The End of Cryptic & Future of Star Trek Online

In this video I go over the latest news on the DECA Games take over of Cryptic Studios and Star Trek Online.
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[@WinterRav3n]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *📢 The video provides an update on the situation between Deca and Cryptic Studios, focusing on their future changes.* 01:08 *🚀 Cryptic Studios is facing significant changes, but Star Trek Online remains stable and is not directly affected.* 02:20 *🔄 Deca is hiring experienced personnel for Star Trek projects, signaling positive developments for the game.* 03:57 *📝 The CEO of Cryptic Studios, Phil Fraser, assures continued development and content for Star Trek Online.* 04:53 *🎨 The future of Cryptic Studios and Star Trek Online are described as separate entities, with Star Trek Online set to receive ongoing development.* 06:56 *🕹️ The video discusses potential improvements in Star Trek Online's monetization system and community engagement.* 10:13 *🔄 New personnel at Deca could bring fresh perspectives to Star Trek Online, potentially revitalizing the game's development.* 12:14 *📊 Community feedback is highlighted as crucial for guiding the game's future under Deca's management.* 13:23 *🤔 The video encourages viewers to share their thoughts on the changes and the future direction of Star Trek Online.* Made with HARPA AI

[@abenjamin13]

Fantastic 🫵

[@andystocking5316]

My most-hoped for monetization change: give us a way to account unlock ships!

[@MCStu]

100%

[@zeke3672]

Been playing since the beginning. I, unfortunately, can't say I'm sad to see the old dev team go (with a few small exceptions). The game badly needs new blood. I see a lot of people worried about microtransactions being more prevalent under DECA, but the game is already a microtransaction hell. Look at what you need to have to upgrade a single ship to full functionality, let alone your gear and crew. As for content, we get what, maybe 2-3 new episodes a year if we're lucky? Maybe a new STF? Meanwhile they keep pumping out those lockboxes and $30+ ships/bundles. The game is already basically dead, it's a husk on life support. Phasing out the dev team will either finish the job, or bring it back, for better or worse.

[@pershing3346]

Yeah, we keep on hearing from Kael and the CEO that the game has years of life but they don't tell us if that is years of content, or just years before the servers will sunset.

[@Robotrik1]

Those 30$ ships are now 50$ to get to X2 status (not counting discounts of any sorts) .

[@Byrvurra]

As someone with plenty of familiarity with mobile microtransactions, I literally don't know how the MTX in STO could get any worse. They nickel and dime you for literally everything on a per character basis. A mobile developer taking over with modern mobile game sensibilities might unironically be good for the game, they certainly can't make it any worse.

[@shadow7037932]

​@@ByrvurraAnd in many mobile gacha games like Star Rail/Genshin there's at least a some what reasonable and decent pity system in place. There's nothing close to that in STO.

[@rogeryoung9934]

I miss the Foundry. It would’ve kept the game fresh. They could’ve allowed players to build a few episodes

[@Brizzle427]

Maybe a controversial opinion but I wouldn't mind paying for expansions if it meant they'd spend less time releasing new ships I'm never gonna use (z-store is oversaturated imo) and instead used their resources to make an expansion that was up to the quality of Delta Rising or Legacy of Romulus. Since those were the only expansions that actually felt like expansions.

[@Fosgate777]

Your not alone, I’d much rather have actual “expansions” like Delta rising or Legacy of Romulus then them just cranking out Ships. I feel they need to alter their formula, make an actual expansion for a new areas where all players come together in social zones AND sprinkle in new Ships, Consoles, Traits, and items. I really feel this mixture would elevate STO to really create a buzz and fresh excitement, bringing more players back into the game which generates revenue. I’m kinda tired of the STO Starship Dealer Lot of Ships as cool as they all are! Need content to use them in!

[@Grazysworld]

I don't mind paying for the game, i do mind all the endless grinding. I do hope they remove the mudd store because that's a needle in the eye. I'm positive in this change I hope the game gonna have a new ground combat system more modern. And some things we will never suspect. But I have a good feeling about it.

[@Xpektahdeth]

To the people whining about monetization and lockboxes...the MAIN reason this game ISNT going into maintenance mode is because of the revenue its STILL bringing in...BECAUSE of the monetization. Stop crying. Either buy the stuff or not...but stop crying.

[@_Yep_Yep_]

I remember STO gave me a lot of joy before work and life put me off games. Good luck to you guys still playing.

[@MrGilfred]

It will all depend on how much love do the new devs have for Star Trek universe and for STO. If their love is great then they have a good chance to do well. If not then we might have trouble.

[@ShadeAssault]

Haven't played STO in a while. Had no idea this shakeup was happening. Will be interesting to see what does and does not change. I'm a little worried about DECA being a mostly mobile game company. Mobile games are notorious for not caring about anyone but whales. As to the drop rates you are talking about ~7:30. I thought it was law that percentage chances HAD to be disclosed? After EA screwed up so hard with the Battlefront 2 reboot and governments started cracking down on loot boxes, I thought laws were passed. I could be mistaken.

