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Cryptic producer: Star Trek Online 'not dying by any means'
captain4merica
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Just posted here:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/01/cryptic-producer-star-trek-online-not-dying-by-any-means/
Sounds like the game is doing pretty well!
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/01/cryptic-producer-star-trek-online-not-dying-by-any-means/
Sounds like the game is doing pretty well!
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Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
Huh, why are you making a thread linking to an article on a site that talks about a comment on these forums? You should of just linked directly to his comments here (A bit of a lame way to get site traffic).
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=5072451&postcount=48
R.I.P
Well we know that. :P
But the "Open dev positions" bit interests me. What positions are they? And what could they add to the game?
STO is absolutely not a "space ship simulator". It is a fun game, but definitely not a sim.
I find it funny people post about how they can do a better job running this game yeah unless you are a expert in any kind of game programming, business managing please just keep your mouth shut. The devs do read and listen whether people want to believe it or not so instead of spending bulk of your time on the forums writing your doom speeches why not play the game or go get laid or something geez.
They dont. The people who post on the forums are a very small minority of the playerbase(I'm guessing 10% or less), so you have absolutely no idea what the other 90% think.
Pffft. Yeah, hardly any of the players actually post on the forums. And even Less do it regularly. Out of my 20 man fleet and all my in-game friends I am the only person to even visit the forums.
Not to mention the fact that I hardly ever see even the most active Forumites in game. In reality the forums are a very, very, very small part of the playerbase. We're just the most obnoxious. :P
"Wanted: Cryptic Studios is hiring developers to help squash bugs that have been in the game since launch because we've been too lazy to fix them for the last two and half years. Excellent pay and benefits, if you make it past the first six months and do not get laid off by our Asian overlords."
Wait... I thought the game died the same moment this "other space MMO" was released
Asians? Gypsy and me are in.
Dec '07 Account
I EARNED 1000 days...I didn't BUY it! New LTS=Death to Vet.System: 10/10/12 Never Forget
Something should be done for those who cared enough to have a 1000+ day sub.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=5072451&postcount=48
I seriously hope you're joking, since SWTOR doesn't even have a small percentage of the game breaking bugs that STO has. If they're going to follow anyone's model, it should be the one that Turbine uses. Thankfully, this appears to be exactly what EA/Bioware has planned.
Thats the same model where you have character only unlocks, lockboxes and paid-to-access quest content. Appealing!
Umm, no, I seriously hope he isn't and that you are. I like per account unlocks and non-pay-gated content. Thanks, thou.
You haven't figured out yet that the OP is TGN, the same TGN that submitted that post to Massively?
(Also the same TGN that is banned from these forums)
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You keep harping on LOTRO's lockboxes, but they are very rare drops -- and keys drop in game at a similar rate. Not to mention that there are no super-rare-gotta-have-em ships, etc., included and they are not shoved in your face all the time.
In most cases, character-only unlocks are not that expensive and there is no "pay-to-win" there at all. I've never purchased anything from the LOTRO store other than cosmetics; there's no need to. Now, I can say the same thing here. The only ships I purchased are because I liked them, not because I thought I needed an edge.
LOTRO's advantage is that they definitely have incentive to subscribe (i.e., VIPs are actually valued) and they have the Premium tier instead of just F2P or Gold.
Note that I have a F2P STO account for my daughter and we are thoroughly enjoying it. But given my drothers, I still prefer LOTRO's model in general (there are certainly pluses and minuses to both).
Didn?t the captain of the Titanic say it was all okay and nothing to worry about when they ?tapped? the small ice cube.
The same can be said for the Captain of Costa Concordia which crashed into rocks off Italy's Tuscan coast. He said everything was alright and was one of the 1st to jump off the sinking ship.
The 1st thing every company does is deny anything is wrong to protect its incoming cash flow.
They don?t want anyone to panic until the water level is at least waist high.
Yes........X2
Only the hard core fan base Has kept this game going and when I read some of the gushing thanks some of the fans put in their posts, i shake my head in bewilderment.
As to the spin master himself, remember the things this man has said in the past that have not come to fruition, with no answer after when queried.
Heres a few.
Pwe want a full Klingon faction.
I'm playing the next F E right now
No changes to lifers when the game goes f2p
Game isn't going f2p any time soon
The Dan fan club will of course respond that he's idealistic and what he's saying is what he wants to happen to the game. To that I say humph
Finally, where is the big thread about the game dying for Dan to respond in "desperate" way that he did? People, myself included have been saying this since day 1 and never had shch a long response like this,so what has cause this statement?
Is it possible that with TOR going f2p (surprise to me tbh), that it is now competition to STO? Yes I know that one is a space shooter and the other is more ground base, but plenty of people on the forums refused to play TOR because of subs. Now that's gone, the might just try it.
I suppose TOR going f2p could be a good thing for STO as the team might have to start working harder or start changing its price fleecing to compete.
If anything, I think is NW that's going to be the changer and that's where I think you will see Cryptic putting all its resources in.
Anyway. I just think people saying that what Dan says is true, need to not take everything at face value. That said, people as old and jaded like me, might want to think that sometimes, higher ups, do tell the truth.
At present it just seems to be stagnating......i mean come on, it's Star trek, it's got over 46 years of content and ideas......so why have we all been sitting with so little for so long....its boggles the mind.