AFadedMemory Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Does SWTOR do anything for Star Wars Day? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VilianSW Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 I suspect the most we can get is a free pet, if anything at all. Since the moment SWTOR 10th anniversary turned out to be such a flop, I personally have zero expectations on any celebrations, be it anniversaries, holidays or whatever. Wish they'd proved me wrong at some point. 6 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThanderSnB Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 I don't know what they are doing this year, but in past years I've seen some combination of a free pet, a double xp event, or a collection unlock sale. It's not the same every year. Some years only had one, a free pet, while other years have had all three. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arunav Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Part of me doubts BS will do another Collection unlock sale so soon after the last one, but it's technically possible. I guess if they are generally profitable, then maybe we'll see at least that. And the Maul droid pet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VegaMist Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 I'm hoping for a collection unlock sale... And a Loth Wolf pet/companion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthscotty Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 In the past it has been a free pet, collections unlock and a week or two of double xp. This year though it has been radio silence so who knows. That is what they have done in the past though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFadedMemory Posted April 26 Author Share Posted April 26 I’m not a huge fan of pets, but the unlock sale and double exp would be nice 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traceguy Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 I need some more level 50s, I wouldn't mind some double XP. 50 minutes ago, darthscotty said: This year though it has been radio silence so who knows. If we get the 7.5 live stream before May 4th, it would be a good place to announce their plans, if any. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absolutetristan Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 I liked the mindroid pets they did the last couple of years, P1-XL and BX-23. I'll take reskins of the float cubes over what they used to do with reskins of the mini astromechs. Maybe this year they'll give out that floaty cube they mistakenly gave out to some players sometime last year. I think it is a red variotion of these the two above droids. You can see it in collections. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setta Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 17 hours ago, arunav said: Part of me doubts BS will do another Collection unlock sale so soon after the last one, but it's technically possible. I guess if they are generally profitable, then maybe we'll see at least that. And the Maul droid pet. Generally if I'm subbed & playing during this time frame, or around Christmas when they do these sales, I end up buying quite a few extra coins to unlock the stuff I've gathered over the months, and other things that are on sale. I can't justify the absurd costs of unlocking account wide stuff that I've already paid for, especially when a lot of the armor / mounts / pets etc are just reskins of the same thing in a different color. I also find it absurd that something like a light saber can cost around $20+ or w/e it is, and you can almost never tell the difference form one light saber on your toon, and another. The sale at least makes it a bit more tolerable. So while I realize not everyone is in the same boat, I assume quite a few are, and in my eyes, it's have a sale and sell some extra coins, or hold out and sell even less stuff. Either or is fine with me at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFadedMemory Posted April 26 Author Share Posted April 26 (edited) 8 hours ago, Traceguy said: I need some more level 50s, I wouldn't mind some double XP. If we get the 7.5 live stream before May 4th, it would be a good place to announce their plans, if any. Yeah, they should have aimed to capitalize on May 4th. Game update, special limited sales type stuff. A "delayed" announcement to increase anticipation and exclusivity isn't a bad idea, but I highly doubt that those are the reasons we haven't heard anything. Edited April 26 by AFadedMemory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFadedMemory Posted April 26 Author Share Posted April 26 (edited) 1 hour ago, Setta said: Generally if I'm subbed & playing during this time frame, or around Christmas when they do these sales, I end up buying quite a few extra coins to unlock the stuff I've gathered over the months, and other things that are on sale. I can't justify the absurd costs of unlocking account wide stuff that I've already paid for, especially when a lot of the armor / mounts / pets etc are just reskins of the same thing in a different color. I also find it absurd that something like a light saber can cost around $20+ or w/e it is, and you can almost never tell the difference form one light saber on your toon, and another. The sale at least makes it a bit more tolerable. So while I realize not everyone is in the same boat, I assume quite a few are, and in my eyes, it's have a sale and sell some extra coins, or hold out and sell even less stuff. Either or is fine with me at this point. I understand where you are coming from. It was kind of dump that we almost didn't have one this year. Honestly though I think it would be a bad idea to have an unlock sell twice a year, don't get me wrong, I would totally appreciate and take advantage of if. but it probably wouldn't be good for the game if it happened too often. Edited April 26 by AFadedMemory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setta Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 6 hours ago, AFadedMemory said: Honestly though I think it would be a bad idea to have an unlock sell twice a year.... but it probably wouldn't be good for the game if it happened too often. I'm not sure why you think that. Is it the greed mentality that if Biosword holds out and doesn't give the players a