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Truly I dont know where to begin. It is the Real Life Year 2010. Ask yourself what people who pioneered the massive multiplayer genre around thirty years ago what they thought we'd be doing right now. Ask your peers what we've been expecting to come out for pc. Is it me or has the whole idea of multi player online game devolved? The majority of posts defending the MMO titled Star Trek Online claims.. "all mmo's go through this" "its new it will get better". I offer up the idea that none of us should pay 60-200 dollars for a non-tested, half baked, no content, wannabe real MMO. I dont care if the devs ran outta time, outta funding... or outta ideas. To charge me 60 bucks of hard earned cash for something that barely even qualifies as being massive.. multiplayer.. or offline ( supposedly online, considering the downtime/maintenence) is simply absurd. That you duped all these people into believing this would be 'star trek' is truly unacceptable.

Okay granted there is no story-line.. no real rpg element. Umm next is there replayability? no, if you make a new character you gotta do all the same REPETITIVE missions just to achieve some semblance of rank. Is there a strategic element? Well, plant yourself in the middle of your enemies and walk away.. come back in five minutes and the battles over.. thus ends your strategic entitlement. The space element has been the only element that was even semi-interesting, however like the ground based combat it is so redundant and boring. . why the same fockin missions over and over. Scan 5 of these, kill 5 of those.

I really dont care what comes out in six months or a year from now. I paid good hard earned cash for a game to play now. Some may also argue that the recession forced you to release, I offer up that people paying for this facsimily of a game are equally hit by the same recession. Yes we love star trek, yes we love online gaming.. no we dont like getting duped into buying a shallow no content shell of a game. I honestly hope some developer answers this post because I know damn well this is what a lot of 'HARD CORE GAMERS' have been thinking and saying since this games premature release. It may not be the dev's fault, it may be financial in nature but it sure as hell doesn't mean we all need to like it.

/Flameon here come the full blown backers of anything with the star trek name.
As I said before dont respond to this post with.. 'it will get better' or 'give it some time' if you truly had a spine you would think that paying ANY amount of money let alone two hundred dollars would warrant a real online experience (I didn't get the life sub for just this reason). As my original sentence states, it is the year two thousand and ****ing ten, why the hell must our online games be so shallow and void of content. If the powers that be would just recognize the type of people who play these games they would have 'lifetime' subscribers without having to con them into it PRE-RELEASE.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    All I would say is that, this is the first MMO I have ever enjoyed playing, there may be repeatable missions but I don't mind as it rewards you alot better than other MMO's, Just getting into PvP and though my TRIBBLE is being wooped I am enjoying it.

    But at the end of the day if you don't like playing a game......don't its that simple, Life subs have managed to get there money back and are no longer playing. I bought 6 months to give it a try and if I get bored at the end of 6 months I can cancel my sub and thats it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    PLightstar wrote: »
    All I would say is that, this is the first MMO I have ever enjoyed playing, there may be repeatable missions but I don't mind as it rewards you alot better than other MMO's, Just getting into PvP and though my TRIBBLE is being wooped I am enjoying it.

    honestly, the only MMOs where STO could be deemed an improvement in comparsion are those asian grindfests ...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Truly I dont know where to begin. It is the Real Life Year 2010. Ask yourself what people who pioneered the massive multiplayer genre around thirty years ago what they thought we'd be doing right now. Ask your peers what we've been expecting to come out for pc. Is it me or has the whole idea of multi player online game devolved? The majority of posts defending the MMO titled Star Trek Online claims.. "all mmo's go through this" "its new it will get better". I offer up the idea that none of us should pay 60-200 dollars for a non-tested, half baked, no content, wannabe real MMO. I dont care if the devs ran outta time, outta funding... or outta ideas. To charge me 60 bucks of hard earned cash for something that barely even qualifies as being massive.. multiplayer.. or offline ( supposedly online, considering the downtime/maintenence) is simply absurd. That you duped all these people into believing this would be 'star trek' is truly unacceptable.

