With the release of the 30 day passive Omega boosters at 65k AUR, I take it CCP is in some need of some cash. At 65K AUR a pop, the new Omega boosters are a rip off. I am going to stick with the regular boosters at 28k a pop and save myself tons of money. Good going CCP another POS idea in the bag. Keep this up and the next time you will be selling the Omega boosters at 100k AUR to make up for the lost revenue.

So this thread is what happens when a person with obsessive compulsive disorder that must have everything also happens to have a set of principles regarding money.


You know, normal people just don't buy the booster.

Active one has great price. Passive is just for afkers anyway.

CCP is still trying to push this as a P2Get ahead game. Roll

CCP is still trying to push this as a P2Get ahead game.

Why not? It's already a "Wait to get ahead" game. I mean really. If I fight against people who got some SP due to Omega Boosters or if I fight against people who have 20 Million SP because they played since Beta? What's the difference. Contrary to Eve Online I at least have a chance to catch up.

With the release of the 30 day passive Omega boosters at 65k AUR, I take it CCP is in some need of some cash. At 65K AUR a pop, the new Omega boosters are a rip off. I am going to stick with the regular boosters at 28k a pop and save myself tons of money. Good going CCP another POS idea in the bag. Keep this up and the next time you will be selling the Omega boosters at 100k AUR to make up for the lost revenue.

better then pay to win ^^

regardless if you don't like them don't get them, once you hit 22+ mil it really doesn't matter anymore anyway.

You can never catch up, but youre welcome to spend your hard earned cash if it makes you feel otherwise.

It is you fault..really.. you and all that people that have been screaming for the Omega Boosters. In CCP eyes, if you want to have it so badly you will pay any ridiculous amount of money.

How much is the 7 day active?

Active one has great price. Passive is just for afkers anyway.

This is a good example of player view being vastly diffrent to market data as EA discovered you can make more money by getting fewer players to pay more money they are happy to part with. Don't like it don't buy it.

Of course you can catch up. Because with playing you make more SP than somebody who isn't. With using boosters you make more SP than somebody who doesn't use them. And when you hit 20 Mio SP I think many people stop using boosters anyways. I still had 150k Aurum on my character. I now spent it on Omega Boosters instead of going with my 1,5x Booster Plan. When these boosters run out I won't buy new ones because I have to save money.

Guess that's the cost that CCP set to not play their game, sorry CCP I'd rather spend $20 on GTA V micro transactions and have fun in an actuall MMO, not this broken lobby shooter....

With the release of the 30 day passive Omega boosters at 65k AUR, I take it CCP is in some need of some cash. At 65K AUR a pop, the new Omega boosters are a rip off. I am going to stick with the regular boosters at 28k a pop and save myself tons of money. Good going CCP another POS idea in the bag. Keep this up and the next time you will be selling the Omega boosters at 100k AUR to make up for the lost revenue.

Five Months of Regular Booster at 150k AUR:
5,400,000
Two Months of Omega Booster at 150k AUR:
2,880,000

The difference is
2,520,000 of just using the regular boosters

How is that saving money? It might be saving time, but nowhere near saving money. I really hope you did not just buy two months of omegas. You could have been set for five months of regular boosters.

Best Investment:

3 day Active Boosters
3500 ISK
~95,000 additional SP a week

When you think about it, a normal 30 day booster is 28,000 AUR. The omega 30 day booster gives twice as much extra SP as the normal booster, so you expect it's at least double more, so price it at 56,000 AUR. But then you take into consideration that you are getting these points a full month faster than if you were to just buy two normal 30 day boosters at that price, so add a 9,000 AUR convenience fee and BAM! 65,000 AUR.

I didn't like it at first, but it makes sense and is reasonable. Also no, there is no chance in hell I am buying one.

Good Point. Good thing that GTAV online comes out tomorrow.

GTAV has made more money in 1 day than CCP will ever make in one lifetime.

With the release of the 30 day passive Omega boosters at 65k AUR, I take it CCP is in some need of some cash. At 65K AUR a pop, the new Omega boosters are a rip off. I am going to stick with the regular boosters at 28k a pop and save myself tons of money. Good going CCP another POS idea in the bag. Keep this up and the next time you will be selling the Omega boosters at 100k AUR to make up for the lost revenue.

better then pay to win ^^

regardless if you don't like them don't get them, once you hit 22+ mil it really doesn't matter anymore anyway.

I will be playing both games, easily. So it is not really a choice of one over the other.

