Now if it wasn’t an MMO, then sure, it could have been lacking, but fact of the matter is, do you spend those 5+ years in constant development trying to make a game as good as or better than WoW, or do you release it, make some money, and improve it? Just so you guys have more understanding, think of it like this.. Those extra 5 years in development trying to make it as good as WoW will never be achieved since those 5 years in development would mean WoW will always have an advantage (they can spend those same 5 years further improving their own game).

So please stop comparing MMO’s against other MMO’s based on their content. Yes STO has bugs and glytches which need to be fixed, but if you want something to be as good as WoW, then go back and kiddie it up with the others and play WoW and only WoW.

If you want something different, then STO is good. But please stop comparing a child MMO to an aged (i refuse to say mature) MMO.

Meaning these game developers know what needs to be done in order to keep the player interested, time after time again we see MMOs come out and the same excuse every time. WOW did not have this. Well listen up, its not about WOW not having it on release date. Its about what people are accustom to and about what your game does NOT have.

Your not going to drive a car that goes 22miles per hour are you? You people seem to forget that the Ford did not have fuel injection when it came out, lets just ride this old tech along and hope it picks up a following. It does not work like this.

Point being is they need to stop bring out games that do now follow or add to what is the standard set. If people keep comparing MMOs to Blizzards WOW then that there is the standard, this is what needs to be done and in order to keep the user’s attention span and need to spend countless or hours of their life on.

Good ideas but not enough thought in all these games. Good ideas but not enough time testing, Good ideas but very impatient companies in wanting to put out a game to make investors happy. Its hard to make a game yes. Its hard to get backing of an idea as well. But when it comes to ideas we need people i think that play games like WOW there to offer more of a diagram of what needs to be done.

And im the one to do that. Ill just charge a few hundred thousand a year thank you

ITG
Your friendly Internet Tough Guy

I must say, I’m a huge fan, and while I’ll admit grinding can be tedious at times (mostly because I was undergeared and had open teaming turned off by mistake), I’m having a blast of a time.

a TRUE Star Trek game would never work as a game. Would you pay money to sit at a conference table and listen to your bridge crews concerns? No. Thats why there is a lot of combat. Sure, it bends the canon a little, but within the story it makes sense, and they have a lot more planed.

So lets not put the nails in the coffin yet till at least 2-3 major patches in. Trust me, if I gave you the release version of WoW, you’d call it crap.

I think you would rather play some sort of Star Trek RPG. That is now how MMOs work. Although there are quests with dialog, I don’t think people want to play a game where an android is searching for his humanity by shacking up with a woman with mental problems (for example).