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Are you kidding me with the BUYING of C-points?!?!?!

cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited June 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Felt like buying some more C-points today. Visited the site, and entered the C-store. Puched the butten "Buy more", expecting to see the traditional UI for buying points.
EPIC FAIL ON AN EPIC LEVEL!!
Now this may just be me, but come Hell or high waters, I scurred around for abaout a minute and the got the hell out of there!

What have you done?!
Yes, I linked my cryptic account with PWE, for the in-game rewards, now.... Can I undo that?!

Do I have to see that thing of a page everytime that I want to buy my points now.

I liked the way it was: Puch the button and be done with it! And NO, this is not a case of "It was better before", this is a case of "WTF"

I understood NADA! NADA! NADA! And I?ll say it again; NADAA!!!

So, if I want to buy C-points, I first have to Charge up Zen (!), and the Transfer Zen to C-points, and along the way have a calculator beside me? :confused:
Do I have to be some kind of a math genius to do this? How on earth is someone as bad at math as me, ever going to now how much to Charge up, and transfer?!
Now Cryptic, I love you. I love the game. I love the work you put in to it. I even like the new look of the webpage. But this. Buying points now....

THE FACT THAT I?M WRITING THIS INSTEAD OF BUYING POINTS SHOULD SAY IT ALL!

Eighter you change it back, or I?m gonna need a walktrough like you?ve never seen it before, if you want me to understand this process. PLEASE HELP! :confused:
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  • caliban149caliban149 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Well, once the entire first page of the forum fills up with thread such as this one ALL highlighting the exact same problem you'd hope they'd realise how badly they screwed the pooch.

    I find it mildly amusing that alongside all the other things they messed up that I'm sure PWE don't give 2 stuffs about (avatars etc) they have also managed to TRIBBLE up the ONE thing you thinks they'd have been VERY keen to preserve:

    The ability for people to give them money. . . .

    The level of FAIL is really quite awesome. (I think it need a qualifier a level up from EPIC)
  • hippiejonhippiejon Member Posts: 1,581 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    cosmoscola wrote: »
    THE FACT THAT I?M WRITING THIS INSTEAD OF BUYING POINTS SHOULD SAY IT ALL!

    Something like this.
    Exactly this.
    Change over and forced combining of accounts.
    Topped off by the C Point ... lets call it a debacle.

    How many people WOULD have purchased c-points , that now ...
    ... now are just complaining about it on the forums ?

    How many aren't caring enough to complain ?
    How many (like 3 friends) , have said this forced merging is total TRIBBLE (They used stronger words) , and have because of it all but left the game for good ??
  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    caliban149 wrote: »
    Well, once the entire first page of the forum fills up with thread such as this one ALL highlighting the exact same problem you'd hope they'd realise how badly they screwed the pooch.

    I find it mildly amusing that alongside all the other things they messed up that I'm sure PWE don't give 2 stuffs about (avatars etc) they have also managed to TRIBBLE up the ONE thing you thinks they'd have been VERY keen to preserve:

    The ability for people to give them money. . . .

    The level of FAIL is really quite awesome. (I think it need a qualifier a level up from EPIC)

    Thank you! Thank you! Thank You!
    "I find it mildly amusing that alongside all the other things they messed up that I'm sure PWE don't give 2 stuffs about (avatars etc) they have also managed to TRIBBLE up the ONE thing you thinks they'd have been VERY keen to preserve:

    The ability for people to give them money. . . . "
  • chairmanmeowmixchairmanmeowmix Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    So much for simplifying the game's economy: Zen, C-points, Dilithium, Lobi, ECs, tears, lol...

    My last log-in says sometime in 1969, but I was thinking it was April 1st, because, wow, what a prank this fiasco is! :rolleyes:
  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    chairmanmeowmix wrote: »
    So much for simplifying the game's economy: Zen, C-points, Dilithium, Lobi, ECs, tears, lol...

