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Free STO Items from Neverwinter [Now Ended]
pwebranflakes
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W're excited to announce that purchasing a Hero of the North Founder's Pack for Neverwinter will now get you the Andorian Starter Pack, which includes two free items in Star Trek Online, along with several free items in other PWE games.
Link to the news article.
Link to the news article.
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Second.....if I buy this $200 pack, I get, what? Items i'd use for all of 15-20 minutes.
I will pass on this, as it looks more like a desperate attempt to get some cash from an unsuspecting person.
A deal like this should give ALOT more for $200, like a lifetime subscription to STO.
End game Repeatable content.
Queueing
Another "sorry your class is only 1% of te game because it is broken so we won't support it because nobody plays it"
One story mission a year
Ignoring veteran players
The "we don't want to communicate our plans because they might change" attitude. Tell us the plans and tell us when the plans change and why.
It isn't the perks, it is the lack of communicated vision about the game that is preventing my investment.
Cryptic has become way to tight lipped.
Also, what is a kdf player going to do with an Andorran ship?
You're getting free STO items from Neverwinter if you're a Hero of the North Founder, which is noted in the blog. Also, you're not just getting the STO items, but all of the other items listed here for other PWE games: http://www.perfectworld.com/news/?p=839091
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
"Quick throw some more junk on the fire before it burns out!"
Personally, I am not interested in the whole "D&D" thing. So, I am taking a pass on Neverwinter. And I am not going to pay $200 for a T3 ship.
Beers,
Jengoz =/
Sorry, brah. It's not worth 200 dollars.
And the STO items are only going to be used while being a Lieutenant to boot? Worthless after a couple of hours of game play.
Then after the 200, then you will be nickled and dimed to death.
Old school Cryptic would probably have a chance at this. This "New School" Cryptic, not so much.
If only you waited another 12 days and I would have said this was a pretty good April Fool's joke.
"There is no problem in the universe that can't be solved with a bribe, a paid assassin, or an overpowered fighter." - Chubain from Jumpgate Evolution
This means there are 3 more beta weekends to go?
Well with the "pack" you get a bunch of currencies (even though I don't understand nw's currencies whatsoever). So I can assume you can buy certain things with it
No, one more I believe. I'll update that text
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Working As Intended
Oh well, I wasn't planning on dropping $200 on Neverwinter anyway. If I had that to burn I'd buy a Lifetime for STO.
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And what if the countdown is about announcing the Romulan faction. As Kirk would say, "What does a Romulan need with an Andorian ship?"
Again if he only waited 12 more days for this announcement and it would have been an epic April Fool's joke. But since he's serious -- SMH
"There is no problem in the universe that can't be solved with a bribe, a paid assassin, or an overpowered fighter." - Chubain from Jumpgate Evolution
Well said! Even if Cryptic gave you everything in the C-Store in STO for free. Neverwinter isn't even worth playing but at least the incentive would be worth the cost. :P
I noticed that too. I'm really starting to feel bad for the few players left in that game. Did you see the Ask Cryptic they had over there? It was so bleak. All they have left to look forward to all year is a handful of story missions and some cosmetic auras. Everything else was "Are there any plans for <insert feature here>?" followed by "Nope." Feels bad man.
Anyway more on topic, seems like a cool pack. It's more of a "PWE" bundle than a NW pack. I've been taking an interest in marketing lately so I'd love to see how effective this sort of cross promotion really is.
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Beers,
Jengoz
"The Star Trek Online is fueled by the most abundant resource in the Galaxy. . . gullibility."
It would have been better if the Light Andorian Escort would have used the original Kumari skin with the option to use that skin on the T5 versions. Would deffinately sweetened the deal for a lot of people. Relay that to the Dev team please.
Normal people, when they see something for sale they don't want, walk past and the matter is out of their head within seconds.
People in this thread, however, have to pause, strut around, and make a huge spectacle about why they don't want to buy the item. Seriously, I'm embarrassed just reading the responses.
The other stuff to me is just junk as I dont play those games anyhow. So thanks but no thanks.
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This allows them to be a bit better at level 1 than they would be at level 10 if they didn't scale. Theoretically, you could also use the ship a bit longer (past Lt.), if you'd like, and the cannons would scale with you.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
I see, thanks.
