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Think I'll stay FTP as going to be a life subscriber is the last thing on my mind unless things make a turn for the better I probably will say there be some who think the same
500CP is £4, Lifetime sub is £128.33, which would buy me 16000CP in a lump sum
16000/400=40, so STO needs to run for, and I need to keep playing for, another three years and four months for this to be worth it.
Can't see this being worthwhile, especially if things like lockboxes and timegated content continue to be the way forward
As for the other benefits? Liberated Borg would be nice if we could change races, but we can't, and I'm not grinding through another character, thanks all the same
Priority login? Not really an issue, I've never had a problem logging in, and if I do I'll just wait.
Veteran rewards? tempting, but only kick in after a long time. I doubt anyone buying during this sale will get to see the 1000 day rewards
I'll be kicking myself if, in seven years time STO is a wonderful, must-play game that does away with all the annoyances and truly values its player base, but right now? I don't see STO continuing to exist in three years, and I certainly don't see my interest surviving to that point, maybe others do.
I'll be kicking myself if, in seven years time STO is a wonderful, must-play game that does away with all the annoyances and truly values its player base, but right now? I don't see STO continuing to exist in three years, and I certainly don't see my interest surviving to that point, maybe others do.
I realise it's horribly naive of me to even think this, but perhaps the influx of money from the sale will help the game reach that goal?
I hate making big purchases on a day off of from work, but I'll definitely consider this while I'm working to earn the money that would pay for it...
its gone from $299 to $199 but the perks are not that great personally. access to a secluded area that only hands mail, exchange, ship selection, tailoring ship/personal auto refine dilithium and lets not forget those awesome 100day perks and lastly the $5 stipend
Well, I don't know about anyone else but if vet rewards up to 400 or so days were retroactively given to LTSers as a headstart, that'd far more than seal the deal.
Well, I don't know about anyone else but if vet rewards up to 400 or so days were retroactively given to LTSers as a headstart, that'd far more than seal the deal.
I wouldn't go that far, aside from the yacht the rewards are mostly just tokens (and they can be bought), but it would certainly be favorable. Then again, that would involve telling us what we're gonna get before we put down the cash, which is just silly!
(also slightly unfair on the people who earned them "properly". I have a great deal of respect for the people who committed to being LTSers early on)
I'm all about those spur of the moment sales we used to get in the C Store but when the sale price is 200 dollars shouldn't there be enough notice so the poor suckers who would buy a lifetime sub to a now free game can start saving up.
I wouldn't go that far, aside from the yacht the rewards are mostly just tokens (and they can be bought), but it would certainly be favorable. Then again, that would involve telling us what we're gonna get before we put down the cash, which is just silly!
(also slightly unfair on the people who earned them "properly". I have a great deal of respect for the people who committed to being LTSers early on)
Tbh, the yacht was the main reason I threw 400 out there XD
I said in another post, somewhere... the idea that LTS earns vet rewards retroactively, and true vet rewards are enhanced further, giving those LTSers incentive to keep playing to those milestones. Yes they get the tokens and minor shinies, but new rewards separate the true vets and still give something to look forward to.
500CP is £4, Lifetime sub is £128.33, which would buy me 16000CP in a lump sum
16000/400=40, so STO needs to run for, and I need to keep playing for, another three years and four months for this to be worth it.
Can't see this being worthwhile, especially if things like lockboxes and timegated content continue to be the way forward
As for the other benefits? Liberated Borg would be nice if we could change races, but we can't, and I'm not grinding through another character, thanks all the same
Priority login? Not really an issue, I've never had a problem logging in, and if I do I'll just wait.
Veteran rewards? tempting, but only kick in after a long time. I doubt anyone buying during this sale will get to see the 1000 day rewards
I'll be kicking myself if, in seven years time STO is a wonderful, must-play game that does away with all the annoyances and truly values its player base, but right now? I don't see STO continuing to exist in three years, and I certainly don't see my interest surviving to that point, maybe others do.
Yep. I bought a lifetime sub in the sale they had before F2P. I regret it. You don't get enough to justify a Gold membership. If you want to play STO, I think you're better off staying F2P and just buying a blob of c-points as needed, or when they've got a sale (which throws the above calculation even further off).
