Hello STO community,

Has anyone experienced a less than satisfactory customer service from Cryptic's support/customer relations team? Things such as no response to some of your tickets, or responses that direct you/"pawn you off" to the forums with NO specific area to search under for your issue? How about NO clear indication or explaination to why they made a certain decision that concerns you? Perhaps when when you do get a response, is it vague and does not answer your issue or inquiry? Or here's an extreme, have you ever been THREATENED by cryptic that you will punished for attempting to demand clarification from them on a previous vague and unclear response? Or maybe someone has other 'unique' issues.

I had requested help on issues of how to gain admin proviledges on a player made channel, it was just a simple question. The unfortunate situation was where the creator of the private channel left the game due to real life reasons and myself and friends want to manage it in his absence. The response I received, was basically a link to goto the forums and that was it. No one actually wrote me back with a brief but clear response to my concern. You don't feel that sense, that someone took the time make that individual connection to you to make your issue seem relevant to them, basics of customer service, which I've been doing over 10 years.

If no one 'minds', would you care to share your experiences on this issue?

You first.

yeah. never heard of bad costumer service from cryptic. ever.
Even when they were with atari they didn't even bother to have bad CS.

Must be an off day for them.
Maybe a year from today it will be a "one year anniversay" of the one day cryptic couldn't do CS to save their lives.

What's going on here? An attempt at a coup d'etat!

I'm going to point out that this is a topic fraught with potential forum rules violations.

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*Not gonna touch this one today.*

All I will say is, yes. Yes I have. I have rarely seen customer service as bad as I have seen here, though it was some time ago, to be fair.

well, as it's now running into 5 days without a response to my ticket, raised due to my illiteracy with numerics and no commas in the sale price window on the exchange, i think i'd agree.......am resigning myself to the "pawned off" reply though, as it's not winning me over, this customer service...

*edit*
1 week....

Only 1 week? Hmph! I've only ever had one response come in under 9 days, which was a request to get a 24hr chat ban looked at as I was a victim of rick-rollers.

Most tickets I put in don't even get looked at, they just vanish. Ones that do get responded too tend to take a minimum of 14 days to be looked at by the "GMs", some of which can take a full month to be looked at.

Short version? The GM system as it stands, does not inspire any faith or confidence.


Is it okay to give a short summary of any response received from a GM? Giving the meaning of a response rather than a word for word quote. Is that covered under the "no PMs in public" rule?

Erring on the side of caution, I'm going to say that it is not permissible to quote or to paraphrase any response received from Cryptic/PWE. If your problem isn't getting resolved, I suppose you can say that much on the forums and PWE can follow up on that if they so choose.