Hint, hint: you don't have to be in Ukraine to pay Ukraine sub rates ;D

Not sure if that's funny or sad.

Offering less value for the same or higher price is a ripoff. It's not up to debate.

Not seeing the issue. The new packs are a blatant ripoff. That's not an opinion, it's a fact that everyone is aware of. They offer much less for a higher price than the previous packs value-wise. This doesn't matter at all. People seem to love them. I people want to get ripf-off'd, then they desere to be taken advantage of and EA deserves all the money they get. I cancelled my sub and that's the only thing that EA will care of. Money. Angry posts do absolutely nothing. Zero. They don't care. They just laugh at your face. Vote with your wallet and right now, the vote is clear: Cartel Packs are a go.

By adding Chance cube, you can add items to a pack and thus increase its "value" (moar stuff in it!!!) without doing any work whatsoever as you only recycl old gear while not inreasing the chance to get current gear.

Huh? Artifact Authorization alone costs, iirc, 2700 CC for the entire account. Hide Head slot, 1-2 additional quickbars, 2 or more character slots to store my credits on (wait...they are on sale, aren't they?), maybe some inventory slots? I'll have a look. Maybe the 3rd crew skill? Don't see much value in it, though. Haven't done any crafting so far. The rest of the store is utter trash. I am not stupid enough to waste my CC on online scratchtickets. The stuff is downright worthless. Most of the items is stuff you'll never use and selling them does nothing anyway as your credits are capped at 300k and there's nothing you can spend the money on anyway with the cap. /If/ there was good stuff to buy at the CM, I would gladl throw my money at Bioware. The unicycle mount for 10-15€? Sure, have my cash. Take it. But spending it on a scratchticket? Monkey business.

Will go towards unlocking all stuff necessary when my sub runs out and I get to Preferred.

Actual items. WYSIWYG items.

Thanks a lot, that's exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks again, Eric, you can close the thread if you want to

This isn't about the specific player in question, just give us a clear answer: is advertising your referral link via your forum signature legal or not? Can you be banned for this or not? Your, so far, extremely shady actions left aside, just give us a clear and official statement on this. Thanks.

Well, account-wide Artifact Authorization unlock costs ~2700 CC, so there's that

With that attitude of yours, a little break from chat sounds like an actually good idea.

The main difference is that you spend actual cash on online scratchtickets at the Cartel Market. That, by its very definition, is gambling.

Sometimes, you just need a dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamble

So...February reward is awesome as in bonus CC, March reward is utter trash. Glad my sub runs out by then!