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STO Winter Event
Rohn
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As with most games, STO will be having a Winter seasonal event againt this year. It builds on the Q inspired event of last year.
http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=772651
Some of the details of the event, like the snowman threat, and "The Fast And the Flurrious" race, are identified here:
http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=774311
The rewards for the event can be found here: http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=775821
Some pretty cool stuff in there.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
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Running the same content for 25 days to get a ship if you want it.... nice. Glad to see Cryptic/PWE doing something to lessen the already enormous grind in the game.
Oh wait...
Yes, it would be far better if everything was gained almost instantly. Instant gratification has been such a successful concept as it regards MMO design.
Oh, wait....
I've seen people complain about STO when things came "too fast", and people complain when things take "too long". It's impossible to please everyone, though there are those that are going to complain no matter what they do, which is just dishonest.
But yes, it's a horrible thing to have people actually have to play the game to earn the new ship. Just horrible. Of course, if they had just put it in the C-Store, people would have bitched about "greed", right?
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
By the way, they added the stats on the Breen Warship, which is one of the things players can earn during the Winter Event:
"The Breen Chel Grett Warship comes with an Energy Dissipator console which fires a targetable Energy Dissipating Blast that causes significant subsystem drain and has a chance to knock a single subsystem offline for a short duration. The Energy Dissipator can be equipped in any console slot on any Breen ship.
NOTE: The above stats are subject to change. The box that the ship comes in, which cannot be opened until the minimum rank listed above, is bound upon pickup."
http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=777921
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Never said anything of the sort. What I (and most all others who point out this very same issue) do object to is the mind numbing, repetitive grind of stupidly trivial things and idiotic content block timers, like running the silly winter race once a day for 25 days. That is a complete lack of imagination and a recycling of what has been done already.
What would be nice? Episodic story content for a (still after nearly 3 years) content starved game. Give the ship as a reward for an actual Star Trek mission instead of Q pretends to be Santa while standing there next to Ferengi Yoda and his lightsabers. This is, yet again, another fine example of the lack of care and creativity going into all Cryptic games.
No, it is not horrible for people to play the game. What is horrible is the lack of anything meaningful to do. What we are given is silly, boring, repetitive and unimaginative. I do give them kudos for not actually inventing yet another lockbox. for it.
I would not have. The C-Store is for those who want to go the instant gratification route. Those who did not want to plunk down the cash for it could always spam the space bar until their eyes bleed doing the same repetitive content over and over until they earned it in game.
I hate grinding, don't like Breen, and if I see Q I feel the urge to smack him all around in his winter wonderland
But
that ship really looks great... maybe I'll try some ice skating this weekend to check the magnitude of needed grind. At least there are no new lockboxes introduced for the winter.
Answers in red.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Hey if you want to defend the practice of recycling old content over and over, more power to you. You will find even the most hard core defenders of the game crying boredom and remarking about the reptetive grind on the official forums.
While it may be true some feel episodic content provides poor ROI, what you have here in STO is the polar opposite. Here, Cryptic/PWE has gone out of their way of crapping lockbox after lockbox after lockbox to generate more money while letting the content suffer.
While they haven't created more Klingon-specific content, the content they have created with the Seasons is playable by both Feds and Klinks. In that sense, it's a lot more than what's been put in the C-Store.
Klingons have access to the Winter Event content, just as they can build starbases, use the personal advancement system, the DOFF system, etc.
Again, I'm not a big fan of lockboxes in any game, but I'm also not a fan of people telling others what they can do with their money. It's funny that people are going all Carrie Nation on them.
Then again, the Winter Event doesn't add a lockbox to the game. It's playable content.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Adding re-skinned "universal" missions does nothing to advance the story of the Klingon faction, nor does it by any stretch of the imagination double the content that did get put into the game. It is nothing more than laziness to avoid truly fleshing out the Klingon story.
It's interesting to note that critics repeatedly bring up lockboxes, and have been trying to sell the idea that "the only content Cryptic makes are lockboxes or items for the C-Store.
Yet, the Winter Event, with the additional content added to last year's, does not come in a lockbox, nor is it sold in the C-Store. It's free and accessible to all players. The Breen Warship is also free and earnable by all players - no lockbox, no C-Store.
