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Free Uniform give away from mmorpg.com

kingdoxykingdoxy Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited November 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
It looks like Cryptic is giving away the TOS captain's tunic as a thanks for for season 7.

So que the angry folks who paid for this and don't like others getting free stuff. For the rest of you enjoy something free from cryptic.


http://www.mmorpg.com/giveaways.cfm/offer/391/Star-Trek-Online-InGame-Uniform-Giveaway.html
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    jkstocbrjkstocbr Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    You couldn't give me 1440 dilithium to wear that. A skant however ...
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    emperormakemperormak Member Posts: 137 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    kingdoxy wrote: »
    So que the angry folks who paid for this and don't like others getting free stuff. For the rest of you enjoy something free from cryptic.

    It's not that I'm mad that other people get something for free, it's that I don't get something for free. Yeah, it's just unlucky that I bought 4 costumes and that was one of them and there's nothing I can do about it.

    It would have been more fair if they would allow you to choose any 1 costume for free. Basically give a costume requisition. Just like ship requistions or STF requisition. At least that way, they'd avoid people complaining.

    I'm surprised that's not how the cstore is set up. Instead of buying a costume pack, just buy a costume requisition. Then while in-game, you can redeem for the costume pack.
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    vesterengvestereng Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Probably one of the worst costumes, no wonder they are giving it away for free ;P
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    duaths1duaths1 Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    if it is the costume i had to buy for 550 CP some years ago, then i am an unhappy camper.
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    helgmornhelgmorn Member Posts: 103 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Yay, got a Key. Wanted TOS uniform, have DS9, nearly got it yesterday so happy. Loving season 7 its brilliant, finally feels like progress and making me feel like I love STO again :)
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    azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Why are they giving away all these uniforms that I already paid for?
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    lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Score this WEEK:

    Feds- 4 uniforms, 2 escort ships (1 @ 60% discount)

    Klingons- ZILCH, NADA, NUTHIN.
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    daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    lordmalak1 wrote: »
    Score this WEEK:

    Feds- 4 uniforms, 2 escort ships (1 @ 60% discount)

    Klingons- ZILCH, NADA, NUTHIN.

    your big day is coming in season 8 as im lol typeing this :)
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    tarsudotarsudo Member Posts: 343 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    yup, for all of us klingon nothing... but... it's free then... take it
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    admiralkristovadmiralkristov Member Posts: 325 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    kingdoxy wrote: »
    So que the angry folks who paid for this and don't like others getting free stuff.

    That would never happen on this totally rational forum.... Oh, wait....
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    conundrumnsaconundrumnsa Member Posts: 705 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    admiralkristov wrote: »
    That would never happen on this totally rational forum.... Oh, wait....

    Hate to break it to you, being unhappy people are getting free what you paid for is not irrational.
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    hfmuddhfmudd Member Posts: 881 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    What everyone in this threads always seems to miss is that they got to play with [thing] between then (however long ago "then" was) and now. That's what you paid for - the ability to play with that thing then, and not have to wait for a "now" that be months later, years, or never.

    If I wait for a new game to go on sale on Steam, I can eventually get it much cheaper, but I lose out on getting to play it now/for however long until it goes on sale.
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    njdmb30njdmb30 Member Posts: 48 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    lordmalak1 wrote: »
    Score this WEEK:

    Feds- 4 uniforms, 2 escort ships (1 @ 60% discount)

    Klingons- ZILCH, NADA, NUTHIN.

    KDF got to keep their best methods of Dilithium farming, Empire Defense + Path, while the Feds had almost all of them taken away or nerfed. There's the tradeoff.
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    azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    The value of a thing, ESPECIALLY a cosmetic thing, is always dependent on how many of that thing they are. By flooding the market with free goodies, it devalues the ones that have been paid for.

    It's the same with cash. You can turn on the printing press and make more 'money', but you've added no value. You've just made everyone else's cash worth a little bit less.
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    lirvaevoli07lirvaevoli07 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    cool stuff. picked one up the other day.
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    trelntreln Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I was hoping for the medical set. Sadly, I only got the Tunic. If anyone has a code for the Medical set, I'd love a key.
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    c0lmustardc0lmustard Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    azniadeet wrote: »
    The value of a thing, ESPECIALLY a cosmetic thing, is always dependent on how many of that thing they are. By flooding the market with free goodies, it devalues the ones that have been paid for.

