Why is the $9.99 Chron offer being pulled prematurely?
I am confused as to what benefit DB is pulling the $9.99 USD Chron offer pack on the Portal so early? This happened last week as well. It makes no sense from a financial standpoint to do this; there is an entire day left in the event, sometimes being the day for players to put more effort into the event due to more time than the previous day(s), and now they do not have the means to push as much as they had hoped.
I, personally, would have liked to finally sustain a top 50 rank for once since it was certainly possible with a few more purchases of that pack. It was more on me for not buying the offer in bulk when it appeared, but at the same time, I am certainly not the only player affected. There are certainly more out there that might have bought that pack a few times today in order to sustain a top 1,000 rank. Maybe they wanted to make sure they cleared all the threshold rewards if they did not do so already, and would have spent that $10 to guarantee they did. Sundays are more free for several players because of not having that many prior commitments even Saturdays can hold.
DB, you lost out on potential revenue these two weeks from pulling this pack on the Sundays at 12:00pm EST. This move does not make sense from any standpoint; from either the players’ side or your bottom line. Maybe you want people to spend more money on Dilithium in order to get a measly 50 Chrons for each increasing Dilithium increment daily, which, by the way, a lot of your top spenders do not do anymore thanks to Voyages and expecting that $9.99 pack. Maybe you want more people to buy that $9.99 event offer for one 4*, 300 Chrons, etc., but no one who does not need that 4* or other featured event crew is going to spend the same amount of money on that that they would had to receive 1,250 Chron and 500 VP. Whatever your reasoning, it does not stand within the realm of logic.
I, personally, would have liked to finally sustain a top 50 rank for once since it was certainly possible with a few more purchases of that pack. It was more on me for not buying the offer in bulk when it appeared, but at the same time, I am certainly not the only player affected. There are certainly more out there that might have bought that pack a few times today in order to sustain a top 1,000 rank. Maybe they wanted to make sure they cleared all the threshold rewards if they did not do so already, and would have spent that $10 to guarantee they did. Sundays are more free for several players because of not having that many prior commitments even Saturdays can hold.
DB, you lost out on potential revenue these two weeks from pulling this pack on the Sundays at 12:00pm EST. This move does not make sense from any standpoint; from either the players’ side or your bottom line. Maybe you want people to spend more money on Dilithium in order to get a measly 50 Chrons for each increasing Dilithium increment daily, which, by the way, a lot of your top spenders do not do anymore thanks to Voyages and expecting that $9.99 pack. Maybe you want more people to buy that $9.99 event offer for one 4*, 300 Chrons, etc., but no one who does not need that 4* or other featured event crew is going to spend the same amount of money on that that they would had to receive 1,250 Chron and 500 VP. Whatever your reasoning, it does not stand within the realm of logic.
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I noticed the timer, but forgot about it yesterday. Was planning on stocking up this weekend, but my response was exactly as yours: "Oh well — saved $50."
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However, I suppose that if you really want to play a game that is all about who can spend the most money... then I guess you will have a dissenting opinion on this subject. However, I want to play a game. A game that is fair.... I learned that as a little kid playing on the playground.... some of y'all should try to remember back then.
I absolutely agree with this. Let's not forget that this game has many players in different time zones, and in my opinion, is a good decision on the part of DB. (EDIT: As a reference, for me the gauntlet ends at 2 AM, reset is at 7 AM, and faction reset is at 7 PM when I am home, and 1 hour earlier when I am in Germany)
I get what you're saying, but if they sold them outside of a Galaxy event, there are plenty of folks like me who would still stock up on them for the next Galaxy...
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
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Exactly!
There are many ways to keep this a game and still make DB truck loads of dollars, euros, pounds etc....
Don't buy because you want the benefits, buy before it's too late & you find you need but don't have.
Fear sells rather than a solid good product, i guess. Why have calm confident customers when you can instead have rushed insecure ones, lol.
I'm pretty wise to it, though I confess I have bought the chrono deals before during an event, not to waste on crafting, but just to level crew.
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But then they miss out on those who have the impulse buy desire at the end. Which are probably quite a few.
Which is another reason to keep them available until the end, or even after. People may desire to purchase the chronitons to level crew they just received at the end of the event.
No one ever goes for that deal unless they are forced to. Ending the $9.99 deal a day early pushes those people to go for the expensive chrons to try to retain their positions.
Uh, I do. Yes, I've purchased it and used it towards the Galaxy event, but I've also bought it 5x in a weekend and used it for leveling crew. It's a great deal.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
It's 150, 150, 200, 250, 300, right? That is 1050 dil for 250 chrons. That's about roughly $13 to $14. The $9.99 for 1250 chrons, you are getting 5X the amount of chrons, and for $3 to $4 less. If you recharge your voyages a couple times, the return on investment in chron is also much greater. As for leveling, it may end up making on piece of equipment at level 100 for a legendary crew. I don't see $13 a piece of equipment as being a great deal.
I might agree to an extent on some pieces of this, but it's worth bearing in mind that:
1. Voyages are returning anywhere from 20%-40% fewer chronitons than they used to, depending on the specific voyage.
2. I've never encountered a single piece of equipment that demanded an expenditure of anywhere close to 1250 chronitons. I've built a few nightmare items that required hundreds, but what you're describing is an entirely different magnitude. Also, once you're far enough along in game, how frequently do you find yourself needing to farm *everything* in a given recipe? I've usually got at least a few sub-components on hand.
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Tuskegee Mayweather's lvl 90-100 Flight Helmet costs an average of 1532 chrons (not including faction-only items) and that was just off the top of my head cos i just finished him.
When I see a 5* item that looks that daunting, I figure it's always better to take the hit of losing 250,000 credits and just replicate the blasted thing, rather than waste an insane # of chrons on it.
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Maybe I just haven't done enough missions to get all the highest efficiency missions for components. Plus, I just don't have luck. A single piece of equipment for me for a legendary to fully equip typically costs me in the range of 500 to 1200 chrons. And yes, that does include having a lot of components laying around. Legitimately, 250 chrons for me would not be enough to even do one piece of the final equipment for a legendary.
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The claim wasn't that no item existed with such a total cost, but that in practice, you aren't farming all components for the item, because some are already on hand.
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Hear, hear.