O Dear... Cryptics been taken over gd or bad?

Hey guys,

Someone indicated this in fleet chat and thought i'd forward it on.

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=217425

http://gamutnews.com/20110531/12089/perfect-world-and-atari-announce-agreement-for-the-acquisition-of-cryptic-studios.html

Will be interesting to see the direction STO takes.

well at least its sold. I read the official forums, god people get easilly excited/offended lol

Might be a good thing that an Asian company has bought it, might shake things up a bit.

Being the fickle creatures we are a lot of people will jump ship when Star Wars Old Republic comes out anyway. Its only a game peeps :kiss:

F2P seems to be closer now than ever before. Will they let Cryptic continue to work the way they have been or will they be made to keep time travel out of missions??? :silly:

is F2P a bad thing? The forum junkies on STO official forums seem to slate it something rotten

I don't think F2P is any closer, they also own the company that makes Torchlight, and by all accounts, that company didn't change their business model after our new overlords bought them. If STO was going to go F2P it will still do so on Cryptic's terms and schedule.

What I did like to see though, is that Perfect World are interested in the Cryptic Engine, that could mean more investment into that for more features and such. I just hope the games using the engine are still safe.

For this, I am going to take a "wait and see" approach. However, with this coming out only a week after Atari announcing their intent to sell, its obvious this deal has been in the works for some time, especially for what Perfect World have bought them for, nearly $50 Million.

I am cautiously optimistic about this, hopefully this means a press release from Cryptic sometime this week over it all. Least the new overlords are in a more finanically stable situation.

As for the no time travel, if STO had to go over to a Chinese market, it is likely they would do a seperate server, like they have done with WOW's expansion. I think their first expansion only came out there a few months ago, yet didn't affect the release we all get.

I to am hopefull this will be a good thing :D never thought much of atari anyway fingers crossed :D

Well Hopfully it is a good thing. STO is my only current MMO, not been active alot at the moment but i will be back! ^^

My guess is that we're not going to see any real changes--at least in the short term. STO is a good game and the devs are taking it in the right direction. My guess is business as usual until Season 4 hits. Its level of success will probably have a pretty big impact on the future of the game, but I think that was the case when Atari was running the show. From what I've seen about Season 4, I'm pretty optimistic. Fingers crossed!

I'm optimistic about this too, Cryptic has got some real good things going for it right now and this company that wants to expand into the US market gets that so I doubt they'll be meddling with it too much.

Since that forum post is quickly becoming toxic and a place to be insta-banned, I thought I would share something I found out here...

If anyone has been watching that thread, you will have seen there are many negative, anti-China views and this spells doom for the game. What people might not see is that Cryptic will more than likely be under Perfect World Entertainment, the American subsidiary. This company is located less than an hours drive from Cryptic in Los Gatos.

Evidence:
Perfect World Entertainment
Map

I can't wait to see what will happen now, and hopefully quell some fears if anyone is worried.

I too am sad about that thread. Many of the people posting in it must have zero common sense as do they really think that the people who are looking at buying STO don't actually skim the forums of the people they are buying?

I agree it doesnt look good for us, but I am sure Runic had a similar kind of outburst when it happened to them and now their forums are clean as a whistle. Hopefully it will all turn out for the best in the long run.

its amazing how different countries attitudes come through on the official STO forums. The outlook in the UK is often different from the USA. I read a lot of anti china comments pertaining to debts they owe the US and Communism etc.

I know I say this a lot but STO is just a game and pinning historical sensitivties on a games company is bizzare (at least from where im sitting)

I wonder if Cameron and Obama are monitoring the STO situation closely... I think not lol

Mildly off topic but .. Servers and forums are down right now which seems unusual as I dont recall them doing it before. Anybody think today is the day the rebranding takes effect and the forums get 'purged'?

Both came down for standard maintenance. There won't be any changes for some time, as it looks the deal is still being finalised and such, even after that, the good old Atari logo will hang around for some time.

Cryptic's logo is still attached to CoH and its been a good few years since they left them.

I hope they change the Cryptic logo back to the image of the factory. I always liked that one. I hate the new logo that's just "CRYPTIC".

Well whatever Atari's "real" reason is for offloading Cryptic, it isn't loss of profits. Crypit have made them a fortune! Sounds a like a money laundering operation to me..........

I wish they would just take away that horrid Atari logo anyway... their evil bad company people who have crappy support :P

They could always replace the Atari logo with one of the old time Space Invaders blocky icons of the aliens that used to go back and forth across the screen. Last time I checked, my Atari system still worked and all the games too! Yet, I've probably been through 10 PCs since then.

I've noticed a few posts where people refer to CoH. What does this stand for? I'm not familiar with this acronym.

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I've noticed a few posts where people refer to CoH. What does this stand for? I'm not familiar with this acronym.

City of Heroes :)