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Lifetime...worth getting?

narxes081206narxes081206 Member Posts: 84 Arc User
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I see the lifetime subscription is on sale. Is it worth it?
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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    Personally, I think so between the extra ship, character and other slots, six ships, numerous costume pieces, a bridge officer, two new races that you can create captains as...

    I just wish that one of these times it comes on sale I'd actually have the money to get it...
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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,472 Arc User
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    Personally, I think so between the extra ship, character and other slots, six ships, numerous costume pieces, a bridge officer, two new races that you can create captains as...

    I just wish that one of these times it comes on sale I'd actually have the money to get it...

    Ditto!!

    OP. The LTS is worth getting as the game has lots of life in the old girl yet.
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    Well, I'm going the other way.. absolutely not.

    At this point in the games life cycle, I just don't see a life time membership as being worth it. The perks aren't anything great, and you'll spend less money just subscribing for one month for the perks you get to keep and then buying what you want from the C-Store at end game.

    If this was a couple years ago.. sure. Today? I think you would have to be mad to purchase a LTS.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,664 Arc User
    Yes if you want the ships and plan to create captains in all factions.

    The 3 T6 ships (1 per faction) are nice, the android boff has your choice of gender and career and has self-revival, the T5 token lets you add something fun like the Fekihri carrier for KDF. Plus you get to be a Space Hobbit! (Well OK, that's an anti-benefit.)

    For leveling new alts, you get +5% XP which lets you skip any grinding. Plus you get an extra 5-10 respec tokens as you level up and extra character slots.
  • admiralkogaradmiralkogar Member Posts: 875 Arc User
    Well if it lasts another two or three years even, then I would say the sale price makes saying 'yes' a no-brainer. You will get a lot of the purchase back when you consider that every month you will get 500 Zen. Grinding is optional to some degree, and you can still buy C-Store ships for end game. Just save up your zen, or if you like, or grind for the difference if you are impatient.

    If it lasts only another year, which I would say is a fairly pessimistic prediction, you still get back 6000 zen, and so you could say that a years worth of fun is about $140.00 or about $12.00 a month. I see this game being around longer than that, so really, the deal just gets better and better as time goes by. In three years you are really only out $19.99, and by the end of a fourth year you are +$40.00 in ships, or other C-Store stuff.

    There are a lot of ways to pass the time, but if you look, a lot of those cost money as well. Often a lot more money. So yeah, seaofsorrows has a solid point, you can get a lot for just a single month that will still be there afterwards, but the lifetime sub keeps paying you back. I don't see it as much of a gamble.

    Eat out one less time each month this year, and you have most likely paid for it. ;)

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  • narxes081206narxes081206 Member Posts: 84 Arc User
    Thanks for all the input captains. I think I'm leaning towards getting it!
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,664 Arc User
    Note that if you are on console, you do NOT get a zen stipend, but the list price is $100 lower to make up for that.
  • admiralkogaradmiralkogar Member Posts: 875 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    Note that if you are on console, you do NOT get a zen stipend, but the list price is $100 lower to make up for that.

    Ahh I did not know that. thanks for filling us in. I hate to give bad information.

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  • garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
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  • narxes081206narxes081206 Member Posts: 84 Arc User
    I'm on PC, so no worries there! Thanks for the info though as some others reading this might not have known that!
  • dragonsbitedragonsbite Member Posts: 530 Arc User
    I paid full price years ago. I believe i've saved money because of it. I think there's plenty of life left in this game. The Zen stipend is great. I currently have 5k zen or so atm just from that stipend. I think it's still worth getting but perhaps only when it's on sale as it is now.
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    seaofsorrows wrote: »
    Well, I'm going the other way.. absolutely not.

    At this point in the games life cycle, I just don't see a life time membership as being worth it. The perks aren't anything great, and you'll spend less money just subscribing for one month for the perks you get to keep and then buying what you want from the C-Store at end game.

    If this was a couple years ago.. sure. Today? I think you would have to be mad to purchase a LTS.

    I ignored this exact advice when I bought my LTS 2 (or was it 3?) years ago.

    Glad I did.
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  • jade1280jade1280 Member Posts: 868 Arc User
    Planning on playing for at least 6 months/one year?
    Then hell yes epseically if you have the money!
  • wylonuswylonus Member Posts: 471 Arc User
    i would get it. i am lifer for 3 yrs.

    perks to be lifer.

    free 500 zen points a month
    you get liberated borg captain
    captain's shuttle ship
    extra character slot
    titles
    bonus ships
  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    If you plan on doing a lot of toons, then yeah. The extras are of course multiplied by the # of alts you make. But if you use one toon, it's not really a good idea. Just think of all the stuff you could buy that 1 toon with $200 worth of Zen (25,000 Zen if bought during a sale.)
    An alternative for leveling infrequent toons is to go Gold for 1 month, get that toon(s) leveled w/ the perks. Cause really, other than the stipend and Vet ship, after you reach max level, being anything but a F2P player doesn't really get you much.
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,008 Arc User
    To me the lifer perks never stood out in particular, at least not since sto went f2p. Before it was a nice deal, now you have a lot of perks that sound nice on paper but are ultimately negligible (bonus xp is hardly worth it today, shuttles are severly underused, character slots are cheap, titles and accolades are kinda useless etc). Only thing standing out are the veteran ships really, but even then it's a big price tag in my opinion.
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  • admiralkogaradmiralkogar Member Posts: 875 Arc User
    wylonus wrote: »
    i would get it. i am lifer for 3 yrs.

    perks to be lifer.

    free 500 zen points a month
    you get liberated borg captain
    captain's shuttle ship
    extra character slot
    titles
    bonus ships

    All of that being very cool and useful.

