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I would pay to Repack a ship, aka a C-Store Repack A Ship Token
kayajay
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Over the years, I've bought or won so many Lock Box or Reward Pack Ships, but I just end up Dry Docking them, because I don't enjoy flying them. If there was something in the C-Store that you could buy, like a Ship Upgrade Token that would allow you to Repack and sell or even transfer a ship to another character, then I'd buy them. I'd actually buy about 20, because I'd love to be able to move to ships around my account...let alone cheekily pop one on the Exchange.
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If they ever DID do it though I can guarantee the repacked ships would become account bound.
If they charge enough for it, then it's not worth it. If they don't charge enough, then you're essentially saying 'I want to pay less than I would normally have to.' The latter of the two being the reason they'll never do it.
And C-store ships are already account claimable.
That makes it ever happening double-impossible
They offer account unlocks through Mudd's and (kind of, though not the same ships) Legendary packs. That's their answer to the requests for account unlocked lock box and promo ships.
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More likely financial reasons
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
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I can't help but agree on this. I wanted a Reputation buy out option for years and was VERY happy when they revealed it was finally happening. Then I saw the price and immediatly thought to myself "what the hell are they smoking over there!?"
They will never agree to it, looking at their sale policy, where you must pay for some ships two times, or more. Look at TOS starter pack, as an example, before it appeared I already had paladin, but when i select this pack, i didn't get any discount for already owned ship, and i would be charged in full if i decided to go for it.
So if here is a bit of "shady" practice, then forget that they allow for repack, and resell ships/items that bringing them so much money, as lock box, or promo ships.
Sadly, you are totally right.
Honestly I think the actual reason is because it is a huge risk. We all know that lockboxes are the game's main source of revenue. There are lots of arguments to be made for how an account unlock option could either help or hurt lockbox sells, the but truth is we just don't know. And if Cryptic decides to do it, then finds out afterwards they screwed the pooch, well it's too late.
The probably fee like it's just too big of a risk to take. Although it could be argued that these legendary and mudd's bundles are testing the water to see if huge price tags can make it worthwhile to just sell the ships outright rather than requiring gambling to get them. It's also possible that they know that eventually the laws are going to catch up to them and they won't have a choice, and are trying to get their new model figured out now while they have time to test.
But getting back to the main point: it's a big risk.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Agree, especially after looking at full box choice (all 8 rewards), which is new, or at least i see it for the first time.