Is 500 cartel coins per mont for subscribers worth it?

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Is 500 cartel coins per mont for subscribers worth it?

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Monoth

11.09.2012 , 04:58 PM \| #61
Quote: Originally Posted by MarkoJinn Then you're making the game into pay to win... If a subscriber has to spend even more money now to get ANY item from the store then to me it's pay to win. So unless anything in the store can be acquired through gaming via some quest or game achievement then the game is simply pay to win... And that SUCKS!!!!! You obviously don't know what Pay to Win means...... There is nothing on the cartel store that gives you an advantage at end game... Pay to win means I can go to the cash shop buy the best gear in the game and own everyone in PvP... That's an example of Pay to Win..... Everything that is sold in the Cartel Shop is optional and is not needed to play the game or compete in the game. I guess you could call it Pay to Fluff...
F2P is like driving on a long stretch of highway with toll booths every 1/2 mile

mattyboi

11.09.2012 , 05:10 PM \| #62
There are two ways to view this IMO. You can look at it like that my subscription now only costs me $10 a month and i am paying $5 for the 500 cartel coins i am getting, or you can say that my subscription costs me $15 still but i am getting 500 CC as a bonus each month. It is a win-win situation no matter how you look at it... Also like to point out that 500 CC per a month for subs is only if you pay month to month. If you sub in 3 or 6 month blocks you will get an even higher allotment of CC apparently.

Lostpenguins

11.09.2012 , 05:27 PM \| #63
Quote: Originally Posted by MarkoJinn I have seen this scenario in LOTRO already. They gave subscribers X many coins each month and for the 1st couple of months it was an OK sum. But after a year or so the prices just kept getting higher and higher while I was still getting only my same X coins. As a result I had to save for 3 months to get a new mount and there was no way to get that same mount via questing... Thomas Jefferson once said: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." ... and that's what's happening here too... Granted I don't have to play the game and I can quit anytime but the way they are doing it now is just simply wrong. Not sure what you're talking about. Every time you can get in the Cartel Shop is simply vanity items, meaning the don't make you have an edge in the gaming world to dps harder, tank better, or heal better. Once they introduce an item that is better, statewise, than anything you can get in the game, then yes, it will become P2W. Until then, you're freaking out at nothing substantial.

Gomla

11.09.2012 , 05:30 PM \| #64
Quote: Originally Posted by MarkoJinn Then you're making the game into pay to win... If a subscriber has to spend even more money now to get ANY item from the store then to me it's pay to win. So unless anything in the store can be acquired through gaming via some quest or game achievement then the game is simply pay to win... And that SUCKS!!!!! It looks like someone has no idea what pay to win is. The store items give 0 benefit over anything you can already get ingame thus no pay to win. It's just fluff and vanity items.

chimex

11.09.2012 , 05:54 PM \| #65
500CC a month, bargain!! If you add all the benifits of the full subscription + the 500CC, it would work out alot more if priced individually. I think I shall keep my sub, and enjoy the fun vanity items that go with it
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Valethar

11.09.2012 , 05:57 PM \| #66
Quote: Originally Posted by smexymage Does anyone else think that subscribers should get more cartel coins for paying the monthly sub? No. The 500 is right in the ballpark for what other games do for their subscribers. If you want more, buy them.
"Due to the massive loss of subscribers in our flagship title, we decided to cancel Blizzcon this year, because frankly, we don't think there's anyone left who would show up."

Chiltonium

11.09.2012 , 06:09 PM \| #67
Another self entitled poster who thinks he should get something for nothing. Sigh.
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Kanjir

11.09.2012 , 06:20 PM \| #68
Quote: Originally Posted by Chiltonium Another self entitled poster who thinks he should get something for nothing. Sigh. QFT. Everyone is getting so lazy now. "I want more CC's since I'm paying a sub". If you can't afford to buy extra CC's for VANITY ITEMS that DO NOT EFFECT GAMEPLAY then save your monthly free coins, or buy it from the GTN. Although you will probably ****** about the prices being too high, lol.

Master-Nala

11.09.2012 , 06:44 PM \| #69
Quote: Originally Posted by Urael Because "time" is the current metric for success and should remain so. One should never beable to "buy" their way to the top in a game. That is tantemount to "cheating". You are by passing the games "rules" which are time based. If your "skill" can speed you along the way to success then great the system is working but, it should never be circumvented becasue someone is "richer" irl than someone else. Besides, most people that "buy" their way to the top really suck as players. Why? Have you ever examined that belief? Right now, I could pay someone to level my character to 50 and raid for me. That's not theoretical, I actually make enough to pay someone a decent wage to do that. I don't, because I really don't care about being the "best" whatever that means. But it is already the fact that someone can buy their way to power.

AboB

11.09.2012 , 06:45 PM \| #70
No, it's good.

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