Star Trek Online: Major Update "Season 1: Common Ground" Announced

MikeB

That unnamed update that's slated to release somewhere between March 18th and March 31st on the Star Trek Online Release Calendar? Yeah. It's got a name now.

IGN is reporting on the announcement of Season 1: Common Ground, Star Trek Online's first major content update. Common Ground will include: a trio of Lifetime Subscriber bonuses, Federation vs. Federation PvP, a new ground PvP scenario, new character customization options including off-duty uniforms, new Klingon ships and Klingon ship customization options, new fleet actions, new skills, and additions to the C-Store including new bridge and Federation ship variants.

Phew! 

Get the full details over at IGN.

[Thanks Thorgrimm for the tip!]

Xondar123

Looks like they're adding a few kernels of corn and various other nuggets to the steaming turd.

Also adding stuff to the cash shop before the game is even complete? Bad form, especially since one of the promised updates was more bridge interiors, in my opinion. I wonder if the STO official forums will melt down again? Maybe that's why they announced it on a Friday, so they wouldn't have to deal with it again until Monday.

EricDanie

 Wow, bridges at the C-Store.

Frostbite05

 untill they fix  the ground combat and make it play like something that isn't at the end of the alpha stage I won't be happy.

rygar218

All Fluff. Need alot more add-ons.

Drdoc

If MO ships in its current state STO won't look so bad.

erictlewis

Im still going to wait at least 6 more months,  then maybe try it again.  It was a pos in beta.  Probably still is.

storm-dragon

So they are giving you new Bridges that you can "buy"..yet they haven't fixed these jokes yet?

Perspective is still way retarded Huge ass warehouse sized Bridges with doors that  Giaganto people can walkthrough ( and the excuse given why this was so was so much Bullshit)  You stil can't sit in your own Bridge chair without jumping on top of it and doing a lame ass emote.

I won't get into the other BS about the captians tables etc...Oh gee thank you loyal customer for not doing a chargeback on your lifetime sub!!!

Geeze so much fail.

wgc01

nice update, the game has come along way, still has a long way to go, but like any new mmo, has it's first year growing pains, nothing new in the mmo world, I have seen it time and time again in new mmo's over the last 10 years of play..:)

Xondar123

Originally posted by wgc01


nice update, the game has come along way, still has a long way to go, but like any new mmo, has it's first year growing pains, nothing new in the mmo world, I have seen it time and time again in new mmo's over the last 10 years of play..:)

 

Have you also seen most new MMOs lose over half their subscribers in a single month too?

stevekr21

 In my opinion, this update and game are totatly worthless, their is hardly anything to do for endgame, no crafting to speak of (unless you count memory alpha as a makeshift *upgrade* station) and thirdly, the PVP is so unbalanced. Im glad i didnt get a lifetime sub to this garbage of an MMO...

 

Sorry i meant a single player online instanced piece of garbage....

shr4pnel

this game is NOT an MMO! stop posting this here!!

CujoSWAoA

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by wgc01


nice update, the game has come along way, still has a long way to go, but like any new mmo, has it's first year growing pains, nothing new in the mmo world, I have seen it time and time again in new mmo's over the last 10 years of play..:)

 

Have you also seen most new MMOs lose over half their subscribers in a single month too?

 

Actually, yes. I see that with every MMO that launches it seems like.

oobe

Craptic Studios, I hope someone nukes em

Xondar123

Originally posted by CujoSWAoA

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by wgc01


nice update, the game has come along way, still has a long way to go, but like any new mmo, has it's first year growing pains, nothing new in the mmo world, I have seen it time and time again in new mmo's over the last 10 years of play..:)

 

Have you also seen most new MMOs lose over half their subscribers in a single month too?

 

Actually, yes. I see that with every MMO that launches it seems like.

 

I've not seen it unless the game was major fail (to coin a phrase.)

TwwIX

"major content update"

 

What content? C Store crap doesn't qualify as content.

