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Borg in C-Store. How many Lifetime Sub's would be mad????

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If cryptic released the borg on the C-Store would u Lifetime Subs be mad. Just wondering couse That might make cryptic able to release it to others. I like the borg and i missed out on the chance to get the borg :(
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    They'll probally do it and yes i'll be mad, but nothing I can do about it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    They prob give several months at minimum first....that way it allows Lifers and other Preorder people time to enjoy thier "exclusive" items before it goes public.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    maybe they can have an event were u can unlock it
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I am willing to wager that it will happen by the end of the year. And remember before you take the wager that Atari is involved.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Yes id be very ticked, specially since that was the main reason i purchased lifetime. If a borg goes to C-store for a few hundred cryptic points id be very upset. Cryptic has already soured my opinion of them alot by making the preorder items NOT at all what the descriptions eluded too. IE the constellation class ship that was supposed to be upgradable. And of course how they refuse to fix the quest bugs i keep sending them tickets about preventing me from completing my quests.

    But yea it would be lame for them to release borg, thats like the most exclusive thing we got right now. If they release that it would be like when Star Wars Galaxies decided to scew everyone over with the NGE and make Jedi and Bounty Hunter available to everyone.

    I mean i dont have the mirror universe costumes, i would have loved to get those but hey, i understand i didnt know about it at the time and therefore its a special thing for the people who did.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Yeah it'd bother me. And i'd have a lifetime to be mad at em too! Well if they gave us more borg options because of it...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Why would you be mad that other players can buy what you basically got for free? They don't get the rest of STO's lifespan free of charge, and you got LB before they did.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    The "get assimilated" event?

    Then serve the borg for 20 years and come back "freed" ^^
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Doesnt bother me a bit, I went lifetime for the savings over a monthly sub. Being a Borg was just a bonus to me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    There is a compromise...

    Put up Borg character customization elements on the C-Store that are cosmetic only. This way, those who want to have a "Borged" character can customize their characters accordingly. But there would be no special stats.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I wouldn't care one way or the other. I bought the lifetime sub because I love this game. The Borg human was just a bonus.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Wouldn't care. I did a lifetime for the value not the borg.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I wouldn't be upset at all. I didn't buy the lifetime for the borg. In fact, I'll never use it. I bought it for the "freeplay" after X amount of months.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I would be okay with it ONLY if they did it a year or so from now.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I bought a lifetime sub.

    I wouldn't be bothered in the least if it was for sale.

    I bought the lifetime figuring its less expensive in the long haul as opposed to buying to stroke my ego or have exclusive access to things others may not have.

    My hope is that everything is for sale in the C-store eventually so no one is gimped in doing what they'd like to do.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Depends on price or when. If it's less than like 5 bucks say next week I'll be mildly annoyed, but I paid 16 months of fees to play forever, I can't really complain if they want to use those assets somewhere else. Since they've stopped selling the subs making a liberated borg playable available for say 15 or 20 bucks on the C-store in a few months might be cool (maybe with some minor cosmetic differences). Though IMO that would require a respec to let you change up even your base character. That would be nice, but I don't see that as being easy to make happen.

    Honestly I'd be cool with seeing a lot of the various pre-order bonuses up on the C-store, there was a lot of cool stuff there but I wasn't about to spend 100 bucks for a constitution ship, 100 bucks for a borg boff etc.

    More interesting will be to see if the alternate universe costumes which are right now champions lifers only ever show up elsewhere. There's certainly an RP reason for it given the late game content, and it's too bad there aren't a lot of them around, maybe limit green or slightly different (say sleeveless) to CO lifers, but it would be nice to see more of those uniforms floating around.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I'm a lifetime sub. I'm mad they gave us such a lame perk.

    I'm optimistic that every perk you see for whatever promo will be available in the C-Store inside three months.

    Everyone should have access to STO uniforms, everyone should have access to a Constitution class cruiser, everyone should be able to be a joined Trill and everyone, if they pay for it, should be able to start every toon with 500 extra xp.

    Why not?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Catsmeat wrote:
    I bought a lifetime sub.

    I wouldn't be bothered in the least if it was for sale.

    I bought the lifetime figuring its less expensive in the long haul as opposed to buying to stroke my ego or have exclusive access to things others may not have.

    My hope is that everything is for sale in the C-store eventually so no one is gimped in doing what they'd like to do.

    I agree with this... One of the things that really ticks off a lot of players of Star wars Galaxies is all the exclusive content that they will never get that was released with varrious retail versions of the game or its expansions. Now I firmly believe that the special collectors items should remain unique, as in maybe having more customizable color regions than a standardized C-Store version. Or maybe a completely different skin on the same model. Or maybe it just gives no stat bonuses...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I'm a lifetime subber and I probably wouldn't care. I plannedo n buying lifetime way before they announced the Borg thing, and I wouldn't pay 250 for that kind of perk.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Why do I care if they sell a borg toon on the C-store? I paid for a lifetime sub because I like Star Trek and for rasons I can't explain I liked the BETA of STO.

    If a Borg option is available at the C-store I'd be indifferent.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    dont give them the same abilities, and bam, its not the same, and then no one can complain they are losing an exclusive bonus
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Krussian wrote:
    I wouldn't be upset at all. I didn't buy the lifetime for the borg. In fact, I'll never use it. I bought it for the "freeplay" after X amount of months.

    I don't care to play a liberated Borg. But since you can make them look completely human, I made my main a Borg. Haven't noticed the +10% or whatever much.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I'm a lifetime.

    It would be like if I walked into Subway and got the jumbo sub for an extra 99 cents.

    And then the next day the Jumbo sub was on special and cost the exact same as the regular sandwich.





    mmm sandwich.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Next year around this time they could very well offer another lifetime sub w/ perks to those who bought the 1yr sub. Who knows, it's just speculation based off what Turbine did for LOTRO people. They offered the lifetime again at anniversary time.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Same as the others

    paid for lifetime for the savings and being Borg was bonus ..though I am admittedly using it
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I think it was a good idea to only give lifers Borg characters. Otherwise there would be way to many Borgs running around.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    There are a few things I really don't want to see running around everywhere. Borg are among them. Certain races are special for their uniqueness. I'd rather not see them become that common. And this is from a Lifetime subsriber who has chosen not to use the Borg they offered her, for precisely that reason.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Doesnt bother me a bit, I went lifetime for the savings over a monthly sub. Being a Borg was just a bonus to me.

    Same for me.

    Heck they can make them free and at setup for everybody for all I care. My primary character isn't a borg anyway.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I got lifetime for the 2 extra slots, as I already have 5 characters now :D

    4 federation (human (sci) , borg (tactical) , trill (engineer), vulcan (sci)) and 1 klingon.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    If cryptic released the borg on the C-Store would u Lifetime Subs be mad. Just wondering couse That might make cryptic able to release it to others. I like the borg and i missed out on the chance to get the borg :(

    Only reason Id be mad is cause thered be as many borgs DKs in WoW lol
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