Now if, for some reason, you're paying a sub, and you think you're going to keep paying that sub for a couple more years, then I'd get the lifetime.
I em lifer from start, and don regret it. I know internet is free speech zone, but why all that hate toward Cryptic
It not needed, it serve no purpose.
I just hope STO will be Onj for a while because i like this game and actually is is nearly my last game what i playing these days ( real life is so demanding ... sigh)
If the lifetime sub gave you all the vet rewards right away I would be inclined to get it now but seeing as how I would still have to hope that the game keeps running for a few years to be worth wile and that $200 would get me a lot of unlocks on my account there is very little motivation to buy the Lifetime sub personally.
This is not an attack on Cryptic/PW, or on the game:
There is no good reason to purchase a LTS to a game you can play for free. Especially when the "perks" for the $200 (usually $300) are laughably small. My advice would be to pass on the LTS, and use that money on whatever else you wish (cash shop items, champions, another game, groceries...)
To celebrate the graduating Academy class of 2012, lifetime subscriptions are on sale from now until June 29th at 3:00pm PDT. Visit this page for full details.
Thanks for once again shutting out all the people like myself for get a monthly check on the third of each month. Could have at least made it for a full month...
I'm not even going to consider it until they resolve the issues with the foundry and the in game ticket system. Branflakes recent rudeness towards me doesn't help matters either.
This is not an attack on Cryptic/PW, or on the game:
There is no good reason to purchase a LTS to a game you can play for free. Especially when the "perks" for the $200 (usually $300) are laughably small. My advice would be to pass on the LTS, and use that money on whatever else you wish (cash shop items, champions, another game, groceries...)
What this guy said, it's not worth 200$ and it's certainly not worth 300$ - Oh goody, a BADGE, a TITLE a slightly dull character choice they'll ending SELLING IN THE C-STORE and a blue box around my posts? I'm still kicking myself for getting the LTS before Christmas, frankly, it's not worth the money and wont be until they treat LTS's better and give them more incentive.
Thanks for once again shutting out all the people like myself for get a monthly check on the third of each month. Could have at least made it for a full month...
I'm not even going to consider it until they resolve the issues with the foundry and the in game ticket system. Branflakes recent rudeness towards me doesn't help matters either.
You need to stop mooning your bare TRIBBLE at him in public
500CP is £4, Lifetime sub is £128.33, which would buy me 16000CP in a lump sum
16000/400=40, so STO needs to run for, and I need to keep playing for, another three years and four months for this to be worth it.
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It's a bit more than that. You need to factor in not just what you're getting, but also what you're not having to shell out extra to get. Over the course of leveling one character, you get free respecs at every promotion, and from veteran awards. Promotions alone I think that's 7. Each captain retrain token costs 400 CP. That's 2800 CP you can subtract from your 16K per character. If you buy 4 more character slots, that's seven characters total, for 19600 CP worth of respecs, minus the 850 CP you would have to spend to buy those extra characters, you're already 2750 points past what you spent. And then we haven't factored in the stipend yet. Or other services, like the default larger inventories, ship tokens, the veteran awards, Foundry access and so on.
If you plan to stick with one or two characters, and/or not buy any services, then it's probably not worth it for you. If you're an altoholic, it pays for itself, and quickly. (Which admittedly makes this offer slightly worrisome to me. I thought they didn't want subscribers anymore. That there's more money in silvers. In the long run. So if they're promoting not just subs, but lifetime subs now, could that mean there might not be a long run? Cause I'd hate to tell you to go for it if that was going to turn out to be the case.)
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still waiting for new missions Cryptic.
and no Doff Missions do not count I mean Storyline Missions
500CP is £4, Lifetime sub is £128.33, which would buy me 16000CP in a lump sum
16000/400=40, so STO needs to run for, and I need to keep playing for, another three years and four months for this to be worth it.
Can't see this being worthwhile, especially if things like lockboxes and timegated content continue to be the way forward
As for the other benefits? Liberated Borg would be nice if we could change races, but we can't, and I'm not grinding through another character, thanks all the same
Priority login? Not really an issue, I've never had a problem logging in, and if I do I'll just wait.