[@thatHARVguy]

I play 2 mobile games via BlueStacks (playing one atm), and yes they *do* list the % for each gacha prize by name, not just by vague rarity. They have a "pity" system that guarantees the grand prize after a certain amount of draws during an event banner, just like in his WoWs example. Yup, mobile loot boxes are more fair than Cryptic/AAA loot boxes. 😳

[@matthewkeeling886]

I'm hoping for a reduction of the stakes in the storyline. Some Beta Quadrant history (Romulan Exodus from Vulcan, Catian/Ferasan Wars, etc.) could produce interesting storylines... yet another universal threat will not. From a mechanics perspective I'm hoping for less focus on cannon armed ships and forward firing arcs. Some love for broadside ships would be a nice change of pace. On ground, just one thing would help massively... auto-retargeting with melee weapons. Not having that is ridiculous at this point. Also, more exploration based missions. This is Star Trek after all. Where are the random anomalies and single planet evil computer overlords!? Unfortunately, I don't expect any of these things.

[@RealNorPanda]

Hey Stu, just a heads up, world of warships and other games show the "probability" and have a "grace" system on lockboxes is because it's EU Law. STO will have to be brought up to spec to be compliant with EU Lockbox law since DECA is German.

[@MCStu]

Very good point, thank you

[@ryanhau1073]

Curious to see what going to change. Like will we get a re-release of the Old Klingon War story? A change in how requent story content is release? Also remember when they shut down the Foundry, Mike mentioned that Cryptic moved workers from STO to the Magic game they are developing, so if Deca is hiring new developers, wonder if they are going to do something, like fixing and bringing back the Foundry or creating something new from the ground up.

[@yorkinwanya2066]

That would be lovely. I think Foundry was the biggest asset to STO (can't claim for NW). But it's been five years since Foundry was packed away. And since we don't know how much of knowledge has been lost over the years, it maybe an impossible wish, buuuut... we can always hope. :)

[@ryanhau1073]

@@yorkinwanya2066 like the reason they shut the foundry down is because at the time the people who created the code didn't work at cryptic anymore and the current devs have be reassigned to other games. But thinking what if they created a new UGC system from the ground up, think most STO players would like it even if it means they have to start over from scratch

[@MrGadfly772]

The return of the Foundry would be terrific. It was one of the few things that worked.

[@tenalpoen]

It's infinite free content to keep trekkies occupied well into the future making money for them for years to come, so there is absolutely going to be discussion on bringing it back, whether they actually can or not.

[@Mega747400]

foundry was a gold mine for EC from certain missions.

[@DeadFilmsINC]

I'd love to see DECA change the drop rate on phoenix packs lock boxes & promo packs as well. At sometime I think they'll do that. 🖖💜👌

[@tenalpoen]

The current drop rate on epic phoenix tokens is so low it's evil.

[@DeadFilmsINC]

@@tenalpoen If so why last year I get non & this year I've only gotten one. 😝

[@tenalpoen]

I haven't seen one in over three years and I buy those boxes all the time.

[@thedustdevil303]

Golden Tip for new owners of the game - the more you give the more you get, put that in your lockbox😎✌

[@draco1479]

Great video. I agree new blood can revitalize things. Also, possibly too much mentioning of pooping on people. 😅

[@kaelefth]

You can never have enough "I'm not poopin on it..." 💩

[@ornatus9616]

I just hope that the new staff that were brought in from the mobile side of things weren't hired to turn STO into a mobile game.

[@pershing3346]

​@@ornatus9616STFC already exists so I doubt it.

[@richardajoy79]

Governments have been looking at tightening laws regarding gambling in games for years and if it does happen, this would impact Lock Boxes... its a positive for us, but game companies could see this and decide to release a ship in a box for x-amount of money, probably similarly priced to buying a ton of keys. I hate Lock Box gambling, but it's really the only means of getting a Lock Box ship unless have billions of EC.

[@tenalpoen]

EC is worthless right now because there's too much of it floating around. It needs to come down. There needs to be a listing fee on the exchange to get rid of a lot of those items that just keep getting re-listed over and over forever by people who use alts to buy out anyone who undercuts them.

[@Mega747400]

@@tenalpoen ever since the endeavor thing started it killed the value of EC a good ship was once attainable by anyone willing to grind 20 mil now the same ship is sitting at 1.4 BILLION there needs to be a cap on pricing on the exchange

[@tenalpoen]

You already said what the problem is. Too much EC. The solution is less EC. A lower cap on pricing would just make them stop using the exchange (for ships) and spam zone chat instead, which they already do, but it would get worse.

[@copycatloki]

I do hope that new blood will add some...freshness to the game because I've been playing it for years and it's already started skipping free ship events. What I'd hope is that they will finally add better ship options to the c-store because I'm also not a gambler, I'm not going to spend any money to get a ship that I can only use on 1 toon. I have space barbie needs and I don't care to fly the best ships with the best perks, but the c-store ships are all just "standard" Federation/Klingon/Romulan style ships with a few odd ones out.

[@UkrainianPaulie]

Frankly the engine is so outdated. Ground is painful to look at. STO reminds me of LOTRO with ships.

[@alyssadraculesti]

I wont hold my breath for anything. As of late I only log in for the free events and then hold on to the reward in case they finally release a new Romulan ship in the C store that my reward may work on. There hasn't been one since 2020 except for the legendary scimitar. The last non legendary Romulan ship released in the C store was the Rahhae Recon Warbird. Which was released in December of 2020 and it was VERY anemic.

[@PhillipLemmon]

i wish they put at least the BASE faction ships to the z-store... ddex-rom vor'cha/negh'var-klingon ..... and that's pretty much all I want, LMFAO!!!!

