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We all become tired of gaming from time to time but if we really love a title we will return to it again and again. Sadly my fellow 1960s and 70s generation friends are now uninstalling or at least mothballing the game. I am not exactly excited in logging in myself to find yet another re-balance, bait and switch item sale etc and that is rather saddening. A common thread is they feel insulted that, as an example, after the purchase a 60" 4K Samsung smart TV, the shop turns up 12 months later, cuts 20" off it, fits a new surround, ensures it works, and with their best politician grin say to us that our original purchase retains value.
I suppose the new blood are the ones who are bringing in the $$$'s now and are the ones being catered for. I cannot blame them for that but It does not help with the feeling of being cast off that I and my old Trekkie friends feel.
We all become tired of gaming from time to time but if we really love a title we will return to it again and again. Sadly my fellow 1960s and 70s generation friends are now uninstalling or at least mothballing the game. I am not exactly excited in logging in myself to find yet another re-balance, bait and switch item sale etc and that is rather saddening. A common thread is they feel insulted that, as an example, after the purchase a 60" 4K Samsung smart TV, the shop turns up 12 months later, cuts 20" off it, fits a new surround, ensures it works, and with their best politician grin say to us that our original purchase retains value.
I suppose the new blood are the ones who are bringing in the $$$'s now and are the ones being catered for. I cannot blame them for that but It does not help with the feeling of being cast off that I and my old Trekkie friends feel.
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I logged in after a long absence to find my skill bar empty of everything except the freighter beacon. Had to rebuild my character (again), find where they were hiding the skills to put back in my bar.
Quite troubling comments from you.
The post was made specifically stating only my lack of excitement at logging in and confined to mentioning my small number of fellow oldie STO friends who have left. No statement was made about anything in excess of that.
Your post however at best second guesses intent and at worst puts words into my mouth that were never there.
Balance is always an issue.
Where a game intentionally releases premium items to the live server that are deliberately unbalanced or known on Test Servers to be broken then nerfs them after purchases have been made can justifiably be accused of using Bait and Switch tactics. Perhaps an inconvenient truth but neither baseless or flaming.
A bait and switch is a company advertises goods or services at what appears to be a bargain price with the intention of not selling what was advertised. Either the company never had the advertised item in the first place or salespeople try to pressure the customer into buying either an inferior substitute at a not such a bargin price or a higher priced item which is similar to what was advertised.
Obviously, STO is meant to make money which is entirely appropriate but less focus on pew pew and more on exploration and discovery and diplomacy and hope and wonder would be welcome by this unrepentant Trekkie and would keep me coming back in the future.
My issue is not with Cryptic nerfing, reworking, and twerking; this is an MMO, and everyone in the industry wants to be the second to come out with the next big thing. Innovations that fail often take down the innovator as well when they do. Recycling what works with better graphics is far less risky. I can't blame Cryptic for doing what they feel they have to do even when I don't necessarily like it.
My issue is with the general direction CBS is taking Trek. What was once a show about the perfectibility of human kind is becoming a show about how screwed up humanity will still be in 400 years. I don't like dark and edgy Trek because it just becomes CSI Federation, and we already have enough TV shows that show how screwed up humans are.
Optimism. What a concept. Trek came out in the middle of one of the less optimistic times in our history and said in a loud and clear voice, "We can, we will, be better." Since the death of Roddenberry Trek has had an increasingly darker message, that not only won't we be any better 400 years from now, but that we lack the potential to ever change. The Discovery trailer leaves me feeling that Trek is going even darker.
Its not just STO that's leaving us old guys behind.
what they offer, a backdrop of Trek that I can navigate as I wish, play as I desire. Changes come and go. Some good, some
not so good. Nothing in STO is perfect. But the "good" that they offer, far, far outweighs the bad.
For what its worth from one "traditional" Trek fan. BCW
ps: Born in 1960.
I see it as sacrifice and moved on with daily play.
Other than that the game is fun if one plays it and not just hangs around doing nothing.
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> I play on the Xbox and probably didn't notice the rebalance as much since I don't have much to base it on, but I can see where spending money on something and suddenly it isn't as boss as before would be irksome.
console hasn't even got the changes yet.
Indeed. It's regular MMO practice and nothing evil or out of the ordinary, but people through a tantrum left and right. There are a lot of things about STO that you can legitimately complain about, but the rebalance is really the least of then since it shows that the team is still working on the game.
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That is nicely put.
I'm a fan since the 70s and i am enjoying Star Trek then, now and later. If i miss the old time, i will pop a movie in my dvd machine, sit and enjoy the show.
What are you on (about)? Is this about La Grande Nerf?! Even I got over it. :P So can you.
Also, inb4thelock
It's still a Bait & Switch: just one the ToS allows them to do.
Thing is, I rarely care to admit it, but power creep is an inherent necessary factor in an MMO (as players always need an incentive to buy something better than they currently have). Which also means, that, every once in a while, a kind of 'reset' is required. Very annoying when it happens, but inevitable, really.
The 'preexisting knowledge' lies in the inevitability that comes with power creep. Aka, they already know power creep can't be sustained indefinitely, and that they'll need to nerf it all again, one day.
Except it's not a generic 'change some things,' but a downright nerf. And we're not talking Courts here, but the simply the acknowledgment that, inevitably, power creep needs a massive nerf at some point; and that said nerf, technically, constitutes a 'Bait & Switch', but one the players know about upfront, and one that simply goes with the territory of an MMO.