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why STO will never be verry popular
xargoth2
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I think that star trek online will never be verry popular for the same reason that I do not like lord of the rings online, If you play as a major character in star trek, it destroys the purpose of an mmo, if you play as some random person, it destroys the purpose of star trek. I think that STO would make a great game, but you would never see the events from star trek unfold. and thus it will not be verry popular.
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ROFLMAO
I'm old not dead. (Nov8tr is pronounced innovator)
*crickets*
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
Way to think that one through.
All I have to say is "Huh?"
Bioware should cancel SWTOR then. Unless they allow us to play as Luke Skywalker.
That's good though. If it stays unpopular there will be less spill over of WoW morons to deal with.
" wow morons" <clears throat> I am one
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
I have a sizeable intellect.(11 and a half inches) By most folks standards that know me I can hold my own in any particular topic of conversation. Hell I've even received warning from this hot-bed of intellectualism that is MMORPG.com.
I am more often misunderstood than not.
So I'm going to say regarding this particular post....this is the end of days. We as a species are doomed. Dig a celler gather can goods.........xargoth2 has posted...and will post again....the last seal has been broken.
It's better to lurk in forums and be thought a fool...than to endlessly "Quote" and remove all doubts.
Agreed, let the kiddies stay away in WoW land.
Me too
Just not one of the annoying ones that is.
LOL.....wait.....what???
Me too
Just not one of the annoying ones that is.
i'm not an annoying one either
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
If you want to be someone who builds his reputation among players and stands out in the game, then play a sandbox game.
There is an obvious solution; every single player should be forced to play as Worf.
There are several reasons why STO will never be very popular (except perhaps for a very short time after its initial release). The OP's is definitely not one of them -- one can, in fact, easily disprove the OP's argument by the mere fact LOTRO is a popular game.
If you were any other man I would kill you where you stand!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da8BwV-Zrg0
But you can't play as Thrall.
Surely, not being able to play as Thrall diminishes the experience, just as not being able to play as Kirk would?
IAE, while everything I've read of the game makes me rather disinclined to play it -- it seems to utterly miss what Star Trek is *about*[1], and comes off as a sort of cross between EVE and WoW without actually doing any of the things that make those games great -- "I can't play as Kirk" (Picard/Data/Etc) seems to be one of the absolute weakest objections possible.
However, I have no doubt that it will be trumped. ("I can't be a tribble!"? "The color of the hull plating on the Constellation class is all wrong!"? "Klingon brows have between 4 and 7 ridges, but in the screen shots, I saw a NINE ridged Klingon!"?)
[1]Star Trek is about exploration, discovery, optimism, acknowledging the greatness of humanity while not being blind to its flaws, and bonking alien babes who have giant beehive hairdos. It is NOT about pew pew phaser space battles and "Beam down to Arcturus Four and collect seven space-weasel spleens."
You know... I think my brain just exploded.
*Touches ear* Yea that's blood alright.
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Let me just repeat:
I think that star trek online will never be verry popular for the same reason that I do not like lord of the rings online, If you play as a major character in star trek, it destroys the purpose of an mmo, if you play as some random person, it destroys the purpose of star trek. I think that STO would make a great game, but you would never see the events from star trek unfold. and thus it will not be verry popular.
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Let's see.. you've almost said that all MMOs are destroyed then because if you look at it, your just people in a world... name any MMO and you'll soon discover that you are but a random person in the world.
So.. I can't be a main character as it destroys the MMO, but I can't be a random person because that destroys the MMO... so what am I? Because all the MMOs I've played I've never felt.. destroyed
Let me look at my current character in STO.. he's not the main character, the story isn't revolved around him so if I'm not the main character, I must just be a Captain tossed into the middle of a conflict, so that makes me a random person. But according to the OP, that's not possible as it destroys the purpose of an MMO.
Yea.. my brain exploded due to the amount of stupid I'm getting off that sentence.
Maybe I'm just causing my own brain to explode.. I bet that's right.
yep, these are the finals days of human race indeed
To try to give this thread some purpose, I've never had a problem with playing "around" the main characters in established universes. I've played in, or run, RPGS (tabletop) set in Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Amber, probably one or two others I'm forgetting, and I've never felt I had to play -- or even MEET -- the "stars". Any universe worth making a game from is large enough to support a lot of stories. When Kirk is off fighting Spock to the death, some other starship, somewhere else, is dealing with an invasion of cosmic space weasels or something. When Luke is whining on Tattooine, a group of rebel commandos is liberating an Imperial slave camp on one of the millions of worlds you've never even heard of. Etc, etc, etc. Making your OWN stories in a universe you know and love is what is appealing; replaying the same old stories is not a *playing a game*, it's *rereading a book*. (Which is not to dismiss book reading, but a game is a game and a book is a book, and that's that.)
Are you drunk?
Oh, I am afraid you weren't paying attention then. It's already happened, and we are all just figments of a GMORPG (gigantic). And its bad, but for some reason there are billions of people still playing.
Maybe there will be an update that gets the game back to the idea of the original IP. .. is that what keeps everyone playing?
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Rose-lipped maidens,
Light-foot lads...
i think Cryptic did a good job continuing the Star trek story line it's new but still has the same old Star Trek feel...it's a hell of a lot better then that crap @ss fake story line they made up for the remake / reboot movie last summer...
Not sure that I understand this thread at all. You either don't want everyone to play as an individually created character, or you don't want to play STO as a major (?) character in the game, or you don't want to play because things in the game won't unfold like they do in the series and movies?
Which is it? Because nothing in that statement sounds like it came out the way that you were thinking about it and it was too late to retract it and fix it, although you could have edited your post to fix any errors, if that is the reason for the nonsensical rambling that this has become.
But to whatever effect you intended, I truly believe that STO will do fine without being a ST series/movies simulator, or without being able to play as a faction separate from the Federation/Klingon factions. It has plenty of room for growth and expansion far beyond what is available now. Got my pre-order in and I'm ready to get into the Head Start this weekend, so come what may I will be there at launch and stay with the game come hell or high water.
Star Wars Galaxies was really popular and loved until Sony tried to make SWG like WoW thats when they screwed it up and
got mass cancellations. It started with the Combat Downground and went from there.