[@huginstarkstrom]

tbh: I am more hyped than worried. I only had to do with ingame devs a few times. There seem to have been 2 layers - community support and decision makers. Com sup was friendly and reassuring and then the problem was passed on to a very rude and unfriendly and not at all helpful superior. So, that's nothing I will miss. Also in recent times, no one seemed to bother about fixing bugs. I think that fresh blood will take time to get used to the code - but given time, I hope, that the focus will be on keeping the game playable rather than stomping out new content.

[@huginstarkstrom]

as you talk LB and making things fair: how about account unlocks?

[@Ashendal]

I really just want Deca to start doing what was shown cryptic could do, but they just stopped bothering with. They showed they can revamp starting experiences with the multiple times they did it for Fed's, including the copy paste for discovery, and they redid the Klingon start plus put out a recruitment. Deca needs to redo the art for the Rom start because it's over 9 years old at this point, and do a recruitment for it when it's all done just like we saw with the Klingon one. Things like that where it was "just so hard you don't understand!" for cryptic, until it magically wasn't and they got it out the door quickly. Even without art, there are a lot of revamps to things like traits, adding in EW's for ships that were released before that and never got one just reusing older art assets, putting out new items that help lacking playstyles or just revamping existing ships with new mechanics to help like science carriers, and stuff like that. There is a lot Deca could do, and needs to do, if they're serious about actually keeping the game going. If they're just going to keep doing what Cryptic did, which is honestly below the bare minimum at times, it's just going to be a disappointment.

[@afterlame]

If they actually revamp and return those long-removed Klingon War missions that Cryptic's been refusing to do for over 5 years now, then I'm all on board with the DECA. We'll see.

[@freaklanemb]

Thank you very much for all the info, iv been playing for along time and I have spent abit of money on this game and very much looking forward to seeing hopefully STO being bigger and better

[@sstigger38]

Ditto myself!! Long time playing, lots of money spent, and many a fun night of grinding new characters! I still want that, and if it gets bigger and better.. AWESOME!

[@Nemoticon]

One thing I want above all else in STO... is actual content to enjoy my ships in. Playing the same old TFOs is just so boring and the worst part for me. We have all these awesome ships and very few, 1 dimensional, unchallenging maps to use them in. Now it's just a race to see how quickly you can complete each run, we know how, when and where each mob comes in and we just swat them like flies and warp out. This is why I won't spend a single penny on the game, lack of content beyond (the very nice, but play through once only) story missions.

[@Fosgate777]

You said exactly what I have made comments for! Thought I wrote this for a moment here, had to do a double take there 🤣. I’m really glad to see this!😁 New content to use ships in is so welcome! vs old content we’ve done 1 million times over, should show how much we would value new real actual content. It’s a games replay value and boy, have we replayed the value out of this game! And that’s the thing, we are all still here. Some of us may take brakes and come back, but if it wasn’t for Star Trek Theme, this game wouldn’t be nearly as successful as it is I believe. I’m with you. New real content to actually play in would help push the game forward!

[@Nemoticon]

@@Fosgate777 Thanks. I don't want to hate on the game, I do like so much of it. But I don't enjoy speed runs and that's what it is now... warp in, splat mobs, warp out, log out. That's it!!!

[@Fosgate777]

@@Nemoticon 🤣🤣Your description is so accurate and true 🤣🤣

[@Mega747400]

on the top of run speed joined a borg TFO today i got maybe 3 volleys of phaser fire off and the mission was done from 2 ships.

[@jonleach3036]

I been with STO since I got on with Beta and joined Life Time subscription, I would like to see what was promised in the beginning to be able to explore (5 year Mission Type happened).

[@PhillipLemmon]

i would like for them to have more sales,...and not this....low tier 10, 20%im talking higher like 50 or even 75...THAT way we would be more apt to buy things like ships , services etc. also they could bring in (or back if it was a thing long ago) is MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. i don't want to pay $300-$400 on something I don't know will last if I didn't jump on it when it launched. just make it fair and affordable.....then you'll get your moneys with from the games players. my opinions of course.... thoughts?

[@mr.c7094]

A good shakeup in the company is good…. Until you hire a company like Sweet Baby Inc

[@taskmaster9165]

The main thing is to fix stability,then ponder on future episode development

[@WakeRoberts]

So long as they keep developing the game, adding ships and story content regularly throughout each year, and moves away from all of this mirror universe stuff that the dev team has been obsessed with for the last 3 years, I'd say that this could very well be a positive change for STO.

[@robertcooley5211]

I started to play this on-line game once it went to free to play many years ago, about 6 months after that I became a life time member. I have seen many changes to this game some good and many not so good, one of them that I have always missed was the ability of players able to make there own sub story arc with-in the game for other player to do that gave a lot more content from the two or three main story arc the game had at the time. Some were big and small but many of them were very good that did come with some added loot given at the end. But once they took that out of the game, it up set many good players who spent hours some time hundreds of hours making them to help add to the game. Stu I am not sure you if you know of this, but I am sure there mite be an old KZbin video or two still out there about this.

[@PayAttEx]

Letting go of devs who have experience and have been working on the game a long time to hire cheaper software engineers is gonna be donezo for this game. There's no shot whoever they contract would be able to handle whatever spaghetti have been cooked up here.

[@Jimbogf]

Maybe DECA will fix the Pahvan set? 6 months give or take? In its current state it's the most OP set in existence.

[@BeyondDaX]

Yeah or at the very least less crystals being deployed

[@Sirithil]

This is literally the last thing I want them to do.

