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skaldra
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As a player since beta, I have seen the player's wants come and go as they are ignored only to release silly things like icon updates and bridge officer departments that are untrue to the star trek universe. I would like to strongly urge the development team to go back through the forums and look at what players are actually asking for instead of just coming up with things on their own.
I think the most obvious one is that you decide to release the delta quadrant when you havnt even finished (or fixed) the alpha and beta. You have made playable races without homeworlds not to mention errors in existing locations. Anyone can pull up a map of the galaxy from the ST shows and SEE that the Sol System is on the Alpha/Beta border but slightly on the alpha quad side. Why in the galaxy map since Season 1 has it been on the beta side? Was voyager returning to the beta quadrant? Did they say, "we need to defend the beta quad" on the shows? Someone needs to start doing some checks somewhere along the lines.
Betazoid playable races, with no betazed... ferengi with no ferenginar... so many VERY important places completely left out and yet we have Defera? Kobali? Dyson? When was the last time PVP received ANY sort of update despite all of the complaints from your PVP player base? Even I'm sick of reading about this in the forums so Im not sure how you've missed it. No wonder so many PVPers stop playing since we've had the same 2 space scenarios and ONE unchanged open PVP area since day 1. Would it be too hard to make ONE SECTOR that was open PVP, enter at your own risk? Most likely the "lack of PVP interest" is coming from 5 years of boredom.
Lets re-visit what Star Trek is, and maybe put some of it into the game? EXPLORATION being the main one... Id love to be able to EXPLORE planets instead of queuing up a mission in order to visit a planet. How many times do we need to "eliminate enemies 0/3" or "scan this, scan that?" Maybe a TRICORDER should actually scan and give us information about our surroundings instead of a beam of light pointing to the answer? DIPLOMATIC options or missions that dont involve plugging resources into a doff screen? And on the same note as this thread's title... FINISH WHAT YOU START! Dont put the option to promote to Captain, or choose your ship layout if you arnt going to do anything with it for the next 3 seasons.
FELLOW PLAYERS: For those of you about to point out that this is what people have been asking for forever... "welcome to the forums" etc... we are all on the same side wanting the same things... and since this is our only outlet to "not be heard" by the devs, we need to keep piping up about it regardless of whether its been said before. No need for passive aggressive statements to one another, instead, show your support by making threads like this one the longest and most discussed threads so that they cant be ignored. READ IT, SHARE IT, DISCUSS IT, SUPPORT EACHOTHER AND KEEP IT AT THE TOP!
PW DEV TEAM: I dont expect this post to change anything since people have been asking for these things for 10 seasons now... but honestly, dont you think you would GAIN instead of LOSE both money and players if you actually gave them what they want? Do you need a list of things we have been asking for in MASS with a list of signatures on it to actually understand the last 5 years of forum posts? Most of us feel that you skim past the important things and focus on the easy or most convenient updates regardless of the numbers of players asking. EASY and CONVENIENT has never made anyone successful.
I have spent enough money on this game since beta to buy one of your employees a new car... im starting to think i should have actually bought you a car and bribed you with it to see some content we want instead of something you dreamed up on your own.
I think the most obvious one is that you decide to release the delta quadrant when you havnt even finished (or fixed) the alpha and beta. You have made playable races without homeworlds not to mention errors in existing locations. Anyone can pull up a map of the galaxy from the ST shows and SEE that the Sol System is on the Alpha/Beta border but slightly on the alpha quad side. Why in the galaxy map since Season 1 has it been on the beta side? Was voyager returning to the beta quadrant? Did they say, "we need to defend the beta quad" on the shows? Someone needs to start doing some checks somewhere along the lines.
Betazoid playable races, with no betazed... ferengi with no ferenginar... so many VERY important places completely left out and yet we have Defera? Kobali? Dyson? When was the last time PVP received ANY sort of update despite all of the complaints from your PVP player base? Even I'm sick of reading about this in the forums so Im not sure how you've missed it. No wonder so many PVPers stop playing since we've had the same 2 space scenarios and ONE unchanged open PVP area since day 1. Would it be too hard to make ONE SECTOR that was open PVP, enter at your own risk? Most likely the "lack of PVP interest" is coming from 5 years of boredom.
