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Why are infinity duty officer packs selling for more than three or four times the price of a key?

usskentuckyusskentucky Member Posts: 402 Arc User
edited December 2017 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
At 275 zen these doff packs seem to be a better store of currency than master keys. Why?

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    bobs1111bobs1111 Member Posts: 471 Arc User
    Magic.

    Seriously if your talking about the promo packs its because they are the promo packs. Limited time can't buy them again for a few months likely.
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    darkbladejkdarkbladejk Member Posts: 3,715 Community Moderator
    They go for more than a key for a number of reasons. One reasons is that the promotional packs are only around for a limited time so they are typically in high demand. They also guarantee a haul of either 10 lobi per pack, or a ship choice pack of many of the high EC ships in game. Even after the promotion has ended these packs still keep their promotional status and can drop the 10 lobi or the ship pack. This is why they hold value like they do is they have the potential to drop a ship that can run well over 1b ec in cost.
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    salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    The high demand for promo packs happens to cause a temporary reduction in key demand. Since many players can afford to buy one or the other.
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    warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    Because they have more valuable contents than lockboxes which increases demand and are available for a limited time which reduces supply.
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    leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,345 Arc User
    usskentucky wrote: »
    At 275 zen these doff packs seem to be a better store of currency than master keys. Why?

    Because it's the players that are posting them for sale that are setting the price. Got nothing, zip, zero, nadda to do with Cryptic.
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