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Hey folks! You may have seen the press release that just went out, and I wanted to create a post here and get ahead of any questions you may have. Below is all the information I can currently share, but feel free to ask more questions in the thread below, and if I can answer them, I will.
https://embracer.com/release/embracer-group-enters-into-agreement-to-acquire-perfect-world-entertainment/
So what does this mean for Star Trek Online?
It's an exciting new opportunity for us to work with a new and very talented group of people. We've all seen the previous work Gearbox has done, and it's cool to get to be a part of that. But in terms of the day to day operations of STO, very little will change, if anything at all. The team is not changing, the leadership of both STO and Cryptic Studios is not changing, and the team who was previously at PWE, now Gearbox, is unchanging as well. Basically, you should see very little difference once this deal goes through in how our game runs.
Will Star Trek Online be sunset because of this deal?
There are no plans to sunset Star Trek Online right now. We are hard at work on continued development and remain committed to providing our players with the best experience possible.
Will I still launch the game through Arc?
If Arc was your preferred way to launch the game, that won't change. You'll also still be able to launch it through Steam, or just the Cryptic launcher itself.
How will this affect my account?
Your account should experience no changes as a result of Cryptic joining the Gearbox family. If there are any changes, we'll let you know in a separate forum post.
This is an exciting time for us, and I hope we have even more details to share with you soon.
https://embracer.com/release/embracer-group-enters-into-agreement-to-acquire-perfect-world-entertainment/
So what does this mean for Star Trek Online?
It's an exciting new opportunity for us to work with a new and very talented group of people. We've all seen the previous work Gearbox has done, and it's cool to get to be a part of that. But in terms of the day to day operations of STO, very little will change, if anything at all. The team is not changing, the leadership of both STO and Cryptic Studios is not changing, and the team who was previously at PWE, now Gearbox, is unchanging as well. Basically, you should see very little difference once this deal goes through in how our game runs.
Will Star Trek Online be sunset because of this deal?
There are no plans to sunset Star Trek Online right now. We are hard at work on continued development and remain committed to providing our players with the best experience possible.
Will I still launch the game through Arc?
If Arc was your preferred way to launch the game, that won't change. You'll also still be able to launch it through Steam, or just the Cryptic launcher itself.
How will this affect my account?
Your account should experience no changes as a result of Cryptic joining the Gearbox family. If there are any changes, we'll let you know in a separate forum post.
This is an exciting time for us, and I hope we have even more details to share with you soon.
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Still, I guess it makes sense with the flop of the MTG game and the flop of Torchlight III
When I hear Gearbox I think multiple controversies like payment issues, Twitter feuds, misappropriating funds, USB left at a restaurant that contained sensitive company data, as well as child pornography , siphoned money.
If kept separate like THQ Nordic I am not too worried. If this is put under Gearbox its very likely everything will change. Gearbox are renowned for dodgy practices
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
What if they don't need the money as badly adn switch to a slightly more traditional layout.
Keep lockboxes and keys, but make lockboxes with different colors. White/Green/Blue/Purple/Violet/Yellow. Then have better odds in the higher boxes. Treat them as random chests and have them be high end gear boxes. With better odds they could be less of a gamble and the game could have more of an economy in them. Keys could be rarely found and then mostly bought with zen if youwant to farm and sell things.
The entire game economy is fixable from a play style standpoint. so, logically you could fill out all of the existing systems and use them fully and let money come in where it does. Low volume is free high volume is pay or grind. All of the traditional game mecahnics could be used. No reason to throw out development. Just add to it. The basics are there, just not used fully in almost all cases in this game. And the game would and could become richer from it.
Basically epic would be the only box you would want to use now at 500 dil per zen. If you devide the values by 6 and take off 25 you get approximately every 80 dil/zen would require a higher box to pay out in ec for sales. This would allow it to scale or have scaled in the past.
