As for proof, have you ever noticed how hard it was to avoid those signatures that said "Delta Rising is the best expansion ever, and the players love it" right after DR hit?
Also, took a while to dig these up:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1355081&page=2
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1354391
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1353311
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1352301
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1350981
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1348561
I could go on for hours...
Yeah I knew you'd use the Forums as proof *sigh*
Okay...
The Forums are NOT an accurate representation of player opinion, not only do a small percentage of players visit the forums but players usually only come to the forums to talk about something they are unhappy with so of course most of the people on the forums are complaining, its always been that way even pre DR, every time a new season is released there is a flood of forum posts on how the game is "failing" this is just the latest example.
Everyone who is happy with the game is playing it and not on the forums, so I'll ask once more what proof do you have that the game is in a bad state?
And P.S I also had a Signature poking fun at Delta Rising and the apparent "success" of it's release but that was just a funny gimmick it was not a reflection of my true opinion, Delta Rising had it's strong and weak point like any other season.
You are a gift to the STO forums. Never change.
Couldn't even guess at how many games I've left since starting with UO back in '97...heh, but UO was the first game that I left because they made a change I didn't like.
Some games I've left haven't done well, some shutdown, some are still muddling along, some are still going strong, and some have even grown.
And it's not just about games I've left...there are games that left me - those games that I was enjoying that got shutdown as well.
It happens...turnover, leaving, coming, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Not "just" the upset people but mostly so, when people are unhappy with a game they often use the forums to give voice to their concerns and you claim that that STO used to be a "good game" but people have been crying and complaining about the game since it was first released that hasn't changed, I've been coming to the forums for years and it's the same every season.
And me? I'm here for the Nerd rage, thankyou for giving me my daily fix. :rolleyes:
BTW, my fleet died. Becoming a trend though. Get in a fleet, it dies, get in another, it dies, so on, so forth. Friend list also kaput. If you are telling me that the game is not failing, then why is this so?
Also, this subject is not what really peebs me; It is the way some of us has been treated. So of us would like to see the game improved. Some of us would like to see major improvements in the beta tests (like bug screening, and other responses to player feedback). It is not just that they are ignoring us, but it also seems like they get mad at us for giving "I don't like this" as feedback.
It is just too bad that the original Coke was banned a few years after it was released.