Pocketbook's emptiness? Hah. That's just funny. If I wanted the corvette I could have bought it the first day, and that's just with ec. Not a sub or a lifer. The fact that you think a few people buying a ship on the first day (likely with ec, not even real cash) would pay for an entire team making an event which likely took hundreds of manhours to create is just laughable. Programmers and digital artists are generally well paid, I have no idea what Cryptic pays them, but it a) has to cover col and b) has to be enough to keep them there instead of going to work for a larger game company. I'm sure we'll never know any salary numbers due to nda.
You can make that argument if you want... But someone had to pay real world money at some point for any of the keys purchased with ZEN to obtain Lobi crystals. Just because you didn't buy it yourself doen't mean it was't already paid for in some extent.
People buy zen to sell for Dilitium, you trade dili for pre-bought Zen...
People buy keys to sell for EC, you buy those keys for millions a piece.
There is never a way that anything purchased for premium currency is gotten for 100% absolutely free.
Personally I don't care about the release date of the romulan clothes, I don't use my romulan for anything out side of doffing. I have all of the vanity clothes on my fed that I desire. The clothes' release was still months down the line as I proved. Then you magically come up with the term launch window.
*sighs* it's becoming increasingly obvious that logic fails you. A launch window is a time-frame between the release of a product to market stabilization... When the new iPhone comes out people flock to buy it for the next 3-4 months... that entire time is the "launch" of the iPhone....
In an MMO the window is mirrored much the same... an update is launched and a few hyper-active months of everybody participating goes buy... then the community stabilizes. ALL the Romulan content we've been given for LoR has been around the "Launch" of LoR and even further up-sold by the launch of the Summer Event's offerings...
It's not like in the middle of nothingsville we were given the VOY: Racing Uniform... OH WAIT!!!!
We don't want what the Feds have. We want the equivalent. We want fairer treatment. Concern, desire, greed to some extent, and passionate belief that the enough people would buy KDF items to make it worth Cryptic's while.
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So we shall
o.O When did I mention shuttles?
You can make that argument if you want... But someone had to pay real world money at some point for any of the keys purchased with ZEN to obtain Lobi crystals. Just because you didn't buy it yourself doen't mean it was't already paid for in some extent.
People buy zen to sell for Dilitium, you trade dili for pre-bought Zen...
People buy keys to sell for EC, you buy those keys for millions a piece.
There is never a way that anything purchased for premium currency is gotten for 100% absolutely free.
*sighs* it's becoming increasingly obvious that logic fails you. A launch window is a time-frame between the release of a product to market stabilization... When the new iPhone comes out people flock to buy it for the next 3-4 months... that entire time is the "launch" of the iPhone....
In an MMO the window is mirrored much the same... an update is launched and a few hyper-active months of everybody participating goes buy... then the community stabilizes. ALL the Romulan content we've been given for LoR has been around the "Launch" of LoR and even further up-sold by the launch of the Summer Event's offerings...
It's not like in the middle of nothingsville we were given the VOY: Racing Uniform... OH WAIT!!!!