This is just one small example that points out the dishonesty of the message commonly found here.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
How do you figure? And who is being dishonest? Please link to any post you can find here where I expressly state "Cryptic makes absolutely NO CONTENT at all OTHER THAN lockboxes or C-Store items." No amount of fairy dust sprinkling or wishful thinking is going to make such a post magically appear.
The winter event is ok, but it is mostly a rehash of what was done for the past 2 years. Honestly, it adds little more than a few minutes of grind to an already grind saturated game.
"Grind" is in the eye of the beholder.
I'll take long-term systems over instant gratification every day of the week.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
It's a seasonal event that's actually pretty easy to do, and gives players another thing to do in the game.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
This. 100% this.
You neglected to mention that it is 25 runs per character you would want the ship rewardfor. So if you have half a dozen characters you want the reward for, that is 6 x (5 x 25) = 750 minutes which equals 12 1/2 hours of the same menial task over and over again. At what point does it become boring?
Sure, if you want to run the race a couple of times it is ok, but if you want to do it for the reward on several characters - as most all people I know do - this is a mind numbing, repetitive grind and utterly boring. But it is to be expected since repetitive, boring tasks are the Cryptic/PWE idea of "long term systems".
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The winter event has plenty of content that is not lockboxes, but it strongly pushes them anyway.
Consider: to get the xmas trinkets (bells, candles,etc) that can be turned in for rewards, you can 1. dig in snowball piles (very low chance) 2. kill snowmen every 30 minutes. Both of these methods are very slow.
Or, you can get them much more efficiently using lobu crystals, which come from lockboxes.
BTW, best rewards are snow guns and frosted boots
Funniest thing I've seen here is a while.
So, to make the "hellish" grind actually sound bad, you ran the numbers for 6 characters. Hey, why not run it for 100 characters - that would make it sound even worse.... LOL
From start to finish - taking the mission, talking to the race official, running the race, and turning it in - the entire process takes less than two and a half minutes to complete.
That means the "arduous" grind for a character to earn the ship would take about an hour total time, spread out over 25 days. Yeah, that's a horrible grind....
In the realm of grind in MMOs, that's nothing. It's actually really easy. Again, the "grind" is blown completely out of proportion.
The instant gratification mentality has just been KILLING the MMO genre.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Nowhere near as funny (or more accurately, sad) as the blind faith and loyalty of the Cryptic/PWE supporter. It is truly sad to see folks out there who take any scrap of what can barely be called "content" and cry "more please!"
Yes, I did. I happen to have 4 Federation VA's and 2 Klingon LGs. I am most certainly not the only person with several alts as I know several people myself who have even more than that. Guess what? It is still a boring, repetitive task, even with just 1 character. Fairy dust and wishful thinking does not change that.
You seem to be missing the whole point. Repetition = boring.
I am still waiting on you showing a post I made where I expressly said otherwise. Ignoring what many have asked for - EPISODIC CONTENT - instead of silly snowball fights and races is not going to make it go away. Add these kinds of things as EPISODE/QUEST rewards, not rewards for how long you can sit in front of a computer pressing W A S D until your eyes bleed.
Doing anything in any MMO with 6 different characters is going to be repetitive. Good lord.
Doing the same story content six different times would also get repetitive.
The fact remains that getting the ship isn't a grind, especially when compared to grinds in other games. It's actually pretty easy. The "grind" is exaggerated.
That some players would do it with 6 different characters demonstrates that's it's not that hard, and that the goal is worth acheiving.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
<facepalm>....
Story content where there are numerous places to go, things to do and NPCs to talk to is preferable to running a silly, childish and lazily developed recycled content race.
The BOREDOM and TEDIOUSNESS are not exaggerated. Nice try though.
More likely it demonstrates stupidity. Again, some people will ask for "more please! more!" from whatever scraps they are tossed.
Still waiting on you to find that post.
Going to the same places, doing the same things, talking to the same NPCs. Story, done six different times, is just as tedious and repetitive as anything else.
Getting the ship is actually pretty easy. About an hour total time for a single character. Not really a "grind".
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Actually, no it isn't. Have you played any of the FE's at all?
No one said otherwise. People have said it is tedious, repetitive, boring and silly, which happens to be true. Nice try though.
I am not sure. I would bet it will be in a Breen Lockbox though. Cryptic/PWE will make way more money on it being in a lockbox vs. just adding the ship to the C-Store. Why charge 1,000+ ZEN for a ship when they can sucker people into spending 10,000 ZEN (ormore) on lockboxes for the chance to get the ship?