[@Kael_Strum]

hope everything works out well for all party involved and see fresh changes in the game. thanks for the update

[@1800BrokenSoul]

Stu Bro I'm at $780 dollars in the last 8 months and 0 ships. The pitty system was around 250 boxes. Some time ago the did a stealth update. Just like what they did the the Pheionx gold token a few years ago. in the past 2 years they have been out of touch with the community and I don't belive it was the community manager. Let's hope you and casual get hired. At least I know you guys aren't yes men and will be advocates for the game.

[@TheKanglor]

100% agree that this could end up being a positive change. Fact is with an old game there's going to be a lot of entrenched ideas, and not much willingness to shake up the status quo. Besides obvious improvements like better communication and being more on top of performance issues/bugs, I'd also really love to see them take a hard look at the 'endgame.' I think just seeing how the new advanced consoles brought some life to the elite queues, they could look at other ways to give players more reasons to use all those fancy ships and gadgets they sell us.

[@Trygvar13]

The WoT and WoWs example was spot on. Yes it is still gambling however you are guaranteed to get a tank. And if you get one that you already have you get in game currency as a reward (usually gold).

[@Flight--tz5nf]

As much as I bitched about Cryptic. I would love to see Star Trek Online succeed. I am a Trekkie to the bone. Cryptic on the other hand? They made their bed. They lay in it. Everyone at Cryptic Studios should lose their jobs. I won't shed a tear. STO needs a developer that actually cares about the product. Not one who milk's it for every penny. And treats some of the player base like a pile of shit. And disrespects what Star Trek is about.

[@Real_Firebird1170]

I’m hoping whoever they hire can figure out the coding to give us more customization options. Like why can’t they redo the underlying frames for all the different Connies to make them kit bashable with each other? The Galaxies and Galaxy Xs? And uniform freedom please. I can make alien boffs look like almost any non-Trek IP I want, but putting a Romulan Embassy boff in a proper Fed or Romulan Republic uniform is an immersion breaking bridge too far? I’m basically the only person who will ever see my boffs unless I’m running around one or handful of zones that allow any boffs.

[@tenalpoen]

I firmly believe Star Trek deserves better than what the current devs have done with it. Maybe it's not their fault, but even if it's not, TREK DESERVES BETTER. The game is in a sad state right now and I can't imagine how a new team will be anything but an improvement.

[@mightylink65]

Before Cryptic it was Perfect World International, nothing changed back then, not even the microtransactions. Everything will stay exactly the way it is.

[@brickbunny9686]

Given some of the things that used to exist in the random level generation, log ago, before they removed the nebula's and the kind of randomly generated worlds and how those places had a certain building block kind of feel too it, how much of the STO bugs may have come from that system and was there a design path, for the games past, that included player construct-able places, craft-able places and things? If such a thing was slated at one time, could it be re-slated again?

[@JasonS76]

Things have to change at some level the past few years have not been too good. Mediocre storytelling (with a few exceptions) has hurt the game during that time. Although I blame the hier ups more than the current team for that. They were no doubt forced to adhere to kurtzmans narrative butchery during that time.

[@alanpattee4383]

Great job 🎉

[@LordBort]

I love this game and I hope it doesnt go anywhere. If it does get redone i hope its like CS:GO2 where you still have all your unlockables amd purchases in the new game.

[@Opnn8d1]

I'm hoping that a new dev team will mean new expansions to the game in terms of features and mechanics. I don't call the game as it is now "Star Trek Online." I call it "Starships Online." because that's more or less all it's really about.. We get all these new ships that we can fly while doing the same old content over and over, when what we should be getting is new content to fly ships in. And in all this time, there is one part of the Star Trek mythos that has no practical purpose in the game: our ship interiors. It's a setting in the shows that exists in every single episode of every season from start to finish of every series. And yet there has never been a gameplay loop that actually utilizes that setting in the game. Over the years, many ideas of how Interiors could be made to serve a purpose, have been floated by many players, only to be closed by moderators because they touch on something that was labeled as a frequently created topic. Now, the forums have slowed down to a crawl because no meaningful discussion can be had there, because so many things people want to see have been FCTed and therefore are not allowed to be discussed. Nevermind the fact that in several cases, the devs themselves went and did something that rendered a previous decision moot, thus technically making certain ideas valid again, but because those things had been previously FCTed, the mods cite the old irrelevant answers and close the discussion. The FCT restriction needs to go away if a new dev team is taking control. What might not have been doable before, may be very much in the cards now. Or maybe the new team really wants to know what players want to see without any previous bias being applied.

[@matthewmckinney5387]

Love this game, been on console and boy let me tell ya, the most toxic and unstable gaming community ive ever seen, pc not much better either.

[@ModeKaioken]

7:50 I totally agree. Its crazy to me that gotcha games have a pitty and this game don't got that let alone showing drop rates. IMO if you open 200 boxes you should be guarantee at least a t6 ship at that point. Im not saying that is great but at least match market competitor in the gotcha space.

