How satisfied are you with the game over the festive period?

Bri

MiT Sanoa

Satisfied

I did not expect anything and we got little. I expect CD to be awesome though. Adira alone won't do.

Myimaginary

Satisfied

I wasn't really expecting much as I expect we'll have things to look forward to for CD. There could have been more sales although I am happy to save my money for other things. We all got a nice package for NYE and they threw in a few gold citations in LTOs.

Phil Wilce

Underwhelmed. We didn’t get an honour sale, crew slots, crew giveaway etc

Underwhelmed: Sadly between the Community Rewards glitch, not to mention unrealistic Community Reward goals, all set during the NYE weekend, i personally feel a little let down. I would love to know how STT came up with the calculation to achieve the 10 billion mark...would have been better if they had provided players with a convergence day Quark and not the 2, 3, 4, 10 etc pulls. Also, the Klingon Quark as a reward is a bit stingy seeing as he has been available for pulls for ages, not to mention being available on voyages too.

PavelH

Underwhelmed. We didn’t get an honour sale, crew slots, crew giveaway etc

Last year we had about 100k honor giveaway (granted after some people had a bug). This year we got I think a voyage token and 2k honor. Not even a purple citation. I was hoping we get an annual citation/annual temp achievements for Xmas but it didn't pan out.

Sulu's Husband

I am sure the tone of comments on this thread will get it closed.

robownage

Underwhelmed. We didn’t get an honour sale, crew slots, crew giveaway etc

Phil Wilce wrote: »

Underwhelmed: Sadly between the Community Rewards glitch, not to mention unrealistic Community Reward goals, all set during the NYE weekend, i personally feel a little let down. I would love to know how STT came up with the calculation to achieve the 10 billion mark...would have been better if they had provided players with a convergence day Quark and not the 2, 3, 4, 10 etc pulls. Also, the Klingon Quark as a reward is a bit stingy seeing as he has been available for pulls for ages, not to mention being available on voyages too.

I think CD Quark instead of Klingon Quark is the perfect solution here. He's the very definition of a decrepit legendary, but it still would've felt much more special.

Finn SC

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

The thresholds in that rerun are insulting. I don't expect much, but this feels like an active effort to irk the player base.

LongbowGunnerE

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

Annoyed is an understatement. TP has no love for the game at all. Feeling sorry for the old DB guys that have to work for TP now.

'Just a card collecting game' was't that the TP statement ?

Been playing since the start, and saw the game plummet down since DB was bought.
Very disappointed.
Therefore I will not invest in the game anymore.

W.W. Carlisle

I liked the portal deals. Did the 4 ten packs and did well.
I did expect more, but then I thought about the lead up to CD. We are really still in the middle of the holidays with CD factored in. If we get a really good CD, I can overlook anything in 2020.

Kanon

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

Very underwhelmed. The only thing that I see as rewards in this event is CD Quark (this would be my first chance to get it) and the premium 10x pull (the event pulls mean very little to me, as I don't have any faith I could get another star for COP Picard, the only useful thing I could get)
I imagine many are in the same situation, so lack of participation is to be expected (making the community goals ridiculous)
So, if I put the regular effort, I get the 10x pull and another voyage token...

COP Picard should have been in the threshold rewards, that would have made people try a little (everyone could get one, many that already have it would be happe to add a star)

Bylo Band

Satisfied

I'm torn.

On one hand I very much believe that there are very good days ahead in our immediate future that I would consider part of the holiday season "festivities" so I'd be tempted to vote "Generally Pleased"...

...but on the other hand, I've been sitting on a slightly elevated "entertainment" budget for several weeks just waiting for a good LTO with some packs (the portal just updated, sell us packs for real!) or dilithium deals and frustrated with what has come along thus far so I am also tempted to vote "Underwhelmed. etc etc."

Therefore, I broke the tie by voting "Satisfied", with the understanding that in the coming week or so I could slide either direction, depending on what transpires.

Prof. KakkoiiLady

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

Very uneventful. Very Ho hum.... very business as usual... here is a bombardment of offers please give us your money. But like we won’t discount much if anything at all.... oh and the current event I’m not sure we screwed you all good enough, we are open to suggestions on how to make it worse and more boring for you all. Please inbox us.

[Deleted User]

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

I am a player that has been around since the beginning. For five years I have had my timers set, logged in several times a day, did all the ad warps, competed in the top 1000 during the weekly events etc.

