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Last Chance Lockbox Event (Now - 1/29)
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The Lobi Crystal Consortium (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quark Enterprises) has announced that they are taking the Delta Expedition Lock Box away soon! Nows your opportunity to open one of these boxes for a chance at some spectacular prizes. Read more details about it here.
To learn more about the Delta Expedition Lock Box and all the wonderful prizes, check out this blog showcasing all the contents here.
~LaughingTrendy
To learn more about the Delta Expedition Lock Box and all the wonderful prizes, check out this blog showcasing all the contents here.
~LaughingTrendy
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If you want it to truly be "Last chance", previous ships/lockboxes should NEVER return. After all, the intent with Lockboxes, was to keep the ships "rare" ? Atleast, that was the justification back when Lockboxes were new.
result = NEVER open gamble boxes last chances or bonus boxes that were falsely advertised.
if not lol at the marketing guy...
Doesn't mean it'll never be available again, just not available for a while.
Its actually pretty useful. Ensures a stream of D'Koras/Galors and various other old ships enter the market again. Otherwise their price would be crazy
You know, I think most folks making that prediction would be overjoyed to be absolutely wrong about the Kobali ship being the Anniversary ship. We'd still have a chance to get faction-specific designs for the Anniversary (though baseline T6-10 with eventual Fleet variants or C-Store packs) and a high-quality cross-faction ship (T6-11) in the lock box. It would make it odd to have titled the News articles Anniversary Personal Log (Part 1) and Anniversary Personal Log (Part 2), however, since it would relate to the lock box and not really the Anniversary.
Still, at least we could hold out hope for something closer to the 3rd Anniversary than the 4th... I just skipped the 4th Anniversary and the (therefore incomplete) associated C-Store packs entirely last time (I might have considered the C-Store versions if we got the complete Sets out of them). With everything else being time-gated, the Anniversary used to be a fun special event where we got a great Episode and a nice toy. With everything else taking longer than it used to, I don't really anticipate the Anniversary being set up like the 3rd or even the Summer/Winter Events... but maybe we'll all be pleasantly surprised.
As far as the Last Chance promo... these are always a nice way of getting the old lock boxes. Plus, it heralds the arrival of another option (Maybe the KDF and Roms will get Reciprocity after all?
yea i get that ,nothing bad about the devs but lol that marketing guy sure is not inventive
here something that can make people open them more than using last chance : add something special too it or add double the lobies or add a anything unique but cheap to make to show off that can only be found in this period of time.
Yes, one of those boxes 'could' contain something special, but You just know the moment i buy 100+ keys, the flag for 'find nothing special and we make a lot of money from that player, regardles', gets activated. :mad:
Scotty, Dr. McCoy - one to beam up.
LLAP
Kobali anniversary ship with Vaadwar lockbox items!
/10char.
I upgraded, though, Jem Hadar space/ground set, bought armors and consoles for lobi crystals.
Forgive me not being enthusiastic over current/any Lock-box disappearance.
Yeah pretty much my average is about 150-300 lockboxes before they drop the ships. The one thing about lockbox ships tho is they feel under powered now compared to these T6 ships. That and the fact that they throw something out there they say is alt friendly but then they push out another massive grindfest to take its place. Roughly though you need a KDF assembly line or a trust fund though to get enough to get the ships lol.
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Yeah they drop in the "open world" so the cost kind of makes sense, but not for F2P. If I'm going to spend my real money on that, I might as well subscribe. It would be more cost effective. I'd get considerably more benefits. But it's not worth it to me to do so for two main reasons.
1: I have a subscription commitment to another game.
2: I don't see this game as worth throwing much money at (if any) for vanity stuff (character slots, specific ship, etc), much less a subscription.
MMOs are a business. I get that. This is a nice way to get some of us F2P to buy stuff. It would, however, go over better if we were enticed by being given a few keys, about 10 or 15, for free for use by the entire account. Get us hooked on it.
More money for PWI and ARC.....Free 2 Play.....NOT.
I did subscribe...I paid the Life time membership....Seriously 125Z for 1 KEY??????
How about 10 for 125Z and 100 for 1125Z....as many lock boxes that drop....that would be more worth the MY money.
A lot of money paid into this game.....not a lot of incentive to stay!!!!
Joined January 2009
I am not grand Cryptic marketing guru, but imho this would help them. It's like a standard lottery. If you want to have run successfull lottery game you need winners. Not so often but from time to time you need to show winner who get "everything for nothing". It boosts interest people to buy tickets in hope they will win too - as they see it is possible to win. The trick is obvious. It is still rng gamble with very small chance to win, but it gives people hope.
In case of Cryptic. The chance to win ship is very small as we all know. So with current rng loot table to give - let's say - from 3 to 5 free keys would did not harm them. Most of people would get "trash" - well for low level players they would have chance to get some helpful and usable stuff - only a few would get ships. Imho it would boost interest to buy few more keys for zens and it would help to change a little image of Cryptic. Look we are not greedy Ferengi we offer something for our playes for free.
But you know... :-)
Here is a sample of what another MMO offers if you "buy" their paid membership:
Unlimited [REDACTED] Lockbox Unlocks
Unlimited in-game currency
You can still buy keys to unlock boxes if you aren't a paid member or a LTS, I have an LTS for that game and have had since it came out. I have an LTS for STO as well, IMO, this could happen in STO, would be a good way for them to boost sales of subscriptions (maube not the best choice of words).
Anyway, just my thoughts.
EDIT: they also give you 10% off their in game store prices as well.