Spiral Knights - Anyone else holding off on buying Crystal, for the next special?

Anyone else holding off on buying Crystal, for the next special?

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Thu, 05/12/2011 - 11:43

Leviathan

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I have money. I could buy CE with it, and I'd have uses for it; I could buy a neat pile of stuff off people, maybe try for a few neat UVs, and so on. I'm not opposed to doing this.

Thing is, when the Rose Regalia came out, I bought some CE pretty quick to get in on that. And now... since I'm not desperate for crystal, I'm waiting on the next special thing.

This set me to wondering - If a lot of people are doing this, too, that's gotta be cutting down the crystal supply.

So, is anyone else doing this?

Thu, 05/12/2011 - 12:28

Splinter

It's more for me like I have

It's more for me like I have more than enough CE now, especially because of the Rose Regalia, and find it unnecessary to buy CE for a long time. However if another Costume bonus came out like Rose Regalia I'd probably buy into it, reluctantly because I need to have it.

Thu, 05/12/2011 - 14:02

Feynt

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I didn't pay for the last

I didn't pay for the last special, I won't pay for the next one in all likelihood. Randomized costume gear isn't my thing. I prefer my interactions with others to be in the dungeons hacking and slashing, not spending half an hour to an hour spamming trade to get rid of the random stuff I don't want for the piece I do or extra CE.

Addendum:
Buying costume gear with real money isn't my thing in general either. I'd rather earn it through game play.

Thu, 05/12/2011 - 14:42

Pawn

I was glad

I was glad that the Rose Regalia doesn't suit my eye. I would have been sad if i thought the regalia was just the best looking equip and could only get with real $$/extremely high cost of in game resources for a costume.

If costume armor looked good enough i'd pay though. In game/out of game currency, whichever.

But in answer to the OP, i would now be unlikely to buy energy w/out some kind of add-in like the regalia. For $10 people got however much CE, AND costume armor they either liked, or can sell for 1-3k ce. That's more for you money however you slice it. So no reason for me to pay $10 for less. At least that's how i feel.

Thu, 05/12/2011 - 15:55

Zaide

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Emailed support after rose

Emailed support after rose regalia promotion started because I had bought some CE right before it started:
***Greetings,

We certainly understand the frustrating timing in this sort of case!

However if we were to allow payments at a certain range outside the promotion
period, then anyone just beyond that range would reasonably be able to claim
they should be included as well, and then we could keep moving it forever.

So we really have to set a time and then let the automated system handle it
from there, so the time frame is clear to everyone.

For what it's worth, we will be having more promotions in the future, so you
are welcome to save up your purchases until a promotion to take advantage of
it.

Best wishes,

- [name omitted]***
Basically, OOO is advocating waiting until there is a promotion to buy CE if you really care about the issue.

Thu, 05/12/2011 - 16:10

Feynt

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Well, they're right. You

Well, they're right. You could argue that "I just bought CE and now an hour later you release these costume pieces, I want mine!" is a valid stance. But if you're right and they allow it, what about the guy an hour and 5 minutes before the release? And if he gets it, why not an hour and 10 minutes? Pretty soon it's "I bought CE today and then later today you brought out these pieces, that's so wrong" and they're giving people 12 hours before release the costume pieces.

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Anyone else holding off on buying Crystal, for the next special?