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crowangel666
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ok so not long before the new expansion comes out and before that there is an opportunity to purchase either a Legacy or Starter Pack providing goodies for a price.
Now here it is, after reading through other blogs and threads i have some go on to say that the legacy pack should be free to life timers or at least at a discount. To be honest i don't think that is unreasonable considering the price tag for buying lifetime, not to mention other money gone onto the account by purchasing c-store items. Of course some earn dilithium and buy through there. What do you think?
Others suggest that having this pack is yet another way for cryptic and its share holders to use and abuse the hype of a new expansion to gain profit and should not be here, but rather some sort of pack to arrive later into the game. And others have in there colourful terms expressed that STO isnt worth the money nor worth the F2P and that STO is just mere grind grind grind and oh my god this is soooooo sucks. Me i love STO though i believe with all the money they will be getting out of this and money earned they should hear its players and new features to STO.
Anyway its not my opinion its yours i want, and in hope cryptic will read. lol SO let them rip. WOOP
Now here it is, after reading through other blogs and threads i have some go on to say that the legacy pack should be free to life timers or at least at a discount. To be honest i don't think that is unreasonable considering the price tag for buying lifetime, not to mention other money gone onto the account by purchasing c-store items. Of course some earn dilithium and buy through there. What do you think?
Others suggest that having this pack is yet another way for cryptic and its share holders to use and abuse the hype of a new expansion to gain profit and should not be here, but rather some sort of pack to arrive later into the game. And others have in there colourful terms expressed that STO isnt worth the money nor worth the F2P and that STO is just mere grind grind grind and oh my god this is soooooo sucks. Me i love STO though i believe with all the money they will be getting out of this and money earned they should hear its players and new features to STO.
Anyway its not my opinion its yours i want, and in hope cryptic will read. lol SO let them rip. WOOP
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That has nothing to do with being an LTS or a Gold member. Do LTS get free ships from the C-Store? No. Do LTS get free Boffs from the C-Store? No. Do LTS get free Keys from the C-Store? No. Being an LTS has nothing to do with buying things from the C-Store.
LTS will get a free Liberated Borg Rom playable captain. That's what they get from buying an LTS now: a playable Fed or playable KDF.
I have the LTS, and I'm not enraged. The pack is fairly priced. I'll be picking it up, and kudos to marketing for making me want to try out the Romulans - something I wasn't sure I was going to do.
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Indeed, I will echo your opinion. I'm also a Lifer, and I essentially feel indifferent. The only thing I want as a Lifer is my LB Romulan Captain and the 1,000 Day Veteran Ship. I could care less if they do not give me anything from the Legacy Pack for free. I did not pay for the Legacy Pack, I paid for a Lifetime Membership.
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Indeed, and supposedly, they have a full blog to denote those perks, so chances are, there are at least a handful of them. ^_^
Original Name: -Gen-Alaris
Days Subscribed: 1211 (As of May 26, 2013)
As some of the items seem to be related to what will be avaliable to LTS then holding off buying, if looking for sales especially from those who have put money in already I would hope some customer loyalty can be shown?
Adjusted discount for UK and LTS players would help with sales overall too. Half the ships I'm fairly meh about, as a long time Trek fan it tends to be the more 'classic' ships of interest.
Perhaps the non ship items could be bundled together as a pre-order character pack sale maybe?
This is what I am curious about, where and when was it confirmed?? I don't care about a liberated borg Reman, I want a Liberated borg Romulan.
In a recent interview (I think the one doneby STOked with Dstahl), he said that he 'believes' that LTS are getting Liberated Borg, last he checked.
Original Name: -Gen-Alaris
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Right now all we know is that there will eventually be a 1,000 Day Vet Reward Rom ship and that Dan stated he thinks there will be a Rom Liberated Borg captain available.
We'll know more soon.