Lets re-visit what Star Trek is, and maybe put some of it into the game? EXPLORATION being the main one... Id love to be able to EXPLORE planets instead of queuing up a mission in order to visit a planet. How many times do we need to "eliminate enemies 0/3" or "scan this, scan that?" Maybe a TRICORDER should actually scan and give us information about our surroundings instead of a beam of light pointing to the answer? DIPLOMATIC options or missions that dont involve plugging resources into a doff screen? And on the same note as this thread's title... FINISH WHAT YOU START! Dont put the option to promote to Captain, or choose your ship layout if you arnt going to do anything with it for the next 3 seasons.
FELLOW PLAYERS: For those of you about to point out that this is what people have been asking for forever... "welcome to the forums" etc... we are all on the same side wanting the same things... and since this is our only outlet to "not be heard" by the devs, we need to keep piping up about it regardless of whether its been said before. No need for passive aggressive statements to one another, instead, show your support by making threads like this one the longest and most discussed threads so that they cant be ignored. READ IT, SHARE IT, DISCUSS IT, SUPPORT EACHOTHER AND KEEP IT AT THE TOP!
PW DEV TEAM: I dont expect this post to change anything since people have been asking for these things for 10 seasons now... but honestly, dont you think you would GAIN instead of LOSE both money and players if you actually gave them what they want? Do you need a list of things we have been asking for in MASS with a list of signatures on it to actually understand the last 5 years of forum posts? Most of us feel that you skim past the important things and focus on the easy or most convenient updates regardless of the numbers of players asking. EASY and CONVENIENT has never made anyone successful.
I have spent enough money on this game since beta to buy one of your employees a new car... im starting to think i should have actually bought you a car and bribed you with it to see some content we want instead of something you dreamed up on your own.
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INQUISITOR CRUSHER
Director of Marketing
ELITE FORCES COMMAND
INQUISITOR CRUSHER
Director of Marketing
ELITE FORCES COMMAND
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Welcome to the youve been ignored by cryptic department of the STO forum
weve been expecting you
LOL
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Lots of false information. Its not like STO is losing money based on the rate Sheshar crazy openings did a month ago.
I am sure there will be a lot buying the new upcoming lock box.
Maybe its losing traction to a few disgruntled players who is impatient and cannot get what they want. But as a whole I highly doubt STO is losing money.
Kinda like a churn rate customer in any other business. Cannot satisfy everyone needs.
Also 1 person in forum/several posters in forum doesnt equal the population of STO nor even the majority of STO players. So MASS doesnt apply to you or the forums.
Even though I provided examples in the above post, if you read it my point is they are ignoring the players... regardless of what or who is asking. You are DEFINITELY right that they arnt losing money, I never said that... they are losing players and not optimizing the money they do make by avoiding the actual things people want. Show me a thread with more than 10 people asking for the tray icons to be updated. I rest my case.
INQUISITOR CRUSHER
Director of Marketing
ELITE FORCES COMMAND
I dont think SPAMMING is the answer either.
INQUISITOR CRUSHER
Director of Marketing
ELITE FORCES COMMAND
LOL glad to be here... what brainstorming ideas have i missed to actually be heard? Surely someone has come up with something other than complaining in the forums that I can help out with?!?
INQUISITOR CRUSHER
Director of Marketing
ELITE FORCES COMMAND
If you take piece of rock you will find more reasoning with it, but with dose people I doubt it.
Well it's exactly like that , in this world of PW&Cryptic DEV programmers so & so.
Also you have robotic servants of this world to hit you with stupid comments and Q knows what .
So you , me , we are against ultimate force large and powerful like a Universe, omnipotent and omnipresent , named and recognized as " Human STUPIDITY mixed with GREEDINESS ".
Which is basic principal of functioning on this planet.
