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hatchetl4d
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Replace the project leader with someone who thinks about consequences before acting. My fleet is down to 25% activity and my friends list as well. Save this game so I can happily open my wallet again!
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You are going to have to go way higher up the chain.
But different strokes...
have you read the reviews on steam?
hahaha nonsense huh
I did...the negative reviews far outweigh the positive ones,and the two most mentioned negative aspects of the game...game breaking bugs and the heavy monetization of the game with Delta Rising.Calling Star Trek Online 'free to play' is considered a bad joke in even worse taste.
Take back your home,end the grind!
Volunteer moderators policing the forums is like a mall cop trying to solve a murder.
Of course, im willing to take Dan Stahl back if he can promise us 100 things and deliver 20 of them.
They set out to thin the player base, and improve sales. Apparently they've had a resounding success.
If it makes for better content, and the ability to explore strange new worlds, I'm all for it.
as for the team leader of the development team, geko. he does as he is told and goes out to do it and then gets paid for it. but the op is attacking the wrong person for change, because essentially it would be like blaming the gun for firing when really its the person who loaded it up and pressed the trigger in the first place.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Kurland here, this is Kurland!
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
I am pretty sure Geko is calling the shots when it comes to STO.
Comments from other devs clearly indicate, that if Geko says no, it's a no, regardless of what everyone else thinks.
dunno what the organisation tree is like in cryptic for sto, d'angelo is the EP its his position and neck as to what comes. i doubt geko has free reign without control. it would be like giving a civil servant free use of the company bank balance without oversight.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
It's pretty clear, to me at least, that D'Angelo is EP only of name... A figure to keep the fact from the players that Geko, a person who has insulted players as a group on several occasions, was given control.
Well I can't speak to that... He did bring us "Dinozaurs with fricking lazors", and I still think that zone is one of the more enjoyable zones. But other things...
and there it is, an assumption. can you confirm that? :P
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Yes, I can confirm that it is clear to me... In fact, it says so right up there in the comment you quoted.
Obviously it's a theory (not an assumption as you falsely put it) on my part. It just strikes me, that when direct ideas for wanted species are presented, canon species even, or other ideas, other devs reply "I/we would like that, but Geko said no".
I won't list the names (don't want a repeat of the Borticus incident on the lockboxes), but a proper search should strengthen my argument.
then im open to you finding enough to prove it. takes a bit more then "should" and "clear to me".
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
So you were given the tools to finding said elements, but aren't willing to research? Instead trying to lure me into putting devs in akward, even problematic positions?
That isn't going to happen... I tend to like one or two of the dev's in question... It's up there in my previous post, but I am not going to write it down for them to trace.
i figured that would be the response. but you dug that hole and im not filling it for you. i asked you to prove if geko is the one in charge or hes just another team member, so far you havent proven anything yet... so when you get around to it, let me know.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
I think it is reasonable to suggest that as lead developer, all team leads report to Geko and Geko reports to D'Angelo.
It is also reasonable to suggest that D'Angelo isn't as hands on an EP as Stahl was because that was Stahl's only job and D'Angelo still doubles as Chief Technology Officer.
I'll go with what their LinkedIn pages say:
D'Angelo:
Geko:
As CTO, D'Angelo is "one of three C-level" execs, alongside Jack Emmert (CEO) and Craig Zinkievich (COO).
Considering Cryptic's manpower shortage during the Atari divestment and prior to launch, it seems unlikely they wouldn't have had a CEO, COO, or CTO double as Executive Producer. However, when Zinkievich was EP, Cryptic still had 3 C-level execs and Zinc was NOT yet an exec. During the Atari divestment, they kept Stahl on as EP.
I am not going to suggest that D'Angelo doesn't have any managerial oversight.
What I am going to suggest is that a considerable part of what was once the EP function has been handed to Geko as Lead Developer and that D'Angelo occupies a reduced version of the role or he could not maintain a second job within the company.
that helps as far as proving me wrong is concerned, there you go i stand corrected but its still not 100% conclusive though but i will take it.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Sad thing is if you make a fun engaging game people will naturally spend money on it, because they enjoy it. Players are dropping like flies, my guess if so many are leaving its because they don't enjoy what DR did or they cant afford the insane costs put on things.
Constant nerfs coupled with very little content added for an "expansion", thrown together with massive resource costs on upgrading gear has turned people away.
The people in charge need to own up to their bad choices and say, "Ok we f*cked up we are going to fix it." Instead they have chosen to keep throwing nerfs at people left right and center and claim its the best expansion ever.
Cryptic = Blind and deluded to their own games problems.
I'm in the "trade Geko for Stahl" department.
I think Geko's skills lend themselves well to an in-development game and less well to an ongoing service that has to be managed through community interaction, which requires more of a golden tongue. I think Geko is an asset but he's an asset that should be managed more carefully. I also think he tends to get entrenched and should probably be rotated between projects more. Keep him on in-development games and swap him out when they go live.
Meanwhile, I don't think we have ever seen what Stahl would be capable of with actual resources backing up his vision. Much of his initial tenure was marked by a divestment when Cryptic had less than 20 employees on STO and heavy furloughs. He made big promises but his promises didn't have the resources to back them up.
We need somebody who has big vision and a talent for communicating now that the resources are in place.
I don't want anybody to go hungry. I'm not about firing people if it can be avoided. I am about utilizing people effectively. My biggest concern would be that Geko would resist this.
I always picture you look like you signature pic Iconians
Welcome to the new NORM. Same goes for 2 of my fleets as well. As per Cryptic...nothing to see here