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Can we please have the lower-cost temporary subscription back? Pretty please...?
dnugent
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Is there any possible way that ARC is going to let us do a temporary sub again? I came online thinking "Okay, I'll go ahead and pay for the 1-2 month subscription cuz during these particular times I would like to see what the full sub can get me..."
...only to find out that ARC is now only doing lifetime subscriptions for $300...???? It seems to me that it would be really cool of ARC to offer the $29.99 subscription for the near future as a lot of people can't justify dropping $300 all at once, especially right now.
I saw a few months ago that there was a 1/2-price option, but $150 at once is just too much.
So my plea to ARC - I love Star Trek, love this game, I do enjoy that it's free-to-play, and would like to pay for it - but there's just no way I can spend that kind of money all at once. Is there any way you could bring back the $29.99 sub, at least for the next year or so while the world gets its s*** together?
Thank you!
...only to find out that ARC is now only doing lifetime subscriptions for $300...???? It seems to me that it would be really cool of ARC to offer the $29.99 subscription for the near future as a lot of people can't justify dropping $300 all at once, especially right now.
I saw a few months ago that there was a 1/2-price option, but $150 at once is just too much.
So my plea to ARC - I love Star Trek, love this game, I do enjoy that it's free-to-play, and would like to pay for it - but there's just no way I can spend that kind of money all at once. Is there any way you could bring back the $29.99 sub, at least for the next year or so while the world gets its s*** together?
Thank you!
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I disagree with this idea as it would basically guarantee that the DL Exchange will be glued to 500/1. That is not healthy for the dilithium economy.
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But hey, we did get the muggs market to gouge zen out of the unwary so yell whoopee and save your money for when they move towards a pay model that not aimed at draining wallets.
You're getting it backwards. Selling subscriptions for dil will drain dil from the economy (dil sink) and the dilex will drop.
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Pretty sure it would make Zen more in demand, thus drive the prices up, meaning more DL per zen. Because there's no way they will make a sub available for DL only. It would be Zen based.
However if you look at the amount of content put out by STO vs other MMOs, you'd find that while other MMOs have masive content drops, they're few and far between. STO puts out smaller content drops far more often. Most MMOs used to only put out new content with expansions, which usually were separated by years.
Lets look at the Big Boy of MMOs, the Old King of the genre: World of WarCraft.
Notice anything? 1-2 years between expansions. The major content drops. And as far as I'm aware... they really didn't add much between those content drops. And certainly not on a monthly basis. And not all of those expansions were viewed postivily. Some were actually panned as being bad. But hey... its WarCraft! The story stopped making sense a long time ago... but its WarCraft!
That's why I love STO. Everything is free. There is no content that has to be bought to be able to play. I spend a bit of money here and there for zen, but that is very rare too, and only the lowest amount I'm allowed by the game to spend.
That's what I've heard too. Hell... I know a couple WoW veterans who actually defected to FF14! And word on the grapevine is that many WoW veterans have defected to FF14.
I have no problem with that. FF14 has many advantages, two being not needing to make alts to play different classes... and female Miqo'te.
To be fair there were a few well done Foundry missions that clearly took longer than one hour to put together. And there are many mods out there that acutally put in the effort, and it shows in the quality.
One problem though: a lot of people I know who play WoW are actually ANNOYED by kinda being forced into dailies and weeklies. It's busywork required to get decent gear or unlock stuff and gets just as repetitive as running the same TFO's. And btw, the way it is with STO now kinda gives us dailies all the time because we don't wanna miss out on those account-unlocked event-rewards.