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ships bundle

sennahcheribsennahcherib Member Posts: 2,823 Arc User
edited October 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
first of all, currently i'm not interested to buy ships (maybe if the T6 defiant is cool); but i have a question:

why we can't create our own bundle of 3 or 2 ships? for example : the fed eng pilot ship + the phantom + the scryer or fed eng pilot ship + kdf eng pilot ship + 1 other.

the T6 ships have the same price, so this is not a problem.

i have never bought a single bundle, because i don't need all the ships given in the bundles; but i'm interested by the price (promotion) of these bundles. With more choice for the bundles, maybe more ships would be sold. :)
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  • sennahcheribsennahcherib Member Posts: 2,823 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    I wish I had the possibility of creating my own bundle for these ships:

    - Ajax pilot ship : 3000
    - romulan eng pilot ship : 3000
    - romulan T6 arkif :3000
    total 6000

    and 60 euros in Cryptic's pocket :p (wow! i made a mistake, it's 60 euros, not 30 lol)
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  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    So in essence, you would just want to have permanent 33% discount, as long as you buy 3 ships at once....
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  • sennahcheribsennahcherib Member Posts: 2,823 Arc User
    the promotion that you have when you buy a 3 ships bundle. this doesn't matter if I buy 3 command ships or a mix of ships as long that Cryptic makes money.
  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    It does matter for Cryptic, because they want you to buy a ship that you would otherwise not buy, along with the ship you really want...and for that, there is the discount. It's marketing strategy.
    "Cryptic Studio’s Jack Emmert (2010): Microtransactions are the biggest bunch of nonsense. I like paying one fee and not worrying about it – like my cellphone. The world’s biggest MMO isn’t item based, even though the black market item GDP is bigger than Russia … microtransactions make me want to die.”
  • sennahcheribsennahcherib Member Posts: 2,823 Arc User
    dalnar83 wrote: »
    It does matter for Cryptic, because they want you to buy a ship that you would otherwise not buy, along with the ship you really want...and for that, there is the discount. It's marketing strategy.

    yep, but at least for me, that doesn't work, because I don't buy the bundles. I buy only what i need, so why i would buy a bunch of ships (even for the discount), that I would never use. That would be smarter to let the choice to the players, like nobody hasn't the same taste, they would sell all their ships.

    it is not a marketing strategy, because there is no strategy. more choice = more sales. well, i'm not an economist, but that seems to me more logical. :p
  • sennahcheribsennahcherib Member Posts: 2,823 Arc User
    so, nobody would like to have the choice to create his own bundle, instead of being stuck with few choices? cross-faction bundles are already available, they could add more bundles with more ship choices or let us to choose the ships that we want in a bundle.

    my problem is the pilot ships bundle. I noticed that i could replace my fleet dhelan by the rom sci pilot ship, and my fed could use the Ajax and the sci pilot ship (or the phantom); but impossible to buy a bundle of these ships, and i can't buy each of them separately (it would be too expensive).
  • dd1mdd1m Member Posts: 171 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    dalnar83 wrote: »
    It does matter for Cryptic, because they want you to buy a ship that you would otherwise not buy, along with the ship you really want...and for that, there is the discount. It's marketing strategy.

    Heres the rub, if they were to make an offer like this if only for a limited time there are are a whole bunch of ships that I might well buy that I will never buy otherwise.

    Sales of any kind are good for business.

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  • tsiretsire Member Posts: 40 Arc User
    Agreed...would be nice if it were a limited time event. I think they'd probably make more money this way. Alas we can only hope.
  • potasssiumpotasssium Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    I was just going to buy the Kolasi, because I barely use my G-X.

    But at 5k zen, that is 3000k Zen for the one I want and 1000 Zen for each of the other two.

    Now I am sitting here waiting for a sale so I can grab the Andromeda & Haakona to put thier consoles on the other ships.

    Remember, I just wanted the Kolasi.... I'm such a sucker.

    On the other hand I bought the Pilot 9pk, and between the Ajax & Icarus I cannot justify buying the Hestia, no matter how much I love the MVAE.
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    I bet they would make quite a bit if they ran a 'buy 2 get 1 free' promotion.

    That's essentially the same thing, bundles are 3 ships for the price of 2, they might make some cash if they tried a 'buy 2 get 1 free' promotion.

    It's not a bad idea, it would be interesting to see what sales were like if they tried it. The only downside I can see is that people would buy 1 ship from a bundle and then complain that they didn't get all the customization options. So someone buys a Presidio, an Icarus, and a Yamato and then complains that they spent $60 and can't customize the Presidio or the Icarus. It's stupid, but you know someone will complain.

    Still, I bet it would make them a nice chunk of change.
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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    You guys look around on all those new ships out there and tell me: Does Cryptic really need to do more sales to get new ships out there?
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  • sennahcheribsennahcherib Member Posts: 2,823 Arc User
    @seaofsorrows , no need to remove the current bundles, after all it can be an interesting offer for some players.

    I don't think that all the ships currently in the c-store are sold in large numbers. new bundles or the choice could help to sell these ships.

    personally, i can't imagine to buy one of the current bundles, if most of the ships stay unused in my roster.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    I agree, I wasn't suggesting that they remove any current bundles, no need to do that.

    It might be interesting though if they let you build your own bundle if none of the current ones are appealing. The '3 Packs' are cool and all, but often times they don't appeal to players for various reasons. Myself for example, while I have a KDF-Romulan, I don't have any Klingon characters, so a 3 pack with a Klingon ship doesn't appeal to me even though it's technically free since the bundle is at the 2 ship price.

    Now if they had a sale where you just pick any 3 ships for 6k Zen, that would be far more appealing. Again, I don't think they will ever offer this, but I do believe it would sell well. It would be more appealing if I could pick a Fed ship and 2 Romulan ships or some other combo like that.

    Again though, just a pipe dream, and I realize that.
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  • sennahcheribsennahcherib Member Posts: 2,823 Arc User
    3 ships of my choice for 6k zen, indeed, it would be very interesting. As you said, it is a pipe dream; bah! I will continue to dream, at least dreams are free and not in a bundle :pensive:
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