Zavy wrote on Feb 25, 2010, 13:46:
wasted $ on this like all the other crappy MMOs that arent called wow.

Zzet wrote on Feb 23, 2010, 16:30:
3) Emulation mode for XP. Games won't work natively? Run the XP emulator.

Stanly Manly wrote on Feb 18, 2010, 11:01:
EDIT: To anyone who cares, I think STO is quite a good game, and I'm enjoying it. Sure, its not perfect, but the vast majority of players (IMHO) that are complaining about the game, are the ones who click past every dialogue box and just race to max level. The story in STO is pretty interesting, and if you stop thinking within the confines of WoW, you'll see the game is a good Star Trek game. You aren't some random adventurer, you are a Starfleet Officer, doing Starfleet type missions. Players just can't seem to grasp that. Oh well.

Cutter wrote on Feb 17, 2010, 10:57:
Ricky baby...stick to what you're good at...Ultima. Buy it back, make a deal, whatever it takes. Get down on some new single player Ultima and maybe a new Ultima Online at some point too.

even though some high level players complain that they completed all the current raids within nanoseconds of their release.

Fion wrote on Feb 7, 2010, 19:43:
Champions Online was 'meh' and STO sounds 'meh' as well.

JoeNapalm wrote on Feb 4, 2010, 10:32:
Actually, this has been the smoothest launch of an MMO that I've ever seen. The servers dropped a couple of times during the head-start period ("It's like an out of town premiere"), they addressed it, and (other than scheduled maintenance) I haven't seen any downtime since the game went officially live.

I'm pretty burned out on MMOs, but having fun with this on (no one is more surprised than me). It doesn't fit the WoW-clone formula. It's a lot closer to playing Starfleet Command in a persistent setting than playing WorldEverLordoftheDungeonQuestCraft or whatever the latest clone is.

Does it have the pure and unequaled polish and detail that WoW does? The epic complexity of EVE? No...but they obviously learned a thing or two about launch day. From my perspective, it was seamless.

Certainly not everyone's cup o' tea (and yeah, Cryptic/Atari are greedy bastards) but a lot of the venom in here is a bit unfounded. If you hate it, cool - I think L4D2 and Modern Warfare 2 are bad games, and I never tried them...people enjoy different things.

This is more of a hop in and blast a few Orion pirates and Birds of Prey (yes, at the earliest levels, it's mostly a turning fight, but it gets more involved as you advance), not a grind until you cry kind of game. I think people are right in that the initial rush will fade (people powerleveled to Admiral in no time) but that happens with every MMOG after the Powergamers move on. I think there's a core that will stick with this one, and without a divided population like WAR (where they gorged themselves then starved because they weren't scalable) it might just stick around awhile.

-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist

Cutter wrote on Feb 3, 2010, 21:34:

Unfortunately, the interest in Star Trek Online seems to have caught Cryptic off-guard, despite the fan base of several hundred million people.

STO has a fanbase of several hundred million people does it? Uh huh. In Cryptic's dreams.

space captain wrote on Feb 3, 2010, 19:10:

...He... He ...put ...creatures in our bodies to control our minds, ...made us say lies, ...do things. ...But we beat him. ...He thought he controlled us, but he did not. The Captain was strong.

Mead wrote on Feb 3, 2010, 19:51:
Everyone should have an Overon filter. It's so nice to be told what I meant to post.

joe2tiger wrote on Feb 3, 2010, 16:08:
I consider myself a Star Trek fan but I don't think I would enjoy this game. I'm kinda burned out on MMOs and I don't want to collect 20 tachyon crystals from a cave on Planet B. I'm kinda tired of the WoW or Everquest formula.

Overon wrote on Feb 1, 2010, 18:44:
I predict star wars galaxies and the matrix's fate for this.

Ant wrote on Feb 1, 2010, 16:27:
NEEEEEEEEEERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

space captain wrote on Feb 1, 2010, 16:02:

I like the game. And I want to play it once it's finished but at the moment is a big mess. I'm guessing the first 2 months are going to be full of balance tweaks and adjustments that will end up changing the game so much there won't be much benefit from the time and energy put into playing it now.

EVERY SINGLE MMORPG IS RELEASED LIKE THIS