The training process that began several months ago is very close to completion and we’re excited to see what our new colleagues at DECA Games have in store for STO. That said, it has not been without its speed bumps, and we’ve therefore made the decision to focus our efforts on making a truly special Anniversary episode for early next year, instead of creating a new episode to release this fall.
Other highlights from the post: (with my own commentary added for flair)
… there will be new content heading your way before then. Tomorrow, we’ll be announcing our newest Event, where we will be adding new activities! You’ll be able to participate in a new TFO and two new Patrols, and work your way towards earning a new T6 Starship!
So, new event and new activities? Hope so!
… the DECA Games team are working closely with Cryptic’s team…
Yeah, I would hope so, considering you’re taking it over from them and trying to keep it running. Just try not to pick up any bad habits, like typos.
… and we’re excited to finish the story arc that we began with Unraveled.
Yes, please end that story arc. Please, I’m begging you, not for its conclusion, but simply so it’s out of the way.
We’re also in the process of planning and pitching our next multi-year story arcs - which has been well-received.
Well-received by whom? The same people that liked the previous arc? I hope not.
We understand it might be disappointing…
We’re used to that feeling.
…not to have a new episode coming this month
Oh, you weren’t finished yet. Sorry about that. No, it’s fine. They did this stuff all the time, like missing First Contact Day and the like.
but we hope you understand that we would rather give you the best content possible than rush something out the door.
OK, that’s actually new.
We are committed to producing content of the highest quality possible as we carry the Star Trek Online torch forward, so you, the players, have many more years of quality content to enjoy. The future is bright for the Final Frontier!
Yeah, definitely a new approach. Just be careful not to have typos and errors in dates in your posts.
Just adding here that I hope the sarcasm and humor in my commentary above is well-received by this Fediverse community. Typically, I just summarize and move on with life, but I thought I’d be a bit more editorial when I read this post.
I think it’s possible to get a little salty about the state of things without turning the community (such as it is) into a wretched hive of scum and villainy - I think you’re in the clear.
It’s funny, I don’t think the current storyline has been bad, necessarily - just uninteresting. Maybe they were a year or two too late to hop on the multiversal bandwagon, even though it makes perfect sense in a Trek context.
Agreed. You sum up the more reasonable aspects of my actual “complaints” well. Uninteresting.
However, I do still play daily. Now, more recently, that’s been no more than 30 minutes, simply to do the daily checkbox and leave. There’s (currently) nothing “interesting” for me; I hope the new team and arc will introduce a change for the better. I grew weary of the new coat of paint on the old grind TFOs. Worse still, the odd movement of the game further from science and exploration.
What I want is the Foundry and puzzle-solving. What I have is a pew-pew DPS chase and there are much better (free/cheap) games out there which can do that. Still, I continue to log in daily because I want this game to explore the new direction they conclude the post with. :)