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Lifer benefit: Skip the gambling

isthisscienceisthisscience Member Posts: 863 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
With not many benefits for subscribing and all the good stuff being hidden in gambling boxes, I'd pay whatever they want if life membership meant I didn't have to gamble for anything. Let lifers buy account bound lockbox items with ec or something and it will finally be worth while.

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  • khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    Nuts. Seriously. And before you ask, I'm a lifer myself.

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  • alethkiraenalethkiraen Member Posts: 306 Arc User
    reyan01 wrote: »
    One lock box key per month, maybe.

    But seriously? The cost of a lifetime memberships is insignificant compared to how much people will spend on opening prize boxes. It's not even close.

    You can already turn the 500 zen a month you get as a lifer into keys if you really want to though.
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  • alethkiraenalethkiraen Member Posts: 306 Arc User
    Also OP don't forget that being a lifer means you get to play as Talaxians. TALAXIANS.
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  • risian4risian4 Member Posts: 3,711 Arc User
    You don't have to gamble for anything. Which mean that the entire purpose of this thread, if it ever existed, has hereby (and by the comment of Reyan01) been erradicated since the opening post is based on false assumptions.

  • ssbn655ssbn655 Member Posts: 1,894 Arc User
    And folks accuse me of wanting things handed to me... Wow just wow.
  • risian4risian4 Member Posts: 3,711 Arc User
    Still, some new lifer benefits would be nice. Or more premium species (either as Veteran rewards or Lobi/C-store unlocks which is probably the more viable solution) with some unique abilities would be welcome too.

    Thinking about Voth, Na'kuhl, perhaps even Krenim. Plenty of species that have at least some individuals or factions within them that don't see the Alliance as their enemies so it could work from a storyline perspective.
  • vampeiyrevampeiyre Member Posts: 633 Arc User
    Fiction can be fun. Pretty sure that's a negative, Ghostrider.
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  • taylor1701dtaylor1701d Member Posts: 3,099 Arc User
    edited August 2016
    What about a Platinum subscription model; LTS intial payment followed by 100$ a month subscription fee; Gives access to 1 Lockbox and/or promo ship per rollout ?
    Over the course of the year you'd pay 1200$ (plus that initial cost of LTS), and get what ? 4 or 5 premium ships at most per year ? which would work out to 300$ per ship for 4 or 240$ for 5 ships...that's pretty much what you have to pay if you're gambling anyway (1:200 odds normally on scoring a lockbox promo ship)
    Maybe they could throw in 25 lobi stipend a month for a platinum membership, along with the 500z.


    Yeah I know, this would probably never happen. But at that cost, it really would be like you were gambling on every lockbox anyway. And it would provide a way for people who don't like the idea of gambling to get the new premium ships.

    Of course, all these ships are listed on the exchange and you could just buy them for ec. Which is also a guarantee.
    But yeah... I'm just thinking out loud here lol. It's an interesting concept. Far fetched idea though, but nothing wrong with mulling it over.
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  • isthisscienceisthisscience Member Posts: 863 Arc User
    Sure it's not going to happen, doesn't mean I have to say nothing.
    reyan01 wrote: »
    One lock box key per month, maybe.

    The point isn't getting more chances to get it, it's getting the thing for paying for it.
    ssbn655 wrote: »
    And folks accuse me of wanting things handed to me... Wow just wow.

    Paying for it or grinding for it isn't getting it handed to you. It is giving an input and getting an output.


    Some people might have money to burn on 100 keys and be happy to not get the thing they're after. I prefer, when 100 euro down, to at least have the thing I'm after. Charge me more, sure, I just want to know when I've spent the money I get the product and not a bunch of coupons or rocks that are worth nothing to me. It makes it harder for those of us on limited budgets to get anywhere near that gear and it is dirty business to depend on that for income. There's a reason things like this are usually limited to the shadier end of the high street. A friend of mine lost her whole family fortune, plus extra, on gambling - always hoping to get that small chance of a big win. Jumped off a railway bridge last year. At least Betfred got a windfall? There are more honest ways to make a profit.

  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,799 Arc User
    I'd pay whatever they want if life membership meant I didn't have to gamble for anything.

    There is a difference between adding $150 to the cost of LTS and buying the Connie separately:

    If it's sold separately you can choose to spend the money on something else.

    If you'd REALLY pay "whatever they want" (99% of the time this is wild hyperbole) just pretend a LTS costs $1,000 and go ahead and buy yourself a Connie with part of that cash monies:

    http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1221029/128-to-buy-the-tos-ship-details-inside#latest

    Problem solved OP, problem solved.
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