[@Fosgate777]

You said exactly how I feel about gambling lockboxes. I think also a lot of us shy away from opening them because of the horror stories, and poor and expensive odds of not getting the ship. I would also love to see them put in a reasonable ceiling, or cap of a worst case scenario like you mentioned, that would at least be better than some horror stories of not getting a ship after $300 which will just piss off your customer and maybe even quit playing or create for an extremely negative experience which will have facts for them not put in money into the game any longer Because of these gambling antics. I would love to see this change, and I believe just like how they split up the anniversary bundles to allow us to buy individual ships instead of forcing you to buy the whole thing all or nothing I would love to know if they made more sales this way. So my point is along with yours, could they bring in more money from more players, who would now consider opening up block boxes to get a ship who would never have done that before which also gives more players access to gambling lock box ships who absolutely don’t open boxes now. There has to be a fair middle ground or even a better model for this.

[@SolarWraith]

No Sto'Vo"Kor for Craptic. On a serious note....I do believe "new blood" could be a good thing. Hopefully we don't regret this change. Sometimes the devil you know is easier to deal with.

[@MCStu]

Ture

[@trekman8188]

I would love to see more TOS and Enterprise ships.

[@Spoon2006]

I've been playing since beta and the biggest issue is it's on a custom engine so what they have now won't be compatible with anything current. This pretty much means they would have to code almost everything from scratch to support a new and better engine. Stuff like the foundry got shut down due to the original devs leaving and no one had the experience to keep it going. I've spent alot of money and time on sto but in the current state I won't be investing any more money until they get things sorted out. It's a great game but there's alot that needs sorting out. New blood in the game development is needed but they need to sort out the game engine to bring it up to current standards

[@leea-123.A]

yeah cryptic turned star trek online in to a pay to win game, they took so long to add content it was a joke, I haven't logged into STO for a long time! they had the chance to make an amazing star trek online game and they well didn't So no sad to see them go, they really should have gone A LONG TIME AGO. I understand you need to make money but not like this!!! Lets hope we get a new team who actually make expansions etc.

[@Fosgate777]

Exactly how I feel. New content should be new Content to play in, while they sell new ships and items to use them in. World of Warcraft was very successful to me because they made new areas to explore ie new content along with items to obtain. This game you just replay the same content and it’s turned into a Dealership of New Ships with a Retail store of Traits, Consoles and items. Don’t get me wrong I’m loving new ships with the other things but I feel my ships are all dressed up with no where to go.

[@BamaChad-W4CHD]

I've been playing STO on and off since beta. I just hope the game continues to be available to play for years to come at the very least. That's my hopeful worst case scenario. I would obviously love to see continued content and ships added constantly. I would love to see the loot boxes go away forever. But the game needs to make money. It's well past the ability to make money any way other than gambling. They have assured that in the game.

[@Fosgate777]

I feel the same way. I don’t like the gambling boxes either. They could put real actual effort into content for us to use the ships and items in. There’s a better balance to be created, and could be even more successful with sales than they think they are now by creating a better player engagement with excitement and trending buzz with new Social areas to explore and play in.

[@deputymccahillxbox4132]

My only wish is that those of us on Xbox/Playstation, get content released at the same time as PC players.

[@Fosgate777]

Yeah I get excited hearing about the new content then disappointed I can’t contribute when it first comes out. Feel like I loose a lot of excitement by time they release months later on console and it’s no longer the current buzz going around the Star Trek Online Community. I want to be able to experience it in real time with PC players and be part of that excitement also. What does keep me excited is when MCStu and others cover the content release for Console players. That draws me back in!

[@MrGadfly772]

As long as making a profit is the goal of course there will be nonsense with lock boxes. What I hope for is a return to gameplay as a highlight. The stories have been terrible lately. Far too much of it has been "watch the Star Trek stars take over". I'm really tired of all the storylines where we listen to endless "guest stars" sniping at each other. The character, and the player, is no longer the center of the experience.

[@Fosgate777]

I really feel you’re right I’m cranking out gambling lock box ships, and super expensive mud bundles. Instead, they could put in that only new story missions, but hey, maybe put plot twist in them put some real thought and effort into new story missions like you would watch a movie or a show with real plot twist in deep storylines and new social zones. I also feel this game could be so much more if they really put an actual effort into new content, other than their showcasing streams of what they made to sell us .

[@20JK10]

I'm still having trouble trying to access your discord page. I click on your logo and a window pops up asking me which games I want to follow. I click on STO and nothing happens. I can't X out of the window either.

[@chadwickmccarty4944]

DECA could finesse some in-game mechanics, possibly with the gambling, but I doubt DECA will do anything too drastic. I haven't bought keys for a drought of time partially because of the dismal odds but also because lobi purchases are so restrictive & expensive so imo a bad value. I think Cryptic/STO has been suffering some tough complacency for the last few years. It is one of the main reasons I thought that Jon H. was a breath of fresh air & innovation. A major downer is the loss of USA jobs. My fingers are crossed for better.

[@Byrvurra]

As a relatively new player I would say my opinion is that STO really needs to work on it's new player onboarding.

[@Jimbogf]

At least refresh/redo the older missions, as those missions are to first ones new players play. They are so dated I almost lost interest in the game.

[@SciFiMetalGirl]

Ohh geez... dark mode is your friend!

[@kxmode]

It's worth noting that DECA is owned by Embracer, and Embracer has been a wreck for the past 12 months. DECA can say whatever they want, but if Embracer kills STO or the studio... STO is dead.

[@Avalon304]

The pity mechanics for WoWs and WoT arent "In X boxes you will get THE main tank/ship" its "In X boxes you will get A tank/ship from the tank/ship prize pool" with the pity point resetting if it drops earlier. So for what ever people consider the best vehicle in question it could still potentially take hundreds of dollars to get it. But they also publish drop rates for the boxes too. So youll know the percent chance of every item in the box.

