http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/star-trek-online-review
"Star Trek Online has warped in unprepared, jury-rigged, piecemeal and scatterbrained. It's a jumble of broken-up content, inconsistent rules and half-finished systems that does a great job of throwing players together but a terrible job of keeping them together.."
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Like I always say. Though very unfinished and in need of serious polishing, it has a very solid groundwork and can only get better.
i'm a fan of sto, but really do understand its flaws.
a good read.
Yes, they will be adding more to it, but the question remains... will anyone still be around by the time that happens?
Lifers. Maybe.
Sounds about right, at least in my opinion.
Eurogamer is my preferred gaming publication and I've not seen this yet, thanks for posting it.
Edit: Just finished reading it, I pretty much concur with absolutely everything Mr. Walsh said.
Thanks to the Star Trek appeal, I think STO will get enough of a playerbase to be able to afford significant improvements over time.
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Of course it is in your opinion, whose else would it be in?
Cryptic have a decent base product with a long way to go. Did get quite a bit wrong imo as well, but there ya go.
So far, I'm ok to sub to it, and that is all that matters to me. and them, no doubt. When I'm not I will stop.
I say "in my opinion" or just "IMO" a whole lot, it tends to go a long way toward keeping the peace when I express them.
I didn't notice anything there that was factually wrong. Maybe you disagree with some of it, but that's what opinions are for.
I am curious to know which parts of the review you found to be inaccurate.
That's an ad hominem, and not really a base for argument.
I doubt that STO will get any better reviews than that in it's current state.
Still I enjoy, but for how long, remains to be seen.
They will probably re-review it in a month or two. They did with Age Of Conan, and actually awarded it a higher score.
Man, I just love it when publications talk down to me! The condescension in that last paragraph is palpable.
WTH is Jury-Rigged? That's more than a keystroke mistake away from "Jerry Rigged".
They say you're quite happy, that there seems to be enough content to sustain you and that even the worst content in the same is pretty fun... And you're offended somehow?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rig
Jury is the correct spelling......:rolleyes:
Hopefully now cryptic will start to listen that quick money making will kill them in the long run.
In this instance I will concede and admit I had never heard of Jury-rigged, but *had* heard of Jerry built/jerry rigged.
*runs away, tail betwixt legs*
I'm very surprised by this part of the review. No one ever said that to Cryptic during closed beta, open beta and after launch. :rolleyes:
I believe any MMO being released onto the market now that decides to use the outdated unpopular instance based game-play is just doomed to be relegated to a casual game by the majority I will continue to play I am sure until a new persistent open world MMO comes along undoubtedly it will be KOTOR who have promised an open world with the smallest amount of instance based game-play possible but that's just me I prefer a game that pro-ports to be massively multi to actually feel like as such.
I'm suspicious of writers with chips on their shoulder. I'm suspicious of reviews for an MMO that come out within the week of launch. And I'm suspicious of game reviews that don't clarify when and how long the game was played. I guess Kotaku has spoiled me, eh.
Yes, the end score is low, but what do you expect... I certainly feel that the game has been released too early, with a lot of problems that should have been fixed in an extended beta period. Nevertheless, despite it's problems, the game is fun and enjoyable, especially in space. I just hope that Cryptic can use the money they have earned now to get the game into a condition where it starts earning 8+/10 in a few months when these publications usually do their re-reviews.
you can tell by the small things that weren't done, as well as the big things, how little care and detail went into this. Some of you are fine with that. hats off to ya. I only have time to devote to one MMO, so my bar is high(especially coming from EVE), and this is worth neither my time or my money. Uninstalled. and, cryptic: I can forgive bugs, crashes, all the stuff that anyone who's ever played an MMO knows goes with the territory. I don't forgive laziness and greed. Life is too short, and people are too broke right now for you to turn out TRIBBLE, charge 50 bucks for it, and insult everyone's intelligence by pretending you give a ****.
You all really should be ashamed of yourselves. It's a hard world out there; people just wanted to have a game, in a world this iconic, that was worthy of the name "Star Trek". Gene Roddenberry must be rolling over in his grave, and you will never get me to play another one of your games again.
Peace
Fair enough, I guess it's open to interpretation but to me it seemed like he was trying to end on a positive note.
Hmm, I don't know the guy and neither do you. Does he have a chip on his shoulder?
As I said earlier, Eurogamer reviews all new games. They re-review some MMOs a few months after launch too, so it'll be interesting to see how this game develops and how he feels about it then.
I agree with alot of what the man has to say; I'm not blindly defending STO. But this review strikes me as the equivalent of posting "First!" in a new thread: pumped out really fast, and decidedly negative.