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wmthoram
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First off I'll go ahead and apologize if other people have already brought up this topic. But is console going to get the coupon earning ability that is supposed to come with Riposte or is it only for the PC master race?
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Here is the release announcement for the console version of the Event. If you compare it directly with the initial announcement for the PC event, you can see that the console announcement omits the part about the T6 ship coupon.
It appears that it's not active for consoles.
I don't know why the decision was made, but my guess would be that it has something to do with the way ships are purchased on the console. I haven't played the console version, so I don't know if ships are purchased with Microsoft Points or with Zen as they are on the PC. Being that Zen is Perfect Worlds own currency as opposed to something like Microsoft Points that might play a factor into the decision.
It's purely a guess on my part.. I only play this game on PC.
Maybe console players will get them when Rise of Discovery hits, or at some point in the future
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Thanks baddmoon.
I think you've missed something out. You can already turn Dil into Zen, and Cryptic are not going to take away this facility on any platform. It's the main driver of the game's economy.
As for console players being poverty stricken.....that's a bit far-stretched. I'd love to read this study, as I can't find one on the net, including on Google Scholar.
Again, there's no proof the game on the console is dying. It has about a quarter of the PC's level of population across two platform according to Cryptic's figures, and I will tell you this, as a player of the PC (9 years approx) and Xbox versions (1 and a half years), Console players get a far-easier ride that PC does. I'll give it that fixes are slower, but we already know that it's cost exercise for each patch on Consoles, but the Dil to Zen ratio favours F2P players massively (190-1 on Console and 340-1 on PC). I also always see plenty of people in-game, but I also concede that Console players are quite picky when it comes to games; and as for the requirement for Live, I highly doubt that is Cryptic's fault, and most likely a requirement to publish the game on the platform.
Cryptic would absolutely love for players to spend, after all they have a business to run, but consider that they give away 3 T6 ships during events, 13 Fleet Ship Modules per character (That's up to 13 Fleet T6 Ships per character), have at least 1 weeks worth of Zen Store giveaways, 1 Zen Store T5 ships per character, and giving that equipment is easily, and I mean extremely easy to acquire, why oh why do you think Cryptic are trying to force anyone to pay up. Give them some credit and splash out on something to show your appreciation to the Dev's here. You're not forced to pay for content (WoW, SWBF2 cough cough) after buying the game....which again, this is free (about 20GB on Console).
I have to agree, their tendency to just give information in the live streams gets annoying.
Our community manager does not do a very good job disseminating information to the player base, and a lot of what we do get is full of bad links and type-o's.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Console version has a few good points such as the option to auto fire abilities although new items often lack that option and the games ability to decide when to trigger them can end up with you limping about in red alert status for over a minute after combat has actually ended. Personally I find escorts actually fun to fly on console with a controller whereas on PC I avoid them like the proverbial levodian flu
It lacks a ton of basic qol things that should have been included in the port, such as disabling auto hails, options to try and reduce the visual spam which can start to chug the console, not having jump and interact on the same key or the buttons to control the minigames.
More care and polish and I might have been tempted into dropping a few quid on zen for it but with the level of clunk I've said decided its not worth it. General direction of the game towards event based play is just reinforcing that alongside other things such as event ships being dumped straight into the phoenix gamble system that hint about the lack of care over towards console playerbase.
> PS+ isn't required for sto on PS4 so needing gold for the xbone is down to microsoft, I seem to recall them getting minor flak for saying "free" games but requiring a paid sub to play them.
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> Console version has a few good points such as the option to auto fire abilities although new items often lack that option and the games ability to decide when to trigger them can end up with you limping about in red alert status for over a minute after combat has actually ended. Personally I find escorts actually fun to fly on console with a controller whereas on PC I avoid them like the proverbial levodian flu
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> It lacks a ton of basic qol things that should have been included in the port, such as disabling auto hails, options to try and reduce the visual spam which can start to chug the console, not having jump and interact on the same key or the buttons to control the minigames.
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> More care and polish and I might have been tempted into dropping a few quid on zen for it but with the level of clunk I've said decided its not worth it. General direction of the game towards event based play is just reinforcing that alongside other things such as event ships being dumped straight into the phoenix gamble system that hint about the lack of care over towards console playerbase.
Don't get me started on the Phoenix Prize Packs. I bought 200 and never got an epic token. Only 1 UR and most of the others were blue or green.
I can get that people really want that Epic Token, too, but no one can consider the Phoenix Prize Packs unfair, because at the minimum, you get a Phoenix Upgrade out of it that has the same (worst case) or better Dilithium/Tech Point ratio then the Upgrade Tokens. And you will have to upgrade your gear eventually!
I'd argue the value you get from opening lockboxes or promotion boxes is typically lower.