It is Atari that you should be angry at. They are the ones that pushed this game to be released before it should. Cryptic is doing their best to add content, What sucks is, they can't do it fast enough. Cryptic is reading the forums they are taking note and they are programming their fingers to the point of carpal tunnel syndrome.
It sucks that Atari is scott free of all accusations and Cryptic is taking the blame.
I do agree that the game is shallow and needs A LOT of depth, I agree.
I just feel that we are blaming the wrong people.
It is Atari that you should be angry at. They are the ones that pushed this game to be released before it should. Cryptic is doing their best to add content, What sucks is, they can't do it fast enough. Cryptic is reading the forums they are taking note and they are programming their fingers to the point of carpal tunnel syndrome.
It sucks that Atari is scott free of all accusations and Cryptic is taking the blame.
I do agree that the game is shallow and needs A LOT of depth, I agree.
I just feel that we are blaming the wrong people.
STO could be an awesome game, just not right now.
I am not mad at Atari, they didn't develop the game, Cryptic did. I am not mad at the lack of content, I am mad at the fact that this game is a re-skinned version of Champions online, there is nothing new or innovating or Star Trek about this game. It is boring, bland and shallow. It is fun until the novelty of it runs out, which is pretty quick.
The engine of this game is horrid and uninteresting. This game in the end is just not really that good, IMHO. No amount of time will change the dynamic of this game. Sure we will get content updates but it will all play exactly the same in the end, like a Champions Online mod with a cheap rip-off of Starfleet Command addon pack for the space portion of the game.
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I am not mad at Atari, they didn't develop the game, Cryptic did. I am not mad at the lack of content, I am mad at the fact that this game is a re-skinned version of Champions online, there is nothing new or innovating or Star Trek about this game. It is boring, bland and shallow. It is fun until the novelty of it runs out, which is pretty quick.
The engine of this game is horrid and uninteresting. This game in the end is just not really that good, IMHO. No amount of time will change the dynamic of this game. Sure we will get content updates but it will all play exactly the same in the end, like a Champions Online mod with a cheap rip-off of Starfleet Command addon pack for the space portion of the game.
Cryptic is an Atari owned-interest... There is no non-Atari owned Cryptic Studios.... To yell at one is to yell at the other...
http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs/UnSub/122008/2995_Breaking-News-Atari-Buys-Cryptic-Studios
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/09/atari-buys-mmo-dev-cryptic-studios/
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/12/10/cryptic-atari-deal-wont-affect-star-trek-mmo/
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56275