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Some news would be nice.
emacsheadroom
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I know the hard working folks down at Cryptic studios just got done releasing the game for console, but I still find the lack of any substantial news disappointing. We did after all just celebrate Trek's 50th anniversary and all the devs had to say about it was "Yay! Here's a TOS pack!"
Now I'm not insulting the free gift, or suggesting it wasn't enough. Far from it. But I would've liked to see a little more acknowledgement inside and outside of the game that Trek is now 50. A Q appearance would've been good. A one-off special mission for all players would've been even better. A week long celebration event besides the Mirror Invasion grind would've been best. I think the 50th deserves a lot more recognition than Cryptic has given it, which has been barely any.
And how bout some dev blogs hinting at the future of the game? Agents of Yesterday is old news. Even the news for console has been barely more than "It's finally here, have fun!" while they work on the first big patch to fix the worst bugs. Hey, how about some updates on the new lighting for PC and anything that's coming along with that?
Now I'm not insulting the free gift, or suggesting it wasn't enough. Far from it. But I would've liked to see a little more acknowledgement inside and outside of the game that Trek is now 50. A Q appearance would've been good. A one-off special mission for all players would've been even better. A week long celebration event besides the Mirror Invasion grind would've been best. I think the 50th deserves a lot more recognition than Cryptic has given it, which has been barely any.
And how bout some dev blogs hinting at the future of the game? Agents of Yesterday is old news. Even the news for console has been barely more than "It's finally here, have fun!" while they work on the first big patch to fix the worst bugs. Hey, how about some updates on the new lighting for PC and anything that's coming along with that?
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That's all pretty lackluster. We've just seen how the new lights will look. Not whether they're being released along with other things, or when they'll arrive. And the Temporal rep hints don't hint at anything. They're just little anecdotes referencing well-known Trek characters and stories.
Thanks, Cryptic, for the 50th Anniversary Celebration that Agents of Yesterday is!
First of all, the stories have to go on or the game stagnates, so you're comment is asinine. Secondly, I'm expecting news updates of any kind, not a big fancy game expansion or season 12 tomorrow.
Players have had plenty of time to exhaust themselves on AoY content before the anniversary, so AoY doesn't count. There should've been a unique event of some kind last week.
Like you said, they (Devs) just had a big release on console last week, why don't you allow them a little time to rest, but it is easier to insult.
It's easy to make an observation that a comment is asinine. Hardly in the realm of insults.
AoY doesn't count?
TOS sets, uniforms, visuals, sound effect, stories, Walter Koenig .... don't count?
You're entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to disagree 100%.
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What blogs? The storyline stuff? That stuff is pointless. The temporal arc is done. It's over. Old news. Time to move forward. We know nothing about season 12 or anything concrete happening to the game leading up to Christmas. It's now the middle of September. In two and a half weeks, we enter into Q4. The year is winding down. Trump will be president in a couple of months. All we know about STO right now is the lights will get prettier... soon™.
If you think disagreeing with you is being wrathful...
You are asinine.
You... do realize that this is Cryptic we're talking about. Words that are going on about in the near future is tricky since the don't like to say much until they do know they have something nailed down. If they say "oh this is coming soon" then we ask for a release date. Kind of like the console version, people kept asking for a release date for months in other places.
It may not be the same thing to you, but that expansion was made with 50 years of Star Trek in mind.
As well as a love letter to the series that kicked off the legend, and the universe we know, love, and have had the honor of experiencing for 50 years.
While I have never watched any of the TOS episodes, it still brings a smile to my face each time i hear the effects, or play one of the missions. As not only is it showing love to those who first started watching Star Trek when it first started. It is also showing everything that has happened since then.
If that's true then the future of STO will be the least of our worries!
I'll never understand the whole "cash grab" argument. This game is still the most free game of all the FTP games on the market, and there's no purchase required to play the game in its entirety. Sure, they charge for keys and the new R&D promo boxes that contain things that people want, but they've never charged for anything that people need.
Selling things that people want is kind of what a business is supposed to do, at least if they want to stay in business.
Regardless, I've been continually surprised that PWE - given the pay to win nature of the rest of their games - hasn't been more heavy handed with Cryptic games and required them to charge for expansions or "story modules" and things that are usually for sale in other FTP games.
Likewise, there are a number of things that Cryptic could sell that they haven't offered up yet, such as new species and other cosmetic items, which are constantly being ask for, and are things that are (I'm assuming) big sellers in FTP games, even if Cryptics own "Champions".
And while I agree that the Anniversary day was a bit of a let down (other than the give away - though that came fairly late in the day and with surprisingly little fanfare, in my opinion), I'm actually enjoying the breather from the game after so much activity over the summer. This is the time of year when a lot of gamers get back into the grind of school, so I'm assuming that this is a "calm before the storm" sort of situation, as Cryptic winds up into fall and then the winter event.
I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Though there is one game that works kinda like that - Star Citizen. It already made millions before release thanks to people buying ships for themselves.
I think the reason they haven't offered certain things is - the interest among players isn't high enough, and neither is the willingness to spend on it. With the the power of the alien creator, there aren't many species left in Star Trek that would feel unique.
And of course, as is, species are hard-wired to your character. Buying a species currently means making a new character. And apparently this isn't something Cryptic can change that easily, otherwise it would have happened already. And even if you could - there isn't much to gain, there aren't many race specific traits ,and they are not very impactful.
Which highlights another aspect of the strength of selling starships - starships can be exchanged and enable totally different play styles on the very same character. So you have cool looks and a gameplay change associated with them.
Taco said just the other day that they're not working (or he's not working) on a DS9 revamp - like they did with ESD - though he'd like to be, and Salami is a huge DS9 fan from what I understand and I believe he has mentioned in the past that he'd like to see the location revamped to be more accurate, but the fact that they're not working on it at the moment probably means that a DS9 focused episode isn't in the works right now, since that would be a perfect reason for them to get their wish to redo the station.
That doesn't mean that there' won't be more mirror universe missions though. Probably just not focused on DS9.