Now I am logging in twice a day to complete the dailies. I haven't competed in an event for three weeks.

I'm not starting one of those, 'look, I'm quitting threads' because I'm not, yet. But I spend more time on this forum these days, looking for a modicum of hope that will respark my interest. It's a very sad, slow death, imho, of a game I loved - not because they aren't giving free stuff or wishing us a Merry Christmas, but because they've stopped developing it. There is no game anymore, just a card collecting app that they could shut down at anytime and take our hard earned cards from us. Uninspired events that look like they are done using a colour by numbers {insert new weekly card} program - and they even struggle to put the correct name into the brackets anymore (Culber recently). That is not the game I started playing five years ago and in which I invested alot of time and money.

Ishmael Marx

Satisfied

I'm satisfied in part because my personal goals don't necessarily require the company to do anything special for me. They did a few nice things, and clearly missed on some other things, so I can't vote higher than I did.

Here's a select list of positives that I've experienced in December (hey, it was also my birthday month, so my 'festive' window may be longer than yours).

- Added 2 Red Angels (duplicate is 2/5), plus a Bartender Guinan (airlocked since already FFx2).
- Max rewards from new Q collection.
- Hit my 2nd natural 11hr voyage.
- Rank-earned Sahil (1/5), Mirror Saru (1/5), EDF Adira Tal (1/5), C.O.P. Founder Picard (2/5).
- Added stars (via packs/random pulls) to Mirror Reed (2/5), Mirror Cochrane (3/5), Mirror Beverly Crusher (3/5), Mountaineer Spock (3/5), Pah-wraith Keiko (FF), North Star T'Pol (1/5), Sahil (2/5), Courier Burnham (FF), and EV Suit Archer (2/5).
- FF'd Rura Penthe Kirk and improved Captain Lorca (2/5) and Frank Hollander (3/5) via campaign.

- Added over 90K honor via 1.5 skirmish events. Honor total currently 940K. This, more than anything, has been my motivation since August. If the honor sale happens (it will) and goes well for me (fingers crossed), then I will probably not care about any of the negative issues along the way.

Exanimus

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

It is very hard to not have the impression that TP has a problem with either engagement/marketing or something. I'm trying very hard to avoid certain language. I have serious doubt fresh rewards would result in hitting the targets they set. To hit them we need not only motivation, but planning.

For that reason I'm underwhelmed by the last 3weeks taken as a whole. The CD event needed to be put up at least two weeks before to give people making holiday plans the chance to schedule it in. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm sure many who want to play are too low on chrons. It may have cut into the Mega, but thats a choice they should have had. The company may be hostile to traditional holidays, but their player base is not. Even if you don't name a holiday, if you are planning to drop a 10b community goal you should be doing something to promote activity. Making sure the most people are loging in to know. The CD event and it's (personal opinion, ridiculous) goal and demands just appeared out of no where to a player base who felt/believed TP was on autopilot to hide from the "festive" season. I don't get the impression they cared if the CD event targets could/would be reached. They just seem to have put it up because they felt they had to or something. They follow a formula, shrug and say they did their job.

For the event itself, they seem to have nerfed it on purpose. The Community rewards drop 2 Quark. If you want to put in minimum effort and walk away with a 4/4 card, all you need to do is rank high enough for what is usually 2 3* cards. Most of the time all people have to do to collect community rewards is make one recipe and wait. They may or may not climb the threshold of it has a useful/new card. With all old cards, why spend the time and resources? I personally want Human Q, but he was removed from rank and community. Why climb for a tied up crew slot? I put in a lot of time and effort to have the resources in game that I do, and I am equal parts annoyed and amused at the people who have insulted me for putting a premium on it rather than just airlock my time/chrons/components because they need me to. I'm willing to wager a huge part of the player base didn't even look at the community rewards tab, that many clicked through the message and have no idea about the different event structure. I've seen the confused comments in UC and on here.

I don't doubt they have something more planned for the next 30 days. And it may be great. But for the last 30 days I have not felt it. And the CD event feels like something they didn't put much effort into, or one they made because they think failure is motivation. If they have anything similar planned I sincerely hope they take a hard look at their communication with players to give them more time to prep. Events like CD need a better lead time. Multiple failures won't work out well.

Cpt_insano_2k1

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

I have not voted as my opinion will be swayed by the official announcement of convergence day and what exactly that 5 year anniversary will entail.

