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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
I can't say I'm surprised to see this but it still annoys me to see it. I can see it happening for weeks to come at least as people clamour after the Galaxy X (why are people calling it that?) reward. A well thought out plan with no drawbacks whatsoever... I'm not seeing too many great things about the demo so far either with a lot of complaints about huge download for very short gameplay. It might dissipate soon, I'm not getting my hopes up though :/
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Dyonas wrote: »
    I can't say I'm surprised to see this but it still annoys me to see it. I can see it happening for weeks to come at least as people clamour after the Galaxy X (why are people calling it that?) reward. A well thought out plan with no drawbacks whatsoever... I'm not seeing too many great things about the demo so far either with a lot of complaints about huge download for very short gameplay. It might dissipate soon, I'm not getting my hopes up though :/

    First of all, I love your avatar. That movie was...well insane haha. The ending made my head want to explode.

    But to stay on topic. They have made a point to sort many of the threads into their own little categories. I would say this one needs to be sorted into promotions or something. If they are going to allow this I feel they need to keep things clean in here and move these threads somewhere else.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Pikoy wrote:
    First of all, I love your avatar. That movie was...well insane haha. The ending made my head want to explode.

    But to stay on topic. They have made a point to sort many of the threads into their own little categories. I would say this one needs to be sorted into promotions or something. If they are going to allow this I feel they need to keep things clean in here and move these threads somewhere else.

    what movie? it looks/sounds interesting
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    what movie? it looks/sounds interesting

    Big Man Japan

    Rent it, watch it, go insane. haha it has a slow kind of pace to it. but when things happen. THEY HAPPEN. haha
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    it really is getting abit much around here with all the requests. Almost like a bunch of credit spammers :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    You aint seen nothing yet, once you start seeing them in the game, the wider community will get a first chance look and they will only become naturally envious and demand will go up.

    Its about the stats, most of us believe if we work hard enough we should use the best and why settle for second level. So for many its the best ship or nothing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    pierrat wrote: »
    You aint seen nothing yet, once you start seeing them in the game, the wider community will get a first chance look and they will only become naturally envious and demand will go up.

    Its about the stats, most of us believe if we work hard enough we should use the best and why settle for second level. So for many its the best ship or nothing.

    Ohh i hear yah and i know it will happen, thus far only one picture of the Galaxy X has surfaced with a shot from the back end. Once its in game people will crave over it. I can see cryptic putting itself into the situation soon, because it will go nuts.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    thats what the iggy button is for anyone that is posting this stuff here i click their profile and then add to ignore list so i won't get spammed
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Forum full of referral posts

    Full? I count 2 or 3 threads. Exaggerate much?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Ohh i hear yah and i know it will happen, thus far only one picture of the Galaxy X has surfaced with a shot from the back end. Once its in game people will crave over it. I can see cryptic putting itself into the situation soon, because it will go nuts.

    I would stand behind that but......omg its so UGLY, i never cared one iota about any of the ships, even the science balls and the SW's squid battleships were fine, but the Gal X is a hideous creature indeed.

    conflicts with my inner STAT junkie, fly in a poo ship but have a hotrod under the hood.....sigh
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Maybe they should do a sticky for such things or a request forum.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    theres at least 5 of them some offering credits others offering services one guy even offering to let you be his referal for 50 mil credits since yesterday until the last hour or 2 that was about all you saw on the front page
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    In regards to players spamming buddy key invites, we will most likely clean those up and add a forum policy if it gets out of hand. Currently there is a possibility that it will go away on it's own, so I'll hope for that for now. If we still see "offering EC for referrals!" after the weekend then we'll most likely need to get a bit stricter about it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    GM_Destra wrote:
    In regards to players spamming buddy key invites, we will most likely clean those up and add a forum policy if it gets out of hand. Currently there is a possibility that it will go away on it's own, so I'll hope for that for now. If we still see "offering EC for referrals!" after the weekend then we'll most likely need to get a bit stricter about it.

    You might consider a "referral" board for people who are looking for recruits as well as the interested people looking for a key.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    GM_Destra wrote:
    In regards to players spamming buddy key invites, we will most likely clean those up and add a forum policy if it gets out of hand. Currently there is a possibility that it will go away on it's own, so I'll hope for that for now. If we still see "offering EC for referrals!" after the weekend then we'll most likely need to get a bit stricter about it.

    Could always do what some FFXI forums do: Create a sticky or subforum specifically for sharing buddy keys.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    You might consider a "referral" board for people who are looking for recruits as well as the interested people looking for a key.

    That is a capitial idea :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    GM_Destra wrote:
    In regards to players spamming buddy key invites, we will most likely clean those up and add a forum policy if it gets out of hand. Currently there is a possibility that it will go away on it's own, so I'll hope for that for now. If we still see "offering EC for referrals!" after the weekend then we'll most likely need to get a bit stricter about it.


    what about offering cash value rewards in return for people subscribing? Condoning that can make you party to pyramid marketing which will get you a slap in the EU.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    GM_Destra wrote:
    In regards to players spamming buddy key invites, we will most likely clean those up and add a forum policy if it gets out of hand. Currently there is a possibility that it will go away on it's own, so I'll hope for that for now. If we still see "offering EC for referrals!" after the weekend then we'll most likely need to get a bit stricter about it.