    Okay granted there is no story-line.. no real rpg element. Umm next is there replayability? no, if you make a new character you gotta do all the same REPETITIVE missions just to achieve some semblance of rank. Is there a strategic element? Well, plant yourself in the middle of your enemies and walk away.. come back in five minutes and the battles over.. thus ends your strategic entitlement. The space element has been the only element that was even semi-interesting, however like the ground based combat it is so redundant and boring. . why the same fockin missions over and over. Scan 5 of these, kill 5 of those.

    I really dont care what comes out in six months or a year from now. I paid good hard earned cash for a game to play now. Some may also argue that the recession forced you to release, I offer up that people paying for this facsimily of a game are equally hit by the same recession. Yes we love star trek, yes we love online gaming.. no we dont like getting duped into buying a shallow no content shell of a game. I honestly hope some developer answers this post because I know damn well this is what a lot of 'HARD CORE GAMERS' have been thinking and saying since this games premature release. It may not be the dev's fault, it may be financial in nature but it sure as hell doesn't mean we all need to like it.

    /Flameon here come the full blown backers of anything with the star trek name.
    As I said before dont respond to this post with.. 'it will get better' or 'give it some time' if you truly had a spine you would think that paying ANY amount of money let alone two hundred dollars would warrant a real online experience (I didn't get the life sub for just this reason). As my original sentence states, it is the year two thousand and ****ing ten, why the hell must our online games be so shallow and void of content. If the powers that be would just recognize the type of people who play these games they would have 'lifetime' subscribers without having to con them into it PRE-RELEASE.

    Great post with some very good points and valid concerns that need addressing. You nailed it on the head as to the reason why people who won't be resubbing, stick around.

    The excuse that CBS held a gun to Cryptics head and made them accept the STO contract while not giving them enough time to complete the game is laughable at best. Some people might be fooled by that, and others wont. If they weren't up to the job they should have said so. Instead of doing it right, they did it quickly. And as we are seeing already and even during beta, these actions have implications.

    I seriosuly almost took the plunge on a lifetime sub, at this point I'm very glad I didn't and was given a chance to check out the beta, which BTW was no different from the launch game. They kept saying it's beta it's beta the real game will be released on launch. I patched my beta client on open day to the retail version, all 58 megabytes of it. It's just lie after lie it seems. By the time the life would have paid for itself, going off of what they have done so far, the next new shiny MMO will be out by then. There is no need to string us along till then.

    Now pardon me, I need to go pick my jaw up from off the floor, the way the Klingon faction was handled seems to have knocked it there.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Streaker I'm glad you agree, there is a multitude of people subscribing to this game just on the ideal that its 'Star Trek' and "It will get better". But there's also a very large SOLID group.. that play day in and day out.. that Know, what they did here is a farce. I too would have jumped into a lifetime sub.. after I saw what it had to offer :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I'm not saying you're wrong or right.

    I enjoy the game however, and until that changes I will continue to play it. That's the essence of gaming.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Hm, I have to admit I agree to the OP. I wanted to love this game and I thought it would be the game I've been waiting for decades for (litereally; as a child I used to daydream of THE computer game that would take me into the Star Trek world). I've got the CE and I've got an LTS. Whew, well and I'm not too far away from saying I regret it. I like the game, yes, but there are so many shortcomings (unexciting, stereotypical stories, the rush into never ending action...everything seems to be so "sterile" (this is what you'd say in German ;) it means as much as there is little heart and emotion in something), I don't really identify with my character. And yes, I have nearly no motivation to start another character. The game play is basically the same with every class (tried other classes in beta and I see my girlfriend's char). At the moment, I'd just play the game until I've finished the storyline and then...well yes, I just discovered GW: Prophecies anew (saying this, in Guild Wars I played every single available character class because I found them all so interesting!).

    Okay, enough about whining. I understand TemplarBones' concern and I share it. Since I already own a LTS I will continue playing and just hoping that the game will be improved significantly (because I think the potential is available; in respect to story telling, the RPG-like "Path to 2409" posts were awsome! Why don't you show such telling skill in the game itself??).
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