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macronius
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In the spirit of the season ... I suggest we all uninstall the game and cutoff Cryptic for a good month and a 1/2.
From Macronius with love ... to Cryptic!
From Macronius with love ... to Cryptic!
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
- Judge Aaron Satie
- Judge Aaron Satie
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Any idiots dumb enough to do what you suggest will miss out on the T6 breen carrier.:rolleyes:
Oh right ... grind your eyes out with the P2W snow race. Sure we are missing some thrilling content there. I bet any $30 ship is worth twice as much as the crappy free one. If you value your time you won't grind content for less than 3rd world wages.
If you don't ... well I feel for you and your future.
- Judge Aaron Satie
This must be your first RPG, well they are work but unpaid work seeing as how they are videogames, please go back to mindless games like CoD.
In the current state of the game, I still play I just don't pay.
People can opt to play the game or not, it's up to them. But the best way to convey your dissatisfaction with the current state of the game is to refrain from any Zen purchase until you see the issues rectified.
A mass exodus would be a way to make a statement, but would be incredibly hard to get people to go along with. Especially when they can just play the game for free and have the same effect.
The keyword there being <FREE> and for a FREE T6 ship its worth enduring a whole 2 mins of racing that you have to do 25 times. If you consider a 2 min race to be a grind then you are a fool.
Time will only tell!
So I ask you how foolish it is to spend $125 on DR pack for this broken content or $30 for a single ship
OR
Steam - Total War Master Collection for $29.99 (just one example). Loads of other great deals that will give me countless hours of fun ... not grind. Perhaps, you kids will one day appreciate the value of the dollar.
I am done with this thread.
- Judge Aaron Satie
Also, they don't know if you have the game installed or not. Just saying.
$30 bucks on cryptic is fool imo.
$125 for a DR TRIBBLE, foolish.
To hope people will follow your advice on unistall the game prior an event with free and shiny little things to grind for, its epic foolifullsomemambo.
For everithing else, there is Master card.
GG Cryptic.
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I will not uninstall the game.
I will keep on playing and enjoying the game.
Winter event is coming soon. So I need a new jacket.
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The same metrics that told them people were cheating in Japori. Oh, wait, they didn't use metrics. The way they found out about it was this: a dev was in the game asking people what the payout was and how they were leveling fast. That's not metrics.
In fact, "Metric" is just nonsense corporate speak.
For future reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric
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"Our marketing choices are metrics led." - I've lost count the number of times the VP of Marketing has let that slip when arguments happen on business decisions. He had difficulty using Excel, let alone our analytics software.
Analytics on the other hand are 'hard numbers' from which 'metrics' are sometimes created. It doesn't mean the analytics are bad, but like anything else in the business world you can mold results to fit your hypothesis.
Unbiased analytics on the other hand can be a frightening tool. More often than not when they contradict the 'standard metrics', they are seen as being somehow faulty. I can remember an incident 4 years ago shortly after the iPad was released, showing user rates for our website was skewing mobile at 4% per week. The geniuses in Product Marketing read that as garbage or flawed analytics, and surmised that mobile was a fad. Two years later 87% of our total online sales and 91% of our traffic was entirely mobile. The Product Marketing people got promotions. Now that's a metric.
After 10+ years in analytics (first as a hobby, then as a career element) you start to see trends long before you crunch numbers. You get a sense of what it should be, where and what the KPI (Key performance indicators) should look like. When they don't, that's when you do a deep dive into the data, and adjust the KPI accordingly.
That's why I've begrudgingly come to the conclusion all of Cryptics actions have been to thin the player herd, and letting those who pay flourish more. In the short term it's been successful if they are to be believed even when their own financial reports say the opposite (but heck Neverwinter may be the drain and not STO). I just don't know if it's a long term solution when the player base keeps dropping.
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How is the ship race P2W? It takes some practice, but it's pretty easy... though if you get any latency, the Out of Bounds can insta-kill your run...
Hehe, yeah. I prefer my standalone launcher over Arc. Even if I take a hiatus, I wouldn't uninstall STO... and since I actually like the Winter Event I suspect that any hiatus I take will be after that is done.
You know, you can just delete Arc and use the STO launcher from the folder where Arc puts it. I did this, and it works fine.
I use statistics a lot, and there's nothing worse than people with absolutely no grounding in analysis who pull out some dumb figure as though it's an "undeniable fact" merely because it's got a percentage sign behind it. They have no clue about the importance of understanding the source of that statistic, or how the statistic was created, or its inherent biases and limitations, or the context within which it might be begun to be understood.
To bastardize a phrase, "There are fools, there are damned fools... and then there are fools using a statistic".
If you're quitting, quit, don't make a statement, don't give a whine post or a parting shot, just have some maturity and class and quietly go. Believe me when I say I'm close to that point myself, but until then, I have plenty of hard drive space, so I don't need to uninstall the game, I just go play something else.
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