Shields Up!
Last night I finished Mass Effect 2, on which I have a few things to say in a future post. So now it's back to Star Trek Online and the captain of the Starship Hotspur who is currently engaged in a vicious running battle with the Gorn across the Regulus Sector.
I am enjoying this game hugely, though I take on board what Scott Kurtz says in this brief rant:
No game has ever been more ripe for role-playing than Star Trek Online. I’ve played a lot of MMOs, starting back with Ultima Online, moving to Everquest and then WoW. I even tried out Anarchy Online, City of Heroes and Star Wars Galaxies. Never once, did I have a desire to actively role-play inside these manufactured worlds.
But when I log into Star Trek Online, I want to be in Star Trek. And running into Captain Crunch on the U.S.S. Bowlomilk pisses me off. It takes me out of it. It really is the one thing that sucks about the game.
Amen.
Aside from the petty annoyance of folks NOT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY (which I know means I probably deserve whatever I get) there is the more serious gripe of not being able to play the game at all. It's clear the game has bit a hit for Cryptic and Atari and they are desperately trying to catch up on server capacity. It's not problem early in the day (though the servers keep going down for maintainance at lunchtimes in Sweden), but when America goes online late at night the thing grinds to a halt and I suddenly find myself at number 475 in a queue of several hundred or more.
FAIL.
I am enjoying this game hugely, though I take on board what Scott Kurtz says in this brief rant:
No game has ever been more ripe for role-playing than Star Trek Online. I’ve played a lot of MMOs, starting back with Ultima Online, moving to Everquest and then WoW. I even tried out Anarchy Online, City of Heroes and Star Wars Galaxies. Never once, did I have a desire to actively role-play inside these manufactured worlds.
But when I log into Star Trek Online, I want to be in Star Trek. And running into Captain Crunch on the U.S.S. Bowlomilk pisses me off. It takes me out of it. It really is the one thing that sucks about the game.
Amen.
Aside from the petty annoyance of folks NOT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY (which I know means I probably deserve whatever I get) there is the more serious gripe of not being able to play the game at all. It's clear the game has bit a hit for Cryptic and Atari and they are desperately trying to catch up on server capacity. It's not problem early in the day (though the servers keep going down for maintainance at lunchtimes in Sweden), but when America goes online late at night the thing grinds to a halt and I suddenly find myself at number 475 in a queue of several hundred or more.
FAIL.