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Pre-Order Item pack

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited October 2011 in C-Store, ZEN, and Promotions
Back in the days of Stahl's peak there were whispers of the pre-order items being sold as a C-Store packs in the engineering reports if I remember correctly.

Now I would absolutely love this to be released, any word on the progress or possibilities of this package being released to us.

Also if anyone can find which engineering report is was that would be great, I checked through and couldn't see if but in my defence I'm flued up to the eyeballs, but still trying.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    They need to make sure they do not have a contract with the company that is carrying the pre-order items. Once that is cleard they would be allowed to post them in the C-Store.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Yeah the Target one being the main one, thats really the only bit i want the TR-116a
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Once the new weapons come out, the TR-116 will be completely obsolete. All the [Borg] weapons, and the new STF reward weapons, have built-in kinetic damage that is better than the TR-116.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I agree with you Cuatela, but the TR looks so much cooler than any other Fed weapon.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    These days I find it funny that I did not get my TR-116 from Target.
    How do I know it wasn't from target you didn't ask? I'm in Sweden.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I got the new [borg] weapons on Tribble and they cool, but I would like the gun for low levels when finding a decent weapons isn't that easy and also for the cool looking side of it lol.

    Was wondering if we'd get any kind of dev response more than anything.

    Oh well.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Supposedly, and this is a rumor, not confirmed fact, the pre-order agreements were made by Atari with the individual retailers, meaning that Atari would have to participate in breaking off those agreements.

    EDIT: again, supposedly this is why the liberated borg engineer isn't in the C-Store on tribble (among other things).

    Under Atari managment, Cryptic probably could have gotten a pack to market with all the preorder goodies, but under PWI, that's much less likely, if any of this is actually true.

    I hate to relay unconfirmed rumors, but, there you go.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I wonder what effect the free to play transition will have on those agreements. They could change with no product to sell.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    If they can't sell the original versions, they could always make something similar. If F2P is going to be a success they'll be releasing a lot of packages, they may introduce the complete DS9 pack containing various weapons that only appeared on DS9 like the TR-116, a Bajorian phaser, the Dominion bladed weapon (can't remember the name) and a few other things like the type 10 shuttle from the Defiant.

    That would open up so make other packages as well for Ent, TMP, TNG, VOY (if we must but i did like the type 9 aerodynamic shuttles)

    But that's me thinking out load, and my flame suit is engaged just in case.

    Any other ideas people?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Cormoran wrote: »
    I wonder what effect the free to play transition will have on those agreements. They could change with no product to sell.

    Yeah, or the entire thing could be BS. I'd wager that the agreements conferred exclusivity for the items, and Atari negotiated the rights back for the ones they thought would actually sell, but the only rights that actually returned to Cryptic were the Classic Constitution.

    The Classic Connie being in the Tribble C-Store makes me a little dubious of this rumor as a whole, since, if it were accurate they wouldn't be able to sell that at all. And, it wouldn't surprise me if the Borg BO is simply missing from the current tribble server because of some balance concern. When I transferred my main over, his borg engineer and preorder items came across fine.

    That said, the Classic Constitution in the Tribble C-Store may actually be a DIFFERENT ship, using assets they already had in the game. I've no way to check, but, the ship has a different name, and I read somewhere it has green (as in uncommon), not blue phasers.
    Dangerous_Daswe wrote:
    If they can't sell the original versions, they could always make something similar. If F2P is going to be a success they'll be releasing a lot of packages, they may introduce the complete DS9 pack containing various weapons that only appeared on DS9 like the TR-116, a Bajorian phaser, the Dominion bladed weapon (can't remember the name) and a few other things like the type 10 shuttle from the Defiant.

    That would open up so make other packages as well for Ent, TMP, TNG, VOY (if we must but i did like the type 9 aerodynamic shuttles)

    But that's me thinking out load, and my flame suit is engaged just in case.

    Any other ideas people?

    In the case of the TR116, I believe I read somewhere the Devs weren't particularly happy with the weapon being in the game at all, because it opened up exploitation in PvP. As for the others, I've no idea. It could still land them in hot water, if they're offering something that's a deliberate knockoff of something someone was promised exclusivity on, they could still get sued, though if anyone cares enough to, would be a fair question.
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