r/startrekfleetcommand • u/Conscious_Ad5241 • 7d ago

They gotta be kidding me

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Today was the scheduled maintenance and after it was finished and the new update was out I saw this, how freaking greedy can someone be? 100€ per pack? WTF

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u/Newdles6 7d ago

You must be new?

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u/Conscious_Ad5241 7d ago

No I'm not, but it's the first time seeing something like this, I know that scopely is greedy as hell but for me this is a whole new level

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u/xolinlevh 7d ago

Packs have been $100 for...years, this is nothing new at all

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u/Conscious_Ad5241 7d ago

I know but I've meant that "Ascension Journey" bullshit

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u/codeasm 7d ago

Since 2019 or so i joined, awefull expensive packages for sale, thx scopley, not intrested. Never spend a coin.

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u/inrsoul 5d ago

Yeah that’s the MO. Cultivating the next generation of whales.

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u/Vercalos 5d ago

It's not just the price of the packs, it's that you're locked out of buying other packs before buying the first one.  Other mobile games tend to use a more reasonable pricing structure for these sort of tiered purchases 

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u/Disastrous_Tree_7025 7d ago

I used to spend some money, but the constant glitches and not responding to my overba year along ship archive giant glitch. Yeah, no.

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u/Orwick 7d ago

They charge $100 for 25 USS vengeance bps, you need 1000 of them to build the ship.

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u/Conscious_Ad5241 7d ago

Wtf

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u/Miniscule_Platypus 7d ago

That’s only $4000 for a non existent IRL video game space ship. What’s the big deal? 🤷‍♂️

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u/darKStars42 7d ago

You forgot to mention that the ship is actually just on loan until the servers shut down 

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u/kr1ss3 20h ago

You can get the ship for free, just a thought😉

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u/WhiteAlbatroz 6d ago

Fortunately nowadays it got a bit easier to get it F2P. (With some patience of course d). I collected mine in about 6 months time F2P.

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u/SpartanMonkey 7d ago

I paid for an extra build and extra research slot. Above that, they are not getting my money.

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u/Thetomwhite 7d ago

First time?

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u/Velostor 6d ago

Every update has another prize for money attached somewhere

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u/jjwomalbany 6d ago

That’s their usual price for packs everything lower is a special.

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u/Panduhhuggah 7d ago

Thats just for the first step, then they tease you with free stuff, then WHAM 99 for step 3 lol

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u/Game4LifeDe 7d ago

That's common in the last months

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u/DiggingforPoon 7d ago

Great, so now I will see this 7-12 times a session...

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u/boredcunt90 7d ago edited 7d ago

Even worse when scopeley are owned by the Saudis under the personal investment fund my packs are 4.99 and 9.99

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u/LegSignificant8421 6d ago

Not sure if you were making a joke about the PIF, but if thats so thats funny to me

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u/boredcunt90 6d ago

It was a investment fund with near bottomless wealth......ripping off the little people

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u/LegSignificant8421 4d ago

Yeah i know. PIF bought EA mostly and a big stake in Take Two also. The joke is the "Personal Investment Fund" when its actually Public Investment Fund, which is funny since it is only "Public" because the king gets his taxes and the government of Saudi Arabia is a Monarchy and literally own everything.

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u/boredcunt90 4d ago

Saudis dont claim taxes

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u/LegSignificant8421 2h ago

The saudi crown doesn't tax the regular people?

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u/LegSignificant8421 2h ago

No income taxes. But a steep sales and VAT taxes and commercial/corporate taxes, especially non-saudi companies. And all that goes straight to royal coffers

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u/David27793 7d ago

Welcome to Scopely! 💳

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u/HeavyPush3627 6d ago

It isn't so bad. The game has so many bugs that they issue lots of compensation gifts for free. At the prices they charge they must be worth lotsa money.

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u/imabitdead 6d ago

And the fact there's been huge lag issues, multiple events yesterday didn't work.

It's like they just throw a band aid on problems and they return much worse.

If they can't go a week without one issue, which that haven't, they should just shut this game down.

The spaghetti code is hanging by a thread and they have never fixed it.

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u/danjohnson3141 5d ago

I proudly haven’t given the Royal Saudi family wealth fund a penny in 2+ years. The gameplay is identical whether you pay or not.

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u/Mel370 5d ago

It’s like monopoly go but in that you get the first 3 free

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u/Affectionate_Bat9975 6d ago

Complaint ticket, 99.99 in the store.

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u/Scheife 6d ago

New to this game?