 

Better start revamping the ground combat and adding some real content to the Klingon side or you will lose me as a subscriber too.

pmaura

so no  klingon pve as promised. subscrition cancelled.

hidden1

Originally posted by Drdoc


If MO ships in its current state STO won't look so bad.

 

lol

erictlewis

All I can say is adding stuff to the Cstore, we can see what they are really up too.  More nickle and dime you to death.  Sure it might be cheep, but my gosh your paying a monthly fee. 

Cash grab central is what it should be called.   

No thank you cryptic, you have earned the title "We love our Customers Wallet"

 

jaxsundane

Originally posted by wgc01


nice update, the game has come along way, still has a long way to go, but like any new mmo, has it's first year growing pains, nothing new in the mmo world, I have seen it time and time again in new mmo's over the last 10 years of play..:)

 

Honestly STO is the only mmo I sub to right now and will be probably until SWTOR releases but "the game has come along way."?  You really think that, I mean I can't think of a single thing that's in the game now that wasn't there at closed beta, not a single thing and that is disappointing to me because as fast as they put this game out I would have expected about the season 1 update worth of content to have been released already and that's not even taking into consideration that I find the season 1 update to be pretty underwhelming anyway.

The further and further along we go is the more convinced I become that Cryptic will not be able to turn this game into a better than decent mmo.

And another poster mentioned they waited til Friday to post this info, they always post new info on Fridays as far as I've noticed, nothing new here.

jaxsundane

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by wgc01


nice update, the game has come along way, still has a long way to go, but like any new mmo, has it's first year growing pains, nothing new in the mmo world, I have seen it time and time again in new mmo's over the last 10 years of play..:)

 

Have you also seen most new MMOs lose over half their subscribers in a single month too?

 

Hmm I've heard this mentioned a few times and my question is where is the info on sub numbers for STO to be found?  desenters have said this once or twice but I would like to know how people are coming about these numbers especially for a game designed like STO is it is simply not very easy to even try to see how many people are online at the same time since the server is so broken up into those instances.

Krelian

Originally posted by TwwIX


"major content update"
 
What content? C Store crap doesn't qualify as content.
 
Better start revamping the ground combat and adding some real content to the Klingon side or you will lose me as a subscriber too.

Yeah, i PERSONALLY really like Star Trek Online,

BUT  just as you pointed out: ''C Store crap doesn't qualify as content''.

Even i can't argue with that.......:D

Xondar123

Originally posted by jaxsundane

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by wgc01


nice update, the game has come along way, still has a long way to go, but like any new mmo, has it's first year growing pains, nothing new in the mmo world, I have seen it time and time again in new mmo's over the last 10 years of play..:)

 

Have you also seen most new MMOs lose over half their subscribers in a single month too?

 

Hmm I've heard this mentioned a few times and my question is where is the info on sub numbers for STO to be found?  desenters have said this once or twice but I would like to know how people are coming about these numbers especially for a game designed like STO is it is simply not very easy to even try to see how many people are online at the same time since the server is so broken up into those instances.

 

The only real subscription number I have access to is the XFire numbers: www.xfire.com/games/sto/Star_Trek_Online/. First of all, I know they can't be completely accurate, I know they are a very rough estimate, I know there are probably problems with using these numbers as a yardstick, but I do think they can be seen as an accurate measure of what the general interest in any game really is.

Remember when Atari released that press statement soon after STO came out saying there were one million Cryptic accounts? It turned out this was supposed to make people think STO was doing quite well, but it turned out there were simply one million accounts created for Cryptic's websites, STO and Champions Online, and anyone could make an account, it didn't mean they ever gave a dime to Cryptic. Some people assumed this meant they had sold one million STO boxes, or that there were one million people playing STO. But if that was true, why wouldn't Atari simply say "one million STO boxes sold!" or "one million subscribers!" instead of the "Cryptic accounts" subterfuge? Well, Age of Conan did claim one million boxes sold in the first month of release and they made it to #4 on XFire, whereas Atari could make no concrete claim and STO only made it up to #19 on XFire.