However, I think that generally speaking the holiday season was disappointing from the perspective to hat I would have loved it if there would have been some LTO’s that were exciting enough to make me bite. But, none were. And in that way, i feel like wrg/tp missed out on sales and ultimately made a bad business decision. But, who knows? Perhaps they did not want people to buy anything before the 5 year anniversary? Hard to say.

TP do better!! ~Colli~ (PoF)

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

I’ve been playing for 4 years (will get my Livingston avatar before the end of the month!) this year has had the worst ‘holiday’ celebration of them all, i’d prefer Picardgate happening again than this (and yes I was around for Picardgate!!) very underwhelming and yes, annoying too. My opinions are not about Convergence day as it hasn’t happened yet, just the lack of ‘stuff’ over the holidays. And yes, I agree the community rewards sucked this week. As my fleetie Noms said.. TP needs to take math lessons..... 🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖

Webberoni

Underwhelmed. We didn’t get an honour sale, crew slots, crew giveaway etc

Underwhelmed, yet not surprised. Since TP took over the stagnating game has become stale and uninspired. Everything TP has done with a facade of being for the players has been done to increase sales. TP is milking the STT cash-cow until the player base walks away, which likely won’t happen because Star Trek fans are loyal and passionate to a fault.

dext74

[CH] OsirisSonOfGeb wrote: »

I'm not starting one of those, 'look, I'm quitting threads' because I'm not, yet. But I spend more time on this forum these days, looking for a modicum of hope that will respark my interest. It's a very sad, slow death, imho, of a game I loved - not because they aren't giving free stuff or wishing us a Merry Christmas, but because they've stopped developing it. There is no game anymore, just a card collecting app that they could shut down at anytime and take our hard earned cards from us. Uninspired events that look like they are done using a colour by numbers {insert new weekly card} program - and they even struggle to put the correct name into the brackets anymore (Culber recently). That is not the game I started playing five years ago and in which I invested alot of time and money.

So much this.

I'm not voting in the poll because I don't think any of the options can capture the doldrums that I've felt the last few weeks - but you summed up my feelings so perfectly.

Two things are going to really push my attitude strongly in one direction or the other:
1) The roll-out of this actual Community Day mini-event, which thus far seems to just be a normal event with a special title (you'd think they'd announce some of the things happening in order to stir up some player excitement - marketing approach seems to be the just say "stay tuned we have cool things planned" and then either never produce or have it be a last minute announcement -- versus other games I play that are announcing major events 2-3 months in advance to drum up player interest)

2) Ben's upcoming appearance on Timelines Talks. If it's like the few that are just vague teases and nothing concrete in terms of what's coming up, specifically ideas about things in development, significantly more solid release dates... then I just don't know what to think about the future direction of the game because they've had a year of ownership now and nothing really that significant to show from it. The game is ONLY surviving at this point because of the Star Trek IP - if it was a game with cards/characters that were created in-house it would have never gotten this far. He's the product lead/owner (?), and has got to do something to inspire faith and investment in the player base. And since he refuses to use any sort of official means of communication about it, hopefully the unofficial fan sources will produce something from him.

And as a 2nd part to that, I'm really intrigued to see his response to the Adira art change stuff. He's got to take an attitude of... he's the product lead/owner (?) and the buck stops with him. Any addressing of it that isn't a full mea culpa isn't acceptable to me. Unfortunately, I'm expecting it to be a total shrug off / "see our statement where we already addressed this" kind of response.

(HGH)Apollo

Generally pleased

We are getting Kevin Uxbridge, someone myself and others have been asking for for a while.

Automaton_2000

Convergence Day is going to be their big celebration this holiday season, so I'm not too bothered by the lack of a big deal made in December. But to be honest, they've always done sort of a poor job hyping their own stuff. Like, we got a gold citation added to deals for a few weeks, which resulted in a few great deals like $5 cites or 10x10 packs with a cite attached. They could have just sent out a mail or something to let people know and wish everyone a Happy Holidays. Especially with the Adira issue hanging over things during Christmas week.

Also, I'm really expecting them to roll out the red carpet for the anniversary. Honor sale, slot sale, great deals, all of it, because we've had small mistake after small mistake recently - really simple stuff that shows a lack of care in my opinion. If that's because they're all hands on deck working on this Q1 new feature and a big anniversary blow out, then it can be forgiven. If not, then I'm starting to be concerned a bit.

