We are happy to announce that from Friday, April 6, 2012 (3:00 PM PDT) until Sunday, April 8, 2012 (11:55 PM PDT), players will receive an additional 15% bonus when purchasing Zen* and C-Store Points.**
*through select payment methods
**Virtual Cryptic Point Cards are excluded from promo
The payment through the site writes out the extra CP you get, so would buying right with your debit card through the STO site get those states extra CP as well?
So waitaminute... This weekend, during this CP Promo and First Contact Sale, I can get 15% more CP and 20% off, effectively giving me a 35% Discount!?!?
Sheeee-oot!!!
and Ooohweee!!!
Where do I sign?
Thanks Cryptic.
>sigh<
Unfortunately except the new Flagships, there's nothing out I want... Hmm... Maybe I'll just buy a couple "Magic Card Boosters", uh, I mean DOff Packs. :cool:
Edit: Derp! The Flagships might not be the full 35%, but I still get an (effective) 15% off... Hmm.... Nah, I still can't do it. I hate flying a slug. Turn rates are just too low. Hmm... dunno... I'll have to think about it... :rolleyes:
*faceplants desk* I bought 2000 C-points about 2 hours before this started
I feel your pain. I purchased the 5k bundle last night.
Kind of miffed that they announce this the day after announcing the sale. The worst part is the wife is gonna get the same email, and will probably never let me buy Cryptic points again. Thanks.
The reason it was not announced say last week, is because nobody would have bought CP for the entire week, ergo, no sales, now that it is sprung on us, those that did buy CP might, just might buy more at a bonus> All economics my friends. i would have done it the same way. Business is brutal, but it's fair.
And by the way... Thanx Cryptic. Any bonus or discount is appreciated by the majority of us, but of course we ALWAYS think it is never enough, or too early, or too late.
IMHO It should have been DOUBLE like the other MMO's are doing this weekend.
The reason it was not announced say last week, is because nobody would have bought CP for the entire week, ergo, no sales, now that it is sprung on us, those that did buy CP might, just might buy more at a bonus> All economics my friends. i would have done it the same way. Business is brutal, but it's fair.
And by the way... Thanx Cryptic. Any bonus or discount is appreciated by the majority of us, but of course we ALWAYS think it is never enough, or too early, or too late.
IMHO It should have been DOUBLE like the other MMO's are doing this weekend.
Still love ya though.
You know tha and I know that. But we're reasonable people. But folks truck in the same argument every time there is a sale of some type.
Just like every time there is an event or free item folks yell "I didn't know event X was going on" when its over. I can already see it happening when the FC event is over.
Does anyone know if this actually works with creditcard, the post suggests otherwise, but the actually order form seems to suggest that it might actually still give it to you.
Does anyone know if this actually works with creditcard, the post suggests otherwise, but the actually order form seems to suggest that it might actually still give it to you.
I just bought w/DebitCard I have I file for Sub and it gave me the extra points.....
I just bought w/DebitCard I have I file for Sub and it gave me the extra points.....
So YES!
Oh that figures. I used Paypal payment (which I only used because I thought it was required for the bonus), and my payment is now in 'reviewing', which according to the faq can take 24 hours+ to get the amount into my account for PWE. It probably would of went through nearly instantly if I had used credit card instead.
Edit:
While still not completed as of yet, it turns out I read the faq wrong, as "Payment Review" is 24 hours and is caused by PayPal's side (which has already gone through), whereas "Reviewing" means "Your transaction is currently in the review/approval process and will be completed shortly." It seems "shortly" is more time than it probably should be, likely thanks to the sale(s) being popular.
Edit 2:
Lol. It completed after I hit post on the first edit. Impatient user is impatient.
I'm so glad I made the decision to wait until the last day of the Cryptic sale to make my purchases as I was going to grind dilithium with all my toons.:)
So waitaminute... This weekend, during this CP Promo and First Contact Sale, I can get 15% more CP and 20% off, effectively giving me a 35% Discount!?!?
Sorry, picky math man here to say that's a little bit off.
Before, $1 would get 80 C-Points. Now $1 gets you 92 C-Points (80 +15% = 92). However, 92 C-Points will get you as much as 115 C-Points normally would for most items (115 -20% = 92). So what would normally get you 80 C-Points worth of goods will instead give you 115 C-Points worth of goods; either a value increase of 43.75% or a price decrease of 30.4%, however you want to look at it.
Epic was gojng to buy my new klingon ships last weekend and decided to wate then saw 20 %off and now 15% more will be spending abou 75$ in about now! Great idea cryptic:D
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Figures. I bought CP the day before the sale started, after a month of deliberation on whether I was going to.
Oh well, karma loves making fun of me.
So overall, an extra 75 CP for every 500 CP purchased.
Sheeee-oot!!!
and
Ooohweee!!!
Where do I sign?
Thanks Cryptic.
>sigh<
Unfortunately except the new Flagships, there's nothing out I want... Hmm... Maybe I'll just buy a couple "Magic Card Boosters", uh, I mean DOff Packs. :cool:
Edit: Derp! The Flagships might not be the full 35%, but I still get an (effective) 15% off... Hmm.... Nah, I still can't do it. I hate flying a slug. Turn rates are just too low. Hmm... dunno... I'll have to think about it... :rolleyes:
Nice job Cryptic. :rolleyes:
I feel your pain. I purchased the 5k bundle last night.
Kind of miffed that they announce this the day after announcing the sale. The worst part is the wife is gonna get the same email, and will probably never let me buy Cryptic points again. Thanks.
And by the way... Thanx Cryptic. Any bonus or discount is appreciated by the majority of us, but of course we ALWAYS think it is never enough, or too early, or too late.
IMHO It should have been DOUBLE like the other MMO's are doing this weekend.
Still love ya though.
You know tha and I know that. But we're reasonable people. But folks truck in the same argument every time there is a sale of some type.
Just like every time there is an event or free item folks yell "I didn't know event X was going on" when its over. I can already see it happening when the FC event is over.
I just bought w/DebitCard I have I file for Sub and it gave me the extra points.....
So YES!
So did I.
Oh that figures. I used Paypal payment (which I only used because I thought it was required for the bonus), and my payment is now in 'reviewing', which according to the faq can take 24 hours+ to get the amount into my account for PWE. It probably would of went through nearly instantly if I had used credit card instead.
Edit:
While still not completed as of yet, it turns out I read the faq wrong, as "Payment Review" is 24 hours and is caused by PayPal's side (which has already gone through), whereas "Reviewing" means "Your transaction is currently in the review/approval process and will be completed shortly." It seems "shortly" is more time than it probably should be, likely thanks to the sale(s) being popular.
Edit 2:
Lol. It completed after I hit post on the first edit. Impatient user is impatient.
Same amount, first day of the sale. I'm feeling your pain.:(
Before, $1 would get 80 C-Points. Now $1 gets you 92 C-Points (80 +15% = 92). However, 92 C-Points will get you as much as 115 C-Points normally would for most items (115 -20% = 92). So what would normally get you 80 C-Points worth of goods will instead give you 115 C-Points worth of goods; either a value increase of 43.75% or a price decrease of 30.4%, however you want to look at it.