Cryptic. You have now lost me.
I saw the pre-beta stuff was excited. I read a whole bunch of Closed-Beta-era Reviews/Previews. Most of them loved the game, but still said it needed some work. A few outright told me not to spend money on this game. I was in on the open beta from day 1. I made my character, logged onto the actual game saw my character for ten seconds before the server kicked me out. I should have stopped then, but I gave you guys the benefit of the doubt, I continued through the beta, slugging my way through the constant crashes and "downtime". I dealt with the bug where your ship loads instead of your character before crashing my game. I even had a time when the game crashed my computer. Now I am in the Headstart with (what SHOULD be) the release version of the game and, in addition to the unfixed bugs from the Beta, I have to deal with QUEUES???
:mad:
**** you. I would demand my money back, but I'd never see a cent of it. You have put me in a whole new dimension of ****ed off. I could not even begin to express my anger in a written and coherent sense. It has actually taken me about a half and hour to calm the **** down from when I was yelling obscenities at my computer screen. This game showed so much promise three months ago and now, well, I can literally not wait until Star Wars: The Old Republic comes out because, while they have never made an MMO before, Bioware makes games that actually work when they're released. WHat has Cryptic made, Champions Online? City of Heroes/City of Villians? Not only were both TRIBBLE but they were the same ****ing game. It's like Cryptic didn't even try and develop a second game, they just RE-RELEASED THEIR FIRST ONE. STO will forever be remembered as a Second Rate MMO, from a Second Rate MMO Company, with FIrst Rate IP; just wasted potential.
The server load STO is now getting regularly hit with is a massive exception to most MMOs, to the point Cryptic has, apparently, been forced to slightly lower the server population cap for the time being in order to keep the server stable. And with the queue, they can prevent everyone from slamming the server over and over trying to get in. Both of those attributed to folks like myself being physically incapable of logging in at certain hours, and getting hit with rampant DCs that left us, once again, praying to actually get in. Queues area necessary evil to insure that EVERYONE gets an equal chance to play until they can get their servers set up to handle a larger load, not just those who won the "lucky connection lottery" (note that I live on the SHSU campus in Huntsville, which does have broadband, but for whatever reason causes me to have connection issue with STO, while back at my house in Houston I can login with little to no effort and play with zero worry of DCing).
Gut instinct says, day before launch, servers spend the vast majority of the time down for planned maintenance.
If you can't understand why this system NEEDS to be in place for the time being, then well... guess that's your problem.
We're gonna get a lot of these with today. Several crashes, huge que lines, we're not even released yet ffs If things dont shore up FAST, this is gonna go down worse than Hellgate
Frankly, that attitude is what makes games fail. This game is not big enough to risk the loss of any potential paying players at this point. The queue's have got to go. It's really that simple. A bandaid is not the correct way to address the issues they are having.
I for one don't want anyone quiting the game. At least not until its been around for at least a year, by then hopefully it will have enough of a paying customer base that it can survive a mass exodus of unhappy players.
Bluntly, I would have not invested my money for a life sub if I had known there would be queues. And I dont want hear any TRIBBLE about this being a new game, "normal" for mmos, etc. I have sat and listened to all the whines, and all you sucks ups as well since closed beta...and none of it bothered me. The queue TRIBBLE bothers me, especially when i see that this "bandaid" fix is not even fixing the issues in even the slightest bit. (Of course, here is where all the suck ups will start saying "oh its working great for me now!" As if by sucking up cryptic is gonna make you a GM in the game or something for blindly defending them. ROFL)
Anyway, I got off topic i suppose, really just wanted to say I dont want anyone quiting yet. I would really like to see this game last at least 5 yrs or more. The subject matter for the game is interesting to me. (Yes, I am a Trek fan.)
*All "flames", hate, etc will be promptly ignored so save yourself the effort and don't bother. LOL
**** you. I would demand my money back, but I'd never see a cent of it. You have put me in a whole new dimension of ****ed off. I could not even begin to express my anger in a written and coherent sense. It has actually taken me about a half and hour to calm the **** down from when I was yelling obscenities at my computer screen.
