From now until 10AM PDT on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013, we are having a 15% off sale on Master Keys. Also, take advantage of our special lock box promotion with this sale!
i think cryptic missed a missed a massive opportunity here and should of placed this after the start of LoR by a week, perhaps 2 in order for the RR toons to benefit from this. you also could of done FE rerun, CE event and a zen promotion as well, make things interesting. then put out another lockbox at the start of LoR as the dominion lock box is retired to the event a week or 2 later.
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i think cryptic missed a missed a massive opportunity here and should of placed this after the start of LoR by a week, perhaps 2 in order for the RR toons to benefit from this. you also could of done FE rerun, CE event and a zen promotion as well, make things interesting. then put out another lockbox at the start of LoR as the dominion lock box is retired to the event a week or 2 later.
How does it change anything? Buy the keys now, use them later with your Romulan char.
Keys are already going to be flooding the market come 21st May from the legacy packs so surely a sale on other more usable/practical stuff such as character slots, respec tokens or other stuff people will want to use would have been better.
#1 more players would use this if it was AFTER the LoR release
#2 this means the TalShiar LockBox will be released SOON... maybe TOO SOON?
Come on, at least let the returning players get some romulan level 50 chars before you drop the next LockBox stuff on our heads. 1 Month AFTER LoR releases would be ok.
If you want people to feel like spending Zen, try fixing your totally broken pre-patching. Or at least have a staff member publicly acknowledge there is a problem in the first 24 hours that you've had that broken pre-patch up.
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So I'm a little sleepy and willpower was low. Spent my last 2 month's stipend on a set of 10 keys... 66 lobi, 6 mining rights and a pile of junk. If I'm lucky I'll make 30k Dil from the mining rights and 1.75M EC on exchange for the junk.
Instead...
I could have sold 10 keys for 13-14M EC.
Put the 956 Zen up for sale and made ~124,000 Dil.
Damn you sleepiness and Cryptic! Again (4th time) I will swear to never open any more lock boxes! Kids, learn from my example... when gambling, only the House always wins.
Saw this coming, but I am far more interested in the possibility of character slots going on sale before the big release. Any chances of that, branflakes?
I don't really call 15% off a sale. Take the key, hit a lockbox and you have a .4% chance to get the good ship.
If the odds were a bit higher, like 5-7%, then yeah keys may be worth it but as it is now, they're not. All the boxes I have opened have always given me the lowest tier of stuff, never, ever the top or middle tier. So where's my incentive to spend my hard earned cash on a .4% chance?
I stopped opening boxes a long time ago. Why? The boxes NEVER give anything good! At the start of the year, I decided to see if Cryptic had redeemed itself. NO! I opened 50 Dominion boxes (literally, 50). I got 30 doff boxes, 4 mining claims, and the rest were a bunch of useless ground weapons.
I still want the Jemmy HEC! Where is my HEC? :mad:
So lesson learned? Don't even think of opening boxes. Just sell the keys for Credits. Had I done that, those 50 keys might have gotten enough Credits to just buy the HEC.
Luck of the draaw. I opened two Cardy boxes when the FE was first out and they made their first appearance. First gave me something useless to me so sold it on the exchange, the second gave me a Galor.
That is why many are against lockboxes, because they are a risky gamble. You could get the desired item out of your first box, or out of your thousanth. I had a fleetmate get the Jem'hadar bug out of his 2nd box, the carrier out of his 10th; another opened hundreds and got squat. It's basically like playing the slots in vegas; you're likely to lose more money than you gain reward.
In the end, the Dilithium or/and Zen spent on all those keys equals out to more than double the Dilithium or/and Zen required to buy the entire Vesta Pack, which I may just go ahead and do. :mad:
Well let's see, got 14 keys today, some with credits, some with zen. Opened 14 boxes for giggles.
56 lobi crystals
and
14 standard duty officer packs
WTH!
Come on Cryptic, enough with this BS, give us better odds at something decent besides common duty officers. I can see 1-4x but ALL 14 boxes. Yes, they were the mixtures of boxes:
1 Dom
1 Temp
1 Ferengi
1 Card
1 Temp
1 Ferengi
1 Card
1 Dom
1 Ferengi
1 Card
1 Dom
1 Temp
1 Dom
1 Temp
In that order. Nothing but a rip off to get people to buy more zen. Congrats to others who got better stuff but honestly, after all that time and zen, I seriously feel ripped off.
i think cryptic missed a missed a massive opportunity here and should of placed this after the start of LoR by a week, perhaps 2 in order for the RR toons to benefit from this. you also could of done FE rerun, CE event and a zen promotion as well, make things interesting. then put out another lockbox at the start of LoR as the dominion lock box is retired to the event a week or 2 later.
