GameRant.com
"While this would be normal for an MMO that has been on the market for a few years, its not a good sign to be seeing this three months into a games lifespan"
Read the Article here
Personally I think it's a little early to say it's dying, but on the other hand I feel that it was to early for the welcome back weekend. But I kind of disagree with the Article, I don't think it is to early to add vet rewards, and the Article doesn't even state that we have new content on the way. it is kind of a one sided article, but that is not for me to decide.
So what do you think, do you agree, or do you disagree?
I report it, and you debate it.
EDIT REALLY LET THIS DIE the game is not dying, it's not perfects, but it is not at dying status yet. on the other hand this blog was posted to show it's one sided, in fact it took the blog from another site, which was positive, and turned it negative. I was trying to show that, but were taking this way to far. 500 post plus, on this silly issue. lets focus on something bigger. maybe game play ideas, and lets stop worrying about if STO is going to make it or not.
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I'm a proud subscriber however I will admit I even feel like I'm paying $15 to run 3 Daily missions every day.
Not really worth the money but I want to support STO.
I've been playing another MMO on the side called Global Agenda (Made by High-Rez Studios).
They released their product this year and refused to charge their customers a subscription fee (and still don't) until they felt the game is worth the $15 a month.
They said the game was not of sufficient quality and did not have enough content so they would not charge their customers until they felt the product was worth it.
Now that's integrity in in a company. I'm beyond impressed with that sort of mentality. A LOT of respect for things like that in the industry.
Maybe instead of discounting these articles, its time for some serious emergency damage control?
To be honest though, most of the folks I know that were let down by this game feel it is beyond help and flawed at conception.
The simple fact is that free weekends are a good sales/marketing strategy. They work. It is in ANY game developers interest to increase sales/subs. Just doing this does NOT mean they are desperate.
They must be really important authorities in the gaming industry, and we should care about their opinion.
What if ... five years from now, people start ranting and whining because DCUO doesn't have a demo or a free weekend up and it's already been 8 weeks since its launch date?
(And yes, that is a zing at DCUO there, because yes I am snarky).
And dont think either way.
Particular since their name suggests them being utterly trustworthy and reliable.
They badly need something at the high end that adds a competitive edge to gameplay, something similar to the castle sieges of Lineage II or something akin that has fleets working towards an objective.
And more importantly, has players wanting to join a fleet, get better, and be engaged with towards a defined objective.
Find an article dealing with how all of these marketing gimmicks with a game 3 months old is a sign of a strong product. From your choice of what you consider a "reputable" game review site.
I'd love to read how anyone could spin these measures as a positive sign.
This goes for any of you die-hards. I appreciate you enjoy the game, and I'm glad you're having a good time. But instead of telling everyone that every bad review (and there's a LOT fo them) of STO is meaningless and insignificant...show us your reputable sources to the contrary.
its all guesswork at the moment, he might be right, he might be wrong.
he says that a free weekend should come a couple of years after launch. i would have done it after six months, (according to him i would still be wrong) cryptic did it after 3. someone made that call, does not immediately mean the place is burning to the ground.
maybe STO is not doing as well as it could be or maybe they are trying to maximise their sub base to improve its future.
there are many different ideas and many ways to view the same thing. it can be viewed as a positive or a negative
if the free weekend gets 1000 new people then maybe its been a good thing.
is the class half empty or half full?
This
I dont want someone else to impose their opinion upon me. I am sure I can dig up negative reviews for most MMO's out there. Doesn't mean they hold any water.
People are putting too much faith into why this free/demo weekend came about. Seriously, if you could make more money, wouldnt you try/attempt to do so? Why is this a "bad" thing? Cause the negativity on the forums, most people(forum posters) assumes that STO must be dying or else they wouldnt want to make more money......lawl
STO had a rough start. Now that's really news, isn't it? It doesn't mean that the game's dying, only that it had a bad start. So, yes, they had to resort to some marketing gimmicks to go for the turn-around. Again, big surprise. I really needed some punk site with no industry reputation at all to tell that very very basic sort of business logic...
Age of Conan did the same by the way. Bad start. Lots of marketing. I lost track of the many "special offers" I got from them after I canceled my account there. That game didn't die. *shrug*
In the die-hards defense all that a review is, an opinion. All opinion are equal. Some people live by the opinions of others, some people stand up and do what they want. both of these people are not right nor are they wrong.
good point, were enjoying the game that we like, instead of sticking around a forum of a game we hate.
Show me proof the game is dying. This is a two way street.
I dont understand since you dont enjoy the game, the point for hanging out in the forums to give a negative stigma. I mean wouldn't it be worthwhile to move on to a different game? Or because you spend money on this game blindly and this is your way of "Sticking it too, the man?" Cause it didnt live upto "Your" Expectations?
I am trying to understand the mindset of people like you.
People can't take responsibility for their actions. simple as that.
There are plenty of other reasons to indicated a failed game, but that isn't one of them.
/Agreed
Yes there are some issues, but the majority of them are MINOR also mmos are suposed to be built onto not finished at day one...
So for all you who dont understand that they ARE WORKING on the game LIKE THAY SHOULD. Just play the game and enjoy what you can. Maybe have a little confidence you haters
I fully agree, and I feel that people have every right to enjoy this game. You wont hear me fault people for that. (Or maybe you will, but it isn't my intention.)
What bothers me is that a handful of people seem desperate to stifle the voices of criticism. Like they are being personally attacked, as opposed to just being offered a differing opinion. Every article that does offer valid points get your typical "Why should we care what they think, they are nobody..." response. Or it gets moved or buried by the developers/moderators giving me very little hope that the list of issues will even be acknowledged, much less addressed.
My point about the reviews is that there seems to be a consensus that the game is in trouble. Even its most die-hard supporters on here agree that the game has issues even if they feel its not that big of a deal.
As I've said before, the first step to recovery is admitting the problem.
I can not agree with this more. End game "stuff" for STO seems to have been completely overlooked.
By "end game" I mean: Repeatable missions, ship interiors, fleet property (more than a bank), crafting (Memory Alpha is an exchange IMO), decorating, collecting, exploring (more than b'tran), engaging PvE content, bettering my character/ship, more than 5 variations of the "explore" missions...the list goes on.
Case. In. Point.
There working on these so if you could read the notes you would see whats on the "to-do" list. No mmo comes out perfect. not even wow did
"I thiought you didn't put unhealthful things into your body?"
"I didn't. I put them into Richard's body. Trying to kill the Son-of-a-B.TRIBBLE"
I think its being beat to death by everybodies special interests and why they deserve to have them inserted into the game.
That what it seems like. every chance they get they claim the sky is falling every time some of coughs at Cryptic. But the problem is the fact that articles like this were on the front page of Google when you search Star Trek Online.