So the free weekend came around and I was excited because I already have an MMO that i pay to play and I was extreamly hesitant about buying another one and paying another fee so the free weekend was the perfect opportunity to try it out and maybe make a switch for awhile....or at least that was the plan. I started downloading the demo (which from what I read is just the tutorial and the first mission) and was shocked to see a demo at 9GB, that seems a little excessive. 4 days later that was at a whole whopping 40%...so I gave up and went with the bittorrent version after discovering there was one. That still took almost all day which I really can not blame anyone for as it rely's on other people to share it and not just the game server. Finally on the 5th day it finishes and I click the shiny install button.....Then I get an error...your account is not playable contact billing. So I surf the forums and find the hidden demo activation that I did not see anywhere while getting the demo file from the STO home page. Install takes a little over 6ish minutes which was not bad, I get in and....PATCH!.....7 hours later it finally finished patching after getting server stall after stall and server disconnects multiple times and by this time I am really wondering why am I still bothering. FINALLY, patched up and create a character! lets do this! Opening cinema starts up, plays for 6 seconds, Disconnect......WTF....ok lets try this again, log in start it up and 7 seconds later D/C......this went on 3 more times. At this point I would NEVER consider paying to buy this TRIBBLE let alone pay $15 a month for it. And I know what everyone is already typing, dude your machine sucks! so let me put those screams to rest, I can play anything else without so much as a stutter, hardware and internet speed wise so this is not due to my system. Seems to me like either the servers are severely overcrowded or the server that they set up for the demo / welcome back stuff is just getting slammed but either way 5 days of that was more then enough for me. I don't mean for this to be a OMG this game is TRIBBLE thread but more of a thread that maybe someone from Cryptic will read and maybe it will do some good somewhere.
So the free weekend came around and I was excited because I already have an MMO that i pay to play and I was extreamly hesitant about buying another one and paying another fee so the free weekend was the perfect opportunity to try it out and maybe make a switch for awhile....or at least that was the plan. I started downloading the demo (which from what I read is just the tutorial and the first mission) and was shocked to see a demo at 9GB, that seems a little excessive. 4 days later that was at a whole whopping 40%...so I gave up and went with the bittorrent version after discovering there was one. That still took almost all day which I really can not blame anyone for as it rely's on other people to share it and not just the game server. Finally on the 5th day it finishes and I click the shiny install button.....Then I get an error...your account is not playable contact billing. So I surf the forums and find the hidden demo activation that I did not see anywhere while getting the demo file from the STO home page. Install takes a little over 6ish minutes which was not bad, I get in and....PATCH!.....7 hours later it finally finished patching after getting server stall after stall and server disconnects multiple times and by this time I am really wondering why am I still bothering. FINALLY, patched up and create a character! lets do this! Opening cinema starts up, plays for 6 seconds, Disconnect......WTF....ok lets try this again, log in start it up and 7 seconds later D/C......this went on 3 more times. At this point I would NEVER consider paying to buy this TRIBBLE let alone pay $15 a month for it. And I know what everyone is already typing, dude your machine sucks! so let me put those screams to rest, I can play anything else without so much as a stutter, hardware and internet speed wise so this is not due to my system. Seems to me like either the servers are severely overcrowded or the server that they set up for the demo / welcome back stuff is just getting slammed but either way 5 days of that was more then enough for me. I don't mean for this to be a OMG this game is TRIBBLE thread but more of a thread that maybe someone from Cryptic will read and maybe it will do some good somewhere.
Aside from the wall-o-text attack, you might want to post a dxdaig. Seeing disconnections like that often means your GPU is keeling over and dying when the graphics try to load.
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Never had a problem?