    It's the same with cash. You can turn on the printing press and make more 'money', but you've added no value. You've just made everyone else's cash worth a little bit less.

    With all due respect, your argument is based on two assuming things:
    a.) It fails to establish any arguable market value to the items in question, but presumes there is one
    b.) You're placing a physical connection to a digital marketplace. Everything started for nothing. You're paying for nothing. Cash (supposedly) has an actual gold value to back it up. Arguably, but still an established basic concept we have been using for hundreds of years at least. This new digital currency system for intangible, digital goods has many similarities to a cash-based physical currency, but still very different in known arguable ways.

    Based on my (limited) time spent in game, I don't see these as being valuable, as no one is trying to get them, or "hustle" them. They don't sell "fast" in the cstore, if they're available, because no one is rushing out to outfit with TOS uniforms. I'm not knocking them, I'm just saying. Trends are everything to this company now, and don't believe for a second they won't milk it where they think they can get away with it. If you do, then I quit right now. Not even worth the time wasted trying to argue the point, as it's a lost cause.
    The argument for trending can be established with a apples-to-apples comparison:
    If the item being given away for free were a Jem'Hadar Attack ship, there could be serious implications on the in-game "market" for a while. People would lose faith, quit playing for a while, stop playing out of protest, etc. They will never do that.

    It's not a matter of pride when the argument is made, there is no offense intended by anyone when the argument is made:

    They're giving it away for free because it was the random winner in a pool of lowest trending sales, to try and perk up cstore sales in general. If you go there to claim it, your mentality (possibly) is that you're getting something for free, therefor it justifies spending a little to get more.

    No one is rushing out to buy the TOS uniforms, just a select group of the die hards (nothing wrong with that). But more people will go claim it "just because it's free" - which may get them to drop some cstore pts on another outfit since they are already changing it up.

    You don't need a business major to see that.

    Not trying to be a ****, just my POV for what it's worth.
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    unangbangkayunangbangkay Member Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    For the "unhappy campers":

    In that case you should've quit when STO went Free-to-Play. They devalued the $50 + Sub fee (or more if you paid lifetime) three years ago!

    *Insert "DEAL WITH IT" meme picture here*
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    dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    lordmalak1 wrote: »
    Score this WEEK:

    Feds- 4 uniforms, 2 escort ships (1 @ 60% discount)

    Klingons- ZILCH, NADA, NUTHIN.

    Klingons got to stay alive. Just wait, one of these Seasons, the KDF will just be another NPC we get to blow apart. ;)
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    sirricwinsirricwin Member Posts: 63 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Theres currently 4 uniform giveaways running atm to promote Season 7.

    TOS Tunic
    TOS Medical Uniform
    TOS Dress Uniform
    Enterprise Era Uniform

    All available from various MMO websites, using the usual register, activate, receive key routine.
    I have all four on my account atm. Cant wear them all at once, but thats still alot of free junk :P
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    tostrek2012tostrek2012 Member Posts: 71 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I was too late, only able to claim all except the Enterprise Era key.
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    littlesarbonnlittlesarbonn Member Posts: 486 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Considering I didn't have it, I'm glad someone posted a link to it. As of now, there are 320 keys left (according to their site). There was 321 before I visited the link. :)
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    defcon1776defcon1776 Member Posts: 313 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Went and got a key code and attempted to redeem and it comes back invalid.:(

    Edit: 299 left
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    darkthorne70darkthorne70 Member Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    the code just did not work for me... it accpeted the code and did nothing

    edit: it unlocked in game not in the cstore screen so the enterprise bundle works
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    dimitranokaidimitranokai Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Thanks for the heads up!!
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    trelntreln Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Strike my previous post, they announced today a med uniform uniform. Got all 4 now.

    Would love the Mirror Enterprise uniform if they chose the next giveaway.
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    lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,827 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    lordmalak1 wrote: »
    Score this WEEK:

    Feds- 4 uniforms, 2 escort ships (1 @ 60% discount)

    Klingons- ZILCH, NADA, NUTHIN.

    Four uniforms? All free or buy one? I know I picked up three free tos uniforms...wondering if I missed one.

    Edit : Ahh I see was a Enterprise Era one which I missed :(
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