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Thread: Friday Feature June 25 – Veteran Reward Ship
NeonEnder wrote:
Why are some people total idiots?!??!
THIS SHIP OWNZZ!!!
When you go to work in the morning or whenever...To make money, you do exactly that, Make as much money as you can.
Now, the people at marketing, dont make money without going to work, and doing their job to make money.
People who recieve this ship and dont intend to buy JTL, will have more incentive to buy JTL, Making SOE (and those marketing pimps) to make more money.
WHY THE @#$& ARE YOU BEING PISSY ABOUT THE DEVS TRYING TO MAKE MONEY LIKE YOU DO EVERY FREAKING DAY?!?! STOP WHINING YOU IDIOTS!!!
THIS SHIP IS BOMB!!! Most people are planning on getting JTL anyways. They are making money off of the people not intending to buy it, and making the 90% of players who are veterans and buying it, HAPPY! I know I was buying JTL before this ship was thought out, and now I CANT WAIT FOR JTL so me and my buds can cruise in my YACHT!!! bwahahaha this OWNS
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THANK YOU DEVS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmmm....lets see who the idiot really is shall we...
The Veteran reward is supposed to be something that "rewards" loyal players who have stuck with the game for a certain amout of time. As we have just got to the 1st anniversary of the game being live alot of real veterans are a little cheesed off that the reward is still some months off and if you really look at it, will be rewarding almost all who are playing the game right now, new and old alike.
Hardly what i would call a veteran reward, its cool dont get me wrong but i think it is a bit of a slap in the face to all those who have stuck with this game waiting patiently for the game (especially beta and day 1 vets) to stumble out of its beta state into the game we all hope it can be. (and we still seem to be a ways off form where most players would say this is how the game should have been at launch)
Plus is it really rewarding Star Wars Galaxies player base, no you only benefit if you purchase the JTL expansion...it maybe smart marketing move on thier part but its hardly looking out for the interests of the loyal players who have stuck with this game from day 1...some even longer...(beta)
To the guys who asked about how you get veteran status...the devs have said that at the moment it is if you have been in the game for 6 consecutive months...but dont forget there is no firm release date for JTL yet but i believe EB has it listed sometime in october. The 6 consecutive months is another sore point...other MMORPG games add up all the months you have been in since you 1st joined so if you had to cancel your account for any reason or have billing trouble as many have you would still be included if the time you had spent in the game since you activated was longer than 6 months.
Forget the veteran status on the boards it does not reflect your status ingame, they are 2 seperate things.
Master Bounty Hunter 
Lieutenant Imperial Army 
I love it!
ockak wrote:
i was just wondering the same thing about the cards also. more than likely the devs figure that some people do buy the cards(obviously), and i think that if you went like 1 month without playing is what they're talking about. i could be wrong though. it wouldn't be fair to make the people who buy cards to miss out because they missed 1 or 2 days to buy a card, i've been playing since december and by the time jtl comes out(nov 30 i hear),i will have almost 1 yr, so i doubt they would screw us that bad.
Yah, I prefer to use the gamecards too, and I've been here since December 24 and beta3.
If this kind of thing breaks my veteran status then that may be just the last straw.... They better have a rethink or I will be looking for a new MMO to play....
Its not as if it actually costs them anything to hand out these rewards :/
Also notice how they post this kind of thing on a Friday so they dont have to deal with the outfall until we have had time to cool off a little....
stonyvon306 wrote:
great reward when JTL come out i'll be a vet thanks devs
See, this is why this vet reward isn't really a vet reward (nothing against you, stonyvon306). Almost everyone will have these ships. It's a great marketting ploy, but that's all it is. It's a carrot to keep people from cancelling between now and JTL, especially useful if the JTL launch runs into a snag.
Hopefully the ship isn't worth a damn in a fight or else you've also kicked future shipwrights in the pills... and hopefully we can have multiple ships in our datapads.
Real vets (12 months) should get real rewards... say an extra 10 skill points, an extra lot, or a few steps progression towards unlocking the FSS. Heck, with what we've put up with over the past year they should unlock those of us who have been here since Beta without missing a beat (but I realize that is unrealistic... my other suggestions aren't).