remember cost ratio. the money invested in development, maint., fixing a mmo far exceeds a single/co-op. add to that they have alot of hands in the bowl, parent company, Lucasarts, ect.. Bioware exclusive games have been cheaper to make, patch, and theres fewer outisde suits taking the cash. Guess where biowares attention is turning to now that this game is out? Much like Cryptic Studios lead developer was quoted saying its most profitable to get more and smaller games and content released quickly, than invest in large projects that could fail. i.e. the age of half-baked mmos are upon us, coming out quicker and more numerous than ever. choose your side: rushed product at premium price or quality product at premium price. funny theyre charging the same or more than other established mmos for this half-wit game. STO started like this.

why did you make this thread? inviting people to vent, but yet saying not too? oookaaaayyyyy... sounds like your 13. -3 internets for not putting the "as far as I know" sooner in the rant...

exactly. they must have had lunch with Cryptic suits years ago...

pvp? for real? lvl 11's with lvl 40's? on one-sided faction fighting in a random chosen pvp zone? Flashpoints? leveling via standing around fleet spamming over n over for a group all available right when you are, at your level when most people at your level will be off on a distant world where apparently holo-communications just cant reach to make a "lfg" system make sense? anyone else not getting it? a game so boring and repetitive that forces you to have to choose between another broke leveling system or a wasted timesink based on other players avaiability in your immediate instance, is not the variety i expect from a 2012 MMO... people need to raise their standards. its the pvp and group finding issues that people are also upset about. c'mon man! ><

thats What i'm doing, its fun in the "want to see what happens to my character" kinda way, but other than that its the standard early-mid 2000's decade mmo... with more load screens than you can shake a lightsaber at.

I lol'd at first, then I remembered my STO account had been hijacked by magic monkeys. It was a bad few weeks. I wish to point this out so you are less offensive to others who may have yet to solve their magic monkey problem.. They are so sneaky the made STO seem acceptable enough to warrant a subscription. beware its not happening to you now on here!

they arnt doing anything different, they just added a main character story.. without that this is 2004 WoW...

this^ people need to stop lowering the bar for "new" games. its frickin 2012 now and there have been plenty of mmos to format great ideas off of, improve, and test. FIVE years in the making and i still see alot of cantinas without mailboxes? seriously? something as simple as this mentoined in bug/test reports is dismissed and not implemented before launch? thats a BASIC MMO format.. The other features and design choices that suck have no excuse in todays gaming... stop the excuses and lets keep the bar going a little higher with each year..

that sucks man. i too have noticed this. my guild had at peak over 120, with 30-40 on during prime times. now its down to maybe 12 prime times, and the 50's are afk most of the time that theyre on tryin to get motivated to do something...

i know its alot to quote, but this is what i hear alot from in my guild and people i know in rl. I by no means played night and day, as i have rl obligations, but even still i notice the lack of connect to the overall universe around my character. the main story seems all the attention, and at higher levels that even flatlines. this is what happens when you story>content. I picked up Skyrim last week and its amazing how it has loads of both. so why log in to ToR? social aspect? how/why? there isnt much social aspect to it, since you have to spam for groups, to do the same content over n over. where is this galactic war we were supposed to "choose your side" to fight for? wheres the immersion and impact on that faction in that war?

well i just did this flagged, so if they didnt like it, they could have ran away, then came back to take me on 1-1. instead they just beating the weakling mobs... later found 2 flagged players questing, at first i kept the npcs alive to do as much damage as possible before i jumped in, but these 2 noobs just kept aggroing more instead of backing into a corner to face me head on 2-1. i mean really, running around pulling mobs while i was healing them? some people do have a death wish. they chose their side...

while other faction players are killing/questing on them. can you get in trouble if the player is not flagged? I see it as defending my faction. "Choose Your Side" kinda thinking.

ya... go backwards... that makes sense. go back to crawling all over 4 previous worlds to try and finish quests you didnt need to do in the first place. only to find out you cant do them now since its bugged. kudos idea.. why didnt anyone think of that already?

ha! i do now! glad i was reading throught this thread, i was just wondering how rift was doing since i left a lil while ago.

Any news at all? i cant seem to search for this. On my server, theres alot of people hitting the 20-40 areas with handlfulls of quests they cant drop. I thought i was just missing something. anyone here have any ideas whats going on and/or a fix?

ugh... OP and people like him are the ones who dont get the mechanics of the game. 1. Use the proper gear for your class spec. 2. if your trying to solo the quests, play smart (aka heals or tank builds) regardless what class you choose. 3. use line of site to interupt mob attacks when your abilities are on CD. 4. stay OUT of aoe attacks 5. use any damage mitigation techniques you can, shielding, hiding around corners, stuns 6. Stay healed up. be a healer with a tank/dps companion. be tank/dps with a healer companion. pretty obvious 7. stims/pots and buffs. the story missions are not meant to be so difficult you cant do solo, just more challenging at times. they want you to learn your class and the mechanics of the game. its not mario. but alas they do allow you to bring a friend most of the time. I just finished my act 1 and I'm a healer with a tank/dps pet. never had to group up for a quest yet, although i have joined people to eliminate respawns timers. tldr: play smarter not harder.

maint. period today starts at 6pm-11pm. it 2pm... whats the deal? i cant find anything in the link they provided on the login screen.

or are we stuck in 2000-05 era still? these full loaded servers are going to be able to function how exactly come dec 20th? what was the point of the massive last beta event? they shoulda had this crap sorted out long ago, its not a new genre or a new IP. lots of people wanting to play= server load. make more servers available and lock the ones nearly full BEFORE they get full. thus allowing just the guilds sent there to fill their ranks as people are gaining access. the randoms can pick any of the low pop realms...

your twisting the REAL language used back in july/august: "get early access" why do you people not comprehend this? "staggered ega"? IT WAS NOT STATED 5 MONTHS AGO... obviously since they didnt have the numbers yet of preorders to decide HOW to do an early access. has common sense failed everyone in here? "may get up to early access" isnt the same as a "staggered EGA"... take the time and think why these two statements are/were used in the timeline from july-now..... and how much the can really change how you do a game launch. I'm not in, but i also have to work anyway. so no sweat off me, just the idea of people stating "facts" when its just their impressions that gets me..

nuh-uh bucko. they wern't saying how because it wasn't clear how many people WERE going to preorder. makes sense when you actually use both brain cells. all they could "say" was early access and the word may. staggered adds alot more depth to that and would've raised even more questions they couldn't answer.. thats big business for you. its how things are done. cash first, answers later. welcome to 2011. what, you think they didnt have an agenda creating so many pre-orders that far ahead without a release date announced yet? Don't think the bean counters and suits wernt harping for some positive numbers to help them sleep better? do you also buy into "supply and demand" method of gas price fluctuation?

i preordered when i felt like it, this bullcrap "staggered" lingo wasnt thought up till well after. in the early weeks of preorder, the term was just "up to 5 days"... didn't say anything about others getting ahead of you so far that economy and pvp balance would be whack... anybody claiming the "staggered" lingo was from the start is a liar and needs to back it up cause i suspect ALOT more peeps would have raged long before this week had they knew about it. early access language was kept vague just enough not to raise questions as to HOW?

well ya.. the op meant after...... nvm moving along.

....... ...... its easy to make lil dots, aint it? yay!

seriously another qq about qq thread? you guys came out late tonite. theres like 7 new ones in the last 5 minutes... just don't bother. like its going to do anything you intend..

recycled threads much? your helping bioware doing this... yup... nothing like putting out tire fires with more tires..