I don't think the server being down is your problem...
Cryptic. You have now lost me.
I saw the pre-beta stuff was excited. I read a whole bunch of Closed-Beta-era Reviews/Previews. Most of them loved the game, but still said it needed some work. A few outright told me not to spend money on this game. I was in on the open beta from day 1. I made my character, logged onto the actual game saw my character for ten seconds before the server kicked me out. I should have stopped then, but I gave you guys the benefit of the doubt, I continued through the beta, slugging my way through the constant crashes and "downtime". I dealt with the bug where your ship loads instead of your character before crashing my game. I even had a time when the game crashed my computer. Now I am in the Headstart with (what SHOULD be) the release version of the game and, in addition to the unfixed bugs from the Beta, I have to deal with QUEUES???
:mad:
**** you. I would demand my money back, but I'd never see a cent of it. You have put me in a whole new dimension of ****ed off. I could not even begin to express my anger in a written and coherent sense. It has actually taken me about a half and hour to calm the **** down from when I was yelling obscenities at my computer screen. This game showed so much promise three months ago and now, well, I can literally not wait until Star Wars: The Old Republic comes out because, while they have never made an MMO before, Bioware makes games that actually work when they're released. WHat has Cryptic made, Champions Online? City of Heroes/City of Villians? Not only were both TRIBBLE but they were the same ****ing game. It's like Cryptic didn't even try and develop a second game, they just RE-RELEASED THEIR FIRST ONE. STO will forever be remembered as a Second Rate MMO, from a Second Rate MMO Company, with FIrst Rate IP; just wasted potential.
Note to the moron: Launch isn't until Tuesday. If you actually thought buying a preorder/pre-release headstart program and actually thought it wouldn't have problems, you are indeed an obligatory moron.
Every MMO has extensive downtime the first 2 months after release. Most of us know this when we bought the game and signed up for this headstart.
I can only hope that over the next few weeks, as the servers die and are slowly improved, that the moron-base of whiny kids like you will cancel and leave the game a much better place. Do you part for humanity, save some carbon credits by using your PC to spout moronic dumbisms and go plant a tree today!
He's a paying customer, and has every right to complain, when he's not getting the product he thought he bought. He was mislead. Apparently you children have no concept of what it means to be a paying customer, you just simply accept problems as being part of the process. Yes mmo's have issues when first released, but there's a limit as to what the customer will tolerate. However, if all this downtime helps Cryptic provide a smooth launch for their game, then all the power to them.
The Original poster is allowed is opinion and understandably. Not as if mmos are just starting to be made they have been being made not for well over 12+ years.
Cryptic is not new to the scene either...and que times HAVE TO GO I agree. There are no excuses why these major issues should be happening on a release version of the game. Clearly as one poster mentioned seems someone at cryptic skimped on server array setup...and why? I have no clue as the Star Trek IP is going to draw alot of folks...and they should have prepared for this.
My last rant is Cryptic as well needs a community manager that is more on the ball with these issues and explaining to us what is going on and why. I do not even see that.
Being rude to people does not solve problems. If this person wants to be peeeved of because the server isnt up and he cant play, thats his problem. Also, the online community is not your tharapist, dont come on here and vent your anger. I've been patiently waitng for this game for about two years now. I think we all can wait a little longer.
And to the person calling the other guy a moron...its headstart NOT BETA this should not be occuring now this much and he like many have already paid for a lifetime or year subscription....therefore they ARE entitled to feel screwed.
Frankly, that attitude is what makes games fail. This game is not big enough to risk the loss of any potential paying players at this point. The queue's have got to go. It's really that simple. A bandaid is not the correct way to address the issues they are having.
I for one don't want anyone quiting the game. At least not until its been around for at least a year, by then hopefully it will have enough of a paying customer base that it can survive a mass exodus of unhappy players.
