Have a monthly "vet" reward for anyone who was subbed that month, and have a new reward every month. And heres the real kicker: the reward is a SURPRISE every month, and it isnt awarded until the first day of the NEXT month(meaning no one could wait to see what the reward was before subbing for that month). This idea is my little Ferengi gift to you; dont say I never gave you anything
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Its not about whether your billed on the first, its about whether you were subscribed the previous month. The 1st would just be the day the reward is given out.
But you bought a lifetime sub, so you don't count.
True they can just do nothing and I will still be subscribed. A new fleet action one month and the a STF the next would make it better.
No, thank you. I would rather see the game get better than be bribed with pixels every month. If you want shinies, then the current vet system is fine.
I was waiting for someone to say something like this so I could LOL. The reason is because its a "free" gift for something your ALREADY doing. So if you already like the game and have a sub then its just icing on the cake. But I'll tell you what; even if such a system were ever implemented, I'll support yout right NOT to claim your free gift
I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, so to speak. I'd happily claim a free gift. It's just that I'd rather see the "free gift" be more content (meaning missions and such) than a Tribble or pet shuttle or what-have-you.
Maybe it is a bit evil but you cant find a better tool to keep existing customers,players want to be special(and such items make them feel special).The problem is that all such items end up in the c-store sooner or later but a never returning oppurtunity to get f.ex. a breen BO(and other items) would be better profit(long-term) for Cryptic than selling a few hundred or thousand on the C-store.
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=183507&page=3
I agree with what another poster said. I'd much rather see new content every single month than useless shinies.
Ideally these new shinies should come from the new content(like the weekly episodes) and should become no longer available after like 2 months.The unique rewards and weekly episodes are already there,the only needed change is that these rewards should not go into the c-store later.
"Walaaa" ?
If the two were even remotely comparable in time to create, I could see your point. But they arent.
Nah, Cryptic needs to go BACK in time and stop Atari from putting all STO promotions on half price after 1 month had passed of it's release haha....I think all the serious Star Trek fans left STO because of what Atari those many months ago.
As such, I may be ignorant of how certain things work in MMOs. However, I can already imagine, over my lifetime sub, my character bank getting absolutely swamped buy Vet rewards & limited time rewards. More such things, is not what I desire.
Give me content, or don't give me anything. In that spirit, I say a new Episode for subs every month, heck, the devs managed weekly episodes for a few months, one faction-neutral episode a month shouldn't be too hard.
more content for the Klingons I do want. Why? Well because I wont get my Romulan till the Klingons are fized fully
Rather than repeat myself, I'll simply refer you to my earlier post in this thread
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=3262908#post3262908
words of the word god.
And, lolz@joketopic.
Nah..I imagine there is a RofA that says giving people something worthless and relatively easy to produce to keep them paying real money is perfectly acceptable.