I’m always very puzzled by irate “apples” responses when someone was writing about “oranges” — as in this case.

If expressing an opinion about a product, no matter how tangential and no matter how short, is a review, then I’d better be careful what opinions I start expressing.

Or not. What the f*** do I care what non-reading nerdragers think? Aaaahhh, I feel better now. Let off some spleen. More room to generate more now.

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=70503

Which is where loli, who goes as nynik over there, came from.

Reading the thread, it’s really interesting to see how people can take a blog post and twist it in their minds. How anyone can consider this post a review of anything is beyond my comprehension.

The irony, of course, is that if anything I’ve been defending STO to people frustrated with the early conditions of the open beta, pointing out the stress testing is part of running a beta. nynik seems to be a fan of the game, yet he’s attacking me.

A great example of why I avoid the “community” of official MMO forums.

I’m hearing 1 side of a conversation but just to be clear, this isn’t a “review” of anything. I never claimed it to be and anyone who actually reads it can see that it isn’t. It was just a discussion of the dilemma that MMO developers & publishers have gotten themselves into with the beta policies.

And how about showing some integrity and leaving a valid email the next time; I’d like to know where all this is coming from but you didn’t leave any contact info.

Quoted/Coloured text has been taken from the discussed article in the OP.

Can you not read the article your trying to talk about? He is clearly not offering a balanced, concise, fact driven review which you claim.

At no stage have I had a ‘horrific’ experience. He expected things to run smoothly on 12 of Jan with tens of thousands of people logging in at once?

” But my issues aren’t with lag and performance so much as they are with the design of the game.”

Your kidding me? 2/3rds of his half an A4 page one sides review talks about how ‘bad’ the lag and performance is, with no update or admission to the fact that the performance over the past few days has increased ten fold and the lag has decreased also.

“There’s nothing to keep a beta-tester around and once they walk away from your game, they’re probably never going to come back.”

lolwut? He is clearly not a beta tester. He , as he admitted, only took a menial part in order to ‘sample the free gameplay’. An actual beta tester helps provide constructive feedback about the errors, problems and bugs. This guy is so transparent, his review is laudable only to the most dim witted, reality offset people.

As an actual beta tester I recognise the limits of the beta, I recognise that we are not playing the release version, or even the most current version – as admitted by Cryptic – which he also fails to discuss.

What part of this ‘review’ is actually a credible source of information? It contains no specifics about the tutorial, the actual gameplay of the non-current open bata, no discussion on its ability to be an MMO…

It is simply a forum for his own opinions and ideas and perspectives.

Why you would considering appreciating an opinion such as that is beyond me, but you are free to. Frankly, whether positive or negative, I expect a review to review correctly and to provide information about the topic, and to take into account the specifications and limitations under which the review was carried out.

And yet you come to these forums and post your drivel, touting Cryptic as the bad guy because they did not post some nobody’s blogspot which contains no material value to any reader other than , as I outlined, the dim witted out of touch with reality and facts folk to which you have demonstrated you are a life time subscriber thereof.

Thank you.

Personally I’m seriously considering cancelling my pre-order.

Yes. This is just good business, too.

I’ve never played in a beta thinking that it would fully represent the final game. I don’t mind bugs… but I do have fun blasting core design decisions in hopes of getting them changed.

I’m probably weird, though, since I work in games. I’ve played much more broken builds…

The problem with a Beta is you get bad press if the Beta has issues. And it has issues – not only the lag. Gameplay, especially Away Missions, are “rough” around the edges, to put it politely.
If it is really a Beta, I somehow do not see how I could help to improve the game, contribute something meaningful… that can be fixed till 02. or 08. February, I heard release got pushed back.

And hey, just because I cancelled my Preorder for now does not mean I cannot be ensorcelled to preorder again. I cancelled Guild Wars, too, and then I bought the CE and play(ed) for four years in a row.