Bluntly, I would have not invested my money for a life sub if I had known there would be queues. And I dont want hear any TRIBBLE about this being a new game, "normal" for mmos, etc. I have sat and listened to all the whines, and all you sucks ups as well since closed beta...and none of it bothered me. The queue TRIBBLE bothers me, especially when i see that this "bandaid" fix is not even fixing the issues in even the slightest bit. (Of course, here is where all the suck ups will start saying "oh its working great for me now!" As if by sucking up cryptic is gonna make you a GM in the game or something for blindly defending them. ROFL)
Anyway, I got off topic i suppose, really just wanted to say I dont want anyone quiting yet. I would really like to see this game last at least 5 yrs or more. The subject matter for the game is interesting to me. (Yes, I am a Trek fan.)
*All "flames", hate, etc will be promptly ignored so save yourself the effort and don't bother. LOL
Well stated! Summed up EXACTLY how I feel as well. Just wait until February 2nd when the TRIBBLE hits the fan in full force. You think the forums are bad now, just wait...
i have to agree with the OP. he may not have been very polite, but he was right. i paid real money to basically stand in line for the ride. if there are more people than they expected, wel, thats fine, buy more servers. if they cant afford it, what the **** are they even doing in this business. some communication would be nice, and most likely calm most people down. its being in the dark that enrages most people. they paid money for something broken, and no word from the company makes them feel like ripped off suckers.
The server load STO is now getting regularly hit with is a massive exception to most MMOs, to the point Cryptic has, apparently, been forced to slightly lower the server population cap for the time being in order to keep the server stable. And with the queue, they can prevent everyone from slamming the server over and over trying to get in. Both of those attributed to folks like myself being physically incapable of logging in at certain hours, and getting hit with rampant DCs that left us, once again, praying to actually get in. Queues area necessary evil to insure that EVERYONE gets an equal chance to play until they can get their servers set up to handle a larger load, not just those who won the "lucky connection lottery" (note that I live on the SHSU campus in Huntsville, which does have broadband, but for whatever reason causes me to have connection issue with STO, while back at my house in Houston I can login with little to no effort and play with zero worry of DCing).
Gut instinct says, day before launch, servers spend the vast majority of the time down for planned maintenance.
If you can't understand why this system NEEDS to be in place for the time being, then well... guess that's your problem.
I can see Queues working but if this is true then why all the rampant disconnects and failure to launch instances? If the queues were to prevent this then why is it still occuring? I agree that they have a shot (slim but there) of fixing these problems before launch. It will take downtime, more servers, this is the headstart for those of us who pre-bought. What is going to happen Tuesday at 10AM PST when the thousands more who didn;t want to pre-buy come in like barbarians crashing the gate?
The server load STO is now getting regularly hit with is a massive exception to most MMOs, to the point Cryptic has, apparently, been forced to slightly lower the server population cap for the time being in order to keep the server stable.
Until
If you can't understand why this system NEEDS to be in place for the time being, then well... guess that's your problem.
That is exactly the problem. The servers cant take this amount of people, which is a serious flaw on crpytics part. I can understand why they have a queue, but the shouldnt need to have one.
Also, I'm sick of hearing people say "Its normal for MMOs". The fact it is normal, does not make it ok. Personally, I'm not that bothered. But many people are annoyed by it, and saying "STFU or GTFO" is not just childish, but TRIBBLE.
Cryptic. You have now lost me.
I saw the pre-beta stuff was excited. I read a whole bunch of Closed-Beta-era Reviews/Previews. Most of them loved the game, but still said it needed some work. A few outright told me not to spend money on this game. I was in on the open beta from day 1. I made my character, logged onto the actual game saw my character for ten seconds before the server kicked me out. I should have stopped then, but I gave you guys the benefit of the doubt, I continued through the beta, slugging my way through the constant crashes and "downtime". I dealt with the bug where your ship loads instead of your character before crashing my game. I even had a time when the game crashed my computer. Now I am in the Headstart with (what SHOULD be) the release version of the game and, in addition to the unfixed bugs from the Beta, I have to deal with QUEUES???
