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aoax10
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Ever since the power creeps, the nerfs, lack of account security, heavy grinds and empty ques, I have reverted back to playing KingIsle games with the wife. KingIsle has never demanded such harsh investments to make a great game fun. A lot can be learned from KingIsle to make STO the great game that it was. I have met a great deal of people inside and outside the game. For those who I have been in contact with via forum PMs, thank you for your help and support. I will continue to check in from time to time to check your well thought-out messages and respond. With all that said, I hope STO pulls it together to get their veterans (like myself) back into the game. Good luck everyone and try to have fun. (And don't pop a nerve grinding Argala) :P
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On this somewhat silly topic. Leaving STO for pirates and wizards?
See ya around Sp-wait Cow-god darn it. See ya around buttpirate!
http://i.imgur.com/7H6FYaB.jpg
Truth must be said! :P
Sorry to see you go Aoax. May you find joy and happiness in your new ventures.
Then "I'm back" one in a few months when I take a break from Elite: Dangerous?
Defending The Galaxy By Breaking One Starfleet Regulation After The Next.
Did i just detect a cleverly hidden cowboy bebop line? Props.
There is nothing wrong with pirates and wizards...
...however, there is something horribly silly about their pirates and wizards.
Yeah. I'm looking at these games and I'm wondering why?
It feels like everything is now about grinding and why grind? It really all comes down to getting more or better gear/abilities. The grind is so much though that the amount of content I'd need to rerun would mean even if I completed everything I'm then left with;
a/ grinding the same content (yay I get to run it quicker/easier).
b/ playing the harder content.
It's not an appealing choice to make and with queues like they are, unbalanced, broken content or rewards I struggle to justify doing it once let alone 4 times only to end up with the same content I just been grinding. Accolades have kept me going though more broken ones or ones I'd expect to be there that aren't.
I'm now either playing new games or existing ones currently Final Fantasy 2 - a chronological completion campaign in progress, and the last 2 days Resident vil Remake HD. Some of these have these grind fests too but they make it fun with replayability! They give me others things to do I can do inbetween. I know MMOs are different to console games but STO has been my main focus since launch so it's not like STO can't keep me playing but more and more it feels like it's all about the grind and the monetisation and that's turning me off. The increased amount of problems I have with the game, the path the game is taking, 'boff icon revamps' and 'systems no one seems to want' aren't enough to cover them up. If I felt Cryptic listened, acknowleged issues and was trying to address points made then I'd cut them a lot of slack but it's becoming harder to do so.
So yeah not quit but I'm not sure if I'm in that twlight phase on gaming where I'm doing so little that one day I just stop altogether and slip quietly off the radar then find I'm so far behind/so much more grind to catch up on it puts me off coming back.
Pretty soon there will be no one to play with at all.
I've reverted back to playing WoW and Diablo III with the husbear myself. It's been nice. No RMTAH to worry about, no currency conversions for commonly needed items. There's actual balance to the classes. There's an enormous amount of content to play. There's plenty of things to try and do in both games.
When I max level crafting and I can actually craft items and they don't have insanely random stats and I don't need to do 25 man raids to get materials (the equivalent of the difficulty found here in the elites)
When I go to do hard content it's not filled with instakill bosses there are actual strategies.
If I play an alternative dps or debuff character I don't have to worry about it being neglected for years on end. (like science has been in this title)
Even though I'm paying a sub for one of those games I can rest easy in the knowledge that I won't need to buy any currency from the store to progress.
When something is given out free to the players it's actually free to the players I don't have to run around with a group and gather together currency to buy the free item so that the devs can claim it's content.
Content that is actually added in the expansions and patches don't leave huge gaps and anything I do that's backwards in the life of the game (like going to older zones) is still relevant to the game and won't get nerfed because someone might be actually trying to progress. (like what's been done here to the Dewa Sector)
Just a few tips there....
So long Aoax, Android, Raiiji, Kei, Seeker, and a host of others I used to play with before the abuses became just too much for them to bear. And where friends go, others sooner or later follow.
You can get the forum goons (and in Askray's case, liars) to try to hide what is happening to the game, but you cannot succeed. Ultimately silence is more damning than all the anger.
This post certified "death threat free," whatever lies Askray spews. And no, I will not apologize for that statement. I have never in my life threatened anyone with violence, much less issued a death threat - and I will absolutely NOT tolerate a worthless scum like Askray despoiling my good name.
It takes a certain personality for wanting to police other people for free in your spare time...
Now..THAT'S a death threat!
Take back your home,end the grind!
Volunteer moderators policing the forums is like a mall cop trying to solve a murder.
That's why accountable professionals are a good idea when dealing with a marketed product.
At the very least, do not act surprised or insulted if a thread that clearly violates rules get's locked.
i understand you feeling, i play at an other game too. I miss my STo characters but not the game which was became just boring and painfully frustating. I still check the website in the hope to see something interesting, but the latest news still keep me away from STO