To be fair, GTAV was in development by a huge studio for five years. They have also been iterating on the same style of gameplay since the first GTA. This is the first FPS for CCP Games. A lot of players seem to want Dust 514 to be of GTA (or insert any other AAA title) quality in only a fraction of the time, with only a fraction of the resources. It helps to put things into perspective.

DUST 514 marks a first for consoles as a AAA free-to-play FPS.

"DUST 514-« brings intense infantry combat, large-scale warfare, and deep character advancement to a free-to-play massively multiplayer shooter, exclusively on the PlayStation-«3.

Wage war in the next generation of first-person shooters, where a single victory could prove the crushing blow to a galactic empire of thousands of EVE Online-« gamers."

Why not? It's already a "Wait to get ahead" game. I mean really. If I fight against people who got some SP due to Omega Boosters or if I fight against people who have 20 Million SP because they played since Beta? What's the difference. Contrary to Eve Online I at least have a chance to catch up.

I too think it's reasonable. If you don't like it you can still buy normal boosters or no boosters at all.

It doesn't matter if its EVE online or Dust, it still takes time to "catch up" I mean.... lets be realistic here, a 1 day old character doesn't have a chance against the same tier ship as someone whos 10 years in. Even a 1 week character doesn't. 1 month though..... then were getting more even.

The same thing applies to Dust. A one day old character wont compare to a 6 month vet. And they shouldn't...... But after a week or two, the gap closes considerably (assuming they did the right thing and specialized).

Honestly this game (for an MMO) is the most lenient ive ever seen. In any other standard MMO the older player Is just going to win because his skills are likely to be more robust. But in this game even militia suits can kill proto suits under the right circumstances.

So as far as balance goes, I think its more then fair honestly.

I too think it's reasonable. If you don't like it you can still buy normal boosters or no boosters at all.

The problem is that CCP needs money from this game in order to continue developing it. Most of the Subdreddit guys I see on the forums have a non booster, non proto mentality and seem to really, really love Eve. This game doesn't have a subscription. When running a business it must take in more money than it spends in order to be successful. Business 101.

Many people aren't buying ANYTHING in this game because they don't trust that there is much of a future. Make the AUR cheaper AND make the AUR items in game cheaper.

If you think $32 for 720,000 SP is reasonable then you are honestly the dumbest SOB taking in oxygen at this moment.

Dust development gets funded from EVE subscriptions...... Yes the money they get from boosters and such is important. But you people are crazy if you think the AUR market is what keeps DUST afloat. The only real purpose they serve is to show to the CCP board that "hey dust can totally make money! Please invest in us so we can make even more later!" which is arguably just as important, but its whatever. I don't think the company is anywhere near bankruptcy......

More lost revenue here aswell. I was planning on spending at least $50.

Dust development gets funded from EVE subscriptions...... Yes the money they get from boosters and such is important. But you people are crazy if you think the AUR market is what keeps DUST afloat. The only real purpose they serve is to show to the CCP board that "hey dust can totally make money! Please invest in us so we can make even more later!" which is arguably just as important, but its whatever. I don't think the company is anywhere near bankruptcy......

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There is one born everyday...but in this case, we get a double wammy.

There will always be those that feel CCP can not do any wrong.

Forget that fail justification. Why not..."you just dont start to charge $5 for an item and then bring the exact same model back to sell for $10."

A tad bit expensive but I had nothing better to waste my aur on so...

If you think $32 for 720,000 SP is reasonable then you are honestly the dumbest SOB taking in oxygen at this moment.

When you think about it, a normal 30 day booster is 28,000 AUR. The omega 30 day booster gives twice as much extra SP as the normal booster, so you expect it's at least double more, so price it at 56,000 AUR. But then you take into consideration that you are getting these points a full month faster than if you were to just buy two normal 30 day boosters at that price, so add a 9,000 AUR convenience fee and BAM! 65,000 AUR.

I didn't like it at first, but it makes sense and is reasonable. Also no, there is no chance in hell I am buying one.

I don't think so either, but I'm sure they have accountants that are able to tell them that this game isn't generating enough money. The player numbers, the console video game market forecast, and the slow development might have them trying to squeeze the last bit of revenue they can out of this game.

Especially when you consider the removal of BPOs. To me it looks like they want people to flock out to buy them up.

It's not a boatload of SP. It's 360,000 more SP than a standard booster or 720,000 more than not running boosters for 30 days.

You might as well turn your PS3 into a parking meter. Just stick a quarter in every hour.

I mean lets think about this!!! How many of you said "65k passive booster??? WTF no!" but then went on to say "17k active booster? that doesn't sound so bad! maybe ill buy a couple of those!!" So either way your going to get snared!