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pauldanger
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Hi All
Well this morning my laptop wouldn't patch the game and I find myself asking do I bother to fix it? I've only played the game for 18months but I've been fully engrossed in it and it's brought one of my friends and I closer because all we do is talk about the game; however this morning when the game wouldn't patch I found myself asking do I really care?
In the past 18 months I've poured money into this game to get the best gear and to catch up to my friends quickly and since then all but one of them has quit. I try to validate it by saying I probably would have paid this for playstation games, but the reality is I never would have spent as much as I did on PS3 games. Now that I have myself some awesome gear I find the value of it is being seriously eroded by delta rising.
My day on STO starts at 8am I log on and do my assignments before I go to work and by 9am I am finished. When I arrive home from work around 6:30pm I start all my admin again and if I'm lucky I will have finished by 8:30pm. Recent upgrades to the DOFF system have made the admin take way longer than it once did. As most of my old fleet have now left the game I find myself administering that and earning fleet marks to get projects going. Again I have spent so much time and energy on the fleet and all the gear it offers now is no longer the best gear in the game unless upgraded!
I'm frustrated and venting I guess as a life member I'm just plain disappointed and the fun has somewhat been sucked out of the game with fast moving senseless change. It's not that I'm not a fan of change I just wish it would be slowed down because I can't keep up and for that reason I think I will probably opt to give up.
Anyone else feeling the same way?
Well this morning my laptop wouldn't patch the game and I find myself asking do I bother to fix it? I've only played the game for 18months but I've been fully engrossed in it and it's brought one of my friends and I closer because all we do is talk about the game; however this morning when the game wouldn't patch I found myself asking do I really care?
In the past 18 months I've poured money into this game to get the best gear and to catch up to my friends quickly and since then all but one of them has quit. I try to validate it by saying I probably would have paid this for playstation games, but the reality is I never would have spent as much as I did on PS3 games. Now that I have myself some awesome gear I find the value of it is being seriously eroded by delta rising.
My day on STO starts at 8am I log on and do my assignments before I go to work and by 9am I am finished. When I arrive home from work around 6:30pm I start all my admin again and if I'm lucky I will have finished by 8:30pm. Recent upgrades to the DOFF system have made the admin take way longer than it once did. As most of my old fleet have now left the game I find myself administering that and earning fleet marks to get projects going. Again I have spent so much time and energy on the fleet and all the gear it offers now is no longer the best gear in the game unless upgraded!
I'm frustrated and venting I guess as a life member I'm just plain disappointed and the fun has somewhat been sucked out of the game with fast moving senseless change. It's not that I'm not a fan of change I just wish it would be slowed down because I can't keep up and for that reason I think I will probably opt to give up.
Anyone else feeling the same way?
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Anywho, I am going to assume your title sums up your post, so: Only if you let it...
If you LET it be a job, then yes... It is...
There are times where the time invested into this game feels more like work than fun. Then again, I chose to have a handful of toons within STO; making sure they're tended to.... well, that takes time and effort.
Then again with the marks/dilithium/experience grinds, events, fleet upkeep, etc., the game playing feels more like work. And I work pretty hard within my career, so it's par for the course. In my world, anyways.
Just wait until Cryptic/PWE comes up with mobile platform APIs -- and starts to make aspects of STO accessible from your mobile device. You'll be farming all day long...
When new episodes are introduced, I have to say: it feels like more FUN, less work.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
I thought it was "trolling lesson, don't repeat". :P
Yes, however I enjoy my job.
Oh, but I don't get paid for STO :rolleyes:, dammit.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Do it knowing it's an account unlock, and in the past at least there was no loss in value.
Arguably since future ships will be un-original I kind of don't feel I wasted anything.
Outside that yeah I have gotten a few items here and there but only like a fraction of what I have earned and I never bought anything expensive like purple damage consoles or lobi weapons.
When they introduced reputation for example I dropped any character that didn't already have STF drops and never bought dropped dil into it because from my perspective those 30,000 dil items used to be free.
Fast forward to crafting, upgrading, t5u and it's all exponentially more hilarious in that yeah they invalidate all your previous work but additionally want you to rebuy all your old gear.
I recommend anyone to play the game the way I have, to as much as you can not care - be truely casual and start thinking in animations-outfits-skins you want to invest in rather than "empty" copy pasted stats that requires zero work from developers.
Ask yourself how many of their poor decision designs can I successfully ignore and still do what I want to?
Can I ignore lobis. reputation, crafting, upgrading and still be happy playing the game?
Let it go.
Why, it means 'Truly Lamenting Delta Rising', of course :P
Whoa..... Dude did mention "8 free ships that were free, for free" or "animations"! Its a miracle.
tl;dr, you find the game lame because you played it to death, and now you feel entitled to complain at cryptic because you played it so hard its burned you out.. honestly, your choice what you did including any money you put into. they provided the service as agreed to, like it or not and any money you put into it doesnt imply that you will be treated any differently from anyone else.
btw "i quit" threads are not allowed and i also think this violates the fct "i demand x, or else".
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Sto is totally capable of sucking up an infinite amount of time and absolutely frightening amounts of real cash. If you try to do everything it absolutely will sit back and watch you turn it into a job. If you step back and play for fun, and avoid anything that feels frustrating, it will never feel that way.
It seems to me like you need a break due to burn out. There's not much happening, why not just log in to claim the fee goodies and otherwise hit steam and try something totally different for a month? Don't even log in the first two weeks of delta rising. Let them fix the bugs before you try it. I bet you'll be glad for the break.
If it is, you're doing it wrong.
It's a game. If you're not having fun, don't play.
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Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
those that treat it like a hobby and use it for recreation and fun.
those who think they're accomplishing something important by grinding out the best stuff as fast as they can.
to the first group it's fun. to the second group it's work. those choices are all on the player, not the game. the game doesn't care if you get to mk 14 in 1 hour or 1 year. only the player cares, and so he turns it into work.
Correction: If you care about being reasonably competitive and don't have ~20,000 dollars to blow on ZEN, then yes, yes it is.
See. These kind of comments always make me assume the poster has zero clue what he/she is talking about.
Where do you need to be compeditive?
PvP? Ask the closest Pro-PvP'er, and he will likely tell you that top level mk XII Very Rare Omega gear... is just wrong...
PvE? CE? You can get first place in the Crystaline entity Elite, merely by using BFAW on Rare beams and spending the rest of the time healing from a galaxy... I know... I've done it.
So tell me again?`What is it that requires money and/or alot of time?
if new stuff comes out then sure go and have a looksee, but you don't need to actually do all of it till you are ready to.
you are the captain, you are in charge, the game is only there to amuse and entertain not to run your life.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
The job pays you, this is a chore where you pay them.