Not very smart are you.  

Cryptic needs to fail utterly as a company, its’ developers blacklisted forever and condemned to never, ever work again in this industry. Their track record is a disaster, their pathetic and feeble mishandling of one of the most important and iconic IPs of the modern age.  There IS NO feedback massive or negative enough that will get their attention.  They are too far gone.  The recent revelation of how much money they rake in from the stupid and the lockboxes they open informs their plans for the future of the IP.  

While the stupid and the apologists will find some ridiculous reason to defend this company, this revelation makes obvious what’s coming.  This game doesn’t have anything at all to do with the IP, it’s a shameless and (IMO blasphemous) degradation of the IP into a position where it has become unclean.

I’m glad you guys are making a lot of the statements that need to be made.  You need to link this episode all over the internet.  We need to get ST OUT OF CRYPTIC’S HANDS.

They elininated greed in the UFP and nowgreed will kill the continuation of the prime universe. Way to go. I’m not sure PW are solely to blame, Cryptic have been dissapointing from the day 1 launch. I play this game solely because it istar Trek, but I think i’m kidding myself really.

Ultimately what successful game companies have to realize ( and Cryptic I think forgot this long ago in City of Heroes.) is that a successful game is not a sole creation of the developers. every game that has legs and has thrived is a co creation of those who make it ( Devs) and those who play in it. Both are equally responsible for creating the dynamic world and thus dictate if it will thrive. 

Cryptic years ago used to be very responsive to players suggestions. There is a definite line of demarcation that occurred with the development of City of Villans and “Enhancement diversification” 

Note to Cryptic. Your game is becoming less fun to play. I keep a fully equipped shuttle ready to go in my shuttle bay and will never run the Vault event. WHY? because I play games to relax. I play games on my time not yours. Additionally I do not “tour the universe” or “officer reports” nor will i do the mirror universe and or any other stuped gated event…  because I want to do what I want, when I want. 

Perfect World only cares about the cash, nothing else. Maybe STOked should get someone from PW on the show, not Branflakes, but someone else who maybe able to shed some light on the subject. That will never happen, but a word from PW could help settle this.

Also, saw the new post on STO regarding fleet starbases, looks great.

Great show as always, can’t wait for future interviews with the DEVs, if that ever happens again.

I see someone else corrected Mav on the lockbox key prices (the first 250 listings are under 1.5M).
They are a horrible EC return on a 90-100 C-point investment.
The same spent on dilithium will get you over 2M worth of Unreplicatables at this moment.
So if you really want to, you can get 2-for-1 keys.

I dunno if STO is dying but it sure does seem like a wounded animal as of late.  There are only so many times you can run the same STFs over and over again…

Where can I find the rankings for the Foundry Files?

Great episode Chris and Mav! Spot on comments about Perfect World and the lack of devs on the forum. Loving the new talk trek segment, keep it coming:)

Thanks again for saying what everyone is thinking….at this rate STOked will never make the front page of STO.com again

PWE well timed the release of the Season 6 Dev Blog so the old “Pro-Cryptic vs Anti-Cryptic” fights can begin again.

From my pov, it seems like all of this kinds of stuff is solely to distract the playerbase from the real issues by having them fight amongst themselves. 

Wow, that’s a fantastic Talk Trek intro. Cuddo’s to the designer!

I agree completely with Chris and Mav.

Shame STOed is closing, it the only STO based podcast worth listening to. I totally understand why it’s closing, what’s the point having a 1st class video podcast on a 4th rate computer game. The game is becoming a gamblers dream. Gamble if you get Elite STF stuff, gamble if the doff system creates the very rare Reman equipment. Gamble with the locked boxes. The locked boxes is driving me mad! Short trip may might say.  I throw every one away, but still if I’m playing the game and there hasn’t been a drop I think “Where’s the locked box?”

Looks like I’ll have to start listening to TORked, I don’t see me playing STO very much long. Good luck Chris on your other shows, not that you need it.

Only problem with that is you’d need roughly $10million or so to buy the license that Cryptic has from them (so you can also pay CBS its cut) while you keep the servers on so the game runs.

Then, you’d need about $50 million to pay PW back for buying not only STO, but also CO and the other Cryptic games, along with Atari’s debt from launching MMOs…then you should be in the clear.

Not that I’m excusing lockboxes at all…but you can see now how PW planned on making money back for their investment, and the F2P launch.

So, did you get the survey that was e-mailed out? I did get it and responded…and their servers were “down” and couldn’t take my reply.
I had to finally go to the main website to submit it, but it took some doing. If I wasn’t so against the stupid lockbox lottery I wouldn’t have bothered ordinarily.

Did anyone else get the survey from a few weeks ago?

I fear for STO =(

It’s the elephant in the room but I completely agree, and it’s not just STO that’s having trouble with Chinese buyouts (League of Legends has suffered under Tencent’s jurisdiction as well). There’s so much that’s fundamentally wrong with these Chinese megafirms that I wouldn’t know where to start:

* Sheer distance, communication is more difficult; if it exists at all, it’s only online; bureaucratic confusion due to international laws, layers of management;
* Language barrier;* Chinese corps completely disinterested in their games and have zero love for the IPs or the communities (PW even lets you do those spammy internet surveys to grind for generic “Zen points”)
* Chinese side is 110% interested in short term profit by any means possible, they see STO as a portfolio investment to be squeezed when plump and dumped when dry.

I could go on but it’s pretty painful so whatevs. I don’t care how un-PC it is, it’s just the truth.

You finally admit this game sucks. I love it. I value honesty and its what I loved about Jeremy. He was up front and to the point. Now if only you will cover pvp equally with everything else in your show for as long as you continue covering the game YOU will have earned my respect again as a member of your audience who you almost lost. Thank you for being honest, up front, and continuing to show display your passion for the game. The state of this game is one that sucks but that is still around because we all love STAR TREK. NOT CRYPTIC STUDIOS. Thank you.