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I am a current LTS and just purchased the T6 dreadnought bundle. It's going to be while until I can buy another. I with they would offer an upgraded LTS. I want 1,000 zen per month, not 500. If the LTS costs $200, why not offer a premium that gives you some extra rewards and more monthly zen? Perhaps $100 for the upgrade, more zen and a few T6 ships.
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You add one that is 30 dollars...you add two and that is 60...throw in the zen...it's half a year then it's a loss for them...yeah I don't see something like that happening without it costing around the amount of a LTS...much less happening at all.
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SCM - Hive (S) - [02:31] DMG(DPS) - @jarvisandalfred: 30.62M(204.66K) - Fed Sci
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What'd you bring up the incident for? Now they're gonna wanna find out, and how could we possibly explain that? @pwlaughingtrendy can we get this thread moved to the platinum subforum before they find out more?
SCM - Hive (S) - [02:31] DMG(DPS) - @jarvisandalfred: 30.62M(204.66K) - Fed Sci
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why not take that $100 and just buy 10600 zen with it, you will get even more at the moment as there is 15% bonus on all purchases so you will get 12100 zen in total, that's two years worth of your extra 500 zen a month right there.
welcome to the PLTS club, theres a $100 two yearly fee for joining.
sorry guys I could not help myself.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
As others have said...
You want to give them an extra $100 for an extra 500 Zen a month.
If you buy Zen at sale time you can get 12100 Zen for that $100.
12100 Zen / 500 extra Zen per month = 24.2 months to break even.
This 'platinum' LTS is a bad idea. Unless you are 100% certain that you'll never ever buy Zen (& STO keeps going for 2+ more years and/or you don't grow tired of it) you're probably better off just buying Zen when a sale rolls around and keep your Zen wallet filled.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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SCM - Hive (S) - [02:31] DMG(DPS) - @jarvisandalfred: 30.62M(204.66K) - Fed Sci
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I got my rhodium LTS upgrade last Christmas. So if you have been truly supportive to STO the past year I wouldn’t give my hopes up.
24k Dil refinement cap/day/toon was definitely worth the wait for me.
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Pssh, the Latinum LTS is where it's at. I enjoy my weekly lunch with the Ferengi cast of DS9
In all seriousness though... the friendly banter that's going on here would turn horrid if there's tiered LTS. A lot of players already complain about things being locked behind the LTS wall, or LTS players getting perks that others don't (Talaxians added as a playable race only at that level, the free T6 Vet Destroyers to new and old LTS alike, the Vet-only Oddy uniform variants, etc.). Every month or so, there's another forum thread where players rage against LTS/Gold for having things that other players don't.
Could you imagine the forum fires that'd happen if there was any level of LTS+?
But they keep adding things to the list of Vet perks every so often, which is awesome. But tiered LTS? You can guarantee that any new Vet options would be at that next level up only.
Overall, not a good idea.
I'm holding out for the Radium LTS upgrade. 5 x the benefits of Rhodium plus you get to glow in the dark ...
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what you say is true, of course it should not be this way.
players who have spent $100s in the c-store on ships, lockbox keys and other such items have had enough opportunity to spend that money on a LTS but they chose to spend it elsewhere instead, that's their choice so they cant complain.
players who have spent very little in game or nothing at all for that matter have no right to complain because they would not have a game to play if it wasn't for us lifers and monthly subbers as well as the guys from the first group who have spent lots of money in the c-store.
sure its nice when cryptic expand the vet rewards but I expect nothing and I was happy with the stuff I got when I bought my LTS, if they choose to add to the package that is up to them.
having said that I don't see anyone complaining when they do a c-store giveaway and there really is no difference at all, everything in the game belongs to cryptic and if they give the use of certain stuff to some or all is entirely up to their discretion, just like the recent lapsed player giveaways they have done recently.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
Oh, they do complain. They complain it's a giveaway for something they've already bought, it's not the giveaway they wanted... and so on.
The best is when players demand a refund when something they bought however long ago is given away free for a single day
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Exactly! If Cryptic have a giveaway for something I've bought previously (and they have) I just say 'damn!' and get on with things. If Cryptic giveaway something they've given away before and people complain about that......jeez. Never look a gift-horse in the mouth!! The complaints over the 'character-limited' Andromeda were way over the top, as are the complaints about having to grind for a ship. 'Generation Entitlement' kids need a serious lesson on being humble and in alot of cases, civilised!
never see those complaints, too busy playing with all my free stuff.
though I must admit I did mention during the last giveaway that the early items were a bit lame compared to previous giveaways but it wasn't really complaining just an observation.
still I stand by the rest of my comment.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
True enough, eh? I usually try to pop in with a "thanks" as early as I can, if there's been a great mission, something new being announced, and so on. But as a general rule of customer service, more often than not you're only hearing feedback from the people who are voicing a complaint. So if say... you hear from 10% of your customer base, maybe 90% of that 10% is negative (some justified, some not so much). But of that mostly unheard from 90%, you can reasonably expect that a majority of them would fall somewhere on the 'satisfied' side of a survey.
Either way, setting up a tiered Gold system that extends the current model (which is Free-to-Player, FtP but with purchases, monthly subs, and LTS) is mostly pointless - the entire breadth of game consumer is currently covered. Adding additional levels of LTS would just make a whole series of problems determining who gets what.
Case in point: "Oh, we have a new free ship! But you have to be an LTS+ with the Triple Gold Star buy-in, but only if you've purchased the New Content Eligable add-on with the Free LTS Perks unlock."
There's an argument to be made for having varying levels of subscribership, or even just purchasing in general. But I think that's already covered well enough in the current model. Both monthly subs and LTS are Gold players, with LTS getting the extra bits. And anyone can purchase additional content at the rate they chose / are able to do so. Any more and it gets too complicated for the company, and too prohibitive for more and more of the playerbase.
TL;DR version: URMAGERD?!?!?!?!?!
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SCM - Hive (S) - [02:31] DMG(DPS) - @jarvisandalfred: 30.62M(204.66K) - Fed Sci
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Latinum? What is my life???
On a more serious note, I have a LTS, and I like where it's at, and I like that that's it. I feel like I get a good value from it, but there's not an excessive amount of things locked behind it, so that if I didn't have one it wouldn't be gimping, as subscription perks are the only things you can't grind for in-game.
SCM - Hive (S) - [02:31] DMG(DPS) - @jarvisandalfred: 30.62M(204.66K) - Fed Sci
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Yeah, that's true enough. Before being LTS and several months after now, I haven't felt that I was missing out before, or am king of the hill now. Just nice perks for some extra flavour to the game.
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