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honest question for the devies
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here is a honest question for the people who make this game. if you were playing this game not as a dev but just as a fan of trek. and a bunch of cool new ships from the movies are added. would you prefer they be in a lock box that you have to gamble for or a straight up purchase in the game store? i'd really like to know what the devies would honestly prefer if they were just a player like us.
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Technically when they are off the clock from working on the game, the ones who play the game on personal accounts ARE players. They try to build the game from a player's perspective.
> and your suggestion is to how the game keeps the light on ?!
Did you even read? He didn't say they should be given away for free.
> 3000 zen for a acc unlock brings less income than lock box sales
so are you saying they should only put ships in lock boxes then because they would make more money?
> z store sales have their use so does the lock boxes. i am just asking as a simple merchants who wants to make a good deal. if the op suggest a significant discount on the new ships, whether he has any suggestions to how the game keeps the light on ?
what are you talking about? no one said a discount. he asked if the devs were players like us would they rather be able to buy something they want from the game store(which is spending money and keeping lights on) or have to gamble for it. and its a fair question. but of course they wont answer.
He's suggesting putting it in the c-store instead of a box would be a discount. I personally don't agree with this mentality when it comes to highly popular ships, as I suspect highly popular faction centric ships sold on the c-store would net more than if they were put in a lockbox, despite costing less overall to obtain, while less popular alien ships would net more through lockboxes.
Cryptic will never release sales numbers on these things for us to compare, so it's all pure speculation on both sides of this argument.
i was reading between the lines. and have assumed that you have the same ability.
do you really believe that z store purchases are enouch to keep the game alive ?
wrong use of the lock boxes is gamble. right use is profit.
The sad truth. If you have your heart set on the Alternate Reality Enterprise or Vengeance, start mowing lawns now or give up your dreams.
Lemme think for a minutue...
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
the ferengi looks at z they will be z store items
But 4000 Zen and a character bound item ,would.
Most people have a problem with the gambling aspect, or the utter daylight robbery of paying over $200 for one ship in the lobi store.
nobody said they didnt work. but thats also not what anybody asked. the question asked was if the devs were just players like us would they rather be able to buy a new ship they wanted out of the store or have to gamble for it.
But this is a total BS question, because there obviously are other considerations. The profitability of their company affects their compensation and continued employment. You're essentially asking them to ignore their need to eat in order to relate to your own, all-important point of view on the subject of pixelated space ships.
you will never get an answer, devs when they have the time to play the game and are off the clock have their own player accounts which doesnt have any special benefits. they are no different than the rest of us off the clock.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Yes, I believe that the Devs, as players and humans, if they were going to be given the choice of "semi-cheap C-store purchase" or "highly likely to be massively expensive lockbox acquisition" - they're gonna vote "C-store".
However, as business(wo)men, they would obviously prefer the massive influx of monies that the lockbox system provides the company to do things like keep them employed and paying for all the stuff to keep keeping them employed.
Obviously, and possibly taking into account that due to their Dev status they're already allowed to play with all the toys - the final answer does not matter to them in any way, shape, or form - they will do what they feel is best, not only from a player retention standpoint, but long term merchandising standpoint and attempt to balance the plethora of licenses that it's taking to even get "JJ-verse" ships from Paramount into a CBS "property"...
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
That is strawman logic. "ignore their need to eat" suggests they wouldn't still be making plenty of money selling ships $30 a pop in the game store, which is false.
we should not assume how they think at all. We should let them answer for themselves.
What do you mean "a few"? What data are you basing that statement on? Because from the looks of things flying around in game, the majority of ships are from the game store. There are a lot more than "a few" purchases being made.
No dev would ever risk potential disciplinary action to answer a player question. Their opinions on this topic will only ever be heard in meetings behind the scenes, meetings we will never know anything about.