Jack Emmert appointed CEO of Cryptic

@Daemodand

My thoughts exactly. I recently tried CO Free for All, and then even invested $15 to try the custom frameworks... thinking I must be missing something. I wasn't.

It's like City of Heroes was the game they made after Champions Online, learning from their mistakes and creating a solid game. CO just feels like a botched test game. It's almost surreal.

@Zuljundwumn I, for one, enjoy Star Trek Online immensely and feel it is money well spent. I'm sorry that your sanctimonious preconceptions have kept you from enjoying a great game.

@cowboyhugbees
Everyone is entitled to it's own opinion.
I Believed in Champions for a long time (spending LOTS of money on the c-store), before losing faith.
I also tried STO, and in my opinion, it's one of the worst game ever made. Forget the license and look at the game.

Anyway. You like it ? Good for you, honestly. I enjoyed playing Saga frontier on Ps1 even when people were saying the game was crap.
It's not only about the games, it's about the way they act.
For my part, I regret investing all this money for a game company that treat it's customers like**** by delivering half finished games, and makes lifetime subscribers pay for some content that should be free.

When i play lotro f2p, I don't feel swindled.
When I play CO, my wallet feels raped.

And it's also about how they brag about their studio being "prolific", like "we develloped CO in a year !".
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Yeah, right.
The game was a disaster at release.

@Zuljundwumn I won't argue with you about the state of the game at release, because I wasn't there.

But since DStahl has taken over, I can honestly tell you that the devs feel like they are a) listening to the fan base, b) trying to address all problems, and c) incorporating pretty refreshing ideas into the game.

The reason I get pissy when people throw insults at STO specifically is because their complaints are often based off one sour experience at launch or beta - which therefore makes them feel entitled to put down the game relentlessly, regardless of whatever improvements or changes have occurred since then.

Didn't enjoy the game at launch? Fine, you've made your point. But don't go making baseless accusations towards a development team that you haven't experienced in over a year.

@cowboyhugbees
Now you're the one making baseless accusations.
I'm a lifetime subscriber, and I play champions regulary. I wouldn't bother If I didn't paid for it.
I come back for each update, and each time my opinion of cryptic goes down a bit.
Take the demonflame for exemple : Great adventure pack.
but it took them MONTHS to release a scenario that you clean in 2 hours. Ok, they also updated the summoning powers, but for what ? There were no new content to use them in, exept this short mission. Ok, you can do it again and again, but it gets old very quickly.
And months after it's release, there's still shameful bugs in it. Like how you don't get any reward for finishing it half the time (WTF ?? Isn't that the point of playing it once you did it for the first time just to enjoy the scenario ?) or when your face is getting pawned during cut-scenes by mobs.

For Sto, I Tried it.
I REALLY didn't like it. And it had the brand "unfinished, unpolished cryptic game" on it, shining with spotlights. But I still continued. I always think if there's a community on a game, it's for a reason.
But honestly, if there was no Star trek license around this game, nobody would bother to play it.
It has some good ideas, I don't deny it.
But Cryptic people don't know how to make a F****** game.

that's my opinion, based on my experience with Cryptic since CO's lauch.
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Andgiving them credit for CoH isn't all that fair, the game became what it is and started to introduce awsome innovations when Cryptic guys left.

@Yellowdancer

Or at least they shouldn't pat themselves on the back so much for being able to crank out new MMOs and rush them to market when the quality level isn't remotely near "AAA"

@SocksForYou nm must be browser issue

@ScottishViking
Agreed, Champions and Star Trek have lots of neat ideas and potential. But potential and reality are two different things.

@Aganazer

Neverwinter isn't going to be an MMO though, Cryptic already said it's going to be a multiplayer game closer to Diablo or Borderlands. So server architecture won't matter much for this game.

That's also why this site has already said it won't cover Neverwinter's development.

@Aganazer

I am looking forward to Neverwinter, too, although I am doubtful that Cryptic can pull off the rich story, creative characters, and well-crafted world that Neverwinter deserves.

Still, I love that the game will be a CORPG (with optional player grouping and/or the use of henchmen). That kind of setup (yay, Guild Wars!) is really a better fit for me than the (yawn....) traditional MMO/LFG format.