New contest from Star Trek Online: Name That Ship

just like every other MMO coming up next year or the MMOs released in this year, yeah? like Warhammer Online, Age of Conan, Aion, Champions Online... no! they are still ONLINE and kickin' STO, SW:TOR will be awesome too, there will be problems, and there will be haters and lovers too, thats the way of it, but calling everything "fail" is just stupid like hell

You could always sign up and name it the "Failboat".

Hey, I'm just saying, I've heard this game is not shaping up well, and the announcement that the Klingon faction is going to be PvP only is a serious, serious disappointment. The loss of player crews has a lot of people annoyed, as well. Furthermore, Cryptic's version of Star Trek Online will not have had a very long development cycle compared to most other MMOs.

Champions Online also did not live up to mosts peoples' expectations. I know I was very let down by it. I would love it if Star Trek Online surprised me and became an excellent game, but pretty much all reports point to it being a stinker. It seems that Atari is bleeding money and is looking to get the game out early to stop the flow outward, and it's believed that Cryptic is just interested in proving that their engine can crank games out quickly, and are not interested in making quality games.

I'm not saying the game is going to die and cease to be, I'm merely saying that it I don't think it'll be very good. I would be surprised, in fact, if they pulled the plug on it; that's fairly rare, even for a very sparsely populated MMO. As long as it gets a ton of money initially, it'll be around forever, and I've no doubt that STO will get a lot of players, initially.

People talk about Warhammer Online and Age of Conan as counterexamples whenever someone brings up "MMOs that have failed", but that's stupid; Warhammer Online and Age of Conan DID fail. They sold over a million boxes initially, and now they're sitting at probably 150,000 or fewer subscribers. Warhammer just merged severs again, and now there are only four. Both games will probably be around for a while, but they are, in the end, failures. I say this as someone who really likes Warhammer Online.

So, TL;DR: Warhammer and Age of Conan were failures, failure does not mean the game ceases to exist, and Star Trek Online, from all reports, is not what people were hoping for and is not all its cracked up to be.

I'll agree with you, though, that so far, The Old Republic looks fantastic. Let's hope it lives up to expectations.

Player crews is a ridiculous idea. I'm sorry, I still haven't figured out how that could be even remotely playable in an MMO setting.

it always sucks that money plays too much of a role in developing products. It's stupid, in fact, when better product = more money in the long run, plus PR. But it a fact. I'm willing to support the attempt, at least. And I'll stick with it.

The Klingon thing is NOT as bad as everyone is making it. It's a good idea, and they plan to add more PVE content after launch - when they'll have time/money - but Klingons makes sense as PVP focused.

TOR isn't an MMO. It's MSO. Geez. At least from all I've heard. TOR looks worse than STO, frankly. Though I have no doubt that TOR will get more subscriptions. People would rather play alone, it seems. (where's the community, people?). It just doesn't make sense to me. I don't want to be a hero in an MMO. I don't want to have my own individual character, and my own individual story. That's what I play single player games for, I play MMO's to play with people. Hopefully strangers.

Too late then Kdolo, cause I've already committed the most intense Sakura Park joke!


I've submitted for each of the three ship classes, the name "Sakura"!