    Less useful but fun, Mugatu pets, fireworks, and other little things.

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  • garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    bergins wrote: »
    seaofsorrows wrote: »
    Well, I'm going the other way.. absolutely not.

    At this point in the games life cycle, I just don't see a life time membership as being worth it. The perks aren't anything great, and you'll spend less money just subscribing for one month for the perks you get to keep and then buying what you want from the C-Store at end game.

    If this was a couple years ago.. sure. Today? I think you would have to be mad to purchase a LTS.

    I ignored this exact advice when I bought my LTS 2 (or was it 3?) years ago.

    Glad I did.

    one day they will hit the nail. long after seaquest will be playable in the system ..
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    The only thing that makes the LTS really useful is if a person suffers from the severe ailment known as altitis with all the inventory slots, bank slots, and respec tokens available for each character.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    angrytarg wrote: »
    To me the lifer perks never stood out in particular, at least not since sto went f2p. Before it was a nice deal, now you have a lot of perks that sound nice on paper but are ultimately negligible (bonus xp is hardly worth it today, shuttles are severly underused, character slots are cheap, titles and accolades are kinda useless etc). Only thing standing out are the veteran ships really, but even then it's a big price tag in my opinion.

    Agreed, the only thing that makes it somewhat worth it is the Zen stipend and on the console you don't even get that.
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  • catsmeatcatsmeat Member Posts: 106 Arc User
    I'd say yes if you intend to be here for ages and ages.

    I got mine at launch and feel that I have received value from it over the years.
  • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    I would say yes, especially if you intend to subscribe anyway. That was my situation. I believe I purchased in summer 2012. So it has been quite a value. If you subscribe and expect the game to last 1.5 more years then I say go for it. If you don't subscribe then I would make that calculation more like 3 years. In that case I would say less certain.
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  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    I found it useful, just wish i'd done it when this game went f2p instead of 2 cycles ago when I picked it up.
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  • fluffymooffluffymoof Member Posts: 430 Arc User
    A lot of the stuff you get is C-store stuff. A quick look priced everything at around $95 USD, not counting the Tier 6 ships you get. If I were to factor that in, it's around $155.

    Again, this is just from a quick glance and I know I missed more than enough to add even more to the price. AND you get 500 zen/month, so add $5 for every month you continue playing. At some point, Cryptic will be paying you $5/month just to play the game, simply because the math will hit the total cost of the lifetime sub eventually.
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    This game won't last 6 months after it launches, so there's no point in getting a LTS.​​
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  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    This game won't last 6 months after it launches, so there's no point in getting a LTS.​​

    Six months after console launch or the 6 months 5+yrs ago for PC? ;)
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  • foxspirit13foxspirit13 Member Posts: 75 Arc User
    seaofsorrows wrote: »
    Well, I'm going the other way.. absolutely not.

    At this point in the games life cycle, I just don't see a life time membership as being worth it. The perks aren't anything great, and you'll spend less money just subscribing for one month for the perks you get to keep and then buying what you want from the C-Store at end game.

    If this was a couple years ago.. sure. Today? I think you would have to be mad to purchase a LTS.

    If you don't play this game very often, I absolutely agree, it's cheaper to just go monthly or tri-monthly. Some of us have had the game and played it since launch. If you paid a sub over the last six or so years, that's something like 14k USD. It would be *way* cheaper to just shell out 200$.

    Plus there's all those perks and a monthly bonus of 500 points, you never have to give them money again if you don't want to (yes, I know it's f2p you don't have to anyway).

    So it's really a matter of, do you think you'll get your money's worth out of it.

    I would have bought it long ago, but the sale always happens when I don't have the money. >.<
  • starrfoxx71starrfoxx71 Member Posts: 27 Arc User
    I just bought the LTE, and I'm liking it. I especially liked the Veteran awards. I didn't know about the T6 ships, though. Which ones are they?
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    dracounguis wrote: »
    iconians wrote: »
    This game won't last 6 months after it launches, so there's no point in getting a LTS.

    Six months after console launch or the 6 months 5+yrs ago for PC? ;)

    Yes.
    starrfoxx71 wrote: »
    I just bought the LTE, and I'm liking it. I especially liked the Veteran awards. I didn't know about the T6 ships, though. Which ones are they?

    There's 2. There's the T5 version and the T6 version (and there are separate fleet versions for both, which only require 1 fleet module each), they're classified as Heavy Destroyers in the C-store for Fed and KDF and Warbird Destroyers for Romulan characters.​​
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    If you expect to play the game for af ew more years and play a lot of alts. Yes.

    But no one knows what the future holds.
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