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johhanne
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In many ways this has been the best season launch yet - technically the server has been stable - I even got to play yesterday which to be honest I wasn't expecting. New Romulus is beautiful, many of the new missions are fun.
But it's all been overshadowed by the great dilithium snatch. Players should be talking about the great new content. Instead Cryptic has caused angry and upset players complaining - justifiably - about dilithium and in a stroke made their 'end game content' irrelevant.
It just didn't have to be this way. It really didn't.
Why?
Jo
But it's all been overshadowed by the great dilithium snatch. Players should be talking about the great new content. Instead Cryptic has caused angry and upset players complaining - justifiably - about dilithium and in a stroke made their 'end game content' irrelevant.
It just didn't have to be this way. It really didn't.
Why?
Jo
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If we don't find a way to infuriate our playerbase, we did something wrong.
New fake IP breaking, Fed copy pasted content Romulus is garbage as well. All rehashed laziness thrown together like grandmas 17 layer leftover 17 day meatloaf.
Yeah, that's right.
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PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
ROFL
Sure glad I wasn't drinkin anything when I read this (so is my computer)
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
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Yeah, that's right.
Honestly, Cryptic / Perfect World just shot themselves in the foot and blew it off.
I can usually have fun with snatch but this new grind has me liking the fact that my STO-citement to play has been lackluster of late.
I can handle grinding mind you though I think this recent turn of events is too much and is an attempt to once again control the economy that got away from them.
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I was trying to get myself in the mood to give STO a try again when season 7 went live but I could not keep myself logged in for more than 20 minutes.
STF?s were the only way I ever earned Dilithium and now if I wanted to play and needed Dilithium I?d be forced to run into Fleet Actions that I never enjoyed doing since their introduction!
If this no Dilithium for STF?s ?is working has intended? Cryptic needs to man up and let it be known.
I think the biggest problem that I have is that if it turns out that was always what Cryptic intended to do with STF?s and Dilithium then they once again told us all a bold faced lie that they?d only be reducing the Dilithium payouts on Normal and Elite STF?s.
Time after Time Cryptic never ceases to disappoint me.
^^^^ This exactly. They're always looking for ways to anger the playerbase, but not so much that they cause everybody to rage quit.
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Oh I think they found it.
Maybe he meant their banks? :rolleyes:
Oh so the new Dilithum change is good for us?
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Cryptic wants you to spend all-day in their game. It's supposed to be your second or third job is how they do things.
"There is no problem in the universe that can't be solved with a bribe, a paid assassin, or an overpowered fighter." - Chubain from Jumpgate Evolution
They lost at least one long time, used to be loyal, gold subscriber since day 1 of launch (33+ months uninterrupted, 1015+ days the old fashioned way not grandfathered in during the $200 LTS money grab promo). Yep, I canceled my subscription after seeing the mess that Season 7 is. Sad, really because I wanted to play through my third anniversary in Feb 2013. Oh well.
And get this: most games make you jump through hoops to cancel your subscription, wanting you to fill out surveys which usually ask stuff like what % chance that you will return (0%) etc. In Star Trek Online, I clicked a button and the green "Active Subscription" text on my Account page went red showing that I canceled, and that was that. No survey, not even a link to leave feedback.
It took me 30 minutes to find a link to feedback and it wasn't a Cryptic or STO specific page, it was on the PWE page, and we all know THEY don't care as long as your credit card was valid during your most recent billing cycle or Zen purchase. Well, those two things won't happen again.
No Star Trek Series went past Season 7.
Will Star Trek Online survive Season 7?
A new season all about story content? Great! Oh.. no episodes? Just more grind & queue events?
New STF(s)? Awesome! I've been waiting for the Hive for over 2 years now. But, with rewards nerfed across the board, and no real cohesive story behind it all anymore, I can't even find the motivation to log in and play through it.
Then you have the dilithium devastation being discussed here, which is just icing on the cake, and the final nail in the coffin of my S7 excitement...
I do like the new sector block, and that there is atleast more variety in the ever growing grind, but it's a far cry from what I envisioned after hearing what Season 7 was going to be all about (I was even thinking small, being used to the "normal" in past releases). New Romulus is a beautiful map, but the content within has failed to captivate me in the slightest.
Here's hoping 8 will be better. Until then, I'll be struggling to find a reason to log in as usual. I guess I just have much more fun in games that offer more immersive story, in game rewards, and proper motivation to keep going. STO doesn't offer much of that at all, anymore, unless I'm missing something.
I completely agree with this and it is one of the primary reasons why we are reversing our decision about Dilithium. Players should be having fun with Season 7 - it is awesome - not worrying about Dilithium.
