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Is STO past the point of no return?
stuart1965
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By no return i mean,can cryptic ever fix this game to put it back to what it was?
This being without any losses to players.
I currently can not get back in due to installation problems,and quite honestly i wonder if its even worth still trying to come back.
At the moment,i have gone onto playing SWTOR,which i absolutely enjoy,as theres no grinding to do in it.The graphics are superb as is the interaction as well.Its running smooth as a babies bottom.
I will still hold up a candle light so to speak,regards STO,in the ultra rare hope,cryptic will get their act together,and properly fix the game,with all their punitive measures stopped and reversed.
A game that works properly,that is affordable for players,that is regularly maintained and swept for bugs,that is fun to play with no more grinding.
An easier game and not an impossible one is an absolute must have.
A happier playerbase will mean more money for cryptic,if the game is working properly and bug free. Get bugs fixed quickly,and not abandon them until a next patch. thats what needs to be done.
If the game is for the players,and not dollar signs rolling in cryptics eyes all the time,the better things will eventually be.
Regular communication on the site by devs and mods needs to be a must do,ignoring the playerbase is at cryptics financial peril.
This being without any losses to players.
I currently can not get back in due to installation problems,and quite honestly i wonder if its even worth still trying to come back.
At the moment,i have gone onto playing SWTOR,which i absolutely enjoy,as theres no grinding to do in it.The graphics are superb as is the interaction as well.Its running smooth as a babies bottom.
I will still hold up a candle light so to speak,regards STO,in the ultra rare hope,cryptic will get their act together,and properly fix the game,with all their punitive measures stopped and reversed.
A game that works properly,that is affordable for players,that is regularly maintained and swept for bugs,that is fun to play with no more grinding.
An easier game and not an impossible one is an absolute must have.
A happier playerbase will mean more money for cryptic,if the game is working properly and bug free. Get bugs fixed quickly,and not abandon them until a next patch. thats what needs to be done.
If the game is for the players,and not dollar signs rolling in cryptics eyes all the time,the better things will eventually be.
Regular communication on the site by devs and mods needs to be a must do,ignoring the playerbase is at cryptics financial peril.
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They're taking orders from PWE. I'm sure it's some BIG dude that's at the top saying: "Listen, I want STO to bring in 'this' much money! That's the top priority. All that other stuff like fun, and balance, the hell with it."
It's not all cryptic's fault. I know how big companies work. There's a 75% chance I could be right on that... As for being at the point of no return, under the current circumstances, YES
Can anyone tell me what, exactly, is Star Trek about STO? Other than the ships and characters? All this is, is a space combat simulator. A pretty cookie-cutter one at that.
I wonder if Cryptic/PWE's seen The Voyage Home. Whales can be hunted to extinction.
As far as SWTOR having no grind, are you kidding? It has far more grind than STO does. You actually have to grind out each level by doing tons of missions which gets old after the fourth time. It has only become tolerable with that 12x XP event that is going on right now.
BTW, you can't even play STO if you are in China, it's blocked. WTF?!?!
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TL : DR NO STO isn't at that point but the forums may very well be
Considering that apart from the new episodes DR is, in my opinion, garbage, I'll take the bug fixes.
They can restrict themselves in a way that doesn't show favoritism between stakeholders, which balances the interests of shareholders and owners with the balances of customers, which is ultimately what anyone in a position of power over anything has to do.
You want to be a monarch, you gotta sign the Magna Carta.
You want to say that the shareholders are king? Look at Steve Jobs, who didn't believe in dividends. Look at Melissa Mayer or Jeff Bezos.
You want to succeed, you have to stand up to the board and the shareholders and carve out ways to satisfy your customers.
As it happens, it seems to me like half the "champions of the players" at Cryptic are also quick to snap at or retreat away from players. That doesn't jive.
No the problem is, if they listened to every single idea or issue, they'd never get a damn thing done and this game would be a bigger mess than it is now.
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They don't get anything done now, I don't think I could make this game a bigger mess than it is now even if I tired... Just something to think about.
But maybe the worst part for them are people that decided they won't pay another damn penny for this game.
It also has shown some very stupid issues with Crytpic. Lack of communication, incompetence, laziness.
The game suffered. And few more times something like this happens... the core players, the people that make this games great, will leave.
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While I too am playing SWTOR right now, I can say that it is still a grind like all other MMO's. However, right now they have 12x XP boost for class quests running, which negates some of that grind.
As to the point, you can't fault Cryptic, they answer to a higher power, who, in turn, answer to money.
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I am surprised that a Church of the Almighty Dollar hasn't been created yet.
If you came out from below your bridge you would know.
If you look at all of PWE's games you would see that this is true. I have always felt that PWE buying Cryptic would be the downfall of STO. What was really sad was that not one U.S. company stepped in to buy Cryptic. Wasn't it like 50 million or something?
No US company stepped in because due to the mess that Atari left it in, no US company was in place to make money off of it. PWE simply could, but only by moving it to a Asian style grind-fest, which is exactly what they did, and will continue to do
I'll give PWE credit, they saved STO instead of making it the downfall, but to do it they had to make it into a game I no longer love and enjoy.
Cryptic can't afford another release any where near approaching DR.
You can only alienate/pissoff/milk the player base for so long.
Oh to the contrary, they can actually do the opposite of this and keep releasing anything and everything like DR.
Don't believe me... just look at this thread and others like it and see how many people are saying they love DR and that Cryptic is the best thing since sliced bread.
Cryptic tends to ignore anything that they don't agree with, they are experts at that. So all Cryptic sees is ... blah blah blah.. we love DR... blah blah blah... we love Crytpic... blah blah blah... good job...
Besides, because it has the name Star Trek on, Cryptic can pretty much do anything and people will play it, regardless of the state it's in.