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Lifetime sub vs. Legacy Pack
cuzecoze
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Hi,
First let me say that I'm planning on maining a Romulan when the xpac hits. After looking over the perks the lifetime sub offers, unless I'm missing something, it seems to be overpriced for what you get "extra" that non-gold accounts do not.
In other peoples' opinions, would it be more worth the money for me to just get the Legacy Pack instead of getting a Lifetime sub? Does that automated dilithium conversion perk make a significant impact later on?
In a perfect world (pun intented) I could afford to just get both. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to decide on either lifetime, or legacy pack.
First let me say that I'm planning on maining a Romulan when the xpac hits. After looking over the perks the lifetime sub offers, unless I'm missing something, it seems to be overpriced for what you get "extra" that non-gold accounts do not.
In other peoples' opinions, would it be more worth the money for me to just get the Legacy Pack instead of getting a Lifetime sub? Does that automated dilithium conversion perk make a significant impact later on?
In a perfect world (pun intented) I could afford to just get both. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to decide on either lifetime, or legacy pack.
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Lifetime subscription is best if you are one or more of the following:
1. If you intend on playing this game for a really long time.
2. If you have at least 3 toons at the bare minimum you play on a consistent basis.
3. You like the fact that you would be getting all those bonuses on every toon you ever make.
The Legacy Pack would be more for if you intend on making more than one Romulan, because otherwise you'd be paying a LOT of cash for a single toon. Sure you would have all those lovely ships at the start, but you'd only ever use them for one character. Making multiple characters though lets you have more uses for them.
Basically, you only want the Lifetime if you are gonna keep a fairly decent amount of toons running at a time, because that will help make the Lifetime actually feel worth while (That's why I bought it), and only really get the Legacy pack if you intend on making multiple Romulan toons (Same reason again for me).
I have four characters now, and four free slots (likely to be another KDF and three Romulans). If the Lifetime Sub retroactively applied the veteran rewards (such as all the ship slots and respec tokens, etc) to each character, I think that would be well worth having. I do not know if it does or not.
As far as the Legacy Pack, if you plan on one Romulan character, I just don't see the point. You'll unlock the Reman species that you won't be using, and a ton of ships, when it's most likely you will reach tier 5 rather quickly, and it would be far cheaper to just level your Romulan character and then purchase the one ship you want to play at the end. $20-$25 instead of $130.
$300 for the Lifetime Sub is difficult for me to do, but if it does apply to each character, I would have to try and pull it off.
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As for the Legacy. Like many I passed. With the exception of the titles and Doff mini-pack, there is nothing there that you can't buy on the C-store at or near Launch. And all those ships would be wasted when I really only need one Romulan character.
Again it is up to you and what is best for you.
The only thing that Lifetime sub and Legacy Pack have in common is that they are both >$100.
You should think of the Legacy Pack as a C-Store purchase that you are directly buying in $ instead of Z. Now the questions are formated properly:
1. Do I want to be a Silver, Gold, Lifetime sub?
2. Does this C-store item (character increase, Fed ship, More DOFF, LEGACY PACK, etc..) provide value to me?
Everyone answers question 1 and 2 differently.
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That said, if you're looking for the most economical plan, I'd say Lifetime is better. You get all of the benefits of a Gold subscriber, plus the ability to play a Borg captain, the special titles & Captain's Table access... but most importantly, you get a stipend of 500 C-store points per month. At the $299 price point, you'll break even vs. a Gold subscription in roughly 2 years (16 months if you get one of the $199 sales). That's 12,000 C-Store points over the 2 year period.
12k isn't quite enough to cover all the Legacy C-store unlocks, but you'll still be getting your stipend past that point, too. Eventually, you can unlock all the stuff in the Legacy pack (minus the unique titles & Nemesis uniform).
For me, I found it better to go ahead and get the Legacy Pack. I plan on playing at least two Romulan characters, and having all the ship unlocks is worth the price to me. The rest is just gravy. If Cryptic brings back the $199 Lifetime sale this summer, I'll probably pick that up too. "Romulan Borg Captain" just sounds awesome.
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I went lifetime for most of the reasons listed above.
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Some of the end game ships are available for you as Lifer and you will ''only'' miss out on some of the small stuff in the Legacy pack.
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In any case you will most likely be able to get the Legacy Pack a couple of months in the future. So really don't believe that should be your priority. Life perks are best as it follows account.