The first week ”has been amazing!” So many have logged in that engineers ”had to scramble” to add more support and capacity.
”The first week of Open Beta has been amazing!” posted Cryptic in their ‘State of the Game’ update post on the official website, reports VideoGamer.com.
”We have seen more signups and players than we ever imagined we could. So very many people have shown interest in Star Trek Online and logged in to play that we’ve actually had to scramble to support everyone.”
”Our core engineers are this very second working like crazed technology wielding madmen to improve performance and stability across the board. We’re also adding a lot more hardware to accommodate our players.”
Being in the open beta myself I can attest to the stability issues they’re desperately trying to iron out with all these testers flooding in. ”Reality has exceeded even our wildest expectations. We looked at numbers from Closed Beta, numbers from games we’ve worked on in the past, and some numbers that float around the games industry.”
”Based on those numbers, we predicted that about 65% of the keys we generated would eventually turn into active players (some keys never get delivered, others are lost in spam boxes, some are never redeemed, etc.),” they continued.
”And, we predicted about 1/6 of those redeemed keys would turn into players that game at the same time. It’s what we call our concurrent users or CCU, for short.”
”The actual numbers crushed our predictions.” Currently publisher Atari is running special ”limited time offers” for subscription packages to Star Trek Online, and one includes a ”lifetime subscription” that lets you play as the Borg race - pre-orders only.
Have you signed-up and beamed up to the Star Trek Online open beta? Cryptic will soon be removing the level cap so testers can sample all of the game.
