Lots of exciting things are happening in my favourite MMOs, but sadly real life has been kicking my arse lately so I haven't had as much time to play games as I would've liked, never mind writing about them. Still, tomorrow SWTOR gets its first story update in one and a half years, so I thought I had to sit down and post at least briefly - not about what's to come, but about the subscriber login event that's also coming to an end tomorrow.
Back in September I was kind of "whatever" about it, looking at it from the perspective of someone who's never had a reason not to continue subscribing to SWTOR, but now that it's coming to an end I wanted to take a moment to say that I actually ended up quite liking it. It was nice to get something marginally more useful from the weekly login reward for several months.
It was particularly nice for my alts on the other servers, where I spent all my currency on buying Rakata gear for my level 80s, and if I had tokens left over at the end of that I spent those on some extra OP-1s for further gear upgrades. Do I need this gear for anything? Of course not, but it's still a nice thing to have.
On my main on Darth Malgus, I ended up buying the two ship droid customisations and after that, all the different pets. I think at the end I had purchased every single one of them except for one. Did I think they were all amazing? Not really, but on Darth Malgus I have more gear and currencies than I know what to do with at this point, I already had all the emotes that were on offer, and I'm not huge on regeneration toys, so the pets were the next best thing. Especially since they were all originally from the Cartel Market, so now they're in my collections for future unlocking if I should fancy it.
Can I just say that it's kind of funny in hindsight that a single pet from the vendor cost as much as three Rakata gear pieces? Interesting value assignment there...
If you were a subscriber, what did you end up doing with your tokens?
Some of my guildies - who are usually not necessarily representative of the wider player base - were almost aggressively uninterested; it was actually kind of funny. Like, you're already subscribed and the devs are giving you free stuff, don't you want it?
The funniest to me was one particular guildie who's been a subscriber since launch and seems to have remained subscribed out of inertia more than anything, as he doesn't even really seem to play anymore - he just logs on once every two months or so to join us for a social night or something and then disappears again. He also hated the gearing system that was introduced with Legacy of the Sith and was always moaning about the fact that the the gear he got from being carried through an operation wasn't the best yet but required further upgrading.
So naturally, when this event came around, we were all like "oh man, this is going to be great for Nev; finally he can get the 340 Rakata gear he always wanted for simply logging in" - and then he didn't log in until literally the penultimate week of the event. We told him that he still had time to get three pieces if he just logged in four times during the last week, but he didn't do that either. Too busy, he told us afterwards, before stating wistfully that he wished he could just buy gear with Cartel Coins. (I know, I know. But hey, pay to win wouldn't be a thing in any game if there weren't people who liked it.)
When the event was first announced, I was only interested in the 2V and C2 customisations. Once I'd bought those I decided it would probably be worth using the rest of tbe event to finally get 344 gear sorted for Thena and Vi (and their Imperial counterparts) since 344 mids etc. don't appear to be coming in anytime soon and, hey, it's a side-project to occupy myself with.
ReplyDeleteJust need several hundred more OP-1s to finish off Vahnie and Vi's token-gear, but that shouldn't take too much time when all is said and done.
Surprised that you didn't already have maxed out gear from all the ops you've run with us (and general grinding of various content that rewards commendations of all kinds)!
DeleteCombination of various things meant I kept pushing the opportunities away. I only had modded gear, so nothing I could directly upgrade without either spending a shedload of catalysts on or waiting for RNG to provide. I always converted OP-1s to tech frags when I got to the cap because I've been stockpiling them for ages in case 344 Legendaries become available.
DeleteSo really this was the first and best opportunity to gather upgradeable pieces without a grind either which way. ^^"
I did about the same. Went after the Ship Droid Customizations, bought two pieces of Rakata armor for my Main Legacy characters (Enough to start gearing with Hyde & Zeek), and that's about it. None of the other items on the vendor appealed to me (Since they are all CM items), and I don't have any low-level characters I could use the boosts on, although I might see how the XP boost from the vendor works with the Legacy boosts, the DvL Armor, and the Double XP event when I'm on vacation.
ReplyDeleteMy hope is that the devs take the feedback about the vendor items, and give us more unique or rare/never released items (Like some of the harder to find or never released Cartel Coin Card pets).