:mad:
**** you. I would demand my money back, but I'd never see a cent of it. You have put me in a whole new dimension of ****ed off. I could not even begin to express my anger in a written and coherent sense. It has actually taken me about a half and hour to calm the **** down from when I was yelling obscenities at my computer screen. This game showed so much promise three months ago and now, well, I can literally not wait until Star Wars: The Old Republic comes out because, while they have never made an MMO before, Bioware makes games that actually work when they're released. WHat has Cryptic made, Champions Online? City of Heroes/City of Villians? Not only were both TRIBBLE but they were the same ****ing game. It's like Cryptic didn't even try and develop a second game, they just RE-RELEASED THEIR FIRST ONE. STO will forever be remembered as a Second Rate MMO, from a Second Rate MMO Company, with FIrst Rate IP; just wasted potential.
Your perfectly entitled to your opinion, but did you really need to make a thread about it? All your doing is spreading your nerd rage and providing fuel for trollers. I can only hope you and others like you contact Cryptic via their support page in future. I'm sorry your experience hasn't been an easy one. I hope you do chose to give STO another go when its live on Tuesday and find it a much smoother ride.
[...] I could not even begin to express my anger in a written and coherent sense. It has actually taken me about a half and hour to calm the **** down from when I was yelling obscenities at my computer screen. [...]
Frankly, that attitude is what makes games fail. This game is not big enough to risk the loss of any potential paying players at this point. The queue's have got to go. It's really that simple. A bandaid is not the correct way to address the issues they are having.
I for one don't want anyone quiting the game. At least not until its been around for at least a year, by then hopefully it will have enough of a paying customer base that it can survive a mass exodus of unhappy players.
Bluntly, I would have not invested my money for a life sub if I had known there would be queues. And I dont want hear any TRIBBLE about this being a new game, "normal" for mmos, etc. I have sat and listened to all the whines, and all you sucks ups as well since closed beta...and none of it bothered me. The queue TRIBBLE bothers me, especially when i see that this "bandaid" fix is not even fixing the issues in even the slightest bit. (Of course, here is where all the suck ups will start saying "oh its working great for me now!" As if by sucking up cryptic is gonna make you a GM in the game or something for blindly defending them. ROFL)
Anyway, I got off topic i suppose, really just wanted to say I dont want anyone quiting yet. I would really like to see this game last at least 5 yrs or more. The subject matter for the game is interesting to me. (Yes, I am a Trek fan.)
*All "flames", hate, etc will be promptly ignored so save yourself the effort and don't bother. LOL
I'd be less ****ed if I didn't know that most of the reason the queue is advancing is because people are getting disconnected. I was DCed three times yesterday.
Note to the moron: Launch isn't until Tuesday. If you actually thought buying a preorder/pre-release headstart program and actually thought it wouldn't have problems, you are indeed an obligatory moron.
Every MMO has extensive downtime the first 2 months after release. Most of us know this when we bought the game and signed up for this headstart.
I can only hope that over the next few weeks, as the servers die and are slowly improved, that the moron-base of whiny kids like you will cancel and leave the game a much better place. Do you part for humanity, save some carbon credits by using your PC to spout moronic dumbisms and go plant a tree today!
Let me guess your all dressed up in your klingon outfit sitting at your computer copy/pasting the same fanbois response to everyone thats mad for getting ripped off 10 for the headache.. uh i mean headsttart. yup i knew it.
Note to the moron: Launch isn't until Tuesday. If you actually thought buying a preorder/pre-release headstart program and actually thought it wouldn't have problems, you are indeed an obligatory moron.
Every MMO has extensive downtime the first 2 months after release. Most of us know this when we bought the game and signed up for this headstart.
I can only hope that over the next few weeks, as the servers die and are slowly improved, that the moron-base of whiny kids like you will cancel and leave the game a much better place. Do you part for humanity, save some carbon credits by using your PC to spout moronic dumbisms and go plant a tree today!