The purpose of a sale is to get people to spend money when they wouldn't have, or to get people to spend money with you instead of your competitor when they would have spent money anyway.
Holding a sale when people were already going to spend money with you in large numbers just leaves profit on the table, instead of increasing it. However, you could buy lots and lots of keys now, and wait for the new box to use them.
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bad timing...
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1 Month AFTER LoR releases would be ok.
Considering that we tend to level a toon in a week , in a month those same ppl might be somewhere else ... .
It would have been nice for the May 21st ppl to enjoy the sale too , but as is this sale is for those who play now .
I have lost Faith in the lockbox system due the temporal lockbox and all I got was Doff packs not sure if I will buy a lockbox key again and if I used zen traded dilithium I'm saving up for the ships and shinies that LOR will bring
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Cool, I might look into getting a set of keys to play with again. That is how I did on the last sell. Granted the odds isn't good on the JHEC. Since I stocked piled all the Dominion boxes since they came out. But I tend to open them over time. However I'm after another item out of the box. Stock up on Lobis. I want 2 items from the store. Since I don't have EC in large amounts. My best shot will be the Lobi.
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How does it change anything? Buy the keys now, use them later with your Romulan char.
what, you dont want the romulans to have the chance to have a fair shot at it? why not?
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#1 more players would use this if it was AFTER the LoR release
#2 this means the TalShiar LockBox will be released SOON... maybe TOO SOON?
Come on, at least let the returning players get some romulan level 50 chars before you drop the next LockBox stuff on our heads. 1 Month AFTER LoR releases would be ok.
If you want people to feel like spending Zen, try fixing your totally broken pre-patching. Or at least have a staff member publicly acknowledge there is a problem in the first 24 hours that you've had that broken pre-patch up.
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Member of Alliance Central Command/boq botlhra'ghom
Where's my wallet ...
Instead...
Damn you sleepiness and Cryptic! Again (4th time) I will swear to never open any more lock boxes! Kids, learn from my example... when gambling, only the House always wins.
If the odds were a bit higher, like 5-7%, then yeah keys may be worth it but as it is now, they're not. All the boxes I have opened have always given me the lowest tier of stuff, never, ever the top or middle tier. So where's my incentive to spend my hard earned cash on a .4% chance?
*looks at pile of old Cardassian boxes.. Hmm... *
I still want the Jemmy HEC! Where is my HEC? :mad:
So lesson learned? Don't even think of opening boxes. Just sell the keys for Credits. Had I done that, those 50 keys might have gotten enough Credits to just buy the HEC.
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56 lobi crystals
and
14 standard duty officer packs
WTH!
Come on Cryptic, enough with this BS, give us better odds at something decent besides common duty officers. I can see 1-4x but ALL 14 boxes. Yes, they were the mixtures of boxes:
1 Dom
1 Temp
1 Ferengi
1 Card
1 Temp
1 Ferengi
1 Card
1 Dom
1 Ferengi
1 Card
1 Dom
1 Temp
1 Dom
1 Temp
In that order. Nothing but a rip off to get people to buy more zen. Congrats to others who got better stuff but honestly, after all that time and zen, I seriously feel ripped off.
Sorry, miscounted Lobi.
The purpose of a sale is to get people to spend money when they wouldn't have, or to get people to spend money with you instead of your competitor when they would have spent money anyway.
Holding a sale when people were already going to spend money with you in large numbers just leaves profit on the table, instead of increasing it. However, you could buy lots and lots of keys now, and wait for the new box to use them.
Considering that we tend to level a toon in a week , in a month those same ppl might be somewhere else ... .
It would have been nice for the May 21st ppl to enjoy the sale too , but as is this sale is for those who play now .
The May 21st-ers will have to pay full price .
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Brigadier General Jokag IKS Gorkan
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especially after spending $10 on Temporal box for nothing!
Yet my friends all get something awesome with the same amount .... unfair (I know its not rigged ...)
I hope STO get's better ...