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Hi, I have played only since the free to play. I tried a few things and than take a month of gold membership the next week-end. I really like the game, but I find that there are not many advantages to be gold member. It unlock one character slot, give you 400 CP, but that's about that. OK, it's allow you to unlock some things that silver member cannot. But common, with 400 points you cannot do much. I'm already Commander, but I have a lot of thing to unlock, but 400 CP. OK, those thing are not essential, fine, but I took gold membership to unlock them. So, if I am to be unable to do so, I will continue with F2P.
Don't take me wrong, I really like the game, before I saw what little gold membership receive, I was even thinking to the lifetime subscription. So, give more CP and/or unlock some things like cargo, bank spaces and/or lower the prices of items that are bought with CP by 15-20% for gold member. But give us a big more incentive! I want to help you make money and make the game better, but I want a bit more in return.
Don't take me wrong, I really like the game, before I saw what little gold membership receive, I was even thinking to the lifetime subscription. So, give more CP and/or unlock some things like cargo, bank spaces and/or lower the prices of items that are bought with CP by 15-20% for gold member. But give us a big more incentive! I want to help you make money and make the game better, but I want a bit more in return.
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we asked, begged, pleaded, yelled at, and anything else we could to get them to do jsut that. We were better served yelling at the nearest wall. They have no interest in making it more worthwhile.
well, i can tell you one thing that, to me, makes it worth it. this past weekend i saw something i had not seen since week 1 of beta and launch.. a sign on queue. Anne who has a silver acct queued in @ 1569 of 1569
i launched a minute or two later, she was up to 900 or so, and i was number 3. no to low queue rates makes it worth it
now if they made the captains table more intersting and gold only that would be a perk
To me they should do the following:
1. Up the amount of the stipend it should be atleast 1000cp
2. Make c-store ships available for free for the promotion token, after the free one then they can pay whatever the price is like you do with dilithium at the moment. This would require an additional token for f2p players so they can't get c-store ships for free.
3. Restrict access to parts of the game for f2p players and chage c-points if f2p want access to those parts for example STFs or even entire sectors
4. Remove the c-point cost of uniform cosmetics for subscribers, not the c-store ones but the ones in the tailor
5. Give subscribers more than one extra character slot for free, they should have atleast three characters slots on both sides to cover all the careers.
That's just a few of the things.
As it is there is no incentive to be a subscriber even after subscription you do not lose anything by going f2p. This is wong. I am not the only person who would be willing to subscribe, even though it costs more than a WoW subscription dieto VAT about £10.99 compared to £8.99 a month, if there was actually an incentive to do so. I have seen f2pers like myself asking what the advantagers are in game and when told basically saying it isn't worth it.
Gold gives you:
- More bank slots
- More Inventory slots
- Another character slot
- Higher credit limit
- Free respec tokens per rank
- Foundry slots and those
- 400 CP
- Some other scraps
Frankly, it gives almost everything you've asked for. In my opinion a 15-20% discount would be better for frequent buyers than the 400 CP - but for people who have already purchased all they want, then saving the CP is really better imo.
But anyway gold already gets you more bank, inventory space, more Boff spots, respec tokens, veteran rewards and so on i don't get where you got your information that it's just 400 cp and a character slot. A fair number of new people i've talked to in the game plan on going gold just to get all the initial perks.
It's a real shame that a few people are willing to ruin the game experience for the majority of the population just to feel "exclusive".
Most of which you don't lose when going back to f2p. Turbine made it so you have the same restrictions as f2p even to past subscribers if you didn't have an active subscription. You don't lose anything that is outside of the f2p access it is just locked until you either subscribe or pay for them to be unlocked. As such buy the game for cheap and then don't subscribe.
It costs about £7+ for the game depending on where you go. The sub is £10+ including VAT, that roughly equates to $15 that's twice the price of 500cp let alone the 400 stipend, 1000cp is less than that. For less than 2 months sub I can get 2500cp (roughly £20.80) yet it would cost me £70+ to get that through subscription stipend -300cp difference. For roughly £46.66 I could have 5000 cp.
The foundry slots are for creating the missions. How many of the average players do you think in reality are making them?
All of which listed would be cheaper in the long run as a one time purchase IMO. I did the same thing in LOTRO, I just purchased everything when it became F2P. The only real Lifer/Gold advantage is its faster getting into the game. I do wish we did get a discount from the C-Store, it would be a huge incentive IMO.
BTW, beside all the unlocks they give you as a gold member, you also get priority login. During the weekend the servers were full with a login queue of 700-2000, and as a gold member I immediately entered the queue at position 4 out of 726 and then (later) 26 out of 2000. Took only a few seconds to login. From what I read in the forums - some silvers took a bit more than that to get into the game.
Here is a list of what is suppose to be provided upon signing up for gold membership. But, after paying for these services I haven't been able to access any of them. Also, before this, I bought a bridge officer which never showed up.
That's one of the things I really like about this F2P model that Cryptic took.
With the exception of the Vet Rewards and the Steam special, there is nothing I have access too that F2P players can't get, if they want to spend the C-Points on.
500 years in the future and we still look like schmucks when getting our ID photos taken...