Further, in the past week we've seen STO's numbers drop like a rock. Whereas most games hold steady with a cycle of players that looks kind of like a heartbeat monitor, STO's chart looks like the patient will soon be dead. It has dropped to #51 yesterday, and climbed a tiny bit to #48 today. By contrast, Age of Conan was at #55 recently and has been out for nearly two years!

If the XFire numbers are any indication of the real subscriber base, then STO is doing worse than two year old games and has dropped more than half its subscribers in a single month.

artemisentr4

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by jaxsundane

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by wgc01


nice update, the game has come along way, still has a long way to go, but like any new mmo, has it's first year growing pains, nothing new in the mmo world, I have seen it time and time again in new mmo's over the last 10 years of play..:)

 

Have you also seen most new MMOs lose over half their subscribers in a single month too?

 

Hmm I've heard this mentioned a few times and my question is where is the info on sub numbers for STO to be found?  desenters have said this once or twice but I would like to know how people are coming about these numbers especially for a game designed like STO is it is simply not very easy to even try to see how many people are online at the same time since the server is so broken up into those instances.

 

The only real subscription number I have access to is the XFire numbers: www.xfire.com/games/sto/Star_Trek_Online/. First of all, I know they can't be completely accurate, I know they are a very rough estimate, I know there are probably problems with using these numbers as a yardstick, but I do think they can be seen as an accurate measure of what the general interest in any game really is.

Remember when Atari released that press statement soon after STO came out saying there were one million Cryptic accounts? It turned out this was supposed to make people think STO was doing quite well, but it turned out there were simply one million accounts created for Cryptic's websites, STO and Champions Online, and anyone could make an account, it didn't mean they ever gave a dime to Cryptic. Some people assumed this meant they had sold one million STO boxes, or that there were one million people playing STO. But if that was true, why wouldn't Atari simply say "one million STO boxes sold!" or "one million subscribers!" instead of the "Cryptic accounts" subterfuge? Well, Age of Conan did claim one million boxes sold in the first month of release and they made it to #4 on XFire, whereas Atari could make no concrete claim and STO only made it up to #19 on XFire.

Further, in the past week we've seen STO's numbers drop like a rock. Whereas most games hold steady with a cycle of players that looks kind of like a heartbeat monitor, STO's chart looks like the patient will soon be dead. It has dropped to #51 yesterday, and climbed a tiny bit to #48 today. By contrast, Age of Conan was at #55 recently and has been out for nearly two years!

If the XFire numbers are any indication of the real subscriber base, then STO is doing worse than two year old games and has dropped more than half its subscribers in a single month.

 

That makes sense with the type of game STO turned out to be. It is really only designed for one type of player. That is the casual player. I am not talking about the 2 to 3 hours a day casual. That is still 14 to 21 hours a week. I am talking about the 7 to 10 hours a week player. That type of player will not be at end game for two months after launch.

STO is a niche game just like EVE, Darkfall and MO if it ever launches. It is just the other side of the spectrum. That is the casual, not the FFA PvP player.

I believe Cryptic just underestimated how man hours players play per day. Even many players that call themselves casual hit RA5 in the first month. A lack of any alternate game play at all killed the subs. Cryptic sees this now and are increasing the number of posts on the forums and taking a lot of the imput from players for future content. I just don't see that making a difference till after July when the will add ship interiors, non-combat missions,diplomacy and a revamp of crafting.

Elronir

So this is the miracle patch? glad I canceled after the first month. Last lotro book update had more contents than this.

jaxsundane

Originally posted by Elronir


So this is the miracle patch? glad I canceled after the first month. Last lotro book update had more contents than this.

 

Yeah my thoughts exactly and why my opinion has moved towards Cryptic not having a clue how to make this any more than a quarter slot arcade game (like they seem so convinced the world wants).  I think the biggest problem with Cryptic is the overall philosophy they have on games, they seem to think there is a market to pay for mmo's with a simple arcade design to them and it's hard to understand what even gives them this impression, where are the legions of people begging for a game that plays like Street Fighter the arcade game?

Truth be told without a change in management I don't think this game will make it out of it's niche, which I might add is not even a niche that most peeople interested in Star Trek even want to be in......