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szim
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Anyone else got the impression that this forum is slowly but steadily dying out? You can almost count the new post made in a day with one hand. There are almost no dev posts anymore and the "official" threads are hardly held up to date.
That's a pity. I think between all the hate and complaints an active and frequently used forum is a very important source for new ideas. And it is central for keeping up the player's interest in this game. A "silent forum" often marks the near end which I hope is not the case.
That's a pity. I think between all the hate and complaints an active and frequently used forum is a very important source for new ideas. And it is central for keeping up the player's interest in this game. A "silent forum" often marks the near end which I hope is not the case.
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So people don't bother making threads.
Also a lot of people are probably getting burned out with the game and probably dont play much (if at all) and probably wont be very active till season 7 hits.
STO has always been like this, people come back (or join up) around the time a season hits, then after a month or 2 they go and play other games or other more interesting things, only the real die hards play all the time. Although in the past the Devs were more active on the forums so that would contribute to the talking.... These days the Dev's are a lot more quiet and we can only talk about the same old missions so many times.
I also suspect some people might be trying out Guild Wars 2; some of those will come back, some of them might not. Some of those who do might bring back new people, who knows?
Not really as I've seen it all before. I remember seeing a thread like this a year ago. it comes and goes in phases depending on the time of year, what is currently out, how close to a new season it is etc etc.
Its certainly not at its busiest but to be honest it usually flares up when something really bad is happening that causes a lot of controversy or something noteworthy like a FE series is being released.
we are in a between season, between content, between lockbox phase where there is just not a whole heap new to talk about. It will pick up again, and it will go quiet again.
I think you may be seeing burnout on the part of the players in many cases. Between the godaweful changes to the Forums and our accounts and the immense waves of indifference coming from PWE some of us have just thrown in the towel.
I used to be constructive and bring up new ideas but honestly I have since decided that I am fairly done with that. I will support those who deserve support and help to disillusion those who have serious misconceptions about the game or the company but it is hard to be motivated to do much else when I know I would be talking to a Wall.
I understand when people say this is the "in between" seasons slowness, however, even at it's lowest, the forums still had a lot of posts, both positive and negative.
I think what you are seeing now that are left playing, are the real hardcore Star Trek fans that enjoy the game warts and all and I see very few negative posts any more.
Poor forums for a poor game now
I'm sure it will pick up when the next lock box is announced and they can continue to fleece the gullible
The reason is that I got really tired of reading all the hate-Threads with always the same arguements... I started to visit these forums back in the days to get useful information or at least discussion but not to read people bashing the same things over and over again. Just take a look at the thread about the racing uniform for example...
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Brigadier General Jokag IKS Gorkan
Centurion Kares RRW Tomalak
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That being said, the forums will pick up again once they start releasing more information about season 7. In fact, some of the newer threads I see are comments about the Reputation System that is suppose to release with Season 7.
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Ah yes blame the KDF players for everything.
The KDF discussion has been here since the beginning. I think it is far more likely that people who make comments like yours are more to blame for people not posting than otherwise.
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Don't we still have cooldown on that? :P
To OP, in addition to everyone else's points we did just have a very unique "Ask Cryptic" this month. The poll and the followup posts by Dan Stahl pretty much absorbed alot of issues normally dispersed over multiple threads. So I'm going to guess everyone's could be catching their breath and reviewing the conversations in the "Ask Cryptic" thread.
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Wouldn't that make you get hit first?
Season 6 should of launched at least 2 story arcs with 5 storyline missions based out of our star bases surrounding tne tne tholians. Instead of doing that we were deceived and forced to pay for fleet ships that should of been free as a season feature update.
We as players need stories to follow as well as grind to work upon, and we do not really have it.
Many players have moved on or are playing other games for the time being.
Some players do not play STO becuase it does lack a fan desired level of Star treky-ness.
Or simply many have just gotten tired of the circular nature of the threads/forums in general and simply no longer visit.
Sadly you both took Korhils bait. Ignore him when he waxs anti-KDF as he only does it to get a reaction for what ever entertainment it brings him in doing so.
R.I.P
Its a pity and a retrograde step.
In the past it seemed busy because of things like dev blogs on upcoming content. This was for the duty officer system, starbase system f2p etc. They probably are not doing this with season 7 because they don't want spoilers for the story. the only thing they could tell us about is the embassy and the reputation system. Those systems are too early in developement by the sounds of it. With story being their primary focus means those other systems will not be ready as early as the starbase info.
If you want you can go into a Chris stoked pre-s6 conspiracy drought found here. You can also see a bit as to why there are less devs. Season 6 in my mind is a very good season.
We are in the same cycle as before but we are just a bit more experienced on silence. This is not the content drought of 2011.
* There's the "Oh, this thread again." experience,
* The ever more deafening silence from the devs, as the few who communicated with any regularity jumped ship for all kinds of inocuous reasons no one here quite believes,
* The growing number of community mods, who sometimes seem to adhere to the Harvey Dent school of decisionmaking when it comes to closing threads, which happens a lot more often now as a consequence, effective discouraging posting, and whose often idiotic actions Cryptic preemptively washes its hands of in their signatures,
* And there's a whole lotta nothing to talk about.
The devs are still posting (Dev Tracker), the Devs that don't post are still reading the forums daily, blogs and news posts are scheduled and will continue to come out, new Dev interviews are planned to release soon, and we will absolutely be talking about Season 7 in blog posts as we get closer to getting it on Tribble -- we really can't wait to start sharing some of the amazing features and content being introduced in it with you all.
STO is going to finish out 2012 with a bang, and 2013 is going to be even brighter and bigger. It's going to be awesome.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
I admit that all sounds great, but I have to ask: as the community manager wouldnt you still be saying the same thing even if things were going downhill?
Another reason is tha there are few trhings to discuss. KDF is dying by decree of Cryptic and the Roms will be their replacement faction.
There are few things left in this game that keep me interested me anymore.
Sme of the more the vocal Anti-KDF guys didn't help either to keep me on the forums.
Sounds like it will be a bing bang for Fed fans at 2012 end.
Yes branflakes, and this is coming from the community manager that is a PWE employee :rolleyes: