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narxes081206
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I see the lifetime subscription is on sale. Is it worth it?
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I just wish that one of these times it comes on sale I'd actually have the money to get it...
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Ditto!!
OP. The LTS is worth getting as the game has lots of life in the old girl yet.
At this point in the games life cycle, I just don't see a life time membership as being worth it. The perks aren't anything great, and you'll spend less money just subscribing for one month for the perks you get to keep and then buying what you want from the C-Store at end game.
If this was a couple years ago.. sure. Today? I think you would have to be mad to purchase a LTS.
The 3 T6 ships (1 per faction) are nice, the android boff has your choice of gender and career and has self-revival, the T5 token lets you add something fun like the Fekihri carrier for KDF. Plus you get to be a Space Hobbit! (Well OK, that's an anti-benefit.)
For leveling new alts, you get +5% XP which lets you skip any grinding. Plus you get an extra 5-10 respec tokens as you level up and extra character slots.
If it lasts only another year, which I would say is a fairly pessimistic prediction, you still get back 6000 zen, and so you could say that a years worth of fun is about $140.00 or about $12.00 a month. I see this game being around longer than that, so really, the deal just gets better and better as time goes by. In three years you are really only out $19.99, and by the end of a fourth year you are +$40.00 in ships, or other C-Store stuff.
There are a lot of ways to pass the time, but if you look, a lot of those cost money as well. Often a lot more money. So yeah, seaofsorrows has a solid point, you can get a lot for just a single month that will still be there afterwards, but the lifetime sub keeps paying you back. I don't see it as much of a gamble.
Eat out one less time each month this year, and you have most likely paid for it.
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Ahh I did not know that. thanks for filling us in. I hate to give bad information.
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I ignored this exact advice when I bought my LTS 2 (or was it 3?) years ago.
Glad I did.
Then hell yes epseically if you have the money!
perks to be lifer.
free 500 zen points a month
you get liberated borg captain
captain's shuttle ship
extra character slot
titles
bonus ships
An alternative for leveling infrequent toons is to go Gold for 1 month, get that toon(s) leveled w/ the perks. Cause really, other than the stipend and Vet ship, after you reach max level, being anything but a F2P player doesn't really get you much.
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All of that being very cool and useful.
Less useful but fun, Mugatu pets, fireworks, and other little things.
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one day they will hit the nail. long after seaquest will be playable in the system ..
Agreed, the only thing that makes it somewhat worth it is the Zen stipend and on the console you don't even get that.
I got mine at launch and feel that I have received value from it over the years.
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Again, this is just from a quick glance and I know I missed more than enough to add even more to the price. AND you get 500 zen/month, so add $5 for every month you continue playing. At some point, Cryptic will be paying you $5/month just to play the game, simply because the math will hit the total cost of the lifetime sub eventually.
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Six months after console launch or the 6 months 5+yrs ago for PC?
If you don't play this game very often, I absolutely agree, it's cheaper to just go monthly or tri-monthly. Some of us have had the game and played it since launch. If you paid a sub over the last six or so years, that's something like 14k USD. It would be *way* cheaper to just shell out 200$.
Plus there's all those perks and a monthly bonus of 500 points, you never have to give them money again if you don't want to (yes, I know it's f2p you don't have to anyway).
So it's really a matter of, do you think you'll get your money's worth out of it.
I would have bought it long ago, but the sale always happens when I don't have the money. >.<
Yes.
There's 2. There's the T5 version and the T6 version (and there are separate fleet versions for both, which only require 1 fleet module each), they're classified as Heavy Destroyers in the C-store for Fed and KDF and Warbird Destroyers for Romulan characters.
But no one knows what the future holds.