Post by Morreion on Feb 5, 2010 10:00:21 GMT -5
Anti-Aliased: A Cryptic opinion (Massively)
A hard look at Cryptic's recent controversial moves in Champions Online and Star Trek Online:
A hard look at Cryptic's recent controversial moves in Champions Online and Star Trek Online:
Surprise! We have a huge patch that we're not going to really test. Surprise! We added two more races to the Cryptic Store without giving you the heads up. Surprise! Vibora Bay requires you to purchase it.
Everything seems last minute when it comes to Cryptic. Nothing is ever eased into slowly... nothing is ever introduced to the player base before it happens. The best move they've made in a while is actually being upfront with Vibora Bay and that it would be a paid content addition. However, even that move was flawed as they told us we'd be paying for Vibora Bay without telling us what would be in it or how big it would be. We don't have any information about the expansion to justify the cost, leaving us to speculate darkly.
The Klingon and Ferengi races are more of the same thing. We weren't informed ahead of time that these two things would be available. They weren't advertised or built up to. Of course the players reacted negatively when these two races went into the C-Store -- no one told them about it. It's not that we don't want to pay for them (three dollars for the Klingon, one dollar for the Ferengi), it's more that we'd rather know about it before it happens.
Everything seems last minute when it comes to Cryptic. Nothing is ever eased into slowly... nothing is ever introduced to the player base before it happens. The best move they've made in a while is actually being upfront with Vibora Bay and that it would be a paid content addition. However, even that move was flawed as they told us we'd be paying for Vibora Bay without telling us what would be in it or how big it would be. We don't have any information about the expansion to justify the cost, leaving us to speculate darkly.
The Klingon and Ferengi races are more of the same thing. We weren't informed ahead of time that these two things would be available. They weren't advertised or built up to. Of course the players reacted negatively when these two races went into the C-Store -- no one told them about it. It's not that we don't want to pay for them (three dollars for the Klingon, one dollar for the Ferengi), it's more that we'd rather know about it before it happens.
