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dbeiswenger
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A lot of players are going crazy over the fact that if they play on console, they wont have anything from PC to play with. Lifetime Rewards, Veteran Status, Ship builds.
My personal feelings on the issue are this,
Cryptic is bringing the game we know and love to console, with a completely updated engine. I am very excited because the PC i play STO on has never been able to handle the amazing graphics the game has had to offer, Console is an opportunity to experience that and more.
However I am deeply concerned about the fact that none of my purchases over the years will transfer over.
I don't mind starting completely over as a new player. In fact, with how many updates the game has received for console, I welcome a fresh start.
I understand the issues with bringing accounts as they are over to console. I foresee an attempt to do so riddled with countless bugs that will ruin the experience.
However, I believe cryptic should make what ever C-Store items are available on console that a player has owned on PC, available to them to be "Claimed" On console. This wouldn't create an unbalanced game, since most of the C-store items aren't available for use until later in the game.
We the players made this game the success it is by playing, and spending money on it. That should be honored.
My personal feelings on the issue are this,
Cryptic is bringing the game we know and love to console, with a completely updated engine. I am very excited because the PC i play STO on has never been able to handle the amazing graphics the game has had to offer, Console is an opportunity to experience that and more.
However I am deeply concerned about the fact that none of my purchases over the years will transfer over.
I don't mind starting completely over as a new player. In fact, with how many updates the game has received for console, I welcome a fresh start.
I understand the issues with bringing accounts as they are over to console. I foresee an attempt to do so riddled with countless bugs that will ruin the experience.
However, I believe cryptic should make what ever C-Store items are available on console that a player has owned on PC, available to them to be "Claimed" On console. This wouldn't create an unbalanced game, since most of the C-store items aren't available for use until later in the game.
We the players made this game the success it is by playing, and spending money on it. That should be honored.
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I honestly don't see a way to do this without having it manually done since the two servers won't be communicative at all. People would have different gamer tags from their user accounts on PC so how do you see them accomplishing this?
It's a free game, provided by a huge multinational business with many other games and interests. They are not interested in anyone's 'feelings' about 'this' or 'that'. That have obviously done their research and have decided expanding into the console marked is worth their while. Everybody else's 'feelings' are irrelevant.
OP: You say you are 'deeply concerned' that none of your purchases will be transferred over to the new console servers. Why? You don't get a free version of the same game for every platform (does blizzard give away xbox/ps/wii versions of thier game when you purchase the PC copy?... no).
It's a completely different platform, likely to have completely different servers and a completely different UI.
Now if people are planning on playing on PC and console....... well its just my opinion again but you need your head seeing to.
This seems like the obvious way to go, they would probably even make more money this way.
That MAY decide to allow transfers, but color me totally unsurprised if they don't.
I would assume that was part of the reason for the AoY expansion, it's separate from 2410 so console users can jump right in to the most current expansion w/o all that messy previous 6yrs of backstory?
You would be right on that. They most likely started work on the console version approximately the same time they were working on season 11, so they'll be launching with Season 11.5 stuff. Roughly the Console version will be 3 months behind, the length of time we know that they need to release new content.
I hate to say this, but it was confirmed in the last priority one podcast that like Neverwinter, the console version will lack the foundry mainly due to the UI of the foundry not meshing well with that of a console.