Veteran rewards? tempting, but only kick in after a long time. I doubt anyone buying during this sale will get to see the 1000 day rewards
I'll be kicking myself if, in seven years time STO is a wonderful, must-play game that does away with all the annoyances and truly values its player base, but right now? I don't see STO continuing to exist in three years, and I certainly don't see my interest surviving to that point, maybe others do.
I realise it's horribly naive of me to even think this, but perhaps the influx of money from the sale will help the game reach that goal?
I hate making big purchases on a day off of from work, but I'll definitely consider this while I'm working to earn the money that would pay for it...
could have sworn thats what the scamboxes grrrrr lockboxes were for.
why have a steady stream of income when you can upgrade to dam bursting torrent of money from the heavens 3.....4.......5.......6......7 times or more
I wouldn't go that far, aside from the yacht the rewards are mostly just tokens (and they can be bought), but it would certainly be favorable. Then again, that would involve telling us what we're gonna get before we put down the cash, which is just silly!
(also slightly unfair on the people who earned them "properly". I have a great deal of respect for the people who committed to being LTSers early on)
Tbh, the yacht was the main reason I threw 400 out there XD
I said in another post, somewhere... the idea that LTS earns vet rewards retroactively, and true vet rewards are enhanced further, giving those LTSers incentive to keep playing to those milestones. Yes they get the tokens and minor shinies, but new rewards separate the true vets and still give something to look forward to.
Yep. I bought a lifetime sub in the sale they had before F2P. I regret it. You don't get enough to justify a Gold membership. If you want to play STO, I think you're better off staying F2P and just buying a blob of c-points as needed, or when they've got a sale (which throws the above calculation even further off).
Now if, for some reason, you're paying a sub, and you think you're going to keep paying that sub for a couple more years, then I'd get the lifetime.
It not needed, it serve no purpose.
I just hope STO will be Onj for a while because i like this game and actually is is nearly my last game what i playing these days ( real life is so demanding ... sigh)
All hail Cryptic
All have nice day
Yep ,since LTS are minority :rolleyes:
There is no good reason to purchase a LTS to a game you can play for free. Especially when the "perks" for the $200 (usually $300) are laughably small. My advice would be to pass on the LTS, and use that money on whatever else you wish (cash shop items, champions, another game, groceries...)
Or buy a hell of a lot of Dilithium for the Fleet Star Bases
I do have two friends who plan on an LTS in the future.
Thanks for once again shutting out all the people like myself for get a monthly check on the third of each month. Could have at least made it for a full month...
I'm not even going to consider it until they resolve the issues with the foundry and the in game ticket system. Branflakes recent rudeness towards me doesn't help matters either.
What this guy said, it's not worth 200$ and it's certainly not worth 300$ - Oh goody, a BADGE, a TITLE a slightly dull character choice they'll ending SELLING IN THE C-STORE and a blue box around my posts? I'm still kicking myself for getting the LTS before Christmas, frankly, it's not worth the money and wont be until they treat LTS's better and give them more incentive.
You need to stop mooning your bare TRIBBLE at him in public
At launch = worth it (I honestly don't regret it)
Now = money better spent on C-Points IMO
LTA sale happens before those changes (whatever they will be)
is it just me or would it make more sense if the improvements of the product would happen BEFORE the big $$$ sale?
It's a bit more than that. You need to factor in not just what you're getting, but also what you're not having to shell out extra to get. Over the course of leveling one character, you get free respecs at every promotion, and from veteran awards. Promotions alone I think that's 7. Each captain retrain token costs 400 CP. That's 2800 CP you can subtract from your 16K per character. If you buy 4 more character slots, that's seven characters total, for 19600 CP worth of respecs, minus the 850 CP you would have to spend to buy those extra characters, you're already 2750 points past what you spent. And then we haven't factored in the stipend yet. Or other services, like the default larger inventories, ship tokens, the veteran awards, Foundry access and so on.
If you plan to stick with one or two characters, and/or not buy any services, then it's probably not worth it for you. If you're an altoholic, it pays for itself, and quickly. (Which admittedly makes this offer slightly worrisome to me. I thought they didn't want subscribers anymore. That there's more money in silvers. In the long run. So if they're promoting not just subs, but lifetime subs now, could that mean there might not be a long run? Cause I'd hate to tell you to go for it if that was going to turn out to be the case.)