White/common <= 105 dil/zen
Green/uncommon <= 185 dil/zen
Blue/Rare <= 265 dil/zen
Purple/Very Rare <= 345 dil/zen
Violet/UV <= 425 dil/zen
Yellow/epic = 500 dil/zen
This could make a sliding box rarity based on the range of EC likely on the market. The prices of keys were predictable over the games life so EC is then predictable at different ranges. So, the box odds and the likelihood of finding rare boxes goes up. The price of boxes for higher chances would also go up.
Not sure how much a chance at a high end ship would need to be from white to epic? 50x?
Maybe if the epic box had an equal chance at all of the prizes equally, but was fairly rare. around 15 times more likely to get a T6 ship. Or 7% chance for any prize in the box. They could be very valuable on the market. They could cost as much as the keys to buy them or more. I'm guessing epic boxes would sell for around 150-200 mill each.(up to 250million)
If you compressed the chances then lower end boxes could be useful for farming certain items. Epics for high end ships, and other boxes for mid to low end prizes.
I'm assuming the odds/keys vs the chance to get ships make it always equal about 1.5-2billion ec to get a T6 ship. It just slides from more key cost to more box cost as the odds increase.
To control the price the odds of a certain box quality dropping in game could adjust with the current dil/zen prices automatically. As you get closer to 500dil it will be a little more likely to drop epic loot boxes.
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war
...
Meet the new Boss
Same as the old Boss 🎵
That's sort of how this game seems to go though. From Cryptic to Atari. Then Atari to PWE. Now PWE being rolled into GearBox. It could be worse though. :P Being based in the EU where lotto boxes are incredibly unpopular so hopefully that turns into a good thing for this game and the end of loot boxes arrives shortly after.
https://thesixthaxis.com/2021/12/21/embracer-have-bought-perfect-world-creators-of-neverwinter-and-star-trek-online/
BTW they also just bought Dark Horse comics as well
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Still, I see this as a good thing and I look forward to what may come as a result of this change.
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My forum single-issue of rage: Make the Proton Experimental Weapon go for subsystem targetting!
While I'm happy PWE is getting replaced, the only Gearbox game I've played is Aliens: Colonial Marines so I don't have a lot of faith in things changing for the better.
Reasonable
Unlikely
Pipe Dream
Everyone agrees that Discovery is great/terrible (your choice)
jokes aside. i have no idea what this is gonne mean besides what has been said by ambassadorkeal. but just hope there is not gonne be a "oops and now all your stuff is gone" what has happen to some other games, or so i have heard.
and i hope this game is not gonne be sunset. the fact its being mentiond (even as in: not gonna happen) is getting me worried. didnt even know something like that would be possible for sto, i got a lot of money invested in this game (have played for many many years ever sinds i was 13 years old and im now 21) and knowing it could potentialy be sun set keeps me from investing more.
but can someone smarter than me explain if it is reasonable to fear this?
This is not good news. Gearbox are one of the scummiest companies in the industry... just look up Randy Pitchford, and his actions/comments. Especially with a recent USB key, senstivie company documents,and pornography.
If anything was going to kill STO, this is it.
I am absolutely with you on this; incredible news, indeed.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/15/17574248/aliens-colonial-marines-fixing-code-typo-ai-xenomorphs
> and i hope this game is not gonne be sunset. the fact its being mentiond (even as in: not gonna happen) is getting me worried. didnt even know something like that would be possible for sto, i got a lot of money invested in this game (have played for many many years ever sinds i was 13 years old and im now 21) and knowing it could potentialy be sun set keeps me from investing more.
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> but can someone smarter than me explain if it is reasonable to fear this?
Honestly, we were just trying to cover all bases of stuff folks might be worried about. There's no need to be concerned for STO, which is still very profitable.
I think my bigger concern as a long time player is if Randy Pitchford is allowed anywhere near the game. The guy does not have a good reputation (look up Aliens: Colonial Marines and all the stuff he is involved in as well as his ongoing feud with the Jimquisition) in the industry.
Still, hopefully this brings good things and more funding for STO and all the products as a whole.