You sir are the moron. Quit with the "this is beta bullsh*t". The game WENT LIVE FRIDAY, period. Also when all the people quit, have fun with a dead game that is not only no longer an MMO but will be heading to shut down.
If you're leaving, can I have your tribbles? Im starting to collect all sorts of colors and patterns. Im looking for a double brown with a white stripe, have one?
He's a paying customer, and has every right to complain, when he's not getting the product he thought he bought. He was mislead. Apparently you children have no concept of what it means to be a paying customer, you just simply accept problems as being part of the process. Yes mmo's have issues when first released, but there's a limit as to what the customer will tolerate. However, if all this downtime helps Cryptic provide a smooth launch for their game, then all the power to them.
Come on who paid yet for STO. I ordered with amazon and still i can cancel my order if i want. The headstart was within the beta key. I give you one advise. When you can,t exept problems with new MMo,s then you can do 2 things. First never play MMO,s again or wait for a couple of weeks. Some peeps here in the forums tell me now that SW (bioware)will be alot better with beta and headstart and already pre ordered that MMO. I can,t wait to see the crying next year.
Bioware makes games that actually work when they're released.l.
The ignorance of this is astounding... Did you ever play mass effect 1? it took about 9 months for them to finally... finally.. fix the glitches that made the game unplayable because of crashes for people who chose to use high-end nvidia cards
The ignorance of this is astounding... Did you ever play mass effect 1? it took about 9 months for them to finally... finally.. fix the glitches that made the game unplayable because of crashes for people who chose to use high-end nvidia cards
+1
Also don,t forget the problems Mass Effect 1 had with soundcards.
When the servers are up STO runs just fine. All the quest i did so far i discovered no problems. When they can solve the server problems in short time i hope we can discuss gameplay and tips.
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The server load STO is now getting regularly hit with is a massive exception to most MMOs, to the point Cryptic has, apparently, been forced to slightly lower the server population cap for the time being in order to keep the server stable. And with the queue, they can prevent everyone from slamming the server over and over trying to get in. Both of those attributed to folks like myself being physically incapable of logging in at certain hours, and getting hit with rampant DCs that left us, once again, praying to actually get in. Queues area necessary evil to insure that EVERYONE gets an equal chance to play until they can get their servers set up to handle a larger load, not just those who won the "lucky connection lottery" (note that I live on the SHSU campus in Huntsville, which does have broadband, but for whatever reason causes me to have connection issue with STO, while back at my house in Houston I can login with little to no effort and play with zero worry of DCing).
Gut instinct says, day before launch, servers spend the vast majority of the time down for planned maintenance.
If you can't understand why this system NEEDS to be in place for the time being, then well... guess that's your problem.
Frankly, that attitude is what makes games fail. This game is not big enough to risk the loss of any potential paying players at this point. The queue's have got to go. It's really that simple. A bandaid is not the correct way to address the issues they are having.
I for one don't want anyone quiting the game. At least not until its been around for at least a year, by then hopefully it will have enough of a paying customer base that it can survive a mass exodus of unhappy players.
Bluntly, I would have not invested my money for a life sub if I had known there would be queues. And I dont want hear any TRIBBLE about this being a new game, "normal" for mmos, etc. I have sat and listened to all the whines, and all you sucks ups as well since closed beta...and none of it bothered me. The queue TRIBBLE bothers me, especially when i see that this "bandaid" fix is not even fixing the issues in even the slightest bit. (Of course, here is where all the suck ups will start saying "oh its working great for me now!" As if by sucking up cryptic is gonna make you a GM in the game or something for blindly defending them. ROFL)
Anyway, I got off topic i suppose, really just wanted to say I dont want anyone quiting yet. I would really like to see this game last at least 5 yrs or more. The subject matter for the game is interesting to me. (Yes, I am a Trek fan.)
