[quote name='eastx']What are you talking about? You can bet that almost everyone who posts here loves it. The game's doing quite well. Cryptic patches it at least once a week, and they're releasing the first major content update by the end of the month. This is a good game that just keeps getting better.[/QUOTE]
I haven't read this thread, but other forums I visit, I have read their threads on STO from beta up till recently and general census is the game is just lacking, the initial joy of getting new ships and stuff seems to not last long as it doesn't take long to get the higher end goodies.
Then from an out of the game view, we have Cryptic who has fell all over itself like a drunk with Champions Online and so far STO has been following the same pattern from beta to a bit after release that CO has followed and Cryptic has said already they are working on a new MMO.
So from that alone, Cryptic has 2 relativity new MMO's out, with another in the cooker. They don't exactly have a large studio, but hell I guess since they don't even really support Champions Online we don't need to count that one, but even so, that is a heavily load for a studio to carry, MMO's are no run of the mill workloads.
To top it all off, not even what, 3 weeks after STO comes out it already has had a $10 price cut and a week after that had a big promo sale giving away an extra 2 months on top of the free month. That alone shows sales haven't been too good and they (Atari) are trying to get more blood into a new game already when they can still make back a large portion of development costs just by the sale of the game at its high price before falling down into the $20 and under where all MMO's go after a half year or whatever.
These aren't good signs when you see the developer following the same trend they did to their previous game and already have another MMO in the works. Then the publisher is already cutting the price and doing promos to pump new sales into a brand new game.
That's why I said what I did. On the positive side, nearly everyone seems to enjoy the game for the first few weeks but then various reasons a lot of people are dropping like flies.
When they put a free trial up I'll be more then happy to give it ago, but as is, too many bad signs to ignore, I hope I am wrong though and the game gets the treatment it deserves for such a great IP.
tards. I've never seen a worse business model for retaining customers than theirs. It's absolute shit and if I ever ran a normal business that way, I would expect to go under after 2-3 years. For whatever reason, they think that nickel and diming their customers is the way to go and that business would be great that way. Someone forgot to mention to them that you are already charging $15/month for your game, you can't then go ahead and also charge for critical things like respec. Especially when the skill tree is broken and needs significant revision and skill descriptions are, perhaps appropriately, cryptic. I don't understand how a company can look at the success Blizzard has with it's business model and then ignore it and go their own route, thinking it's going to work great. It worked REALLY well with Champions Online right? Wrong.
