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Random WoW Player wrote:That's, like, all of them.
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Seriously though you make an excellent point. Bravo. :cool:
At least theirs was like 5 hours so we had time to sleep.
Cryptic is foolish enough to get their servers back up as quickly as possible not giving us enough time. Only enough to eat.
They obviously don't know how to run an mmo.
And the latest tech comes from their CS rep "bornakk", who recently stated that they cant use better hardware, because it hasnt been invented yet." Even though previous techs at their datacanters have gone on record to state they refurbish old servers to cut costs.
Every one represents a hard separation of the WoW playerbase.
Characters that reside on different ones can't talk to each other... can't build guilds together... can't group together...
STO has none of that problem.
/hijack
And it costs IRL money to move a character from one server to another, regardless of server population.
The only way to combat FUD is the fact check it ruthlessly.
How many crashes and how much downtime has WOW had in the last two weeks?
I'll bet they do it when they say they will.
Sorry bud I was on last night when the STO servers CRASHED.
They were not "brought down"
I love all of the comparisons to wow.
I feel like it's perfectly acceptable to compare the two, because the truth is Cryptic can learn from allllll the other mmo's that predated it.
You can learn from others mistakes as well as your own, so the whole" we'll see when it's 5 years old " argument is silly.
I will also point out that STO goes crashing to a halt during PRIME TIME usage.
Care to guess what I go play than?
And you know what? I'd LOVE to see a game company with the brass balls to post up a comparison of such a thing. Or maybe this is better for a news shop like Massively to do?
Seriously, the sheer relentless nature of the people who have no idea about standard IT/systems uptime averages (let alone in the gaming world) and the fact that no one just corrects them is boggling.
People are entitled to facts, but not to make up their own facts.
You mean the fact that the servers have been lagging and dc'ing players since the last patch? Every day? yea...
And notice how on a per hour and per day basis the number of crashes HAS been dropping?
In the real world, software works like this:
v1.0: 500 bugs open
v2.0: 250 bugs fixed, +50 new = 300 open
v3.0: 150 bugs fixed, +35 new = 185 open
v4.0: 85 bugs fixed, +25 new = 125 open
v5.0: 50 bugs fixed, +20 new = 95 open
And so on. New ones grow stable and the number fixed each cycle decreases as you banged out the low hanging fruit, leaving the tough ones. Each time the whole thing gets better and more stable or usable.
That's where we are now. Yes, prime time crashes suck.
You are a FUD disinformation artist if you won't acknowledge it's already improved since Day 1.
OMG, Freak'n Vanguard was an absolute nightmare when it opened... STO's issues are a real nuisance right now, but it's nothing... just growing pains.
Sure, that's what they are fixing.
With notice.
I also noticed that laggy servers were better than crashing ones, as i can still play.
Its probably some unspoken rule within the mmo industry.
Everyone needs some time to eat, sleep, and TRIBBLE, otherwise after a month max they'd start dropping like flies.
...then there would be a lot of actual flies... and some mysterious odors emanating from within certain apartments... apartment complexes would generate a lot of special cleanup fees.... rental prices would sky rocket... home values would go up.... and the economy would be fixed.
I think I once read that recessions were good for the game industry... hmmm.
Even City of Hero's launch sucked compared to this.
STO has been -- except the first half of the head start weekend -- more playable than even the launches of Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King on Warcraft. The 1-2 weeks of Lich King stank for lag. We watched a ton of movies and went out after giving up in frustration, and that was only on an upper-middle level population server.
Actually it got way worse, I played silky smooth in beta, and when i could get on the first few days were gold.
Then people actually started to play, and the glaring issue of capacity was shown.
They admitted it got worse and told us they were getting more servers.
Sure they have fixed some bugs, even some bad ones, but no, overall playability has decreased imho.
By launch, my main was Commander 3, and the game has only crashed twice since then. I'd say your problems are more your connection or system than Cryptic.
We gotta disagree. The only bug I've hit is the unbeatable Klingon/Fed PVP event (which Cryptic said isn't bugged, but we just haven't figured it out yet), one costume bug where you can't select certain objects that was I think fixed, and the random downtime which seems always a bit rarer. It's been silky smooth for me the past week.
Yes clearly Cryptic has not posted anything about new servers or the fact that they are aware of capacity problems.:rolleyes:
Your wrong, and did not even bother to read the thread. so go away.
Still the server has been quite stable all week and I expect it to get better as time passes and more Servers get installed. As a recent Dev statement states, they've increased server capacity 75% so far. There's still a lot of people joining STO every day, though. Things will stablize more after the end of the Free month and the "haters" leave the system.
Me thinks some of you people have a severe inferiority complex.
Moot point. We're not playing WoW, but STO. And, pointing to someone elses failures to justify yours isn't, well, justifiable.
WoW launch was 98% Downtime Daily... for 6 months...
Defend the game on merits not lies about competitors.
Doesnt matter. We're not playing WoW, but STO. And, again, pointing to someone else's failures to justify yours isn't, well, justifiable. Try it in real life some time when the guy sitting next to you gets a D on an exam, or in the work-place when you miss a deadline. I'dbe interested to know if the teacher or boss shrugs their shoulders and says, "oh...your right, fail right ahead, loser."
congrats on winning dumbest person alive in STO... last 2 weeks... *caugh* wow is how old now? and still got downtime last I talked to my brother who plays still.
One can compare all they want, even if it isn't justifiable. So, again, pointing to someone else's failures to justify yours isn't, well, justifiable; in other words, it doesn't make it right or acceptable.