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Isn't it time we had a State of the Game from Cryptic?

mattjohnsonvamattjohnsonva Member Posts: 4,974 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
It would be nice if we could get a statement from Cryptic about their future plans for 2016 and beyond. They seem to be fairly quiet for some time now which just leaves a lot of speculation from players. Personally I'm hoping for some big additions on this the 50th anniversary year for Star Trek.

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  • nikephorusnikephorus Member Posts: 2,744 Arc User
    It's been quiet because of the holidays. There big plan is moar ship's for you to buy.
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  • garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    more free ships are coming soon. i can feel it. in fact i have temporal fracture headaches. i need Chocolate milk ...
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  • cidjackcidjack Member Posts: 2,017 Arc User
    What ever Cryptic says it is only going to turn into a nerd rage of people calling for the shutting of wallets, personal attacks on Devs. A number of useless polls from players asking other forum warrors to vote on what should have been introduced not what was introduced.

    TL:DR If something gets introduced someone doesn't like? Doooommm.

    I know what ever Cryptic adds, I will enjoy it.
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  • tessaravejgantessaravejgan Member Posts: 276
    Heres what you're gonna get this year. More overpriced ships, more bugs, more dead queues, more missions which are only about pew pew :smile:
  • sevenofnine13141sevenofnine13141 Member Posts: 4,274 Arc User
    edited January 2016
    tessaravejgan wrote: »
    Heres what you're gonna get this year. More overpriced ships, more bugs, more dead queues, more missions which are only about pew pew :smile:
    Only about pew pew? Uhhhhh, there are a few missions that do not consist entirely of pew pew. Sure, in each episode there's a varying amount of pew pew, but it isn't the only thing in those episodes like you say. And dead queues are the result of a bad system in those queues. No wonder PvP is nearly dead. Broken PvE/PvP systems are broken. And bugs are being dealt with. It's just taking a lot of time to do so. And T6 ships are expensive, why? Because the Devs worked hard to make the T6 ships and even revamp them to a higher detail level to the point of matching canon appearance with HD. The canon detail applies to tv series ships. Cryptic ones required just as much work.

    So I suggest you pay more attention to detail next time, people.

    Good day.
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  • tessaravejgantessaravejgan Member Posts: 276
    sevenofnine13141 wrote: »
    tessaravejgan wrote: »
    Heres what you're gonna get this year. More overpriced ships, more bugs, more dead queues, more missions which are only about pew pew :smile:
    Only about pew pew? Uhhhhh, there are a few missions that do not consist entirely of pew pew. Sure, in each episode there's a varying amount of pew pew, but it isn't the only thing in those episodes like you say. And dead queues are the result of a bad system in those queues. No wonder PvP is nearly dead. Broken PvE/PvP systems are broken. And bugs are being dealt with. It's just taking a lot of time to do so. And T6 ships are expensive, why? Because the Devs worked hard to make the T6 ships and even revamp them to a higher detail level to the point of matching canon appearance with HD. The canon detail applies to tv series ships. Cryptic ones required just as much work.

    So I suggest you pay more attention to detail next time, people.

    Good day.

    No there aren't. Every mission is go there kill that and maybe scan something. With dead queues I agree, system needs improvement. Bugs being dealt with, yeah they work on them as fast as snails crawl, some bugs have been in the game long before I joined. Meanwhile new ones pop up every time they change something. A single T6 ship costs 3000 zen, a pack 6000. Thats 30$ or 60$. Considering that's almost as much as a new game its way overpriced. I could understand 10$ or less but 30$+ is too much no matter how you look at it.

    So I suggest you pay more attention to detail next time, people.

    Good day.

    :smiley:
  • sevenofnine13141sevenofnine13141 Member Posts: 4,274 Arc User
    tessaravejgan wrote: »

    No there aren't. Every mission is go there kill that and maybe scan something. With dead queues I agree, system needs improvement. Bugs being dealt with, yeah they work on them as fast as snails crawl, some bugs have been in the game long before I joined. Meanwhile new ones pop up every time they change something. A single T6 ship costs 3000 zen, a pack 6000. Thats 30$ or 60$. Considering that's almost as much as a new game its way overpriced. I could understand 10$ or less but 30$+ is too much no matter how you look at it.

    So I suggest you pay more attention to detail next time, people.

    Good day.

    :smiley:

    Not every mission is like that. Sure, the battle-oriented ones, yes, but there are a few missions or mission parts that aren't pew pew.

    As for those bugs being around long before you and I joined, I agree. But eventually, they'll be fixed. It's just taking an enormous amount of time. Overpriced, yeah. A more reasonable price could have been either 2000 Zen or just 1500 zen. 3000 does sound overpriced.

    Though, the quality of gameplay and detail has been significantly improved. They tore down the old Sector Block walls and made the Quadrant maps in their place, canon ships are receiving HD details, and even an improved ESD and standardized uniforms in the form of the 2410 issue Oddysey uniforms. Soon enough, we'll be getting the Gamma Quadrant since Delta has already been added. We've never had a sector space type map for Gamma. So, that's definitely coming. It's just a matter of when it will arrive.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    cidjack wrote: »
    What ever Cryptic says it is only going to turn into a nerd rage of people calling for the shutting of wallets, personal attacks on Devs. A number of useless polls from players asking other forum warrors to vote on what should have been introduced not what was introduced.

    TL:DR If something gets introduced someone doesn't like? Doooommm.

