STOP the F***ing gamle 4 real

scrooge69

I said it and I ll say it again

no moneyz for you until you stop such gamble...

make it X zen to get some R&D stuff + the ship during short time period and say the ship is never going to be sold again


you ll see more ppl will buy it when its 100% drop (for short time)



able thinking ppl will not support this gamble****

hyperionx09

It's a nice idea in theory. But then they'll just jack the cost to around 3500 Zen or 4000 Zen and restrict it to a single-character unlock.

However, I don't think it's going to happen; IIRC, one of the agreements made with CBS is that they cannot directly sell a non-Faction ship. Thus all the roundabout ways of obtaining one (Loxboxes, Lobi from Lockboxes, or Promotions).

narthais

So you won't support it, others have said they won't support it, maybe because you can't afford it or maybe you're just stingy with your money/cant justify it to yourself...

So obviously everyone else is a dim witted sheep right?

... that is the essence of what you're saying by the way, nice job insulting a considerable number of people there mate.

scrooge69

its not an insult when my intention is to make ppl think about spending money on this

blassreiterus

scrooge69 wrote: »

its not an insult when my intention is to make ppl think about spending money on this

Who are you to decide to do that? Who gave you the permission to control other people's money decisions? You're no one to other players, and what you think they shouldn't do is immaterial. If a players wants to spend money on this promotion, it is well within his or her right to do so. You, however, have absolutely no right to tell others what to do in this situation.

kintisho

1 step to quell the hatred/frustration and feeling of blatant robbery: Publish the actual odds...

Chances of "winning" are not 1:70 more like 1: 3000 normalized...

5 years of play- close to 4000 overall boxes and promo packs (which award grand prize ships) and only 2 EVER "won"

I spend ever less on this game for more than valid reasons...

Best Star Trek MMO ONLY because its the only Star Trek MMO.

blassreiterus

sopwithsnipe wrote: »

He's no one to Cryptic as well. :P

Clearly. It just amazes me how some people think they have every right to "advise" others on monetary decisions especially when such advice isn't asked for by the individual who is making such decisions.

scrooge69

blassreiterus wrote: »

Who are you to decide to do that? Who gave you the permission to control other people's money decisions? You're no one to other players, and what you think they shouldn't do is immaterial. If a players wants to spend money on this promotion, it is well within his or her right to do so. You, however, have absolutely no right to tell others what to do in this situation.

this one made me laughf ahahahahaaa

riccardo171

blassreiterus wrote: »

Who are you to decide to do that? Who gave you the permission to control other people's money decisions? You're no one to other players, and what you think they shouldn't do is immaterial. If a players wants to spend money on this promotion, it is well within his or her right to do so. You, however, have absolutely no right to tell others what to do in this situation.

I fell off the chair.

starkaos

That ship has long sailed. The players had the choice to boycott the lockbox ships when they came out to prevent Cryptic from going down this route, but far too many players proved to Cryptic that this was a successful method of acquiring revenue from their players. Lots of players have spent hundreds of dollars for a single ship so it just proves that Cryptic can acquire more revenue by selling these ships through lockboxes than through the C-Store.

Besides all of these ships are alien ships or from the future in the case of the temporal ships that we should not be able to command. If Cryptic starts putting faction ships into lockboxes instead of the C-Store, then I will be one of the first people in line to complain about it to Cryptic.

noshuffle

blassreiterus wrote: »

Clearly. It just amazes me how some people think they have every right to "advise" others on monetary decisions especially when such advice isn't asked for by the individual who is making such decisions.

Simply remember following

"Every device, real or virtual, which is turning out a profit, no matter how small this is, but is based on luck rather the skill of the player, is considered a gambling device and such falling under the gambling laws"

Above phrase has caused havoc in 2014 at Linden Labs, a much bigger developper then Cryptic. Bare that in mind.

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noshuffle

sopwithsnipe wrote: »

Unfortunately for the anti-gambling crowd PWE's lawyers were careful to make sure lock boxes don't meet the legal definition of gambling. So despite all their foaming at the mouth, lock boxes are here to stay until the law changes.

Wanna test it ?

cidjack

scrooge69 wrote: »

its not an insult when my intention is to make ppl think about spending money on this

Reads thread, swipes credit card 3 times!