Hi, remember me? The jerk you banned from the official forums? Thats right, I said jerk. And its true, I've been a real jerk over the years since launch. Why? Well, there are any number of explanations I could throw at you; immaturity, boredom, taking a video game too seriously. But none of those are actual excuses.

Looking back over the past 3 years, I realize that I wasted a ton of time trolling the forums and arguing about nonsense. And I just wanted to say that I'm sorry. This game has come such a long way since launch, and its all thanks to your hard work. Now its actually getting an expansion!

I realize you might not even see this, but I cant post it on the official forums so I wanted to say it somewhere. The truth is, this game is one of the things I enjoy most, and I just want to say thank you for making it and for all of the time and effort you put into it. And sorry for being such a big jerk!

PS: if someone from the official forums happens to read this, feel free to link it, because I do actually want the devs to see it =P

Originally posted by Talonsin

Sure hope you can buy the expansion from the c-store.  Maybe then all of us lifers who dont play this game can finally have somehting to spend the free points on.

 

 

Sorry to burst your buble but its going to be free =P

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=8703331#post8703331

But I'm sure there will be lots of new costumes and ships.

Originally posted by saltyd

I'm no fan of the way Cryptic does business.  However, to be fair, I pretty sure they have very little say over pricing anymore now that they are owned by Perfect World.

It makes no difference who sets the price; overpriced is still overpriced.

Originally posted by niceguy3978

You mean, even subscribers have to go through the cs to get these?  Wow.

Subs get a stipend, so they can save that up to buy whatever they want.

Originally posted by adam_nox
Surprised there's no housing, you'd think with the foundry in place, much of the same technology could be employed to design your own place. 

You can design your own place, but it will simply be a foundry mission and not technically "player housing". So you could use it for RP and such, but its not like you would be able to store items there.

Originally posted by JeroKane

It's a good solid game, with a very loyal playerbase.

 

Juding from your avatar, I'm guessing you are one of those loyal players. If so, how is what you said different from what any loyal player will say about the game they play?

Here are the foundry videos on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_7WgszhNN4

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

Call me crazy, but I have a feeling this was the plan ALL ALONG! What? Why? Think about it. The market has been shifting towards F2P for some time now. EA had to know this. LA had to know this. Bioware had to know this. Next, TOR had a huge development budget. My guess is that even before launch the plan was to launch as a P2P game to get as much money as they could from box sales and subs, then change to a F2P model.

The original influx of income could possibly pay off the game's development cost, leaving all F2P revenues as pure profit. Pretty sneaky!

Originally posted by laserit

It comes with some things in life really...

Things that were frowned upon in the past, are accepted and everyday in the future. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not.

Fixed for you. Certain things have been condemned throughout human history, and some things that were actually approved of in the past are now condemned.

I would give space combat in STO an "A" and ground combat a "C" in terms of fun. That said, since the game is now F2P I would highly recommend trying it for yourself rather than letting other people shape your opinion for you.

Believe it or not, this actually one of the most *fun* games I have played. Mainly because both the ship and ground combat are both very fun, and there are some really great mini-games. The problem is, as you stated, the free option is very limited in comparison with modern F2P hybrid games and I dont like it enough to actually sub. If they adopted the same kind of content model as games like STO and Champs, where you could play all of the missionf or free but there were a lot of items in the game store you would want, I'd still be playing now.

I'm holding out for either a space expansion or full F2P; whichever comes first  =P

I'm waiting for F2P  :D

Originally posted by MMOGamer71

Nice PR move.

 

Not sure how people that paid for a lifetime subscription = qualified for Beta testing.  Sounds like another Beta test being used for a game demo.

Its probably just a matter of wanting people to play through the game and find what isnt working.

We've all heard the rumors about TOR going F2P. But how do you think it would actually WORK in TOR? What parts of the game would be free and what parts would have to be purchased?

Originally posted by Sameer1979

Originally posted by PyscoJuggalo

My case with SWG was revenge and I am proud I am one of the thousands who helped SWG:NGE become one of the biggest failures in MMORPG history.

 

Other cases, I guess with newer games, is because the games are crap that is being proped up with BS marketing and gimmicks and the people who bought into it feel ripped off.

The game lasted for 8 years guess you guys didn't try hard enough. If you really wanted it to become biggest failure of MMO industry you should have helped it die as soon as NGE was released. SWG had it run and died natural death, don't pat your back for it.

Its hard to even call it natural, since it was right before the launch of TOR and fairly obvious that LA didnt want 2 SW MMOs running at the same time. Your point is valid though; the game lasted much longer post NGE than pre, so the people warring against it must have been doing something wrong. In fact I'll wager that it would still be going now if TOR hadnt come out.