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There have been many additions to the game which are great for F2P players. Adding Warp, free dilithium for extra shuttles and crew slots, additional free crew slots and now additional replicator uses. Obtaining these things are the reasons I started getting a monthly card to begin with. If I started playing the game now I believe I would remain a VIP0. Will DB be adding more VIP bonuses to entice new players to begin a monthly card? I dont think the opportunity to complete extra scans will do it lol.
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Does DB need to work on VIP bonuses???... That's a big 10-4 good buddy.
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Exactly! The value of the monthly card is one of the best in the game. You can do a lot with 3000 Dilithium
A bonus to honor would also be welcomed for VIP14 players and may get more working the way up the VIP ranks depending on how good the % bonus would be.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
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You'd expect after spending $1000 on a mobile app, you'd get stock options at VIP14.
Back when the game was relatively new the VIP bonuses were good. I just think they have aged and the game has changed a lot in the past year that they are no longer worth as much as they used too. VIP needs to be changed to reflect the current game and not what it was 2 years ago when it all started.
And expanded upward.
How about 14k chrons for VIP1 players?
There should be an achievement for every time you hit VIP 14. Say 10000 Honor the first time, then 20000. That would give people extra incentive to spend and reword us. I think 20000 Honor for every $1000 I spent isn’t alot to ask
I covet the 20 crew slots, but it will take me a while to get there from VIP12 at my current spending rate (monthly + occasional offer).
To the OP’s question: I would still sign up for the monthly card. I choose to look at it as a subscription for a form/medium of entertainment which I thoroughly enjoy, despite the occasional alarmingly frequent issues that crop up. Plus, dil! 🖖🏻
But, if you are an addict that can't resist a $10 a week offer, or $50 for special events... just say no.
But even then is it a huge dent to DB if someone withholds their $4 a month? That’s not much of a protest
True. A lot of people would need to do it in order for DB to take notice.
$4/mo isn't protest worthy... that person is spending so little he just rolls with the punches. Try dropping $1000 and then sit on your hands as decisions are made that renders your "investment" useless.
That's why a hate it when people who aren't spending say others are making a big deal out of something... it's just a game...
I'd like to see them go into a casino, walk up to the craps table, and when everyone yells in horror...say, "hey, calm down. It's just a game!"
But the real question is $3.99 a month for the game worth it. For me now, yes. But, if I have ingame issues or support issues I say no. The worse support I ever got still, shortly after Conflict, took care of me. The support staff itself is worth the $3.99 to me. But, when I feel like I have serious game issues, there is no stronger way of showing my protest then by stopping the purchase of the monthly card. Why? It shows that my entire spending of money has stopped, when I am not buying the perceived best bargain of the game,
I made the mistake of buying the elusive treasure hoping to get more than two legendaries and only got one. It is the only offer other than the double up on megaevent crew I have spent what would be $25 cost of legendary. Of course elusive turned into $50 for legendary for me.
I have decided I will not pay more than $15 per average chance for legendary from now on.
Edit: which is why I did not buy the $99.99 event offer for Barclay. I was close, if it had been $75 I might have ,but ,I doubt it. I have not missed the legendary in faction events for a while now. So it would not get me an extra Barclay from rewards. And, if I only got three ,or worse two, do I now spend $25 for double up, probably. So I would have reasoned myself out of $75. But at $60 I would have bought the $99.99.
Edit2: when I first started I spent on event offers. And when double up Started I bought a few. But it has been quite a while since I have bought something with the intent of getting a legendary that would have had me paying $25 a legendary.
I have bought event offers to get more copies of superrare crew since then. So I have spent $25 in the hopes of superrare crew and one time I got three legendaries what rotten luck😉
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I completely agree. When I first got VIP2 I did it for the crew slots, warping, and shuttles. Now F2P has all those benefits. I bought another monthly card to get another crew slots during the sale, but I'm now sitting on DIL with no reason to use it. I could buy packs, but odds are they'll just be honor, 3000 DIL for 5 slots that will used by the endless crew in 2 weeks seems like a rip off, and there is nothing else to buy. At this point I feel like I might as well be F2P.
You get more slots on top of the free slots with VIP so that benefit did not go away.
My point was all tiers of VIP could use a revamp to attract new people to getting hooked on it.