Clarity needed on Honor Sales
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Today's announcement states:
"- Special Honor offers will be available every day until Tuesday, January 21, in the Time Portal. So be sure to check them out every day."
Can anyone remember the last honor sales and does this mean new offers each day or will the purchase limit and cooldown timers for the offers we see now simply reset?
I'm mostly referring to the portal offers that require honor points to buy, not so much the ones that are direct cash purchases.
Great sale, thanks DB!
"- Special Honor offers will be available every day until Tuesday, January 21, in the Time Portal. So be sure to check them out every day."
Can anyone remember the last honor sales and does this mean new offers each day or will the purchase limit and cooldown timers for the offers we see now simply reset?
I'm mostly referring to the portal offers that require honor points to buy, not so much the ones that are direct cash purchases.
Great sale, thanks DB!
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Good point, it's all coming back to me now thank you.
I'm really interested in making sure I dont blow all my honor on these offers on day 1 if a better deal is going to pop up in the next week.
This is a once a year type offer. You'll have a LOT of time to save for next time. And I wouldn't count on next time being the same. They do seem to like changing it up.
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I saved plenty for this one and I'm very pleased, I just dont want to waste it.
I went with the $9.99 special for 10K honor plus a gold cite, and then this appears:
Tempting, but I will see what the rest of the week's temptations are.
I added 8 stars. That's like erasing two 1/5's from the "honor debt" list. I also got three 1/5's, so... I fell behind until you count in the TEN citations that were part of the deal. So basically, I erased 300k in "honor debt".
Disclaimer: I don't believe in honor debt, so I put it in quotes above. For me, there are just crew that are more likely to get a citation than others.
I’ve also heard there is a 99.99 behind this one.
Well, that depends on what you want and your wallet.
Dont forget we're getting a free gold citation on any time limited purchase, so I think there are various tipping points if you have a budget in mind.
I dont usually buy honor (as i hardly ever spend it), so i dont have a good dollar value on buying it.
The others are more arguable depending on how much you value $25, $50, etc. but I don’t think any of them are terrible, IMHO, if you are using that honor for the 40K for 1 cite/1 begold deal.
I estimate 833 honor per premium portal(assuming you airlock 3*/4* and keep 5*). So the 10 for $10 is 8,330 honor for $10. This is better.
If you value the citation at the standard 50k honor, then all the deals posted are still "worth it".
If you value the citation at the reduced 40k honor, then the $50 offer begins to be worth a little less than 10 for $10. And the $100 offer is clearly worse.
If you factor in the value of the begold, then the numbers move a bit but I don't want to think about all the variables at that point.
The $100 deal buys you 225k honor and a citation. 200k of that honor buys you five beholds and five citations, the other 25k could be spent on two more beholds. Six total citations and seven beholds would usually cost 615,000 honor, which at the 8333 honor per 10 for $10 rate would cost $740. Even if you don’t get the two citation-less beholds that’s $630 worth of stuff from the best usual offer we see.
The $50 deal buys two of the behold/citation packages for a minimum value of $290, the $25 offer has $174 of value, and the $10 deal provides $114 of value - all based off of the 10 for $10 honor conversion rate. For a total outlay of $185 (not a small amount) you get as many beholds and citations as you could get from about $2,000 worth of 10 for $10 purchases.
Assuming my math is right, these deals are so good I would worry about the game shutting down next month if it weren’t for the giant revenue streams that are going to come from STP, the next season of Discovery, Lower Decks, and any potential post-merger availability of Kelvinverse content.
I'm sitting in the same boat. 260k honor, atm.
10k for $10 = 50k for $50, but they offer 100k, one extra cite.
10/10 = 100/100 but they offer 225, 2.5 cites above the 10/10 base.
I feel a legendary citation is worth $9.99.
So I look at these offers as the $9.99 gives you 10000 honor for free.
The $24.99 gives you 40000 honor for $15.00 or 26666 honor/10.00
The $49.99 gives you 100000 honor for $40.00 or 25000 honor/10.00
The $99.99 gives you 200000 honor for $90.00 or 25000 honor/10.00
Whether the honor is useful or not depends on how much honor you have.
The first two honor offers need to buy all 410000 honor.
You have an extra day so you will get to see the next day offers before buying these offers. But the time limit on the current offers will expire tomorrow at noon eastern daylight savings time. I think it really comes down to how much honor you need for the current offers and how much you are willing to spend. If you have enough honor to buy the current offers, you can put off the decision one more day on whether to buy the cash offers.
These honour offers are only about twice better than event crew purchases with a free cite on top, nothing crazy and the audience isn't the same. From my perspective, they're still not worth it except the first one for 9.99 maybe.
Don't worry, the game is still expensive and people are going to keep spending. Honour is a bottomless pit after all.
Looks like it's gonna be the same offers every day.
Would’ve been nice if they reset the prices Starting at the $10 deal with a cite
Maybe they'll do that tomorrow when it expires? Could be they let those run for two days in case people wanna buy the more expensive honor offers.
Most likely. I’d have preferred to purchase the cheap one every day though.
Now I have a debate? Should I burn my last 400k? I'm thinking yes.....
I'm in the same boat. I have enough for 8 more. That is good for me. But I wonder what tomorrow brings?