Happy Star Wars Day! It's that day when even people who aren't superfans are suddenly reminded of Star Wars, resulting in a bit of an activity bump for SWTOR every year (at least if Twitch stats are anything to go by).
It's also commonly a time when the devs are particularly generous with giveaways and freebies, and this year is no exception. The free pet and 50% off collections sale are pretty much expected at this point, but no less welcome for it. There's also a double XP event running until May 16th, which has never really been my jam but I do know plenty of people love levelling during double XP.
The thing they really got me with this time was additional sales on various Cartel Market items. I'd been keeping an eye on the Gothic Master set for a while now since I wanted it for a specific character but didn't want to pay full price, and I didn't like the credit price it was commonly going for on the GTN either. At 40% off I finally picked it up, as well as copies of the Coruscant and Dromund Kaas utility decoration bundles on every server. (I'd bought both on Darth Malgus for full price, and decided that I was going to get them on the other servers eventually, once there was a sale. They are also 40% off right now, so I went for it.)
This resulted in me dropping below 1000 Cartel Coins for the first time in what must be more than a decade at this point. I have this post from 2014 as a record of me buying Cartel Coins, but after that I was more than sustained by the refer-a-friend program for a long time. (In this post from 2018 I mention casually that I was close to hitting 50k Coins from this passive income "again".) Once the RAF system was shut down, my virtual wealth slowly started to decrease, but my subscriber stipend and Galactic Seasons were still bringing in plenty since I didn't spend CC very often.
Now, however... I might actually have to think about giving Broadsword some extra money if there's anything I want soon! Though since I rarely do, odds are good that my balance will be topped up with more free coins soon enough before it becomes an issue.
May the 4th be with you! Utinni!
ReplyDeleteThe Coruscant & DK utilities look really nice, I put them up in my guild flagship already.
This is definitely my favorite made up holiday (though I guess technically that encompasses all of them). May the 4th be with you as well!
ReplyDeleteI will likely be switching back to doing stuff at the cap until the 16th unless I can get ahold of a white acute module.
Happy late May the 4th. I like the idea of decorations, but I have trouble spending cartel coins on them because I split my time between the two US servers. I just don't want to buy the same decorations on multiple servers or have to keep buying character transfers.
ReplyDeleteI went with the Skeleton Crew items (Fearless Buccaneer weapon set and Mysterious Rogue armor). This was the first time they were on sale since they came out in 7.6. I had just enough cartel coins to also unlock them account-wide with the unlock sale, so it worked out well. :)