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New Stahl interview: "This is one of my learning lessons..."

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Bottom of the first article, a audio interview with Stahl, where he does go into the Free to Play slip quote from the other interview.

The F2P thing starts around 13:30 on part 2
lol good question...
Interviewer: what grade do you give the game?
Stahl: "We had a solid launch, a very relatively trouble free launch..." "We have some climbing to do to get up to where we expect the game to be"

Are you where you expected to be at 6 months in subs?
Stahl: "Uh, yeah." "We hit our expectations and hit the numbers we were looking for, and even the dropoff afterwards has been very predictable so we dont feel like we're in any trouble"

--the CStore antics make me think otherwise---

Apparently they have a vision up to 3 years of what theyre going to do, regardless of how it looks to some.

Interviewer: Why are the perks moving into the CStore so fast
"The Galaxy DN is an anomaly in our CStore strategy"
---well so much for HIS credability---
[after much debate and much compaining on the forums] "We decided to put it in the CStore at a price that would make it more exclusive"

Go listen to the interview, an post what you think.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    The "uh" at the start of his answer to the question about subs makes me think he should append the word "barely" to the end of the sentence. Otherwise, I don't see anything troubling or outside of my expectations.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I call Dan's "Free 2 Play" counter "Spin control". Sounded like he was estatic about Free 2 Play and when the community shot back he pulled the "Oh TRIBBLE" manuever and backpedalled.

    Otherwise I thought he handled it well. Though he really needs to do something like a 3 point or 5 point plan outlining how he will correct problems. For instance on Klingons would be we are goign to do A then B then C. Only then will we proceed with D and E for the Federation.

    Alo, if Dan is reading - Could you go more into the exclusivity aspect of the C-Store. you never really seemed ot nail that one down and came off as waffling.

    Blakinik

    PS: Kudos for answering the tougher questions. Now if you could get Ask Cryptic to do the same....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Op banned?.... not big surprise.... :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Hornet331 wrote: »
    Op banned?.... not big surprise.... :p

    Heh I wonder what the reason was?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Hornet331 wrote: »
    Op banned?.... not big surprise.... :p

    The OP was using a different screen name previously banned, so it is not surprising that they finally caught up to him.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Blodveard wrote: »
    The OP was using a different screen name previously banned, so it is not surprising that they finally caught up to him.

    op spins as much ...... as did jacob_flowers
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