I knew those bashers and haters of this game are just a bunch of trollers...

by the way OP i dunno if u know it but whatever if is a sprint of marathon as long as the income is higher than expenses they be fine...

Considering they launched with only one complete faction,( Klingon being primarily pvp) we shall see. If they don't follow up and deliver a two faction game as promised, I suspect the attention span of many players will wane.

Give it a month or two. More than half of those accounts will be inactive by then.

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Originally posted by erictlewis
I wonder about 1 Million.  LOTRO has claim to 4 Million, however you would be lucky if 500K were playing.

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Lotro claimed 4 million CHARACTERS had been created, not subscriptions. I'll agree it's a stupid thing to PR, just like 1 million "accounts".

One word (or acronym rather): WAR

1.3+ million copies sold, down to around 100k subs.

they will not be "sitting happy" in 2-3 months time that's for sure! :)

My 2 cents.

Well I have played PC games and MMO's for a very long time I would tell how many but it would tell my age. I played the Open Beta and Head start of STO and they really had capacity problems. However since the official release it has been much much better. I suspect they had contractual agreements with a data center that didn't give them more capacity until the 2nd' they also say they are adding more this weekend. Right now with most folks who play any game have a very short attention span. In fact many have quit reading by this point in my 2 cents worth.

I think this will not fail because. Now open your minds for this answer set back and relax and reflect on my words.
Star Trek Fans will keep this thing alive. I do agree with several posts that cryptic must listen to its player base and fix repair or replace what needs to be. But to just think about how many fans there are that just want to play a game about Star Trek will keep them in business a long time.

As the article stated about a mmo being a marathon, true enough there. Look at other MMO's example Lotro tons of people hated it when it first came out but those who stuck with it got to see a mmo change and change change. It is a great game now tons of content and a bunch was free and there still giving away content updates about 4 updates a year are free and 1 expansion a year that you have to pay for. That is an update every 3 months for free. From what I have read STO and Cryptic have free content coming as soon as next month.

With all that said. I really like STO this is the first MMO I have played that doesn't make me want to rush to end game to get the biggest and best. Yea I look forward to it but it’s fun right out of the box killing klingons flying a star ship having an away team. It’s not killing wolves and boar and other small critters to level up. I think if folks will streatch that attention span and let them get settled in. We are on a continuing mission to boldly go where cryptic hopes millions upon millions of paid subscribers want to go.

Thanks

CapJLP
 

Yay for one million suckers.  Watch the population dwindle once people understand how unfinished the game is.

This is Atari you are dealing with now people, only a challenged person expects to get their monies worth on anything they put their name on.

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Originally posted by Ozmodan
Yay for one million suckers.  Watch the population dwindle once people understand how unfinished the game is.

This is Atari you are dealing with now people, only a challenged person expects to get their monies worth on anything they put their name on.

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A person signing up to a forum for a game that interests them is a sucker? Umm...okaaay.

Yes the population will go down as a result of their launch woes...but I would bet within the first year they'll gain back at least half of what they lose after the first month solely because at it's base it is a great game.

Atari's the publisher...they definitely pushed it out the door early...not letting Cryptic actually finish the game first. I believe that Cryptic is a solid company. They know they have dug themselves in a hole...and they will work themselves out.

They developed a great game...and it is unfinished...but what is there to start with is an excellent game. They just need to flesh it out more. They certainly have source content to work from, so coming up with that isn't as much of an issue like it is with most MMOs.

Yeah I'm a bit of a fanboy when it comes to the game. I'm a fan of Cryptic...and I've loved Star Trek most of my life. The lifetime sub for me was a no-brainer. There are plenty like me as well...which will keep Cryptic going for a while. I'm taking my time...letting them work out the launch issues while I play Mass Effect 2. In a month or so when the irate 30 dayers leave I'll hop back in and it should be a very smooth experience.

Originally posted by nekollx

Originally posted by Dalmont

I tried the late open beta, it was painfully horrid ruiniation of Star Trek.

It should have been something decent with politics, exploration, scientific discovery, diplomacy, open space, clean air...etc

 

But what is it? 

 

Pretty Uniforms, a character creator that allows you to look like a complete mongo, an instanced mess...

 

Oh well, guess I'm old  and too intellegent :P :P

No exploration? Do tell

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx2VQ74SNJI

 

Were you trying to encourage or discourage people from this game by posting that movie?

Originally posted by MikeB

Originally posted by onetruth

Pretty sure this was already reported on and discussed:

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/268225/STO-launches-with-over-1-million-accounts.html

 

Forum posts are not official MMORPG.com news articles. :)

I get that.  It just looks pretty bad when the official news articles are 24 hours late.

Originally posted by Pelu

I knew those bashers and haters of this game are just a bunch of trollers...

 

so if someone does not have the same opinion as you they MUST be a troll, right?  *rolleyes*

So yeah, I won't be subbing for another month. Way too many bugs and game play is repetitive, more so than most. As seems to be par for the course, it was released about 6 months too early just like Champions was. Right now, it's a just a paid beta. Major, annoying bugs remain. There is the framework of a decent space combat engine here, begging to be mated with a good game but I don't think that that will ever happen. Cryptic is too focused on mediocrity. Just enough to get by is their slogan apparently.

The heavily instanced layout of the game helps not one bit. There is a complete lack of any sense of community because the player base is so fragmented by all the instancing. It's a stupid way to design a virtual world architecture, it defeats the very nature of what an MMO should be by it's very nature. Find a good fleet, because that's the only community you will get. Oh, and not more than 50 of you could ever gather in one place because of instancing limits.

I feel about this the same way I felt about DDO. Another great IP pissed away on a weak effort.

Originally posted by Longswd

I feel about this the same way I felt about DDO. Another great IP pissed away on a weak effort.

 

That about sums it up for me as well.... at least I saved myself the $50.....