Thank you (and everyone else) for speaking up about this. It means a lot to us.
I'm sorry and I really don't want to be snarky but we have already gone over this two weeks ago http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=424701 and then you changed your mind.
You need to do something to get back player confidence. Something beyond changing your mind again.
Bugs are rife and Cryptic are already having to look at this STF Dil problem after the streams of negative comments turned up on here, and it won't be surprising to me if they just hack in some barely functional solution and leave it at that - or just nerf something else in the process and get people angry again.
At this point they can do no right, they are damned if they attempt to fix things and certainly damned if they don't bother. I certainly don't envy their position.
If they last until season 8 they're gonna need to pull something pretty special out of the bag to earn some small slither of respect back from players, a feat made harder considering it is supposed to finally be the KDF overhaul they have been promising forever.
Sad thing is it would have been far more successful if they didn't rush to get this out before the 13th, and if they were upfront about the Dil change and managed to snip the problem in the bud before release.
Dan, I do appreciate the new content. I played a lot of New Romulus stuff last night, and I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. However the changes to the Dilithium currency have basically made it next to impossible for me to continue advancing my fleet projects. I just can't make enough of it. The last day of season 6 I made 10,000 Dilithium Ore, and refined 8000. The first day of season 7 I made 4000 Dilithium Ore. I don't have time to grind Marks (both Fleet and Romulan, not even attempting Omega Force yet) and Dilithium, and yet suddenly I need significantly more of both.
I am in a small fleet. Currently, I am about the only person actively working on the Starbase (and now the Embassy). I can't afford to recruit DOFFs any more. It was already bad enough with having to split my Dilithium between Starbase projects, and the special project we have going. Now I need it to recruit, advance the embassy, etc, etc, etc.
Please reconsider these additional fees. They are killing all sense of progress for me, and I suspect, many others who are in my position.
This character is why I don't play my Romulan any more. Tovan Khev is NOT my BFF! Get him off my bridge!
Much like you I participated in the STF's for the dilithium and the loot. The dilithium to earn my cap for the day and the loot to turn in for EC's. I don't like nor do I want to praticipate in the Fleet Actions, it just not what I built my ships for.
I hear tell, that Stahl now tells us the Dilithium will be put back into the STF's, 480 normal and 960 elite. . But what about the loot?
Maybe most of you don't really care for the loot/gear at the finish of an STF and that's fine. But it was mostly my only way to make EC in game. Not all of us can pump $100.00 a week on the game you know.
Well on that note. Yes the progress of many small fleets will be haulted by the new season and its new system. Didn't anyone think about this before pushing a new season? obviously not. .
I kinda agree. It's far less important than dilithium to me, but it was still nice to get a purple Acc*2 phaser DHCs once in a while.
(Another victim of Season 7.)
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
What's hilarious is they had ample feedback in the Tribble discussion forum.
They see 10 threads that praise New Romulus and they think everything's sunshine and butterflies but neglect the 200+ post thread on Doff grinder prices and Dilithium nerfs.
This is just a complete PR disaster right now. 80% of the threads on the first page of Discussion and Feedback are negative.
Somebody needs to be fired.
I don't want to harsh you mellow, but the problem really is deeper than just a few missions and their payouts. It's your whole design document for dilithium. If I didn't know better it's a copypasta from another type of game for a different kind of audience. But that's besides the point, it's ultimately a type of social engineering that rarely succeeds, even more so in a game that has been limping along for 2+ years. You've got a playerbase that is used to the game being a certain way, that meshed well with their busy adult lifestyle. Thinking that people have to grind for 4 hours a day in a certain way before they can think of having fun is a complete failure in game design and doesn't serve your customers well. STO is a good game, but it's not good enough to enforce a grueling grind on players. Season 6 was rough for my small fleet, but we took it as a challenge. Your changes to Season 7 saw my fleet disband.
Things you should do to fix things:
Don't be so anal about how/when/where people get dilithium. Instead of removing, you should be adding sources. The 8k cap for refining should be all you ever need.
Your metrics only tell you part of the story of what your customers are doing. Half of all MMO players are over 30. How many of your players are over 30 and have busy lives?
There is a useless quest on the player starbase that gives a measly 5 fleet marks. Up the payout to 50 fleet marks and 1440 dilithium. It's not an instant payout, it gives people the baseline they had before, and it gives the starbase a function instead of it being a resource wormhole and occasional store.
You see that a lot with game developers. Lots of people warned Bioware/EA that there were serious problems with SWTOR -- no one listened. And now it's a $200million failwhale going F2P. It's pretty amazing though since it's direct customer feedback which some companies pay thousands to get.