Hi,
I bought one of the new hypercrates yesterday to check if they are worthwhile. Spent an additional 35€ to get the coins for my purchase and opened all 24 packs afterwards.
Most obviously and independant of luck, you only get about 10000 reputation for the Contraband Resale Corporation, which means you will have to buy roughly 7 hypercrates for 49000 cartel coins (315€) to get to Legend standing. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?
Also there are cartel market certificates to buy special items from the Contraband Resale Corporation. In 24 packs I got exactly one cartel market certificate. So at that rate I have to spent several hundred Euro just to get one of the more fancy items from the vendor. AGAIN ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?
Drops from the packs were mixed, some were okay, others just worthless bull****. Overall I dont feel they were worth my money. With 24 packs opened I guess there was a somewhat fair chance for good items, but most rares didnt sell for more than 100k each. Would have been better to buy those from GTN directly.
A microtransaction store is supposed to add microtransactions to a game, but that latest addition hardly is micro anymore. 35 Euro means 3 months of gametime in other MMOs and from my point of view thats a major investment (espacially in cosmetic stuff) but with the Contraband Resale Corporation you literally have to spend hundreds of Euro to get to the fancy items you see at the vendors.
For 4 months there was almost no (free) new content and dont tell me you cant create content and dont have the ressources. Obviously you have, because you add new Cartel Market items on a weekly basis. I dont like that, but at least give us something worth our money!