Cpt_insano_2k1

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

Automaton_2000 wrote: »

Convergence Day is going to be their big celebration this holiday season, so I'm not too bothered by the lack of a big deal made in December. But to be honest, they've always done sort of a poor job hyping their own stuff. Like, we got a gold citation added to deals for a few weeks, which resulted in a few great deals like $5 cites or 10x10 packs with a cite attached. They could have just sent out a mail or something to let people know and wish everyone a Happy Holidays. Especially with the Adira issue hanging over things during Christmas week.

Also, I'm really expecting them to roll out the red carpet for the anniversary. Honor sale, slot sale, great deals, all of it, because we've had small mistake after small mistake recently - really simple stuff that shows a lack of care in my opinion. If that's because they're all hands on deck working on this Q1 new feature and a big anniversary blow out, then it can be forgiven. If not, then I'm starting to be concerned a bit.

Your second paragraph basically captures it for me.

For me, Im hopeful that its going to be more than just a 5 year anniversary “sale”. Without the new features that have been hinted at, the celebration will pass quickly and I will be back to wondering if this game is worth any more of my time.

I understand that changes and upgrades require staff time and resources to develop, but you have to spend money to make money and in my opinion, ever since the take over there has not been much of an effort made to create new and exciting content to keep players interested. Those same players have mentioned time and time again on these forums what those changes “should” be.

So yeah, I am hopeful that they have been listening and have some cool stuff to add to the game.

marcuscat

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

I try not to be a Debbie Downer, but the community rewards were not going to be hit. So that has me totally annoyed the fact that the goals were so unrealistic. I spend a good deal of money each month on this game, so right now its all stop for me, because lately there seams to be kind of like ok are we fixing to sunset this thing, and I kind of worried about it.

Need Good Legends

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

worst event ever

Shatner's Pants [ST]

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

Everything about this CD event is decrepit and insulting to players. No wonder the CD Quark community reward isnt even going to drop, nobody wants to invest time and chrons into this lame event while on holidays. Judge Q was my first legendary back when the game started. I still need a citation for him but I’m not prepared to pay 650 dil for a “chance” to get him when I know that when I pull a Klingon Quark that I’m going to throw my ipad at the wall very hard. I came out of semi-retirement for the last mega which was also disappointing. I will play the next event and tthen determine whether to retire or not, but I am definitely not spending another penny until things improve, not even the monthly card. Pull your socks up TP.

Kanon

Annoyed. No real difference from the rest of the year apart from the disappointing “festive” anticlimax.

The only satisfaction comes from thinking that the return of investment for TP was probably negative this weekend. it was probably cheaper to shutdown the servers and send customer support home than running this terrible event.

Calhoun

Satisfied

It was made clear that the Convergence Day activities would be taking place in the coming weeks; this event was just a filler.

Without high expectations, there's nothing to be overly disappointed about.

If they fail to deliver anything interesting in the coming weeks, I will be more concerned.

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Satisfied

I tend to hew more to the critical side of feedback when it comes to this game, but I don't have any issues with this year's offerings. Honestly I've been more mystified by the hubub on the forums about this than at any time over the last 4.5 years

I would normally push back against the usage of "entitlement" when addressing player concerns, but this is apparently going to be the exception to the rule. Just about every post I've seen with complaints about the "lack" of festivities appear to miss the point of the the holiday they are demanding more celebration for.

I know players are frustrated about a lot of things both in game and out this year, but some have really taken things to a dark, depressing place this year. I truly hope y'all get the catharsis you clearly need in some other more positive and life affirming way. 🖖

Princess Trista

I did not vote but I am extremely upset at this whole issue beginning the first of December. Yes we received those 'In This Together' freebies - Thank you TP. Yes we received the Campaigns extension - Thank you TP. But I am not concerned about those freebies. No deals. Then a very lackluster Convergence event that it is looking like the 8 billion and 10 billion points will not be reached. I am seriously looking at stopping all buying in this game. I know, it is a shocker. But the game has become worse. If there was another Star Trek game out there besides fleet command, I would probably be playing that

[VIP0]USS Dart

Sulu's Husband wrote: »

I am sure the tone of comments on this thread will get it closed.

When those commenting are big spenders, dB/tp is likely to describe any such comments as “individualized expressions of heated debate.”