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Detective Data for $25 bucks, still not buying DB bring back the 10$ offer!
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I would be all over this offer if it was for $10, but not for $25.
No deal...
No deal...
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Detective Data (although a cool variant) is very dated. He was the second legendary that I acquired and I hardly ever used him.
This crew is nowhere near worth $25 USD. I wouldn't even buy this for $10.
For $25? ...lol, no.
Business as usual for DB - They’d rather sell 1,000 of the $25 offers than 10,000 of the $10.
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So of course DB found a way to completely obliterate it, and any goodwill it generated.
Same here, Detective Data was the 5* in the first event I ever played in, and I've wanted one ever since.
I even mentioned in another thread awhile back asking what it would take for you to spend again, and my answer was "If Detective Data was offered for $10, that'd do it."
Thanks for saving me the money, DB! I'll get him the old-fashioned way some day...
Amen. At least with packs you have the chance to get some additional value (I got a bunch of extra Sareks from the Klingon Bride Jadzia deal, but honor isn’t the worst thing to accumulate). I didn’t buy all of the $10 deals but I happily did a couple that had crew I really wanted...$25 for the same thing, excepting perhaps crew not released to the premium portal pool, is a complete non-starter.
And on that, if the US players are being charged $25 for this offer, why are British players being charged £24 when the exchange rate would put it at £19? A 25% mark-up is questionable.
Ask your platform of choice. DB sets the US price and lets the platforms do the conversions, which is why Facebook might be cheaper than Google or Apple, etc. I could be wrong, but I believe you also have 20% VAT included while at least in the US any tax is added to the listed price, so that might explain some if not all of it.
DB, do not cave and add packs. I am happier not spending the money.
Don't give in JIL!
He honestly isn't worth it. I understand the appeal from a collector's perspective, but it's likely you will never use him at 1/5 and possibly 2/5.
I appreciate how easy DB makes it to not spend money.
I believe VAT at 20% accounts for most of this, as somebody already pointed out.
The other issue is the poor exchange rate at present due to Brexit. Apple and most other tech companies adjusted their [semi-fixed] exchange rate a year or two ago (after the referendum result), and it doesn’t always get revisited/adjusted very often.
You might like to investage what Steam are charging, last time I checked that was the cheapest way to obtain packs/deals. They seem to have a more dyanamic exchange rate that isn’t quite as brutal as Apple’s.
I know but ive always like mysteries and i have every other card from that episode except him...*sigh* oh well maybe in a behold one day
Do you have data to back up your assumption, or do you just honestly think any retailer is dumb enough to do that if the sales numbers said they could move 10000 units? This entire game is basically a Ferengi honeypot, they'll do whatever maximizes profit.
Chances are much greater that they've figured out the number of purchases is fairly static at either price, so they go with the higher profit.
I'd be inclined to agree with you, but they also keep offering people "Sail The Starry Skies" and no one in their right mind would buy that.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Disruptor-Beam-RVW22238199.htm
But hey sticking to topic, I am pretty sure that most whales will have the card maxed already especially as it is two years old, so who are they aiming this 'deal' at? I am pretty sure that those that are collecting them all probably have him already so that leaves the sharks and dolphins who wouldn't spend such a large amount on a card, no matter how you gloss over it.
Jim
I got a single star for him somewhere a while back and haven’t used him once since finishing all his equipment. I don’t feel like SEC/SCI is an especially strong skill combo for me but I have a 3/5* Klingon Janeway, an immortal Mirror Picard, and an immortal Ruk all well ahead of him plus 8 more primary SEC crew that would still be above him for a SEC/SCI shuttle seat without any SCI at all. Plus, his proficiencies (while not awful) aren’t enough to put him above my 2/5* Gangster Spock for voyages and he’s actually got a worse voyage score than my immortalized Valeris.
More stars would be nice and I am sure he would get use around 3/5* or certainly by 4/5* but $25 to keep him on the bench except for an occasional voyage just isn’t worth it.
New players might. That's the other piece that people on here can't seem to accept; some offers just aren't meant for the people that have been here for two years, they need to work on new users too.