    I know what ever Cryptic adds, I will enjoy it.
    Pretty much. Also, what are they really going to tell us anyways? Tentative plans that might get changed? That only leads to nerdrage. anything else would have either no substance or be something they're about to tell us anyways.
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  • wildweasalwildweasal Member Posts: 1,053 Arc User
    deokkent wrote: »
    The product is fine and everyone loves it.

    lol ...i see what you did there ....for me ?? i have to say fix the *** *** pvp give it a revamp FFS ...yeah i said it 5 years ...we pvpers have waited long enough REVAMP IT we have been waiting for 5 years ...do it!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh im losing my *** *** mind waiting !!!
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    garaks31 wrote: »
    temporal fracture

    That could actually be the name of a BOff ability, if they decide on a temporal specialization.
    wildweasal wrote: »
    deokkent wrote: »
    The product is fine and everyone loves it.

    lol ...i see what you did there ....for me ?? i have to say fix the *** *** pvp give it a revamp FFS ...yeah i said it 5 years ...we pvpers have waited long enough REVAMP IT we have been waiting for 5 years ...do it!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh im losing my *** *** mind waiting !!!

    The thing about a PvP revamp is that everyone has a different idea about how to fix PvP, and any solution would simply make the majority upset. If you want my advice on playing PvP, Dreadnought will be coming out with its closed beta soon, and then its open beta soon after. As a game designed with PvP in mind, you'll probably find it much more enjoyable that whatever Cryptic could do with STO's PvP.
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  • tarran61tarran61 Member Posts: 827 Arc User
    edited January 2016
    I do like the idea of some type of hey guys our three year plan is... I wouldn't bank on it. Most no one will like it and like others had said, it wouldnt be nice to the man and women working on it. Im just happy we got this game and what they give use they give us. What I buy I buy cause I have to have it. :+1:
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    kjwashington wrote: »
    garaks31 wrote: »
    temporal fracture

    That could actually be the name of a BOff ability, if they decide on a temporal specialization.
    wildweasal wrote: »
    deokkent wrote: »
    The product is fine and everyone loves it.

    lol ...i see what you did there ....for me ?? i have to say fix the *** *** pvp give it a revamp FFS ...yeah i said it 5 years ...we pvpers have waited long enough REVAMP IT we have been waiting for 5 years ...do it!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh im losing my *** *** mind waiting !!!

    The thing about a PvP revamp is that everyone has a different idea about how to fix PvP, and any solution would simply make the majority upset. If you want my advice on playing PvP, Dreadnought will be coming out with its closed beta soon, and then its open beta soon after. As a game designed with PvP in mind, you'll probably find it much more enjoyable that whatever Cryptic could do with STO's PvP.
    I don't think Dreadnaught will neccessarilly better than anything that Cryptic could do with PvP, but... It might be better than anythnig that Cryptic will do.


    Anyway, considering the low number of remaining PvPers, trying to secure the majority opinion there is not really relevant. Any PvP revamp would need to have as a goal also gaining new players.

    The problem I see is more that any such action would require a lot of work from Cryptic, and I think the same amount of effort invested in another part of the game is much more likely to yield a good return on investment. That's probably why Cryptic hasn't done anything PvP related in years, even though I bet some of them are itching to do something, and the PvP community wishes more attention and (positive) changes to PvP. Any investment is risky, and the chances of really winning and drawing customers and making money from it are .. nebelous.
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  • ryugasiriusryugasirius Member Posts: 283 Arc User
    wildweasal wrote: »
    lol ...i see what you did there ....for me ?? i have to say fix the *** *** pvp give it a revamp FFS ...yeah i said it 5 years ...we pvpers have waited long enough REVAMP IT we have been waiting for 5 years ...do it!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh im losing my *** *** mind waiting !!!

    You have waited 5 years for STO to revamp pvp? Really? :|

    Well, I hope you are not waiting for DOTA or Counterstrike to add a pve campaign as well, because you'll have to wait quite a bit... :D
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  • midniteshadow7midniteshadow7 Member Posts: 787 Arc User
    mattjohnsonva wrote: »
    It would be nice if we could get a statement from Cryptic about their future plans for 2016 and beyond. They seem to be fairly quiet for some time now which just leaves a lot of speculation from players. Personally I'm hoping for some big additions on this the 50th anniversary year for Star Trek.

    With the holidays and the run up to the Anniversay event and the release of the next featured episode I can see a lot more coming out of Cryptic in the next couple of weeks. With regards to the "state of the game" - the only thing we get now is an infographic which for the last two years was released at the begining of the anniversary event, so I can see that coming shortly too.
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  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,286 Arc User
    edited January 2016
    mattjohnsonva wrote: »
    It would be nice if we could get a statement from Cryptic about their future plans for 2016 and beyond. They seem to be fairly quiet for some time now which just leaves a lot of speculation from players. Personally I'm hoping for some big additions on this the 50th anniversary year for Star Trek.

    Thats more for politics than for a game...C'mon. If you don't like the way things are going...then turn to another MMO or other solo PC/console game. NO need to give out reasons to stay.

    If you have been long enough in STO you will now that periodically they do publish an infographic with every anniversary but thats about it...some examples from the last one:

    http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9065123-star-trek-online-5-year-anniversary-infographic
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    hunh.. I wonder why the infographic uses the old picture of Sela?
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  • hunteralpha84hunteralpha84 Member Posts: 524 Arc User
    Games dead Jim.
  • chastity1337chastity1337 Member Posts: 1,608 Arc User
    I thought the "number of developer babies" part was amusing :)
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    chastity1337 wrote: »
    I thought the "number of developer babies" part was amusing :)
    Yeah it was more than a little amusing. :)
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  • empireofsteveempireofsteve Member Posts: 665 Arc User
    Yes please, Trump style!
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  • risingwolfshadowrisingwolfshadow Member Posts: 619 Arc User
    Tbh any solid addition or revamp of PvP will be a massive improvement if gam balancing is involved.
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