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You keep bringing out stuff in lock boxes when end game needs more quests. There isn't a single quest out there end game where you can actually get an item you can use for end game. Instead of giving us the ships (after spending $400 to $500) how about give us a map that starts a quest. A quest where in the end we find a derelict ship or even have to steal the ship. While we are on lock boxes, the price really needs to drop. There is no damn reason to have to spend 400 or $500 just to get a new ship to try out. It is getting ridiculous you greedy TRIBBLE. It also looks like you keep making the random part harder and harder so people will spend more money on that damn lock boxes. I want to enjoy the game and having multiple ship options is the only way to do it once you have 4 or 5 chars at level 50. Not only do you charge an insanely amount to get the ship, only one char can use it! WTH is that TRIBBLE? Let all our chars use those ships. It's stupid to have it only bound to whatever char you opened it on.
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I agree the game needs more "quests" but it also needs money to keep developing things.
The STFs are end-game quests, and you can earn tons of purple end-game items for doing those "raids." Omega sets, MACO sets, etc are all end-game items you earn from doing them.
When is the last time we had some game development that wasn't tied to making money? Pre f2p pretty much.
Of course they want to make money. The industry standard for FTP games is that 10% of the people pay for 100% of the development. Every FTP MMO needs to get the most money they can to continue development - especially in this economy.
I'm not saying the game doesn't need more Missions. I have hundreds of threads about it, but I also know that if Cryptic doesn't make money we're never going to get anything. And since we have a new Zone and new Missions coming in Season 7 it would seem to be working - just not as quickly as we'd like.
As far as your money hang-up, I haven't purchased any Zen in almost 7 months now and currently have over 15,000 Zen. Between my Stipend and playing I earn around 3,000 Zen per month. That means I can buy Keys and C-Store ships without ever paying a single dime of my own money.
Played plenty of other games and generally quit at the end game. No fun doing the same TRIBBLE over and over. Just start another char or move on to another game. The fun part is doing new quests or finding new things. It quits being fun when there is no longer any thing new to discover or do.
What is a Stipend and how do you earn Zen by just playing?
If you really need the Lockboxships (and there is zero reason, except different looks) you can always go the "hyped key"-way. With fresh boxes the market for keys goes through the roof. buy yourself 4-5 packs of 10 keys, sell them on exchange, get the ship for EC (some even trade those directly, helps with EC limit).
Do Free Zen stuff, cumulate stipends and dilithium.
If you can be patient, you can have them all, without paying a single buck, just takes time.
Except for the bugship any lockboxship is buyable from the exchange at a reasonable EC amount.
I got 2 Orb Weavers so far, paid zero real cash for them. (and ya, I am a lucky TRIBBLE). Sold one and gave one to my wife.
Yesterday I bought a third one really cheap to resell it later.
You earn Zen by doing Missions (Dailies, STFs, PvP, etc) for Dilithium. You then sell the Dilithium for Zen on the Dilithium exchange.
Second, as I also said above, Lockboxes make the company money. That money pays for development. We have Fleetbases because Lockboxes paid to develop them. We'll have a new Zone and Missions with Season 7 because Lockboxes paid to develop them. Lockboxes make money, which pays for everything else.
Third, anyone spending $400.00-$500.00 to get a Lockbox ship is an major idiot who should be sterilized so-as to not pass on their lunacy.
3000 zen wouldn't be enough either if you didn't notice I said I spend 4 to 500 hundred trying to get the lock box ship. 3k zen is what? a $30 shot? Still wouldn't notice it much. Although that would get me a few 10 packs so maybe I would notice it.
2nd. Yes, I do agree, it makes the company money and allot of it. I am saying if you spend allot on the game there needs to be more of a reward compared to someone who is a cheapskate and isn't interested in the lock box ships. Hell, how can you defend it if you aren't even a person who actually does spend on the lock boxes? You have no room or basis to talk about it.
3rd how can you brag about how lock boxes make the company money and defend that (yet not spend any money on it yourself) then state someone is an idiot for making the company money? Troll, go post on something you actually have the right to talk about.
It's great that you're making Cryptic money, but spending that much money is also bad for them. It creates a false sense of entitlement in the person spending all that money - and that leads to increased negativity as time goes on. And that turns forums into warzones and creates bad press for potential newbs.
Everything in life works best in moderation; for you and for Cryptic.
Look I have bought keys, Z-Mart ships, fleet modules, packs, services, etc, etc. Some with Real World money, some by grinded moneys (Dil to Zen).. but have not come even close to that level of expense. And you're talking about spending that much in a matter of weeks?
Seriously, no ship NO SHIP is worth that type of expenditure... for that matter, with that amount of investment, you should have been able to sell many of the items from the boxes, or purchased with Lobi to purchase the ship you were looking for.
Star Trek Online, Now with out the Trek....
Oh please tell me you haven't just been recycling them... :eek: or discarding them
Star Trek Online, Now with out the Trek....