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Why not sell Emblems in the C-Store?

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited July 2011 in C-Store, ZEN, and Promotions
So, here's my problem. I got into PVP about 9 months ago, & since then, the PVE is so boring to me, that I have no interest in doing it anymore.(feature episodes excepted)
I can get only 3 emblems every day with PVP. so i can only get a new weapon every 11 days.:( I want to try out new weapons & console load outs with all of my toons, but not enough to suffer (yeah, that is how i feel about it ) through doing PVE to get emblems.
So how about giving us the option to by Emblems on a per character basis direct from the C- store?
Or is this a horrible idea?:eek:
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    selling currency in the C-Store? i'll admit i never heard that one before...
    i'm not entirely sure it will happen, but it would be nice, as getting only 11-14 emblems a day (on average) is really slow for ship grinding :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    amidoinitright wrote: »
    So, here's my problem. I got into PVP about 9 months ago, & since then, the PVE is so boring to me, that I have no interest in doing it anymore.(feature episodes excepted)
    I can get only 3 emblems every day with PVP. so i can only get a new weapon every 11 days.:( I want to try out new weapons & console load outs with all of my toons, but not enough to suffer (yeah, that is how i feel about it ) through doing PVE to get emblems.
    So how about giving us the option to by Emblems on a per character basis direct from the C- store?
    Or is this a horrible idea?:eek:

    Since everything you can get Ship-Wise with Emblems is in the C-Store, they effectively do.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    except consoles & weapons that can only be gotten with emblems.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Its called game balance. Basically allows you to get some of the best equipment without working for it. It would be he with the most disposable income wins.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    DangerouslyGeeky wrote: »
    Its called game balance. Basically allows you to get some of the best equipment without working for it. It would be he with the most disposable income wins.

    I can kinda see your point here, however, i have 2000 hrs of game time, i've gotten full sets of almost every type of weapon + console for my main, & 1 of my Alts, it's my new VA,I'm trying to equip through PVP only.
    Maybe give an accolade after x amount of emblems have been earned that allows you to purchase more.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I don't like this idea, and I could afford it if I wanted to. It's one thing to sell cosmetic items in the C-Store, quite another to put items that affect game play. And no, I don't think ships should be in the C-Store, either.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Well, I would prefer more ways to earn emblems through PVP in the game, but It doesn't seem that is going to happen anytime soon. In PVE you can earn enough emblems to buy a new MK XI weapon in 3 days, it takes 11 for a PVPer to earn the same gear. & that's when the queues were working.;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    The reason they don't sell Emblems in the C-$tore is they don't want you to play less. They want you playing more. Grinding Emblems is another way to get you to put more time in and to sub for another month (if not a lifer).


    Z
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I feel your emblem pain, and it would be nice if they would make the PvP daily into something more frequent. At the same time, they would have to address the emblem farmers that go AFK in PvP.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    The answer is to fix emblem rewards for PvP, not sell them on the C-Store.

    I mean if the stuff is all you want, why not ask them to sell the items directly on the C-Store? Because that sounds too distasteful, doesn't it?

    The C-Store already goes way too far, the answer is not to make things much, much worse.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Buying currency in the C-Store is definitely problematic.

    Though it is kinda possible already - for 100 Points you get a BO you can sell for a few hundred thousands EC on the Exchange, IIRC.

    Every little of these is a step t hat can lead to "Pay for Power".

    I think really Cryptic has to get some work done on the PVP rewards. It's laughable that you cna get only 3 Emblems via PvP each day. If they would just have all 3 PvP Queusts on at the same time, we could increase this number to 9/Day. If they added something like the B'Tran "hourly" to PvP (Maybe win 3 matches and gain 2 Emblems - makes grinding them via AFKing impossible), we would basically be even.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    This equal to selling gear outright and will never happen. a few MMOs tryed to do just that and they are no longer around.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I am actually suprised that this doesnt happen already. I mean, that FOR SURE would let Cryptic make a lot of money through C-Store.... so who cares if it inbalances the game? I mean beside the players, of course... but after the last week I'd be even more suprised if Cryptics shows ANY intrest in what players care about as long as they cant charge them extra for it...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I am actually suprised that this doesnt happen already

    i'm not. because even cryptic isn't stupid enough to add an instant 'I win' button to the game. selling emblems is a massive no no.
    I mean, that FOR SURE would let Cryptic make a lot of money through C-Store.... so who cares if it inbalances the game?

    I hope thats sarcasm. players would freak out, many would leave. games that have done this kind of thing have never survived long.
    but after the last week I'd be even more suprised if Cryptics shows ANY intrest in what players care about as long as they cant charge them extra for it...

    cryptic doesn't care what players think unless it directly affects the amount of money they make off them. this would drive thousands if not tens of thousands of players away from this game. hence they aren't going to do it.
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