[@willt3223]

will the life time subscription still be a think or will they wipe it out?

[@Blackreaper95]

I doubt they will especially since the game has been f2p for 10+ years

[@lucifer0264]

​@Blackreaper95 I sincerely hope they don't remove it lol I finally gotten life time subscription last month,they need to refresh the life time subscription in my opinion

[@Blackreaper95]

@@lucifer0264 They need to refresh a lot of things especially the Task force reputations.

[@lucifer0264]

@@Blackreaper95 true that, its just sad that the main important things havengt been refreshed in years,and another thing i find confusing is i cant find the captain yacht whatsoever yet they say talk to a ship acquistion person,so i did and scrolled through all the ships and i still cant find it.

[@Blackreaper95]

@@lucifer0264 They are shuttles pretty make sure you aren't filtering by rank just small craft when you talk to the ship requisition officer.

[@reerjgiorge]

Hopes - None. I left the game in 2018, due to the massive amount of unfixed bugs that ruined my enjoyment. I came back january 2024 to see that things are even worst. Not only important bugs are still not fixed (loadouts, fleet projects, visuals, etc) but many others have emerged and now in september 2024 they are still not fixed after almost eight months, that tells me that Cryptic is doing what they have been doing all along, keep releasing grabbing money things without investing a single dime in fixing things. Expectations - None. As i said, every year is worst. Cryptic just dont bother to fix anything at all, visuals keep dissapearing or breaking and cryptic dont g1ve a f1ck, we have been going on with the fleet personnel bug for almost 12 yearS!!!!!! and cryptic still didnt fix it!!!!!! the loadouts keep going awol, all traits go awol and the equpment on the ship goes awol by time to time, its amazing that a feature THEY ARE SELLING is broken since the day one of release, and they dont g1ve a f1ck. They keep the playerbase happy releasing events with free content, many free ships. Thats how they do it. And people is aparently very happy. Sadly knowing how dumb and stupid the community around this game is, im not susprised. They even barely release new content at all. Its ridiculous. One episode every year. No reputations or real content since, well, since i left the game in 2018 LOL. Ridiculous.Everything locked behind lock boxes. Every single ship. Visuals and FX dissapearing all over the place. This happened in 2017 - 2018 as well. Cryptic did nothing, probably a quick fix on the engine and thats about it. Right now, i cant even see my own weapons in the moment there are many things happeining on the screen. Disgusting. I have half of my characters unusable because of this, and cryptic dont g1ve a f1ck they never did. Torps firing twice, this is happening at least since one year ago, they dont care either. And this seems not important but its also breaking the immersion of many players, cryptic doesnt g1ve a f1ck. I just wish this game could dissapear for good because as long as its alive we are never EVER going to get a decent star trek game. And what also surprises me the most is that Paramount and CBS are completely ok giving the rights to the worst videogaming company ever existed. Shame on you CBS and Paramount for ruining star trek. Shame. And dont let me start with the official forums. WHAT A JOKE. There is absolutely zero free of speech there. Every single post must not have any negative mention to cryptic or the way they do things, or that post is automatically flagged by the disgusting moderators as trolling/flaming. Its amazing that the only posts that are left are from newbies complaining about broken things they think are new but in reality are broken since 15 years ago..... but since nobody can tell em the truth, well there they are. People complaining about loadouts... they dont have a clue that feature is broken since 2015. LOL.Disgusting.And the moderators??? how can even call emselves moderators?? they favouritize some members of the forums over others even when they actually "break" the rules, while others are flagged or banned for no reason at all.. DISGUSTING!!!. And the powercreep??? is it for real??? people in TFOS literally flying all over the place and killing everything in a blink of an eye, leaving the rest of us, players who actually prefer enjoy the game nothing to do??? so we get an AFK penalty for not doing enough damage because 4 of 5 players are stupid powercreepers. What the hell are we supossed to do??? and dont let me started about battlezones. How the h3ck are we going to get credit for the final phase when the game consider that not doing 1000k damage per seconds is not doing damage at all, so we dont get credit and we dont get elite marks. REALLY???? seriously who is the dumb head that still throws money into this thing called game???? And shame on you guys. The ones who throw real money into this game. Shame on you because the only thing you doing is to keep breaking this game and tell cryptic that everything is ok. So they dont need to fix anything at all or make Q&L improvements to the game. Shame on you guys. At this point it doesnt matter who grabs the development. Power creep is so massive and broken things are sooooo many that at this point this whoever throws real money really need a brain asap. Specially a game that forces you literally to increase your dps yes or yes to keep up with the powercreep (or you are screwed in TFOs and battlezones) because the company dont want to do anything about it, is a game that doesnt deserve to live AT ALL.

[@stevenwalker4923]

I've spent hundreds on keys and only got 3 or 4 ships. With the phoenix boxes, thousands of boxes opened, and 3 elite tokens. Buying 250 keys to get 1 ship is an accurate assessment. They should make ship tokens Lobi purchases? It's not Cryptic's fault. They were given directives by their holding company to make money for them.

[@penguinmaster7]

here's hoping they stop restricting the chimera class to LTS. once they dropped the veteran system, they should have made it open.

