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$99 Custom Characters/Limited Edition

WhatMeWorryWhatMeWorry ✭✭✭
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Would you pay $99 for a custom character?
What is you were the only person on STT that had a Nomad? Or a Flint? Or whatever character you really want?
If that's not enough, how about limited edition characters?
Say a run of limited run of 1,000 at $99. First come first served.
Do this once a week. Instead of the Starry Skies offer.
52 weeks @ 100K = $5.2MIllion.
Surely that's worth DB's time. And I bet an artist could design any character here in an hour or less.
Let's do this!

Comments

  • TP do better!! ~Colli~ (PoF)TP do better!! ~Colli~ (PoF) ✭✭✭✭✭
    That would make the game terribly unbalanced (not that is isn’t already😉)
    “What's a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?”

    Proud member of Patterns of Force
    Captain Level 99
    Played since January 2017

    TP: Do better!!!
  • WhatMeWorryWhatMeWorry ✭✭✭
    How so? Keep the characters stats average to average/better. That would keep everything balanced.
  • Captain_WhoCaptain_Who ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whales maybe. Me and most, no. And that's too low of a price for the dev work to target a couple whales. However, other games do that. Higher prices, devs specifically targeting specific whales, stalking their facebook pages and watching their purchase history closely.
  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2018
    They would likely have to charge in excess of $1,000 (most likely more than that). It would also have to have above average stats that consistently got better to match stat creep. I can’t see anyone going for it though.

    And all of that doesn’t even consider the fact that any new character added to the game has to go through the long approval process with CBS
  • Captain P (ESB)Captain P (ESB) ✭✭✭
    As said by the previous Captain, this would financially be to much of an offer to DB. But maybe it would be an option to have more often a poll of which Crew the Captains would like to add to their crew.
  • Frank?Frank? ✭✭✭✭✭
    If they made a custom Wesley Crusher, or a special edition limited Wesley Crusher, or anything Wesley Crusher, then SilverRose would buy it. Cost be damned.

    If it's a Wesley Crusher event, she'll buy that too and win it.

    But, she's one person, and probably the only major Wesley fan outside of a nameless Dev at DB that is also a fan (Hi R!)

    So that offer would not be in the best interest of DB financially or from a time investment perspective. She'd give them $200 or whatever to buy the limited card, and then she'd go back to watching something on Netflix. DB doesn't really gain by that.

    I see your idea and your point - it has been done as previously said by other game properties. However, and I mean this as a full blown complement - DB is many things and I think many people here would spice up that sentence with some colorful metaphors - but one thing DB is *not* is that evil to make special cards targeting a few players.
  • Banjo1012Banjo1012 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2018
    How bout a custom made Schmallen card? Command (cuz I’m the manager) Diplomacy (cuz I would’ve been fired long ago if I wasn’t diplomatic) and Security (cuz I would be dead by now if I couldn’t handle myself). I’ll pay $100 for that. How many out of 5 stars do I get for that $100? One or five?
  • Bylo BandBylo Band ✭✭✭✭✭
    What about a once a year offer to purchase a unique portrait?
  • WhatMeWorryWhatMeWorry ✭✭✭
    They would have to charge more than $1,000??? Why?
    I wouldnt call any of these cards fine art.
    Approval process with CBS?
    As if. I'm sure they have a huge vested interest in Maid Marion Vash.
    They're probably counting the licensing dollars for that right now, and planning a whole new sitcom from them.
  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2018
    Every single card they add to the game has to go through a lengthy approval process with CBS. They had a whole blog post about what it takes to get someone added to the game. Start to finish it can take months to get a new card added. That means they are probably already working on the cards right now thar are going to be introduced in January and February.
  • VioletBlueVioletBlue ✭✭✭
    The amount of money spent on mobile game is insane (We can blame Apple & Google for most of this problem??)

    Instead of spending $99 for legendary characters that you use sparingly.... $99 can get you brand new game with minimum of 20-30hr plus & season pass.
  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
    eXo | SilverRose wrote: »
    But considering DB's pricing mechanisms, it's probably cheaper for me to rent Wil Wheaton.

    This whole thread was worthwhile purely for that one comment! :D

  • [SSR]Trollhammeren[SSR]Trollhammeren ✭✭✭✭
    HELL NO!
  • Matt_DeckerMatt_Decker ✭✭✭✭✭
    I thought this thread would be about a customizable crew that we could make with our own image. Put yourself in the Captain's chair and all that. That would be an interesting idea.
    Fleet: Starship Trista
    Captain Level: 95
    VIP Level: 12
    Unique Crew Immortalized: 525
    Collections Completed: Vulcan, Ferengi, Borg, Romulan, Cardassian, Uncommon, Rare, Veteran, Common, Engineered, Physician, Innovator, Inspiring, Diplomat, Jury Rigger, Gauntlet Legends
  • WhatMeWorryWhatMeWorry ✭✭✭
    How about a Matt Decker card, Matt_Decker? Cant you see him recoiling from the Doomsday Planet Killer? What a card that would make.
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