Why i Love Cryptic:
To the Dev team, you guys are the best, your work and interaction with the community is the best! Very well done and keep up the good work.

Why i Hate Cryptic:
Marketing, you guys suck worse than a black hole.
You have no regard for your loyal customers and constantly look for ways to TRIBBLE us over and make us fork out excessively more $$$, even a Ferengi would be ashamed. :mad:
Have a good holiday dear Developers, you have earned it!
And Marketing, I hope your stockings are splitting at the seams with lumps of Coal.
Comments
I love them for making this game...
the cure is just terrible...
anytime someone mentions The Cure, no one wants to run it because it is terrible... worse STF.
the others, no problem; ill run anyone thru them... but the cure, its just, no words to describe it.
May I have permission to use this?
The general purpose of marketing is to TRIBBLE over customers as hard as possible. I don't know how people who work in marketing departments can sleep at night.
Be my guest lol.
Well Cryptic Marketing sucks more than most.
As most Marketing companies don't go around charging $10-20 for a tiny bit of content in a Pay 2 Play game.
You seem to want this game to be a success, to continue to have this great interaction we currently have with the dev's, to have more content and a bright future, to increase the team to enable more content, better GM service and so on, yet on the other hand you claim that Cryptic shouldn't be making money of anything they produce, that any product on the C-Store is purely there to stab you in the back. It makes little sense, especially with so many other companies doing exactly, EXACTLY the same thing that Cryptic is doing.
Simply, its because you are passionate and care about a product is why you are behaving in this manner, just like when you get too comfortable in a relationship and what you say and what you really should say about things gets a little out of hand, i.e, Cryptic TRIBBLE their loyal fans. Give me a break. I've spent plenty of money on this game and i've enjoyed everything immensely. And guess whose fault that it? No, not the marketing department, but me, simply because i wanted to. We all want these shiny new pixels to stare at, but at the same time, Cryptic didn't click their fingers and lo and behold, it appears. Understand a lot of work goes into something to get something back. Understand business and business models, because the moment this model switches, its over.
What really worries me is those hoping this game will go F2P. If that ever happens, and i hope to God it doesn't, after a few months the moaning will begin (and on a level these forums have never seen) where by any new ship, weapon or the like will have to be brought, and those who choose not to will be blasted into pieces by those with the over powering and purchased pixels. You think PvP has issues at the moment? The s**t storm hasn't even begun...
I love Cryptic for what they have done, especially over these last few months, and i reserve the use of the word 'hate' for people like Hitler. To think people actually hate a company trying to continue their love for developing by earning extra money to enable this, tells me that most of you understand little of the world you live in, and/or are still in school. And if you are not in that bracket, maybe you should think about going back...
Also, marketing for this game is run by Atari, not by Cryptic. Cryptic just makes the game. Atari markets and publishes it.
Something that you should also realize is that every time marketing does something stupid and whips the forum up into a frenzy of hatred they've really only upset 50 - 100 people at most. That's roughly the number of people who end up posting in these angry, raging anti-C-Store posts. Another 100 or so people on the forums either respond in defense of the C-Store or don't care either way. And another 100,000 + people who play this game never come to the forums at all and so aren't even aware of the controversy.
Finally, I don't believe that a Ferengi would be ashamed of the way Atari/Cryptic milks the C-Store for extra revenue, I think said Ferengi would respect their chutzpah.
Then you are doing something wrong, get a good team, get on TS or vent and reed some guide about how to do the mission, its easy and fun.