[@tomoxford8815]

Great video Stu, thanks

[@hardcorehardwarethe1st]

Was actually thinking about getting back in…getting that lifetime membership, I typically sign in every couple of years and spend the Zen that builds up. But it sounds like maybe I shouldn’t waste my time…I dunno. Anyway, you can probably find one of my old KZbin videos of me solo’ing the original Borg ground FTE’s back when they were not called FTE or FTP or whatever they’re called now. I think his name was Vanek? Or whatever…I don’t even remember that borg’s name…but I was one of, if not the first one to spec my toon to solo him…and I did join teams that were struggling and would just beat it for them…back when the drops meant something and everyone was trying to get the end game ground gear. Lol this was…I dunno, 12-13-14 years ago? Lol I played right up through the PWE buyout and the Delta Rising expansion…after that, I stopped being a daily player because the micro transactions became insane and Perfect World seriously messed this game up with the grinding. Unfortunately a dev like DECA being known for mobile gaming is most likely going to keep these micro transactions, could even make it worse…like getting rid of the free Zen for lifetime membership.

[@Dweller84]

Frell the "Embarrassing Group" aka "Embracer Group". This conglomerate has done more damage to the game industry in 3 Years than EA did in nearly 15 years...

[@evan_vangelisskoupras3085]

Neverwinter which is also Cryptic has had for a time lockbox counters(guaranteed within 200 or sooner). Yeah ambition to improve the experience, this could rejuvanate STO. They could add to it (guys from DECA). I would also like some - in game - polls from time to time, for items all those that play would like added.

[@hardcorehardwarethe1st]

I really loved this game, was one of the original players (pre-FTP) back when the bug ship was THE ship and PvP wasn’t dead…The PWE takeover really killed it for me. Way too much grinding and micro transactions. I don’t see DECA improving that aspect.

[@deadmeat8754]

In my opinion, the DECA transfer actually signals STO is going in to maintenance mode. New content will slow, or dry up and the game, to your point about monetization, will survive as long as it draws enough to make a profit. This, of course, will also be influenced by the fate of the Star Trek IP. Personally, while I don't celebrate employment losses, I've felt the Cryptic Team has been institutionally bad and welcome the fresh eyes and ideas.

[@shr4n]

Based on how you appear, I imagine the target audience for Star Trek Online (STO) to be grumpy old individuals with some savings to spend on a game-much like myself. Unfortunately, this is why we end up being drained of our money until there’s nothing left. It’s a sad but true reality. Perhaps it’s time to disconnect from these expensive franchise fantasies and explore other gaming options. Quite disheartening.

[@RecuringWolfe]

I've played the game since launch day 1, and I feel the game got worse with nearly every update. There seems to have been an intense focus on arcade style, gimmick style graphics that don't feel like star trek to me. I've tried to introduce friends but they back out very fast due to performance, hitching, glitches, mission bugs, FPS drops, bad animation, terrible button spamming ground combat, not much flexibility in play style with levelling (IE the higher level you are, the more guns you will have on your ship, the more activatable you will have) and within a month or so, they left. I have to say, in all these years, nothing has really shaken the game up for me. I still re-download every 6 months and I'm like, nope, still a button spammy, buggy mess with serious damage scaling issues.. Opt out again and try again in 6 months. Years and years... not really any change to that. Maybe an overhaul of staff might lead to an overhaul of the game. I sincerely hope so. It has so much potential that it pains me to see it as it is.

[@scipher99]

There is an old saying "Hope in one hand and sh1t in another and see which fills up first." It is never the hope hand fyi. DECA being a mobile dev the best indicator would be to see what they develop and how good or bad those are. I fear we are in for a whole new layer of monetization and microtransactions that will nickel and dime us to death like almost all mobile games do. Prepare for huge time gates that can be bypassed with $ far worse than we see now. On the flip side is STO could go on life support with a small trickle of content and updates. As far as stripping Cryptic is so they can get rid of U.S. salaries in favor of outsourced cheap labor for development, and cheap is what we can come to expect in quality also. Sorry STU I personally don't see this as being good for STO. I have a feeling LTS are going to be axed as legacy, why else would it have been a 50% discount. I think the LTS sale was a last-ditch effort as a money grab before the changeover. I really hope I am wrong, but we will see.

[@IrisCorven]

I'm happy that so many people are optimistic about this, but having been a veteran of MMO's since UO/EQ1, I know exactly what to expect and not to expect from this kind of thing. So I'm glad that they're going to give it a try?... But I don't have hope it's going to pan out, or improve in the way most of the folks in this comment section seem to. I think expecting anything more than this game being left on life support with some new incentives to spend cash for the next 5 years is extremely wishful thinking. And that's more so than what Cryptic was already doing. They know there's a dedicated fanbase for this game who have stuck around even during the worst issues, bugs, and shady dev/marketing tactics. They know there's a cow to keep milking, there.

[@KamenRiderGumo]

I honestly haven't played since they started shoehorning Discovery garbage into the game. Put a lot of hours into building ship and character, loved the Jem'hadar expansion, and decided to finally get that lifetime subscription. Then they started to put the STD stuff in there and I just checked out.

[@Holy_Wraith]

I saw someone say somewhere that a special token will be given, the token allows us to make a T6 ship unlock account wide. Was any of that true? Just curious because I can't locate that source and it will prevent me from giving in to Mudd's More Dreadnaught bundle.