I AM PISSED OFF AFTER 3 YRS. I STILL CAN'T USE OR CHANGE OR DELETE OUTFIT IN 3 OF 5 OUTFIT SLOTS ON MY KLINGON TOON !
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absolutely agree that the STO universe needs some updates
players want to explore these worlds
That someone should be you. The Sol system's location is fairly well cemented as being the border of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Just like the Prime Meridian on Earth runs through London which is both in the Eastern and Western hemispheres. And just like most of Europe is in the Eastern hemisphere, we still refer to Europe as being part of The West; so too is the Federation referred to as an Alpha Quadrant power despite most of it's core worlds being located in the Beta Quadrant.
The content team generally focus on places that they can put things *to do* in. Betazed would just be another empty, boring social zone. Ferenginar could work with a bunch of profit/trading minigames...
This game is in the same boat now. People were happy with the game progression pre-DR, and then they dropped the ball and are still trying to fix things.
Positive changes (which are taking forever and still need tweaks):
1) Increasing marks in PvE queues - Still needs way more of a tweak based on actual average time spent to revive most queues
2) Increasing XP gains - Frankly, all of it should be permanently what we've been earning this weekend, and then tweak up from there
3) Slotting 3 daily R&D assignments from the same school - Seems they finally saw people didn't want to grind for 300 days.
4) Adding guaranteed purple mat drops from Advanced PvE queues.
Still to fix:
1) Buggy game in general. Worst part, people report bugs in Tribble and they still crawl into Holodeck. Also, for the last 4 months, only new bugs have gotten any attention.
2) More tweaks needed overall to make the game alt friendly once more
3) Casual players are not seeing progression in general when it comes to gaining spec points even if they concentrate on one toon which leads to the general sense of frustration. There are just so many times I can repeat the same patrol before my eyes bleed out.
4) A little PvP love would go a long way towards making a good chunk of the people posting in these forums happy.
5) Items like deflectors, shields, and warp cores need some tweaking when it comes to rarity upgrades because, once you get one to mk XIV, it's pretty worthless to go for the rarity upgrade.
6) Smirk needs to give more informed server status updates like they do over in Neverwinter.
They can say everything is well with the game all they want and state the Steam chart shows a drop because people don't log in from there, but someone that logs in daily can notice the drop in the amount of players in general.
Correlation is not causation.
(Korean) Corporate politics killed CoH, not cashflow.
We basically waited YEARS to have the conclusion to Sela's abduction. And Divide et Empera was without sequel as it was planned for years, I think this mission was part of the release. Now it's getting removed.
Let's see what is currently "unfinished" :
And that's pretty much what I can think of from the top of my head. I missed probably a LOT of things.
Cryptic have a habit to start something, and never finish it.
Just like Tabula Rasa was closed right after announcing the release of their very first extension, and after saying that they were making enough money to keep the game running, even if it was not as profitable as they wanted.
Not to mention the overwhelming success of the f2p version, feedback and numbers of players, a month before they closed.
Ncsoft have a habit to close games that are not profitable enough.
Don't forget the spat between Garriot and NCSoft.
clearly this guy reads.. but not in great detail... i said its on the border, but its on the WRONG SIDE of the border... i dont care if its 1 light year off the center line or 500 light years.... ITS ON THE WRONG SIDE... do you get it now Lt.Commander?
INQUISITOR CRUSHER
Director of Marketing
ELITE FORCES COMMAND
Funny story... Franklin himself contacts me EVERY TIME i log in to the game... he forces the same mission on me OVER AND OVER again... "everything old is new"... yes you are telling me!
If anyone ever needs a veteran on that mission im your girl because ive tried clearing many times by completing it.
a glitch I reported back in season 8 that nobody fixed, or inquired about, or cared. Im convinced bug reports go into a spam email somewhere in the PW office.
INQUISITOR CRUSHER
Director of Marketing
ELITE FORCES COMMAND
Closing this thread as it is becoming flame bait and the responses to other users are getting more aggressive.
Please remember to be kind to your fellow forum users from both sides of the fence. Ops and Commenters.
Thanks!
~CaptainSmirk