    My last log-in says sometime in 1969, but I was thinking it was April 1st, because, wow, what a prank this fiasco is! :rolleyes:

    Yeah! I say that one. Just posted another tread about stuff like that. But the thing i find most irritating is the C-points. Good luck with that one! :eek:
  • hartzillahartzilla Member Posts: 1,177 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Also what is this about needing to have a character that is at least level 10 to buy this stuff? :confused:

    Oh well at least I still have my Gold account's stipend.
  • mercuriciodidemercuriciodide Member Posts: 342
    edited June 2012
    hartzilla wrote: »
    Also what is this about needing to have a character that is at least level 10 to buy this stuff? :confused:
    You're not the only one.
  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    hartzilla wrote: »
    Also what is this about needing to have a character that is at least level 10 to buy this stuff? :confused:

    That have to be a bugg!!
    I?ll say we crusch them all with keeping this thread at the top of the list with things that could use an overhaul. Overhaul after a few hours... This not good! At all Not good!
    Good be gone! Bad be here!
    FIX FIX FIX FIX FIX
  • sosolidshoesosolidshoe Member Posts: 174 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    caliban149 wrote: »
    Well, once the entire first page of the forum fills up with thread such as this one ALL highlighting the exact same problem you'd hope they'd realise how badly they screwed the pooch.

    I find it mildly amusing that alongside all the other things they messed up that I'm sure PWE don't give 2 stuffs about (avatars etc) they have also managed to TRIBBLE up the ONE thing you thinks they'd have been VERY keen to preserve:

    The ability for people to give them money. . . .

    The level of FAIL is really quite awesome. (I think it need a qualifier a level up from EPIC)


    It's 6:55AM in CA right now. Now, every other MMO company I've had experience with -even CCP who are famous for their customer relations ****ups- has had at least a community rep on duty through the night to monitor any major changes to their backend systems, but apparently paying one guy a little extra to do a nightshift isn't in PW's budget for Cryptic :rolleyes:
    We are PWE. Your forums and game accounts will be added to our own. Your community will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    sosolidshoe wrote: »
    It's 6:55AM in CA right now. Now, every other MMO company I've had experience with -even CCP who are famous for their customer relations ****ups- has had at least a community rep on duty through the night to monitor any major changes to their backend systems, but apparently paying one guy a little extra to do a nightshift isn't in PW's budget for Cryptic :rolleyes:

    Those poor guys are in for a chock when they come in for work tomorrow. Can?t remember last time I say the forum so... so... pationate last time...
  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    cosmoscola wrote: »
    Felt like buying some more C-points today. Visited the site, and entered the C-store. Puched the butten "Buy more", expecting to see the traditional UI for buying points.
    EPIC FAIL ON AN EPIC LEVEL!!
    Now this may just be me, but come Hell or high waters, I scurred around for abaout a minute and the got the hell out of there!

    What have you done?!
    Yes, I linked my cryptic account with PWE, for the in-game rewards, now.... Can I undo that?!

    Do I have to see that thing of a page everytime that I want to buy my points now.

    I liked the way it was: Puch the button and be done with it! And NO, this is not a case of "It was better before", this is a case of "WTF"

    I understood NADA! NADA! NADA! And I?ll say it again; NADAA!!!

    So, if I want to buy C-points, I first have to Charge up Zen (!), and the Transfer Zen to C-points, and along the way have a calculator beside me? :confused:
    Do I have to be some kind of a math genius to do this? How on earth is someone as bad at math as me, ever going to now how much to Charge up, and transfer?!
    Now Cryptic, I love you. I love the game. I love the work you put in to it. I even like the new look of the webpage. But this. Buying points now....

    THE FACT THAT I?M WRITING THIS INSTEAD OF BUYING POINTS SHOULD SAY IT ALL!