[@vlogsandgameswiththegrassh4277]

im sorta new return player. Sto seems to have a lot of episodes that touch on a lot. Have they Covered everything we know from the tv shows? what would be left? Again very new. But it kind of turns me off that i have to buy ships to get a certain tech. i watch a lot of build videos and go welp not doing that. I was ok spending 50$ but i had to really narrow down what ship i wanted and what i wanted to do. which i picked great one the lex dread is a beast. But i want Kelvin timeline phaser. Seem to be a Huge Pain Just to get 7-8 of them. I may not like them after. i really want to stay with this game but long term seem Way to expensive. So im just doing time waisters like Rep and R&D. Because ever game has them. Hoping a real Spark for the game ignites. Cause im a Fan. Its a fun game for a Fan. I would look into getting the Lifetime but ive tried this game a few times over the years never keep my interest when Subscription games offer more for less.

[@mrfluffyhedgehog]

DECA is a mobile game company. STO already is a gambling machine with a star trek skin, sadly with this kind of new owner the only way I see this going is further down. Hopefully there will be a bit of work on the engine and stability, which is sorely needed, the lag and input response is awful righ tnow. If that gets better it would be great, but in terms of monetization it most likely will get even worse I am afraid.

[@creepyoursocksoff]

SWTOR did the exact same thing with moving from Bioware to Broadsword and they were much more public about it and informative from the very start.

[@xaionik]

I think the games are officially dead and this is the sunset. They had a nice run. DECA is a mobile game company and that comes with a lot of baggage. The monetization will get worse and advertisements will be all over the place. As someone who has played since Open Beta, I have no faith in DECA and they will have to earn that goodwill from players.

[@irraka5222]

I'm normally a doom and gloom guy, but the bugs and crazy monetization of everything has just got me looking forward to DECA.

[@Newie67]

I dont know. My experience is when a new company takes over another its mostly not good for the game/community. Its only good for the pocket of the new owner. I have watched this over and over for about 20ty years.

[@Jeff-ne1lh]

I would like to see new blood in some of the product managers'/lead dev positions in STO and NW it's no secret that there has been stagnation and outright phoning in of bug fixes and content...it's time for fresh eyes

[@pragmaticeagle4832]

Cryptic (imo) seemed to have been on the decline for a long time. It kinda sucked that they were over those games however, I did notice decent changes once they transitioned to gearbox from perfect world & if the new folks are passionate about the games I can only hope for improvement. We shall see, & will just hope for the best

[@senatuspopulusqueromanus2082]

Honestly, I want a full rewamp of STO, definitely visual and gameplay-vise. This game feels really old

[@bX-rk2oo]

Yo yo yo MC Stu play that funky music white boy! (Just trying to make you laugh) Thatnks for all of your video content over the years.

[@thatHARVguy]

As predatory as mobile monetization is, they do have a pity system to guarantee the grand prize for the event banner. Mobile games even list the drop rate % chances for each gacha prize. Does Cryptic still refuse to list theirs?

[@bradbrown7273]

I play on ps4 i wish they would fix bugs like the free lance security kit. The mirror defiant torpedoes wont fire durig the terron episode

[@sabrewolf4129]

Still waiting for the TOS Federation Class Dreadnought.

[@ghostshepherd6749]

Warframe treatment with cross play/ transfer. Allow those of us with accounts on different platforms just merge them

[@benjohnson8175]

I would like an STF or two that takes 3 hours to beat and rewards you with good loot. The original stfs were fun until cryptic trashed them because of the whining losers who are too stupid/lazy to set aside time on a weekend to run one.

[@Lonewolfnocub1988]

This game needs to be balanced Big Time! Most especially where Engineering Space DPS is concerned.

[@andyhull9182]

It's hard to be sorry about this when the game has been purely just a cashgrab for over a decade, hope they shut the game down aswell but in all likelihood it will just get worse :

[@johncawte3747]

Im f2p on this game and every game i play just means my grind is longer especially since this game is a rip off if you pay for stuff

[@ChadLetourneaurhavoc]

the game need to be brought up to date. enough with nicro rapeage and let widen up the future of the game and F Cryptic

[@ussenterprisecv6231]

Might be good change but idk might not since armored warfare was great until a new studio bought the game and then didn't do anything but use it as free money

[@TheFreelancer131]

lol maybe the new devs will fix the fact that Female toons cant wear Kobali boots 2 like they used to XD

[@bradbrown7273]

I also wish they would have a little more interaction within the game like in mass effect

[@ghfdt368]

May be a unpopular opinion but i stopped playing STO a year ago. I really felt the game lost it's way since the victory and life story arc came out. It's devolved into selling ships, lockboxes and grinding endlessly to get the ships you want up to scratch until the next set of ships come out and repeat with a few nuggets of good content added in along the way. If they go back to basics and make new content more story missions, tfo's and game modes even if they can't have actors back to voice characters id be all for that and happily pick the game up again. For right now im happy to sit and wait it out and see what happens but a fresh set of eyes and talent for this game could do it a world of good.

[@dasgnampf4156]

Imo it's very healthy to take a break from the game from time to time. I play STO since the early days and had several breaks. Some of them ~a year. I have fun catching up with the meta again. Came back 2 months ago and having a blast rn.

[@Fosgate777]

I’ve felt the same way for a long time now. Their new “content” is exactly as you described. I feel that’s a lazy easy cash grab way out instead of actually creating new zones and areas for us players to explore while using new items and ships in. Other games do it, and this one could be wildly exciting if they also put in this effort I feel.

[@jimbodee4043]

Still worried about it but I have no control on the issue so will have to wait and see what they do.