They need to bring the matter-antimatter mixture ratio settings to an optimum balance... then have the reaction sequences corresponding to specified norms...before the magnetic plasma transfer to the server generators are at proper programmed specs!
Ummm no we are not. We are paying customers taking part in something that was advertised to be available to us in return for purchasing the product. There is a big difference.
And therein lies the secret to MMO's...
We are Paying beta testers...
See. The Developers didn't want to release the product, as it is unfinished. However, Corporate paper pushers realized it was 'good enough' to get some people to start paying for the product.
As corporate paper pushers pay the paychecks of developers, developers have to release a product without all the simple, easy bugs fixed to meet the paper pushers deadlines. (unable to click "report" in PVP... Ship warps but ship stays there.... Beaming out of system/starbase and miss your ship (i.e. you fall in space as a person).. Your ship beams into a room in a starbase... In PVP Strategic resource missions the text says "First person to 0 influence wins" instead of "First Team to 0 influence loses")
Oh, and the login servers are brokz.
For the next 6 months we'll be paying to play a game that wasn't supposed to be released yet, and corporate paper pushers get to take our money...
It's the world of Paying to Beta Test :-) Which I am a member.
But it's not just Star Trek, every MMO is that way, and every MMO has people up top that want the game out earlier then it can handle so they can start generating income & getting bonuses.
Time to click on some DS9; at least I will be entertained for the time being. Closed on a real estate listing this morning and was going to get Lt. Commander to celebrate, I guess I'll just have to wait!
Not everyone paid full price up front for preorders. I haven't paid a penny for my preorder - yet. Amazon.com won't be charging my card till they shp my order on the 2nd. If I ordered from Gamestop, it would have been at the local store, and I would have only paid $5 on the preorder.
you have got to be kidding me......have you seen some of these other MMO launches? this is not at all a bad head start. Talk to some people about what it was like when EQ1 first launched or even worse AO!!!
we are defending it as it did and is doing a very good job so far in campareison to MANY other MMO launches if it was as bad or worse then them i would back you fully but ANYONE that thinks you can know what 10k-50k people logging on at 1 time with god knows how many dif types of comp setups in all parts of the world is going to do and have all bugs fixed and ready with 10 back ups of.....everything is a moron. Even you can not predict what will happen to your own computer serfing the web not with 100% even if you are a techie or a hacker you can not know for sure and that is only 1 computer that you have to deal with.
EEK, I was there for AO launch week....****goes and hides in a corner now****
Even if they did come in and explain the technical problems that led to the crash, only about 2% or 3% of the user base here would actually understand what it meant, although I'm sure at least half would try and pretend to.
Hey, nice pulling of statistics out of your TRIBBLE. I'd understand it and it would mae me feel better due to the fact that i have paid for a headstart, and i got to play for 5 hours yesterday due to steam re-downloading 10gb worth of files, then the server is down this morning.
False Advertising? I am not getting a head start which i paid for, through no fault of my own.
Someone has to show these game developers that you cannot sell what you don't have.
Hmmm . . . technically a text MUD is an MMO and I'm pretty sure there were some around in the mid-80's. I started playing one in the 90's before UO and EQ came out.
MUD's are MUD's... and no they were not MMORPG's, which we have shortened too MMO for sanity's sake... Trying to Call MUD's an MMO just to say look at me I have been doing longer is just epeen.
hmmm one question. why is this posted by a junior member? when in fact wont all admins have the title of admin or such other name?
Forum default title. The admins normally change their titles, thats the onyl reason it looks odd - his name is yellow and in bold - so that shows you he really is in the admin group.
Hmmm . . . technically a text MUD is an MMO and I'm pretty sure there were some around in the mid-80's. I started playing one in the 90's before UO and EQ came out.
How could you possibly consider a text MUD a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game? It hardly fits into any of those categories. Although Text MUDS played a huge role in the development of MMOs, they are not MMOs. They were network text games, that is all.
Also, commerical companies did not start to exploit the internet until 1988.
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what are we bettin' for, friend-o?
Yeah one of the first MMO's was Meridian 59 in 1996. He was maybe referring to MUD's. Which I suppose M59 was only just barely an MMO.
And therein lies the secret to MMO's...
We are Paying beta testers...
See. The Developers didn't want to release the product, as it is unfinished. However, Corporate paper pushers realized it was 'good enough' to get some people to start paying for the product.
As corporate paper pushers pay the paychecks of developers, developers have to release a product without all the simple, easy bugs fixed to meet the paper pushers deadlines. (unable to click "report" in PVP... Ship warps but ship stays there.... Beaming out of system/starbase and miss your ship (i.e. you fall in space as a person).. Your ship beams into a room in a starbase... In PVP Strategic resource missions the text says "First person to 0 influence wins" instead of "First Team to 0 influence loses")
Oh, and the login servers are brokz.
For the next 6 months we'll be paying to play a game that wasn't supposed to be released yet, and corporate paper pushers get to take our money...
It's the world of Paying to Beta Test :-) Which I am a member.
But it's not just Star Trek, every MMO is that way, and every MMO has people up top that want the game out earlier then it can handle so they can start generating income & getting bonuses.
Hey, who's the chick in the picture???
Pretty. I feel so placated.
EEK, I was there for AO launch week....****goes and hides in a corner now****
/sucks thumb.
im just bored. decided to pick on you to kill the time before the servers are back online. im bored with you so i'll pick on someone else now.
Down again! :eek:
Pfft now I gotta go do the washing up!
/shakes fist at STO .. "Why I oughta..."
Hey, nice pulling of statistics out of your TRIBBLE. I'd understand it and it would mae me feel better due to the fact that i have paid for a headstart, and i got to play for 5 hours yesterday due to steam re-downloading 10gb worth of files, then the server is down this morning.
False Advertising? I am not getting a head start which i paid for, through no fault of my own.
Someone has to show these game developers that you cannot sell what you don't have.
I think so.
Waste of pixels because nobodies ever going to read it all.
MUD's are MUD's... and no they were not MMORPG's, which we have shortened too MMO for sanity's sake... Trying to Call MUD's an MMO just to say look at me I have been doing longer is just epeen.
Forum default title. The admins normally change their titles, thats the onyl reason it looks odd - his name is yellow and in bold - so that shows you he really is in the admin group.
Shut up breeder I know there's no Pam Anderson for your virgin self to drool over but deal with it anyway.
All those tribbles must have overtaken the server room...
How could you possibly consider a text MUD a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game? It hardly fits into any of those categories. Although Text MUDS played a huge role in the development of MMOs, they are not MMOs. They were network text games, that is all.
Also, commerical companies did not start to exploit the internet until 1988.