    Eighter you change it back, or I?m gonna need a walktrough like you?ve never seen it before, if you want me to understand this process. PLEASE HELP! :confused:

    No, don?t get me wrong Cryptic. I wasn?t gonna buy a MASSIVE amount of C-points. Just 500. But I bough another 500 last week. And I got my roommate to by 2000 points the same week. Before that, I bought The Sience retrofit for my second roommate. And before that I bought the Odyssey-pack. And before that the Dreadnought. And in between all this some minor purchases for inventory slots and other stuff. It kind of adds up. And now... I really don?t know how. Feel stupid as hell. I really don?t know how. I don?t.
    HEAR MY PLEA!
  • borgarrayborgarray Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    sosolidshoe wrote: »
    It's 6:55AM in CA right now. Now, every other MMO company I've had experience with -even CCP who are famous for their customer relations ****ups- has had at least a community rep on duty through the night to monitor any major changes to their backend systems, but apparently paying one guy a little extra to do a nightshift isn't in PW's budget for Cryptic :rolleyes:

    If there was a guy such as this...I think right now this would be him....

    http://youtu.be/qSAKHLbCUGk
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    borgarray wrote: »
    If there was a guy such as this...I think right now this would be him....

    http://youtu.be/qSAKHLbCUGk

    That really says it all! Thanks for that. *going up on my favorites*
  • captainowen1captainowen1 Member Posts: 87 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    I'm going to my happy place. Happy place is happy. Happy is ripping these forums down and burning them!
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  • tayla15tayla15 Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    I understand that if you brought STO through steam you can still buy c-points through that. there is a thread in the c-store forum somewhere as others have been having troubles too.
    Well.. this is annoying reminds of another game that did something similar
  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    C-points should just go away. I mean it's obvious with the forum change that it's GONNA happen sooner or later. I would not be surprised that Season 6 has a non-reported change to Zen. 1 USD = 100 Zen = 80 C-points
    If anything the C-point is the odd man in the mix, base 80 instead of 100, WTF?! :wink:
    Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    tayla15 wrote: »
    I understand that if you brought STO through steam you can still buy c-points through that. there is a thread in the c-store forum somewhere as others have been having troubles too.

    But I live in sweden. Did not buy it trough Steam. How should I proceed??
  • capnbluddcapnbludd Member Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    I don't get all the shock about this, it was obviously going to happen. When I took a look at the Never Winter boards a couple weeks ago and saw they had changed I realized was just a matter of time. The parent company wasn't going to keep two separate systems running forever.

    I changed over last week, bought the 50 buck bundle and got 300 extra zen (240cp). I have to go thru the list of stuff offering free zen, I haven't gotten to that yet.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    Dec/2008
  • disposeableh3r0disposeableh3r0 Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    is there a work around for this yet? this is a verry stupid problem to have. I mean WTF pw? you forget why you exist in the first place? how much money are they loosing an hour over this? i dont think theres a single person happy with this bowel movement.
    As a time traveller, Am I supposed to pack underwear or underwhen?

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  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    disposeableh3r0 wrote: »
    is there a work around for this yet? this is a verry stupid problem to have. I mean WTF pw? you forget why you exist in the first place? how much money are they loosing an hour over this? i dont think theres a single person happy with this bowel movement.

    Excactly! You would think that buying stuff and giving them money would be the easyest thing to do. But noo.... Just know that they have lost money from me today. And i?m sure i?m not the only one...
  • djconcentusdjconcentus Member Posts: 177 Media Corps
    edited June 2012
    I tried to buy some Zen the other day and ended up with a phone call from my bank worried that the "Moneybookers.com" that PWE uses to process credit cards was fraud. Apparently, that service has a really bad reputation. Guess I'm sticking with Steam Wallet.
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  • duaths1duaths1 Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    it has been so convenient before - ingame, hit button, wait 10 seconds, you have you CP's

    now i don't really know if im feeling ok with PWE having my CC info..
  • disposeableh3r0disposeableh3r0 Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    but what about those of us without a steam wallet. who bought the game from atari.
    also does the submit a ticket button from the website work for anyone? mine just 404s
    As a time traveller, Am I supposed to pack underwear or underwhen?

    Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln

    Occidere populo et effercio confractus
  • zahinderzahinder Member Posts: 2,382 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    If you don't have an objection to using Steam, it's worth pointing out that it costs you nothing to re-acquire the game in Steam -- it doesn't cost anything (other than the time downloading and putting up with Steam social features, which you can admittedly shut off)
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  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    I merged my accounts long before the switchover and have been buying points this way a long time. i dont see a big deal. Before you were buying directly from cryptic, which is why you could just buy them ingame.


    now your buying from PWE and PWE doesnt sell Cryptic points, they sell Zen. so you have to goto their webpage buy the zen then covert it to CPoints. it takes all of like... 2 minutes.
  • disposeableh3r0disposeableh3r0 Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    tenkari wrote: »
    I merged my accounts long before the switchover and have been buying points this way a long time. i dont see a big deal. Before you were buying directly from cryptic, which is why you could just buy them ingame.


    now your buying from PWE and PWE doesnt sell Cryptic points, they sell Zen. so you have to goto their webpage buy the zen then covert it to CPoints. it takes all of like... 2 minutes.

    thats not the the problem really. I mean yeah its alot less convienent but the issue is ive been lock out from buying zen. according to pw i have no characters in sto above lvl 10 and there for i am not allowed to buy zen. This is what is stupid.
    As a time traveller, Am I supposed to pack underwear or underwhen?

    Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln

    Occidere populo et effercio confractus
  • disposeableh3r0disposeableh3r0 Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    zahinder wrote: »
    If you don't have an objection to using Steam, it's worth pointing out that it costs you nothing to re-acquire the game in Steam -- it doesn't cost anything (other than the time downloading and putting up with Steam social features, which you can admittedly shut off)

    im downloading steam as we speak and am going to try it. TY
    As a time traveller, Am I supposed to pack underwear or underwhen?

    Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln

    Occidere populo et effercio confractus
  • zinfyndaelzinfyndael Member Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    disposeableh3r0 wrote: »
    is there a work around for this yet? this is a verry stupid problem to have. I mean WTF pw? you forget why you exist in the first place? how much money are they loosing an hour over this? i dont think theres a single person happy with this bowel movement.

    The workaround that I found for the Zen-to-CP is to just buy the CP Gift cards. Seems that they no longer offer that option however...

    Now am using Steam Wallet instead... I hope they just move completely to Zen, or give us some sort of alternative to all this conversion nonsense... Until that time, I'll just go to my local GameStop, buy a Steam Wallet gift card ($20 or $50 denominations) and then get CP in game through Steam...

    Why are they making it so difficult for us to GIVE THEM OUR MONEY?
  • disposeableh3r0disposeableh3r0 Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    zinfyndael wrote: »
    The workaround that I found for the Zen-to-CP is to just buy the CP Gift cards. Seems that they no longer offer that option however...

    Now am using Steam Wallet instead... I hope they just move completely to Zen, or give us some sort of alternative to all this conversion nonsense... Until that time, I'll just go to my local GameStop, buy a Steam Wallet gift card ($20 or $50 denominations) and then get CP in game through Steam...

    Why are they making it so difficult for us to GIVE THEM OUR MONEY?

    because they were so concerned with keeping the money we already gave them, the hired a monkey to set up the transfer the ofcorse the monkey got drunk on the job and they were too cheep to hire a new monkey so we ended up with this.
    As a time traveller, Am I supposed to pack underwear or underwhen?

    Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln

    Occidere populo et effercio confractus
  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    duaths1 wrote: »
    it has been so convenient before - ingame, hit button, wait 10 seconds, you have you CP's

    now i don't really know if im feeling ok with PWE having my CC info..

    Oh my god!!

    For my self. I can?t even buy it here in sweden it looks like. I can?t go trough the process. Tryed asking my roommate for help. We can?t do it! Just can?t do it. It won?t let us.
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