discount that ultimately those players will buy the items (unlocks) anyways, paying full price, therefore more money for the company? If so that's horribly faulty logic, and not at all how it works. It's better to get 10 people to spend 50% of the full price than 2 or 3 people to spend a 100% of the full price. Now that number is just an example with no verifiable data on who spends how much on this game at what time of the year. However there's a reason why Holidays (Black Friday, 4th of July, Christmas etc) are generally the most prosperous in terms of sales and revenue, and we have way more of those holidays than just the 2 sale events in SWtoR which you think would be bad for the game on a consistent basis. Heck why do you think things like coupons, and other sale tactics were invented? It's to get people to come and buy more stuff when there aren't holidays. Amazon created a "Prime Day" (not an actual holiday btw, but a sale none the less) which is during the summer months when sales are slowest (as people are vacationing and outside having fun at the beach or w/e rather than shopping). You can argue that their 20th year anniversary just happens to fall in the summer time so it wasn't planned to be in the summer specifically, but the truth is they decided to create an additional sales event (and even moved the days around to suit their needs). Not because they're nice people who are trying to save you money (I think everyone knows better from the horror stories of people working for Amazon) but because of profits. It makes them more money, period. Also just for the record every year sale has brought in more and more money since it's inception. Truth is normal prices are over inflated and these "sales" become a tactic to get people to spend more. It may sound like bollix, but I'll give you a real life example, that I lived through. Back when I was a teen still in HS I used to work for JCPenny as a cashier, was my 2nd job at the time. The company decided to scrap a lot of the sales and coupons that they used to do, and just lower prices across the board to be more appealing to consumers. The idea was that you don't need to wait for a sale to get a great deal with us, you can get one anytime. Well that was the idea. The end result was that we ended up bleeding money horribly after that transition. Our sales numbers dropped pretty badly. You see people want to feel like they're gaining the system. They want to feel like they're smart and savvy consumers. Never mind that lowering the prices across the board was actually a better deal for them in my opinion. The shoppers didn't get excited about shopping with us, and that cost the company dearly. Stores began to close down, and IIRC there was even talk about filling for chapter 11 back then, though I think that officially happened much later on. Why do I bring this up? Because sales work. Businesses slowly increase the cost of products and then when a sale happens people flock to it like a moth to a flame. There are even practices where the sale prices are basically the same as the normal prices from a month or two ago (in some cases a week ago) but because people see the sale sign, they will spend that money when they otherwise wouldn't have. Now we know we're actually getting a discount instead of the company claiming it's a sale, and screwing us over, but the sales tactic works and brings in more money no matter how you slice it. Although in some cases it's no different here either. CM items have gradually increased in prices over the years. Most recent example are the new dyes, but before that armors, weapons, mounts etc have all gone up in price slowly but surely. Some will say inflation, but I disagree. To me it's interesting when you think about how sub prices stayed the same of $15 bucks a month since WoW made that model popular, and how this game released with it also (never changing), to how the CM prices keep inflating. So ya I completely, and utterly disagree with your premise that 2 yearly sales would be bad for the game. Really it's a win / win for everyone, and while again I don't have access to Bioswords revenue stream to show you the receipts, countless real world examples prove that sales do indeed bring in more revenue than not. /End rant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirana Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 (edited) A sale of some kind from the Cartel Market. lol I chuckle, but odds are high that's exactly what will happen. As others have mentioned, usually a pet and/or double xp. Edited April 27 by Pirana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFadedMemory Posted April 27 Author Share Posted April 27 2 minutes ago, Pirana said: A sale of some kind from Cartel Market lol I chuckle, but odds are high that's exactly what will happen. As others have mentioned, usually a pet and/or double xp. I really want double exp. I have a character around lv 70 and the last 10 lvs are the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toraak Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Since we have a livestream for 7.5 on May 1st, I'm sure they'll tell us what is planned for May 4th Celebrations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrcaNation Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 If we get another ruddy droid pet I think I know where I'll stick it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheCynic Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 On 4/26/2024 at 5:00 PM, Traceguy said: If we get the 7.5 live stream before May 4th, it would be a good place to announce their plans, if any. May 1, 20h00 CEST. YMMV in irrelevant(1) timezones. (1) Irrelevant for people who live in the One True Country(2). (2) The one I live in, duh. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrcaNation Posted Wednesday at 12:03 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 12:03 PM On 4/27/2024 at 5:40 PM, OrcaNation said: If we get another ruddy droid pet I think I know where I'll stick it! Right, bend over chaps! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orichichan Posted Wednesday at 12:17 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 12:17 PM A little pet for sure. But I hope we will get something else too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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