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Trivial Vs. Difficult

If memory serves Cryptic in the 2015 gives us the following ships:
  • 9 pilot ships (3 for each faction)
  • 3 "lance" ships: T6 Guramba, T6 Galaxy-X, T6 Haakona
  • 3 T6 escorts (T6 Defiant, T6 BoP, T6 T'Varo)
  • 3 Herald ships
  • 3 Heavy escort carrier
  • 3 Veteran ships
  • Annorax
  • Summer event ship
  • Krenim ship
  • Winter event ship (I know, it isn't available yet)
(Maybe some more ships, I have a bad memory, sorry)

That is: 28 ships.
12 month in a year.
Something more than 2 ships per month or, if you prefer, something more than a ship every two weeks.

The number speaks.
2 ships per year: maybe creating a ship isn't a trivial and cheap process.
2 ships per month: creating a ship is a trivial and cheap process.

What's the point, you will ask me?
Simple: since the process is cheap and trivial I don't think that bring us some more romulan and klingon ships would bankrupt Cryptic so please, don't tell us that the whole process is unprofitable.

Bye bye / Qaplà / Jolan tru

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  • kontarnuskontarnus Member Posts: 289 Arc User
    The economics is not trivial though. Why waste time on that if it won't make them enough money? All those ships made them money, directly or indirectly. Science ships for Romulans and KDF won't make them enough money obviously, otherwise they would have been released.
    Just because it can be done does not make it trivial.
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  • bernatkbernatk Member Posts: 1,089 Bug Hunter
    Well, packs include KDF and rom ships too. Anyway, prepare your zen, Cyber monday is coming.
    (I will grab myself a nice full DSD pack...)
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  • happyhappyj0yj0yhappyhappyj0yj0y Member Posts: 699 Arc User
    What's the point, you will ask me?
    Simple: since the process is cheap and trivial I don't think that bring us some more romulan and klingon ships would bankrupt Cryptic so please, don't tell us that the whole process is unprofitable.

    Bye bye / Qaplà / Jolan tru

    Sure... if you ignore the fact that the game doesn't require subscriptions anymore, and doesn't give enough of merit to make them attractive, and thus relies on the sales of those ships to pay for the development of said ships but also:
    • Pay for the development of every piece of content in the game.
    • Pay every person working for the company, from the accountants, to management, to the guy pushing a broom down the halls.
    • Pay the rent.
    • Pay the electricity bill.
    • Pay for the server farm.
    • Pay for all those shiny TV Star Trek voice actors I'd rather they didn't.
    • Pay for basically every last operating cost they have.

    You see, while making a ship might be relative inexpensive per unit, running a game is not, which means you need high returns on the invested man hours so you can, you know, make sure the checks don't bounce.
  • thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,167 Arc User
    What's the point, you will ask me?
    Simple: since the process is cheap and trivial I don't think that bring us some more romulan and klingon ships would bankrupt Cryptic so please, don't tell us that the whole process is unprofitable.

    Bye bye / Qaplà / Jolan tru

    You fail to comprehend one simple fact:

    They don't just want to make *A* profit, they want to make the *MOST* profit possible.

    What that means is that if they are going to have their ship artist make a ship, they want that artist to make the ship they think will sell the best. So while it would not be "hard" for them to make more KDF/ROM ships, they would make less money doing so than just making more Fed ships, or multifaction ships.


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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,573 Arc User
    By the way, the 20% Off Everything Sale ©® was on Black Friday last year. I don't believe anything happened on Cyber Monday.
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  • calintane753calintane753 Member Posts: 289 Arc User
    They don't just want to make *A* profit, they want to make the *MOST* profit possible.

    +1
  • dsarisdsaris Member Posts: 384 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    By the way, the 20% Off Everything Sale ©® was on Black Friday last year. I don't believe anything happened on Cyber Monday.

    I hope they roll out something good. As it is there isn't anything in the C-Store I want right now.
  • crm14916crm14916 Member Posts: 1,545 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    Might be worth it if the T6 Odyssey or Vesta makes it out next week...

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  • carasucia83carasucia83 Member Posts: 568 Arc User
    Yes. They want to make as much money as they can. That much is obvious.

    But... it's also true that once it's made, it's there forever. They don't have production costs after it's done. Or do they?

    There are things like the Defiant and the Galaxy, that used to sell well, but either, everyone who was gonna buy one, did, or they were surpassed by a new ship or T6 or other thing. These things got a revamp, or they had their special shiny made into a 2 or 3 piece set. There's things that can be done to make a thing that doesn't sell now, sell better later. One perfect example might be (not for me, but I know ppl who would) making the Dyson Gimmick Cannon unslottable and/or upgradable. I know people in game who have said, I quote, "I would think about that ship, but meh... the cannon...."

    My problem is when sales stats for what (my opinion, of course) is a bad product are used to justify not making a better similar product. Poo in Cheeseburger won't sell. Doesn't mean I don't like Cheeseburgers and wouldn't buy one without poo inside.

    "So my fun is wrong?"

    No. Your fun makes everyone else's fun wrong by default.
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