    Get stricter about it?

    This monster was created by Cryptic's Marketing Department!

    They come up with a ridiculously sought after in-game ship, with special features that no other Federation ship can have.

    They make the ONLY way to get this ship, through a referral processes.

    The only way for players to get 5 new players to...purchase the game, then resub for a month after the first 30 days....is to offer them something.

    For those of us who can't afford to buy 5 boxes, and then pay for 5 x 2nd month sunscriptions, is to offer in-game items (ECs) in exhange.

    Now there is the threat that "stricter actions" will take place if we try to function in this system that Cryptic has created!!!

    This is beginning to sound an aweful lot like SOE's TRIBBLE around with SWG.......Cryptic Devs, divorce your marketing department before the destroy this game!!!! If you agree with them on this scheme, bang your head against the wall a few times, until your senses return to you.

    Do not try to over market STO, keep doing the development you have been doing. Your steps towards Season Two have been great so far.......If you develop it, players will come......schemes never result in satisfied, long term, customers.

    My idea is better than your marketing depratment's....Make the Galaxy X:

    1. Tier 6 ship class
    2. Give other classes of ships the same abilities (Science, Cruiser, Escort)
    3. Make it unlocked at RA 10
    4. Make it cost 1000 Marks of Exploration

    1000 Marks of Exploration will take a player 200 days to earn = 7 months of subscription time!!

    5. You can still keep your referral reward in place, for those that can get 5 people and whom want it now.

    My way, everyone wins!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    You might consider a "referral" board for people who are looking for recruits as well as the interested people looking for a key.

    That would be the best idea for people trying to get a Gal X.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Cygnus-X-1 wrote:
    Full? I count 2 or 3 threads. Exaggerate much?

    There are around 10 active ones concerning this. Not an exaggeration.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Desdecardo wrote: »
    There are around 10 active ones concerning this. Not an exaggeration.

    10 threads out of ~20,000 is not my definition of FULL :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Cygnus-X-1 wrote:
    10 threads out of ~20,000 is not my definition of FULL :rolleyes:

    What a stretch you just made to avoid admitting you are wrong. I'm sure the smiley helps your cause too.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Blodveard wrote: »

    1000 Marks of Exploration will take a player 200 days to earn = 7 months of subscription time!!

    5. You can still keep your referral reward in place, for those that can get 5 people and whom want it now.[/COLOR]
    My way, everyone wins!!



    200 days.. .1000 marks... just how do you people come up with those ludicrous numbers. you work at cryptic marketing?! i see a pattern here....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I'd much rather see 10 threads of people trying to convince other folks to subscribe to the game than the usual 20 threads moaning and complaining about how horrible it is.

    The latter is what will 'destroy the game'.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    GM_Destra wrote:
    Currently there is a possibility that it will go away on it's own.
    *Shakes head* Oh Cryptic, why art thou coy? :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    That is a capitialist idea :D

    fixed :D
    ..........

    actually, not sure why they don't do things like that already.. like a "...thinking of joining?" section
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    GM_Destra wrote:
    In regards to players spamming buddy key invites, we will most likely clean those up and add a forum policy if it gets out of hand. Currently there is a possibility that it will go away on it's own, so I'll hope for that for now. If we still see "offering EC for referrals!" after the weekend then we'll most likely need to get a bit stricter about it.

    How about sending these posts off to their own "way at the bottom of the forum list" ghetto instead of posts about gameplay and game design and other decisions?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Alkoomi wrote:
    *Shakes head* Oh Cryptic, why art thou coy? :rolleyes:

    It will go away on it's own soon as "teh fanboi" segment of the population purchases their 5 accounts to get the Galaxy-X.

    Everything else is smoke. Sure, they are going to try to get a free one here and there, but most will end up purchasing the alt accounts on their own.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    wildcat84 wrote: »
    How about sending these posts off to their own "way at the bottom of the forum list" ghetto instead of posts about gameplay and game design and other decisions?

    Why are you still squawking and double-posting when the threads have already been relocated?

    :confused:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I'd much rather see 10 threads of people trying to convince other folks to subscribe to the game than the usual 20 threads moaning and complaining about how horrible it is.

    The latter is what will 'destroy the game'.

    Agreed. And they think they are trying to help when they are really hurting the game in the end. Sad thing is some of their ideas for change are not bad. Just that they are always coated with a sick layer of jaded disdain, negativity and cynicism. If they truly loved the game then try to positively and constructively help things to change. If they are so disgusted, then move on. There are other games to play. This game is not the end all of games, or the last chance for fun.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Cygnus-X-1 wrote:
    Why are you still squawking and double-posting when the threads have already been relocated?

    :confused:

    There's one really good thing about all the referral spam yesterday.

    It's given me half a dozen people who I can /ignore.
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