I am really unsure if this game would survive another Delta Rising. One year into it with close observation in my friendliest of about 250 players from all different countries and standing grand me the following observation: For every single player I know who enthusiastically went for what the expansion had to offer I have two more displayed in the offline roster which turned their back on the game because of it.
… just saying.
True we also get new peeps, not tired of the grinds and somewhat excited but I simply doubt that the whole magnitude of entertainment this game offers does not justify the trouble one has to go through which would come with a Tier 7 level and power creep iteration. It barley does so now.
I really think the entire game itself would simply not be "worth" it. Sorry Cryptic.
For Cryptic it's also a question of whether STO would survive without another Delta Rising, or rather a ship tier increase. A big part of STO's financing is lockboxes because they contain ships and C-Store ships. Ships are where the real money is. But if everyone has his canon favourite ship as Tier 6 ship Fleet ship, the market is being saturated and the sales go down.
Maybe they could invent something new that makes them money via lockboxes and the C-Store, but don't give in to any illusiosn - chances are good then that you will spend as much money on STO as you do now, just on something different.
Personally I find rebuying ships with new custome parts a lot more attractive than buying some new stand-alone ships without customization options.
Aside from the Strike and Recon ship as tier 6 successors to the original bug ship we have yet to see a single Tier 6 version of lock box ships to be released. If canon ships sell so well I’d also go for the option to tinker around with their stats/layouts/consoles/specializations a bit. If they do it in too short intervalls peeps will be annoyed, if they do it in long term intervals it could work fine. If I remember correctly they even did so with the Tier 5 fleet patrol escort some time ago which was released a second time near the end of the tier 5 lifetime and nobody complained.
Another increase in tier/level right along with a reset in in game difficulty again? No chance because too many seem to struggle there already.
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Aside from the Strike and Recon ship as tier 6 successors to the original bug ship we have yet to see a single Tier 6 version of lock box ships to be released. If canon ships sell so well I’d also go for the option to tinker around with their stats/layouts/consoles/specializations a bit. If they do it in too short intervalls peeps will be annoyed, if they do it in long term intervals it could work fine. If I remember correctly they even did so with the Tier 5 fleet patrol escort some time ago which was released a second time near the end of the tier 5 lifetime and nobody complained.
Another increase in tier/level right along with a reset in in game difficulty again? No chance because too many seem to struggle there already.
Looking for a fun PvE fleet? Join us at Omega Combat Division today.