Star Trek Online Will Be A Flop

The game hasn’t even officially launched yet. As of this writing its in “head start” phase for people that pre-ordered. However the game has been down more than its been up. Overall STO performed better when it was in Open Beta than it does right now. Not to mention the login que. That’s right. The game is only available for people that pre-order it, and there is already a huge login que. Some people have been in que for 2 hours with only slight movement.

Below are a few posts from the STO General Gameplay Feedback Forum:

“Every MMO has extensive downtime”?, no **** sherlock, its part of the MMO parody that the servers go down alot in the first few days/weeks, we get that so dont use it as a arguement. What we dont get is a veteran MMO company like Crypic screwing the pooch on a liscence that they KNEW was going to generate alot of players.

If they had even considered for one micron of a second of the number of players, fans or not, who would scramble to this game for whatever reason, they’d be ready for it.

And before you open your mouth about me being some kid, or someone with no experience off MMO’s out, or the lovely insults you’ve thrown at people who dont agree with you, here is some reading for you..

I am a veteran of Dark Ages, Star Wars Galaxies, City Of Heros, World of Warcraft and Age of Conan, i took part in the Closed Beta and Open Beta on Galaxies AND Age of Conan and the early start on Star Wars Galaxies (given to Closed Beta testers for the hell we went through) and Age of Conan.

NONE of these games had the lackluster start that Star Trek Online has had, in Beta for Galaxies we went down for 2 months!, when it came back it was running smoother, still had its issues. Conan was the same, come early start for Galaxies, servers were up 20 hours a day with 4 hours of downtime, Conan was the same after a single day of stop-starts.

Come release for Conan there were issues with server loads, these were fixed in EARLY ACCESS within a day. World of Warcraft had a week of issues due to it being the first MMO title for that developer.

In Star Trek Online, we’ve had server issues, crashes and downtime during the open beta (and i am sure during the closed beta), but the big difference is that the other titles didnt have as many massive issues as this game has got, so close to store release…This is unacceptable for a veteran MMO developer like Cryptic.

We’re officially (by date) only 3 days into the early start program, and already things have gone from bad to worse when it comes to the servers stability.

Are people angry about that? You bet your backside they are.

Are people angry at the lack of communication from the Developers/Mods? You bet your backside they are!

And are people sick and tired of folks like you putting them down for sharing they’re opinions and feeling?

You bet your backside they are!

Alot of folks here have pre-paid for a product that isnt ready for launch, no matter which way you slice it people have the right to be angry. Those who’ve paid for lifetime subscriptions to this game want to to work, those who’ve paid for twelve month subscriptions want it to work, and those who have paid just for the game itself want it to work…

The only things we dont want are to be left in the dark about the current state of the game….and to be told by people that “all MMO’s are like this” when clearly, many have not been.

Thats all from this tired old man, sick of little kids telling others what to think and do….

And another…

Where do you see STO in one month ?

I see me at position 600 in the queue from 1000 if I am being optimistic.

I see crashes daily with nothing but streams of complaints in the forums.

I see a steady decline of players over the next 30 days and then a sudden drop

I see the servers eventually finding a balance point where enough people have left that it remains stable

I see the server and game shutting because Cryptic pull the plug due to lack of subscribers

Finally, I see the death of any chance of an STO MMO being made for several years.

And another…

I have tried to be optimistic about everything. Now I am just ****ED.
If any other business was run the way Cryptic is running this games launch, heads would roll, and roll fast.

I mean the most basic of failures, both in open beta and headstart. Its not bugs we are dealing with, its not enough server capacity. I mean come the FRAK on.

Here I am hoping to spend all weekend trying to make Lt. Cmdr. before everyone logs in on Tuesday, and I have gotten to play all of 8 hours since Friday.

And now this Queue horse$***. WTFrak. Moved ten spots in 20 mintues. After I had gotten in when servers went back up, just to be booted again 20 minutes later, then in and out 20 minutes later again.

I know this i one of a hundred such posts but the people at cryptic really need to be replaced. Sorry, but its true.