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Question about the upcoming Branching into consoles
jbeach92
Member Posts: 27 Arc User
so i have been playing this game since closed beta 6 years spent a TRIBBLE ton of money on sto and just curious will my lifetime subscriber account count for xbox one aswell as pc ?
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I feel deja vu.
If you're already playing on PC why would you want to play on a console in the first place? The jump to consoles is only to get players who don't own PCs or don't game on PCs into the game and therefore earn more money.
i dunno cause all my friends own consoles and opening up to playing with them is a wonderful thing when i cant get them to come play on the pc because they own piece of junk laptops that cant run STO? i tend to think thats a pretty good reason
Nothing stopping you from creating a console account to play with your friends. Although, it looks like Xbox One and PS4 accounts will not be able to play with each other.
Sony and Microsoft want their cut of the action and having PC players playing with their console friends will make Sony and Microsoft lose out on their cut.
What he said.
Maybe, but do you actually own a decent gaming PC?
Not quite true. With the 2 Consoles, that 's just 2 'graphics cards' for Cryptic to accommodate......how many PC graphic's cards are there?? Console's framerate will be stable and in alot of cases on busy maps, should be without any frame-rate drop-off. That's the beauty of Consoles. You know it's limitations and can work around it without much of a problem. With PC's and it's practically 'infinte' number of possible configurations, it's impossible beyond belief to guarantee the same.
Also, you even being to compare the spec's of consoles as inferior or superior to any PC beyond the obvious. Consoles are dedicated machines. They're not running Spotify, Anti-Virus, iTunes, Word, Printer Protocols and all the other programs that people have loaded whilst running a GPU/CPU intensive game such as STO, so they do out perform PC's with not just similar 'specs', but in a large number of cases PC's with seemingly 'superior' specs.
And this is coming from someone who's been gaming since the 70's, sold and built PC's and play games on both Console and PC!
I would make the switch (if it would be allowed) because i'm sure my ps4 will put out better graphics then my 4 year old laptop.
Not too mention I'd be playing on a 60" from the comfort of my awesome La-Z-Boy.
But I guess I'll have to stick with PC for STO.
Certainly not going to start over from scratch. No way. Even though I'd probably find it more enjoyable...Then again, the controller layout may or may not be to my liking, after so long of using the point and click tray.
(Non-Macro player here)
I prefer selecting my abilities on the fly. Even though its harder to pilot while doing so.
But that is one major advantage I see to playing on console (at least it is in my case. This would not apply for people who have awesome computers).
No. I am not planning on moving to console ever. Never liked consoles and never will. I'm not a kid anymore (haven't been for almost half a century). I'm quite certain this was done to bring in new players.
I personally see no advantage to going with a console.
<shrug>
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
2K, Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, EA, LucasArts, Trion Worlds all link their accounts with the console accounts so that all purchases made on the pc show up on the consoles. And we're supposed to believe that this isn't possible in this game?
Perhaps at some point in the distant future They might let you do it?
But you will still not be able to use everything your PC toon has, if it's not available on the console.
And that could be a game breaker if your PC version# doesn't match the Console version#.
<shrug>
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Tried that myself Dave.
It was weird, had to look over my laptop screen to see the television. Maybe if I had a wireless keyboard it might have worked out better ?
I just found it easier to use the laptop screen since it's right in front of me.
But if I were playing on PS4 I could play with no viewing obstructions.
And be comfortable in my La-Z-Boy.
I tried bringing the La-Z-Boy to my computer desk... it doesn't work. Desk sits too high. It's like I'm riding one of those choppers with raised handle bars lol.
This was actually a Necro from June. Check the date listed on the posts before July 26th.
Lag time is not an issue when it comes to basic unlock data from a purchase server. This argument is irrelevant entirely. There are exactly 0 excuses to not implement this for the console other than blatant greed on the part of the shareholders. They can easily implement this.
We're not talking about anything special here folks, a simple connection to the same purchase servers to let the console know that yes you unlocked said item on this date and can download it to your character's inventory is all we're talking about here. It's not that difficult from either a programming or database standpoint.
How can that be "irrelevant" with the multitude of things added to the game since then????
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Shareholders do not dictate whether or not accounts can be ported over from PC to console or vice versa. They do not have such minute control over the operations of a gaming company. At best they can only influence executive management on the overall strategy for future growth within the company. On top of that PWE is a private company so there are absolutely no shareholders.
In addition to the lag when content is released on the console compared to the PC, the main goal of STO console is to tap a potential player base that they never had access to... console gamers. Since everyone will start fresh, that gives Cryptic the opportunity to streamline the database of items and ships that the STO console will not have because of timed exclusives such as event ships. The exception would be ships that were used in main story mission such as the 2014 Anniversary Event Dyson Science Destroyer (but I am sure the T5 DSDs will be offered in the C-Store) and the T6 Kobali Samar. Less data in the database means it is more manageable.
Whether you like it or not, Cryptic has made it's decision. There will be no account transfers. Perhaps that can change in the future when another person becomes STO's EP.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
We're talking about purchases in the Cstore not items retrieved from box events.
This is real time money we're talking about here not some item found from RNG or someone getting lucky from a key. I would think that people who have spent money on the game would be more receptive.
Well, I all I can say is that based on one of Priority One Podcast interviews, Steve Ricossa stated he wanted the consoles to be a leveled playing field meaning everyone starts off with the same thing which is essentially nothing. That was the business decision they decided to go with. Sure, there are other games that allowed for a one time account transfer from PC to console which in simplistic terms means that it is not a technological hurdle to copy copy data from the PC database over to the console database. But that was their business decision.
Probably the best advice I can give you is to start a petition (not in the forum) on a site like change.org and then provide the results to Crypt. If you can collect enough signatures, then perhaps that can influence Cryptic to offer the option to port over accounts from PC to console.