Originally posted by Betaboo

Originally posted by bstiff

Originally posted by Betaboo

Originally posted by Permian

Originally posted by KitKat1

WoW.... i see why they need this WB weekend... so badly...

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ATA?countrycode=FR

Atari's stock is in free fall ...! ... Is all this Negative Publicity hitting home !

Looking at the graph on that site Atari's stock peaked at nearly triple what it is now in late September 2009 and then declined to more or less what it is now in December 2009. Was that due to CO or something else?

I was trying to figure that out to and for the life of me cant remember them putting anything big out in the months prior to that date.

 MAYbe the announcement for sto going live in feb?

Possibly but i kind of doubt it that is a large jump and most investors might be rubes but that is a large jump for just the promise of something in the future. I am going to research it a bit and see if i can find out.

something to do with them being taken to court to retrieve the right to the NWN IP perhaps ?

Originally posted by Betaboo

I thought about if for no other reason than to annoy certain CDF members but i have been reading the forums and even they are rebelling so why bother.

They have added very little in the 2 months i have been gone and i am way past the "It is coming soon" puke the devs are still trying to serve to anybody still playing.

Just a fail in so many ways.

To the poster above yeah atari is hurting they have lost over 750 M in the last 8 years so expect big news on that front soon judging on the news coming out.

I hadn't planned on posting in the forums because they are on fire enough and at this point it's like beating up a cripple, but there was a thread where DStahl posted basically asking if it would have been better if STO had shipped with its' 80 hours of content or 20 hours of good content.  I wanted to reply sooooo bad, but as of five minutes ago, I can't post.  I know I wasn't banned, so either the WB weekend isn't up yet, or even they know it will be such an epic fail that they don't want old customers posting.

As for Atari stock, AFAIK they haven't posted their Q1 numbers yet, so the only thing I can think of is the guy that wanted to sell a million-ish shares of something and it went out as a billion-ish shares and caused the US stock market to plummet 1000 points in 20 minutes.  /shrug

Since STO is a single-player game, never will I pay $15/month for it, but make it like GuildWars where it is subscription free, and from time to time, I might poke my head in.

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

I heard you have to have a key from a paid subscription to get the free weeked, which seems strange as I was able to download and play Champions Online months ago without ever having been a paying  member.

 

Anyway, if STO and CO together were available for $10 a month, I would probably subscribe, as there is some game value in each of them, and I need to fill the five or six hours a night which I used to play WoW.

That's because CO did a free unlimited free weekend to everyone, not just former paid subscribers.

I'm downloading the demo right now and 2% has finished in the past two or so hours. Guess I'll be playing in about 100 hours.

I tried to log in, but server was down and i got "account error" before the patching. Oh well, off to play some Civ4 then, heh.

I wont go near this crap game even if Craptic payed me for it.

Originally posted by Darth_Osor

 

As for Atari stock, AFAIK they haven't posted their Q1 numbers yet, so the only thing I can think of is the guy that wanted to sell a million-ish shares of something and it went out as a billion-ish shares and caused the US stock market to plummet 1000 points in 20 minutes.  /shrug

 Actually, it would be their Q4 numbers; Atari's fiscal year (for their last year) ran from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010. So we should be seeing a Q4 financial report and perhaps a yearly financial report soon. Keep in mind that the newest financial reports (and subsequent ones) fall under the new French accounting laws covering financial reports (as referenced in Atari's Q3 and 6 month reports); that may be why they are running a bit late getting them out.

10.5.7
7.97GB d/l caped at about 4Mb/s (500KB/s) from Cryptic.

Apparently the STO beta testers are not included in this free play weekend, only those that ponied up about us$50 for a retail copy (Star Trek Online retail key). My beta client was about 7.9GB so, has anything really changed, content wise??

STO CE seems to be discounted on Amazon.com from $49.99 to $49.96
Normal STO is discounted from $29.99 to $27.99.

?What is the name of the site that has 'golden specials' where they sell current game software for $5?

I'm downloading with 20kB/s! If I can keep this up I might be able to join the next free weekend... in a few month....