You mean you don't want to pay 25 dollars for a single Boff-equivalent companion on one character?
I think its cheaper to buy an offline game. If game companies like Cryptic/Perfect World and EA/BioWare keep selling extremely over expensive content, the only solution for me is to go back to single-player and offline games.
$200 could buy ten slightly aged games from Best Buy.
Why in god's name would I want to burn $200 for twenty five tiny digital items?
No way is that going to happen. Zero.
*looks at the other packs on the page*
rofl...
$59.99 can buy you a new recently released game.
$14.99-$19.99 can buy you a slightly aged game.
I do not mind buying a whole game, but this is ridiculous on so many levels.
You can get the Survival Edition of Tomb Raider for 59 on Steam. Normal version for 49.
I think Steam has Skyrim for 40 right now PC version.
And you can get those aged games even cheaper.
"There is no problem in the universe that can't be solved with a bribe, a paid assassin, or an overpowered fighter." - Chubain from Jumpgate Evolution
If I wait just a little bit longer, how much further do you think they will drop? $30? $20?
When you buy and play a game does not matter, for as long as you do it with a sense of conservative economics.
As a player who has been burned for playing this game since beta, I will not be investing any more money into another cryptic game.
Whilst I have had great fun with STO and will continue to play, and have spoken to some great devs such as Zeroniusrex and Heretic over the years, (which reminds me ive not seen farktoid in a long time, did he leave too ?) overall im disgusted at how the players in STO have been taken advantage of and milked dry as well as insulted by cryptic staff.
I will not be playing Neverwinter and I sure as hell wont be recommending it to friends.
Even if I was I have to say the free stuff for forking out such a huge sum of money really is a rip off, and as posters above mention what about champs players ?
Very very poorly thought out. Mind you im not surprised.
No STO Player with even just a few Weeks Playtime will take a look at Neverwinter because of a lousy *starter pack* and a worthless Tier 3 Ship.
The Neverwinter Players that might come here to play STO because of their FREE SHIP!...
"hey i got that free ANDORIAN SHIP ...now lets start an ANDORIAN character in STO!"...
they will only notice that they are supposed to drop $50 for the actual real Andorian Ship and that will more likely result in an uninstalled STO client than in a C-Store sale.
conclusion
-> NOT a good deal for STO players that might be interested in Neverwinter
-> BAD deal for Neverwinter players that might get sucked into STO because of this...
come on, at least give them ONE Ship from the Tier 5 3-Pack.... if they like the game then they are still going to want the other 2 Variants for the Visuals and Consoles and that will still be $50
That would at least be much less likely to TRIBBLE off your Neverwinter customers risking a look in STO because of THIS deal.
If the whole game was being sold for $20 to $60, without it going to Free to Play, I would have no problem with paying for a copy. No problem. Since these prices are for a tiny amount of individual items, the worth of them are way overstated. As a result of moving towards 'aesthetic value', the pricing dynamic becomes a different ballgame. We moved away from buying games, and into the realm of buying 'art'.
Art history has taught me three things important things: (1) the most successful artists are drunks, alcoholics, or schizophrenics, (2) the price of a piece of artwork only goes up when the artist passes away, and (3) critics are a dime a dozen.
What have these artists contributed to their craft? Did they discover a new painting style? Did they discover a new calligraphy style? Did they discover a new mouse movement? Did they discover or trigger off a new art movement?
Unless they have contributed heavily to the arts, I do not see how their pieces are worth more than a grain of sand.
We are not paying for ART...
and the ARTIST is not even valued enough inside the company to get a fair percentage of the profits but just like any other john smith working for Walmart is paid a monthly fee.
We are paying for "services provided"... not for "Art".
We do not own the art either, as soon as the service is discontinued, all the art is gone with it.
Come on people, how many of you purchased STO lifetime sub even after it went F2P? And for what? A ship? A playable species? These were "just" some bonuses and privileges, and not any physical items, nor the game itself, as you could play it for free regardless.
Think of this one as Neverwinter's lifetime sub, which also provides players with some additional bonuses for other PWE games - just in case they'd like to try them out. The same thing like STO's lifetime offered Neverwinter beta access as a bonus.
Still, for 200$ the offer could use some Zen stipend for Neverwinter players, as it's otherwise quite expensive.
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