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stuart1965
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New science destroyer prices.
Looks a good ship in the z store,however they are heavily overpriced as usual. Very expensive.
I know cryptic is money mad,but show alittle compassion please.
Make the new ships abit more affordable for all.
Looks a good ship in the z store,however they are heavily overpriced as usual. Very expensive.
I know cryptic is money mad,but show alittle compassion please.
Make the new ships abit more affordable for all.
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Granted, the ship didn't seem overly impressive in the mission, but you're getting a ton of really good stuff.
The Federation version has the highest shield modifier we've yet seen in STO, The Klingon and Romulan have comparable stats with cloak, the set powers and set bonuses are considerable, its effectively 2 ships in one with additional customization options (thanks to the universal BOFF slot).
I'm actually quite surprised they would make a ship this formidable and have it be comparable to lock box stats.
Nope, not at all.
Seeing the new trend among devs: selling max level chars for $60, selling collector's edition exclusive race in a sub game, etc, I think Cryptic is doing very fine. They want you to be invested in this game. And STO is a very good game. And these ships are strong.
Cosmic didn't I see in another thread you mention an offer to get all three sets for 10k? If so maybe this is what the OP is referring to, and maybe they misread it as the price for one three pack. I know I am guilty of misreading prices on more than one occasion, though in one of those it was in my favour.
It is quite possible he is misreading the price, or believing that he must purchase all 9 ships. That is not the case, though.
if you want all nine, and plan to use them all and the consoles to good effect then its a good deal, although in reality most people will only fly 2 or 3 ships and *maybe* use the consoles. unless you really plan to get a lot out of this pack then im not sure the 10k is worth it, but as always its up to people to decide.
you can always buy them individually.
If you think cryptic is not a money mad, then you are another one of those people that are contributing to the fall of STO. Cryptic is maybe the most money eater ive ever seen in my life. And i am not to youn eh? xD.
STO is a good game, i dont think people will be throwing again those incredible high ammounts of money if it was not. Thats for sure.
Im not saying that, with the excuse of "STO is a f2p game", cryptic should just forgot about improving and fixing all the bugs in the game, but at least, they should show some respect for the customers, trying to fix the most important bugs that are there since ages ago. That will show at least a little of interest and players will be really grateful. But they dont even do that. They just keep avoiding fixing things and makes things betters and instead, they keep making new content that they know people like all those rich ones will buy. And with that, cryptic is happy and they can keep just forgetting about the bad things that are present in the game.
That how a money eater works. Of course, fixing bugs is harder than making new content, but is part of the job. But cryptic seems to not be aware of it. Again, because it is a f2p game. And still there are people like you that will defend cryptic, because probably you are one of those that waste 1/4 of the salary in the game (its no so hard anyways lol).
Cryptic should be giving free expensive gifts to every player almost every week, to compensate the lack of interest of making the game better, so dont say that they give players gifts time by time, and you should be grateful, thats stupid. But meh, they make dumb events and they give away half gifts always with the intention to sell more stuff in the future, always the same story. As i said, 0 interest in the customers.
Sorry, i needed to say this. Because it creeps me out that nobody seem to care about the future of STO. Unfortunately.
EVERYTHING is really expensive, not only ships. But of course, the ships are the more expensive items. Talking about the conversion zen - money. Its just stupid how expensive is everything.
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My time isn't worth so much that five minutes per day is "expensive"...
Actually IS it ? The C-store stats show a lower shield mod than the Wells not higher like the blog.
Whatever else one may think of them or any issues surrounding them, one cant in good faith call them over expensive.
To me it looks like they are trying to give the people who want all 9 ships a break.
Tbh we are not talking microtransactions any more when looking at the prices in the ingame store and tbh 123 dollars is a redicolus price for the average joe with a average wage considering we dont actually get any "real" value back in comparison to what we pay for considering we only have access to our commodities as long as the STO servers live on.
And in relation to the argument that we invest in sto's survival and progress everytime we buy stuff from the zen store or pure zen etc., it should be expected to see a game lightyears ahead of the current state of the game when looking at the current average cash required to get a lockbox ship or anything out of the newer ships put in the zen-store considering cryptics console synergy model for those.
It can ofcause alo be argued that you can farm the dil ingame to convert to zen over time and dont pay a dime but to be honest cryptic seem to pull more and more options out of the game in that regard each season with the point of forcing us to buy the currency if we aren't fulltime farmers that farm 23 hours a day
mmmm....good to get rid of all that bile....now i can enjoy my dinner with a smile
You are not required to buy all 9 ships - nor should you even need all 9 ships. You can buy the ships individually, in groups of 3, or all 9 at once. A Romulan Science Destroyer 3-pack is no more expensive then a Vesta 3-pack; and if you factor in Dilithium grinding the odds are you are not even going to pay the 5,000 Zen.
Can't disagree with a word of that Cosmic, there is a vreak for the nine ship bundle and the three packs are priced no differently than before.
In terms of price, this is a better than usual cstore bundle. No argument.
Yet Reyan does have a point as well.
If one did not also do the grindaversary one will not get either of the four set bonuses.
This is a departure from normal practise.
Hitherto, spending money got one the best version of something.
Now, the model has changed to having to grind on top of spending cash, if one wants all the whistles and bells.
This is different. And not, in my view, either welcome or well advised.
So, on the narrow point of the price of these ships, I agree with you entirely.
They're a good deal.
On the broader point of how the whole Dyson ship affair has unfolded, Reyan has a point.
From today's news:
So you can use Lobi to finish getting your QMendations for the ship or you can drop the Event and simply purchase the Anniversary ship directly from the Lobi Store for 600 Lobi. Thus the 2 special ship items are available if someone wishes to get them after the Event.
Ody, Bort, and Scimi packs are different type of ships with different roles; in this case they are selling the same things slightly modified to suit each faction's flavour. It seems to me, this smells like greed (minimum effort maximum price), as they could've made the pack account unlocked. Hey, i don't mind, let Cryptic make money, if they convinced people into grinding a 'free' aniversary ship and then tied them up into the new pack hype. I have the free ship on 6 toons, but only have 2 sci captains: so i either pay 10kz for 2 pack, or take all of them for the same price.
But i prefer to stick to my R'mor and buy fleet corsait for my sci orion.
I would've bought the pack if this minimax wouldn't had been truly annoying.
You're serious?
If you have any beef, it should be that the ship(s) are completely mediocre compared to what's already out there. In a game where DPS is king, it's Stats, gimmicks, awful BOFF seating, absolutely nothing about them stands out or is impressive enough to warrant 50-150 usd.
And even then it's simple enough to ignore. Just don't buy it, let those who really like how they look/really want the consoles/must have everything/etc buy away and pump funds into the game you play.
Its not a big difference really but it would at least give me a bit of hope they are actually planning on making the full interior.
The prices are horrible considering those are all enhanced versions of free anniversary ships; a lot of copy/paste with 3 sets of ships doing exactly the same thing but for each faction.
But i would pay 10k Zen for a similar Vesta pack modified for all 3 factions
Depends on what you want, IMO as a pure science vessel, the Vesta and it's variants are FAR better, but the Dyson ships do have some pretty cools things and are some of the few science ships that the KDF and RR have access to.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
you are aware that the free ship is far inferior to theses ships right?