*All "flames", hate, etc will be promptly ignored so save yourself the effort and don't bother. LOL
I don't think the server being down is your problem...
Note to the moron: Launch isn't until Tuesday. If you actually thought buying a preorder/pre-release headstart program and actually thought it wouldn't have problems, you are indeed an obligatory moron.
Every MMO has extensive downtime the first 2 months after release. Most of us know this when we bought the game and signed up for this headstart.
I can only hope that over the next few weeks, as the servers die and are slowly improved, that the moron-base of whiny kids like you will cancel and leave the game a much better place. Do you part for humanity, save some carbon credits by using your PC to spout moronic dumbisms and go plant a tree today!
Bioware, to date, has done console games and port-to-pc games... IE standalone games.
Go back to WoW kiddo. It is calling you. can you hear it?
Funny though. This guy sounds like a heroin addict who misplaced his stash.
Cryptic is not new to the scene either...and que times HAVE TO GO I agree. There are no excuses why these major issues should be happening on a release version of the game. Clearly as one poster mentioned seems someone at cryptic skimped on server array setup...and why? I have no clue as the Star Trek IP is going to draw alot of folks...and they should have prepared for this.
My last rant is Cryptic as well needs a community manager that is more on the ball with these issues and explaining to us what is going on and why. I do not even see that.
Frustrating.
Well stated! Summed up EXACTLY how I feel as well. Just wait until February 2nd when the TRIBBLE hits the fan in full force. You think the forums are bad now, just wait...
dont they have any PR people?
I can see Queues working but if this is true then why all the rampant disconnects and failure to launch instances? If the queues were to prevent this then why is it still occuring? I agree that they have a shot (slim but there) of fixing these problems before launch. It will take downtime, more servers, this is the headstart for those of us who pre-bought. What is going to happen Tuesday at 10AM PST when the thousands more who didn;t want to pre-buy come in like barbarians crashing the gate?
That is exactly the problem. The servers cant take this amount of people, which is a serious flaw on crpytics part. I can understand why they have a queue, but the shouldnt need to have one.
Also, I'm sick of hearing people say "Its normal for MMOs". The fact it is normal, does not make it ok. Personally, I'm not that bothered. But many people are annoyed by it, and saying "STFU or GTFO" is not just childish, but TRIBBLE.
Your perfectly entitled to your opinion, but did you really need to make a thread about it? All your doing is spreading your nerd rage and providing fuel for trollers. I can only hope you and others like you contact Cryptic via their support page in future. I'm sorry your experience hasn't been an easy one. I hope you do chose to give STO another go when its live on Tuesday and find it a much smoother ride.
Is this you? You're famous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcctWbC8Q0
Nicely stated
sadly the wrong person is leaving.
Let me guess your all dressed up in your klingon outfit sitting at your computer copy/pasting the same fanbois response to everyone thats mad for getting ripped off 10 for the headache.. uh i mean headsttart. yup i knew it.
You sir are the moron. Quit with the "this is beta bullsh*t". The game WENT LIVE FRIDAY, period. Also when all the people quit, have fun with a dead game that is not only no longer an MMO but will be heading to shut down.
Come on who paid yet for STO. I ordered with amazon and still i can cancel my order if i want. The headstart was within the beta key. I give you one advise. When you can,t exept problems with new MMo,s then you can do 2 things. First never play MMO,s again or wait for a couple of weeks. Some peeps here in the forums tell me now that SW (bioware)will be alot better with beta and headstart and already pre ordered that MMO. I can,t wait to see the crying next year.
no more wipes, yes this question applies.
The ignorance of this is astounding... Did you ever play mass effect 1? it took about 9 months for them to finally... finally.. fix the glitches that made the game unplayable because of crashes for people who chose to use high-end nvidia cards
+1
Also don,t forget the problems Mass Effect 1 had with soundcards.
When the servers are up STO runs just fine. All the quest i did so far i discovered no problems. When they can solve the server problems in short time i hope we can discuss gameplay and tips.