Originally posted by kartana

I'm downloading with 20kB/s! If I can keep this up I might be able to join the next free weekend... in a few month....

LOL at 20kb a sec on a 2.5 gig patch you will be ready by the next welcome back in 6 months

Can't say I am ever going back to this game. The ground combat from what I have seen is still severely lacking. The universe seems tiny. The worlds that you explore aren't even worlds but rather boxed in areas with reused bits and pieces just flung all over the place. The only time I felt the game was a bit trek was in an around the starting space station.

Originally posted by Betaboo

Originally posted by kartana

I'm downloading with 20kB/s! If I can keep this up I might be able to join the next free weekend... in a few month....

LOL at 20kb a sec on a 2.5 gig patch you will be ready by the next welcome back in 6 months

Yeah! Dunno why it is sooo slow.

EDIT: I just hit the cancel button. It's not worth it. Takes too long and the game seems to suck anyway (judging from this forum).

BTW: a welcome back weekend just few month after the release... what the... ?!

Originally posted by Die_Scream

I tried to log in, but server was down and i got "account error" before the patching. Oh well, off to play some Civ4 then, heh.

yeah same here Scream  this is bs free weekend my ass this game and company is a joke in it self

Originally posted by Betaboo

Originally posted by bstiff

Originally posted by Betaboo

Originally posted by Permian

Originally posted by KitKat1

WoW.... i see why they need this WB weekend... so badly...

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ATA?countrycode=FR

Atari's stock is in free fall ...! ... Is all this Negative Publicity hitting home !

Looking at the graph on that site Atari's stock peaked at nearly triple what it is now in late September 2009 and then declined to more or less what it is now in December 2009. Was that due to CO or something else?

I was trying to figure that out to and for the life of me cant remember them putting anything big out in the months prior to that date.

 MAYbe the announcement for sto going live in feb?

Possibly but i kind of doubt it that is a large jump and most investors might be rubes but that is a large jump for just the promise of something in the future. I am going to research it a bit and see if i can find out.

 They were delisted off the NASDAQ. Stocks like Atari just move on the news. Highly volatile until they get their act together.

i tried to get a preview of the game over the sto-demo version, but the client is around 20gigabyte's and the downloadspeed is between 0 an 10kb/s! it's just lame and very unprofessional. by the way: who has coded the patcher? a 12 year old? 

Originally posted by brezel

i tried to get a preview of the game over the sto-demo version, but the client is around 20gigabyte's and the downloadspeed is between 0 an 10kb/s! it's just lame and very unprofessional. by the way: who has coded the patcher? a 12 year old? 

 I'm not sure why their patcher is having so many problems this time around with CO and STO. Maybe I am misremembering, but I do not remember CoH/CoV's patcher being this bad.

Originally posted by Dinendae

Originally posted by Darth_Osor

 

As for Atari stock, AFAIK they haven't posted their Q1 numbers yet, so the only thing I can think of is the guy that wanted to sell a million-ish shares of something and it went out as a billion-ish shares and caused the US stock market to plummet 1000 points in 20 minutes.  /shrug

 Actually, it would be their Q4 numbers; Atari's fiscal year (for their last year) ran from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010. So we should be seeing a Q4 financial report and perhaps a yearly financial report soon. Keep in mind that the newest financial reports (and subsequent ones) fall under the new French accounting laws covering financial reports (as referenced in Atari's Q3 and 6 month reports); that may be why they are running a bit late getting them out.

 After looking at the patterns of when Atari's yearly reports are released, we may have to wait until Sep. or Oct. to see how they did. In the meantime here is a link to Atari's latest financial report (9 month): http://corporate.atari.com/MT-3.34-en/mt-static/FCKeditor/UserFiles/File/02152010_PR_FY09_3Q_revenues_GB_final.pdf

I feel like an ass for buying this game... I've still never used my retail key yet lol. And I bought it at launch.

Originally posted by jusomdude

I feel like an ass for buying this game... I've still never used my retail key yet lol. And I bought it at launch.

 Give it another 9 months or so, and there may be enough content to justify using the key.