I have good news and I have bad news for you Cryptic fans out there, and in favor of the old journalistic value of stringing you along, I will start with the good news.
This news concerns Star Trek Online, which launched just yesterday. Despite the fanfare of the vocal minority on the Star Trek forums over the open beta and head start, Star Trek Online opened to better than expected numbers, one million accounts. Aside from being on the top 10 lists on Amazon, Steam, Direct 2 Drive, and other venues, Cryptic’s latest title has been doing so well that the company will be beefing up the server capacity in order to contain it all.
Unfortunately, where there is good, there is bad. While Star Trek Online players prosper, Chamions Online players are met with sorrow. Those of you who play Champions Online, and are at least moderately active in the forums, will likely know Daeke, Cryptic’s Community Manager. No, Daeke was not pulled out of a ship through its open hull (well, he wasn’t killed by it, but that is another story entirely. Daeke has left Cryptic, on unknown terms he is either not willing to talk about or unable to legally.
I think even those who constantly complain about Cryptic will be sad to see Daeke go, although the conspiracy train is already trudging out of the station. The speculators believe that Daeke was fired due to his slipping of the information that the next expansion in Champions Online would be a paid-for expansion, a factor Cryptic may have wanted to keep under wraps, especially considering the uproar the announcement has caused.
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