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My Entire Fleet Quit....again
qrtrmstr
Member Posts: 139 Arc User
Thanks PWE/Cryptic. For the second time in the span of my playing STO, my entire fleet quit. Why? Well mostly because of the bugs and lack of customer complaints being fixed or corrected.
For the second time in 3 years, I had a fleet of strong players, we got to Tier 3, and they all decided that there are just better games and better companies running those games. I can't say that I blame them. Every PUG STF you find someone trolling the match. You report them, no consequences are given. You report a bug, nothing gets fixed. You contact customer service, you're told to go elsewhere by form letter. You guys are taking something as solid as Star Trek, where there will always be fans, and you're destroying it. How can you TRIBBLE up a game this badly? I'll tell you how. By not listening to your customers. When we complain about issues, we do so for a reason. We've identified a problem in the user experience and we expect that when we take the time to report it, that it will be addressed, not ignored.
So what to do now? I'm not starting another fleet. I guess, after the hundreds, if not thousands, I spent to support the game, I will reluctantly, need to find something else to do. STO isn't bleeding, they're hemorrhaging players by not correcting the user experience. There are too many bugs and a lack of expressed appreciation for those who report them by correcting the reported problems. How embarrassing that STO lost 50-60 people to flash based Dark Orbit because their game works.
For the second time in 3 years, I had a fleet of strong players, we got to Tier 3, and they all decided that there are just better games and better companies running those games. I can't say that I blame them. Every PUG STF you find someone trolling the match. You report them, no consequences are given. You report a bug, nothing gets fixed. You contact customer service, you're told to go elsewhere by form letter. You guys are taking something as solid as Star Trek, where there will always be fans, and you're destroying it. How can you TRIBBLE up a game this badly? I'll tell you how. By not listening to your customers. When we complain about issues, we do so for a reason. We've identified a problem in the user experience and we expect that when we take the time to report it, that it will be addressed, not ignored.
So what to do now? I'm not starting another fleet. I guess, after the hundreds, if not thousands, I spent to support the game, I will reluctantly, need to find something else to do. STO isn't bleeding, they're hemorrhaging players by not correcting the user experience. There are too many bugs and a lack of expressed appreciation for those who report them by correcting the reported problems. How embarrassing that STO lost 50-60 people to flash based Dark Orbit because their game works.
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Well, sorry to hear that bro... but I have my doubts that you had a fleet of 50-60 ACTIVE players who suddenly quit, all around the same time.
Either way, have fun with whatever you head off to do. I'll continue to enjoy my experience in Star Trek Online.
Also, an obligitary question to anyone who makes an "I Quit" thread (which is what this boils down to). Can I have your stuff?
Thanks.
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So you are saying that you had 50-60 "strong" players and they ALL quit to go play this other game? So they are not playing STO anymore - or are not contributing to the fleet?
P.s. If you don't want this thread closed - you should modifiy it to indicate that you are staying and looking for feedback - rather than just posting a rant like "I quit" thread - if infact this is not an I quit thread?
Also, aren't "I quit" against the rules?
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
1) A strong leadership organization or core
2) Hopelessly addicted members. Or die-hard star trek gamer fans...
Without these two elements, your fleet is doomed!
I guess it helps that we cater to a good niche. The fleet is for former CoH players. Ironically, the super groups that I joined when I was playing CoH all dried up quickly, including the super groups set up specifically for forum members.
Something reeks of bodily excrements. I've been around the blocks with fleets that are larger than that one, and 50-60 people don't just up and quit unless all 50-60 of them are an INCREDIBLY tightly knit group or their fleet leader was incompetent and/or cheating them.
Plus if you had 50-60 active fleet members, why are you pugging STFs? My current fleets active size, going by your numbers is half yours, and we're a T5 SB with T3 Embassy and Dil Mine, and we RARELY pug STFs, and even then if we pug it, the ones we bring are enough to carry even the worst of pugs.
Bugs, yea i admit there are bugs, but I havent come across any that I would call gamebreaking. Plus fixing those bugs isnt exactly a snap of the finger. Tho there have been some that have been around a long time that still havent been fixed, but some of those are so minor.
Customer Service: I can't speak on STO directly. I did have to contact Perfect World Customer Service for another game, but they took care of me in a relative quick time frame. But like I said not with STO directly, so take it at face value.
To me sounds like you didn't get what you wanted and your fleet collectively abandoned you, now you're here complaining.
my fleet is doing great..
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
Dinosaurs in SPACE!!!:eek:
Hahaha. . .cruisers are already beasts, if you actually know what heck you're doing. They're also getting these cruiser command auras. You just want things to be unbalanced in the favor of cruisers, making them as nimble as escorts while having the high hull and shield mods and dual cannons. . .and despite what a lot of ignorant fools think, the escorts don't have THAT much of an edge.
Do you happen to have a link to this roast? I must've missed it.
Can I... I just kinda would.. I would like to know... We hecK Im just going to ask! Can I have your old fleets stuff?
USS Casinghead NCC 92047 launched 2350
Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
Good lord! Will you stop harping on about afk? It's getting old.
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
if this forums did that it be a dead zone hahahhahhahaha
system Lord Baal is dead
Oh yeah, because Dark Orbit is so much better
Nice joke
Can I have your stuff, and your fleet ?
I was referring not to the numbers but the text.
As for the numbers of my fleet...the first being Shadow Guardians (which only had about 15 fully active members) died off as the typical slow die off. But Valor Empire, in our prime, was over 300 players and 50-60 hardcore, fulltime, active members of which we utilized TS3 for out coordinated efforts. And of those 50-60, about 20 are lifetime players like myself. But no, it wasn't overnight. The bugs that flared during LoR's launch is what started the hemorrhage. Several guys got fed up and moved on. Between May and now, I have me and 1 other active member (who I have promoted to leader) and we are discussing what we're going to do.
I speak with the core group still as they all still play, but they're all on Eve or Dark Orbit vowing never to return to STO until the bugs are worked out. Anyone who had played STO for a while now knows that this means they probably won't return. These are guys who I've met in person, most live here in the states, are avid Trekkies (like myself and I hate that term) and typically watch TOS and DS9 while playing. Even now they watch while playing other games. They simply are fed up with this nonsense of ignoring our comments suggestions and bug reports and not fixing anything.
Even now, I have 2 responses in my account from GM Siddion or whatever he calls himself stating that they know about the issue I reported about the accolade system (15 months ago) and they are still "investigating" lol whatever! Just now I logged in and see the NPC that takes epohh's and assigns the tagging assignment is just gone. No word from cryptic/PWE and no word when or if she'll return.
So no, it took some time before people realized that they aren't in the habit of fixing things, and the rate occasion when something is fixed, it's not timely, and they got fed up as we reached 1/2 way to tier 4 and now I have a dead fleet and friends who play other games.
I've been trying to inherit an abandoned fleet for months, but everyone I join is at least limping along.
Well, anything but that stupid german mini game from bugpoint. Those from your fleet playing Dark Orbit and enjoying it, i'd delete them from my friend list and call the police.