I was referring to the end of subscriptions in STO. The Freeform portion doesn't apply to STO, natch.
I hear ya! I was just saying... wow.. I was shocked.
In STO, I think it was fairly painless for Subscribers to lose their sub. I never ever hear anyone complain in-game, or, here, about what happened. It's like nothing even happened. In CO, subscribers get a firm kick straight into the genitals. I mean, come on.. Who never lets their monthly sub, lag....*ever*... And if you do! Man are you screwed.. Unless you LTS. Or Start Over with the FF slots you got while subbed by buying new ones, and... starting over.. Or play your AT's!
Ouch!
They didn't do that in STO.
CO is a ghost town now
OH BS. I just got done with a bigillion Smashes/Grabs/Grab!s. The whole while, I was thinking, "wow, the queue's haven't been this hot even on a weekend, for awhile". There's people doing the Event, too.
So, I call BS.
I can believe that everyone subbed is really, really, upset, though. Especially the longtimers and faithfuls who make the game alive, and not a ghost town. I also believe that these same people are battle hardened veterans when it comes to handling disappointment.
This doesn't surprise me in the least. I knew co was in trouble once development halted and never picked back up. I think that co wont last the next 2 years. It was a game that had tremendous potential, that was wasted. Then a form of a forum cartel took shape, and somehow was allowed to chase away anyone that had an idea that could have helped. Then these are same people somehow became the only people the dev team listened too.
Sliverspar, lied about about me saying "I hope co crashes and burns." Now I am going to say I dont have hope, becuase it is crashing and burning. And I brought marshmellows.
An Angel sings me a familiar song : )
2 years, though, is generous of you I thought! I mean, sheesh. It's an old game. If it makes it another 2 years, that's pretty good. I hope it makes it another 22 and more, just saying. Saying an old game that rarely gets updated substantially will 'only' last 2 more years isn't that bold for even before the Subscriber Screwover we are about to witness.
It's a screwed up deal, for Subscribers/LTS, for sure. Besides everything else, you definitely can't take something from Subscribers that you didn't take from Free players.. I know that subscribers never could keep their FF slots, and that hasn't changed, but, I think a lot of people (all?) never would have invested hundreds of hours in a toon that would one day become unavailable if they ever decided to drop their sub. Who never has burnout or RL stuff or whatever and drops their sub? Just subs infinitely whether they are currently playing or not. No one without an LTS..
CO is completely changing the rules for subscriptions by removing them and maybe right after you gave them money. How they can tell you, you can get one thing for your money one day (the ability to infinitely re-sub and re-gold your toons, for example), and then the next day tell you that all that is going away, just doesn't seem right or even legal.
They may have their legals covered with some clause in the terms of service but that doesn't make what they have planned, right.
Didn't anyway ever stop and say... "Hey, this isn't working like it did for STO.."
I personally think it's nuts to give up Subs. It's free money they are throwing away. It's like, to them (PWI/Cryptic..), the hassle of dealing with payments and a free costume piece everyone complains about every month is greater than the value of getting cash that they get from subs.
"It's way easier to collect the dough when they just click the buttons we put all over the place for them to spend it".