In the past I played a bit of pen & paper Dungeons & Dragons, and what I have always missed with computer games on the same ruleset is that it is too linear. I understand that for a computer game it is difficult to have a true open world for the player to do exactly as they wish, but it would be nice to have a bit more freedom to progress the world story along different paths than just the one story.

Saying that though, I haven’t been able to play for some time now, as the client crashes every time I try to login now. Unsure if I will bother with trying to solve the issue.

With so much more on the market now, particularly in the f2p market paying for a sub is becoming less and less justifiable.

Cryptic have come out with a large very honest post of the issue, What has happened and what they are working on to fix it. hopefully this should be fixed by the time I get home from work.Communication is a good thing, and very rare in the gaming world.

From the looks of the forum posts STO has also seen some issues today, This may be due to many of their web services being shared.

Well if it is any consolidation I have been playing for the last 5 days with no issues and enjoying the game.

- 2 different covers on the PC Games magazines in the US (and many cover mentions on many other gaming magazines both in the US as well as in Europe)

- Preview and review articles in every single gaming magazine and on 95% of the gaming websites out there.

- A massive siteskin/advertising campaign on many of the top gaming websites (in terms of hits) online

- Huge (and very popular) booths at all major computer gaming conventions including (but not limited to) E3, PAX, GamesCom and the Paris Games Week

- Massive closed beta weekends with beta key give-aways with all major outlets that usually give away beta keys. The last one had 100s of 1000s of people playing the game already.

It’s not TESO nor does it have the budget of Bioware for example but saying there was no marketing for it at all just makes you look like you lived under a rock

Everything was much more awesome actually…

I can appreciate both sides of the coin, and as a male working in the tech industry I agree there are some of my fellow counterparts that act in a neanderthalic fashion.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, we all should treat others with the respect we would like to receive in return irrespective of age, race, gender or any other factor that can used in a discriminatory fashion.

This reminds me a lot of the situation that went down with Adria Richards from Sendgrid (at the time) promoting on twitter and other public forums which didn’t end up ending well for either Adria or the other gentleman involved (both ended up losing their jobs).

It all makes for a salacious story, and it’s good to get it off your chest, but ultimately it doesn’t really help to bring anything to a peaceful conclusion, and I think that’s what we’d all like to see at the end.

Sometimes it’s easy to read into things what you want when you’re thinking a particular way when the intentions of the individuals outlined aren’t easily known, after all we don’t all reside in one another’s skin (for better or worse).

I’m looking forward to the day where gender, race etc don’t matter and people are judged on their merits and efforts other than what they happen to be born with.

It has been the first time I’ve been able to discuss such events without feeling harassed. I accept all apologies but I understand how none if it was done on purpose. I also believe that if any of the admins thought someone was being inappropriate they would have stopped it.

It’s no ones fault that this sort of passive sexism exists but hopefully we can all work together with empathy, compassion, awareness and action to stop it all together

I am not going to say anything more because its already there in the article above me and private conversations I’ve had with people that matter.

Your actions continue to be a reflection on yourself and has absolutely nothing to do with me.

I still honestly don’t know who you are besides the maybe four sentences I said to you. I have no idea what local chat you are talking about (I go to LANs to talk to people) or who linked you to my twitter although I think it’s very obvious that there was no reason to involve you. Your actions have actually hindered this whole event and it would have been resolved quicker and easier without your continue attempts to project onto me.

Furthermore, there was clearly a lack of forward planning and inadequate explanation with regards to the criteria that the best-rig competition was judged. I understand that there are logistical problems with running benchmarks on stage. And I think perhaps we’ll have to consider it in the future if the competition is to be more than just based on aesthetics. It was the first time in a while that the competition was run and it was handled by some of our newer, less-experienced team members.

Internet access has always proved to be something of a problem. Since most games require online activation to work we’ve had to provide some form of internet access (I remember in the good ol’ days that we didn’t have internet at LANs!). Our current arrangements involve a fibre-optic link to an ISP and we push significant amounts of data across it. We’re in discussions with them to upgrade our link, but it also depends on us purchasing very expensive hardware and gaining permission from the venue to do system/hardware installs.

I know that this has been very discouraging for you, but I do hope you consider returning to our events in the future, you will always be welcome.