BackEngineering the Legacy of Romulus Pack
Scorpion Fighter flyable shutle - 500 zen
T'Varo Light Warbird - Tier 1 ship - 500 zen
Dhael Warbird - Tier 2 ship - 750 zen
Valdore Heavy Warbird - Tier 3 ship - 1000 zen
D'ridthau Warbird - Tier 4 ship - 1500 zen
T'Varo Warbird Retrofit - Tier 5 Ship - 2000 zen
Dhelan Warbird Retrofit - Tier 5 ship - 2000 zen
Mogai Warbird Retrofit - Tier 5 ship - 2000 zen
D'deridex Warbird Retrofit - Tier 5 ship - 2500 zen
Playable Reman species - 600 zen
Liberated borg reman boff - 400 zen
Doff minipack - 250 zen
30 master keys 1/account 3375 zen (Math goof: They're valuing them at 3000 Zen, rather than the C store price of 3375)
Exclusive Items - 1100 zen
Reman "Nemesis" Uniform - 500 Zen
Survivor of Romulus Title - 200 zen
Survivor of Remus Title - 200 Zen
Rihannsu Title - 200 Zen
Reverse engineering exclusive title prices via Starter Pack:
T'Varo Light Warbird - T1 ship - 500 zen
T'Varo Warbird Retrofit - T5 ship - 2000 zen
Liberated Borg Reman Boff - 400 zen
Thus:
Title: Surviver of Romulus approximately valued @: 200 zen.
This. Exactly This.
I am also a Lifer. I see know reason why these C-store items should have anything to do with Lifetime Subs.
I can understand wanting to know about the Vet ship. What you are asking is "is it worth it for me to buy a C-store ship, if I am just going to use the free ship I get at 1000 days". Unfortunately, buzz is this question will probably go unanswered for now.
What I can not understand is this idea that as a lifer you are entitled to, as thecosmic1 pointed out, free C-store items because you pay for the game. You didn't get this before, why should you now.
Even though I don't know that I will be using it, The only thing I really am concerned about, is if there will be a Playable Romulan Lib borg. And all sources say it will happen.
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Most of the content looks like it'll be obtainable in the C-Store later on for dilithium.
And while I'd hate to miss out on *any* potential chance for more Reman collectibles..
To be honest, I'd rather go without untill a developer specifically annotates 'uniqueness.'
As in say for example: Reman Playability/Nemesis Uniform/DOFFs/Liberated Borg BOFF.
To which would then be specificed as unique to just the pack, by a developer, or not.
I probably won't be picking it up, as I generally only pick up t4 and t5 cstore ships, but I nearly did buy it on impulse just because of the discount. If I hadn't just got myself a year sub to planetside 2 I probably would have picked it up without thinking twice about it.
If I don't get the Legacy pack I will be picking up the starter pack for sure. Just need to avoid getting murdered by my wife for spending so much money on games this month
C-Store items and LTS have never had anything to do with each other (other than the fact you get a dil stipend you can save up to convert to zen), so why would they now? In the time I've been playing STO (when it went F2P), I've spent more money than what an LTS costs, simply because I've purchased everything seperately as I could afford it. Being on a fixed income means that sometimes you have to do things like that, that will cost you more in the long run, but make purchasing something possible. I mention this for two reasons, 1 to prevent the "you're not even a lifer so STFU" and because to be honest some lifers tend to forget EVERYONE that buys something helps contribute to the game, not just the lifers.
Now with all that out of the way, about the Legacy and Starter packs.
Good choice by Cryptic to have two different packs to choose from, but it almost feels like there should be a third choice in all that, one that is the middle ground between the two packs.
The Thunderchild with its point defense system console proved that lower tier ships can still be useful after you've surpassed their tier level, so I'm not surprised that they have a starter pack and lower tier ships in the legacy pack. If you're someone that hates the lockbox gamble, you can still sell the master keys that come with the legacy pack which will give you a good amount of ec towards a lockbox ship, so really there's the possibility of 5 endgame ships or 10 ships total.
Personally, I think if Cryptic leaves in availible long enough, that most people will go for the Legacy pack over the starter pack. Cryptic just has to realize that 125 dollars is a huge chunk of money for some people. Personally, I'm waiting until they release some ship stats before I decide to buy the pack or not, and not just the stats for the ships in the pack, but a side by side comparison of regular and c-store variations.
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I doubt it's a problem. As it's a pre-order for the May 21 expansion, I'd expect you could pay as late as the 20th and get the bundle price.
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