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Star Trek Online’s New Mudd Market Is Probably Fraudulent
Just when you thought Bethesda was going to take home the trophy for 2019’s “stupid and greedy” decision, Cryptic Studios rolls in and says “we can do it better, and possibly commit fraud in the process!”
This weekend saw the launch of the Mudd Market in Star Trek Online, a feature that by all means should be seen as a good thing. Its purpose after all is to sell items that have been previously unobtainable for a very long time. Ships, crewmates, and other items all being sold to people who have really wanted them but couldn’t get them. Simple, right? Well not so much.
Cryptic decided the best course of action was to launch the shop with ridiculously egregious pricing, offering items like a combat pet for the regular cost of eight thousand Zen (that’s $80 USD) and around $140 for a ship. The items are on sale, of course, at 75% off, but even the sale prices have gone over like a lead balloon to the community, many of whom are aware that many of these items were previously given away for free.
To complicate matters, official communications from Cryptic staff indicate that these prices were meant to be a joke, as in “ha ha look how crazy that Mudd is selling his rare goods.” Unfortunately for Cryptic, while the idea of the crazy used goods salesman might make for a decent lore point, the law has something to say about deceptive advertising.
You see, in the United States and several other countries there are laws on the books that consider it fraudulent advertising when you put an item on discount but never actually sold it at the regular price or had any intention of selling it at the regular price. These cases regularly end in multi-million dollar settlements. Cryptic has attempted to walk back these claims of ‘joke’ prices by claiming that the items will indeed go to their regular listed price after the sale ends.
Disgruntled customers are encouraged to air their grievances to CBS (who own Star Trek) directly via their compliance line by phone or by email. Complaints regarding deceptive advertising can be made to the Federal Trade Commission, your Attorneys General, or for those living outside the United States your equivalent consumer protection bureau.
Source: MassivelyOP via Reddit
Perfect World Entertainment: Zen Charge Bonus
Perfect World Entertainment has announced that beginning today and running through next Wednesday, players will be able to reload their Zen wallets and receive bonus coins. The bonus starts at 10% and goes up to 25% for the more expensive tiers. Unfortunately for console players, the sale only extends to those on PC. For more information on the sale, head on over to the link below.
From Friday, June 30th at 9AM PST to Wednesday, July 5th at 9AM PST, Captains will earn an extra bonus on purchased ZEN when you charge through Direct Credit Card, PayPal, Skrill, BoaCompra, Xsolla, Paysafecard, or Steam.
(Source: Perfect World Entertainment)
Perfect World Entertainment Black Friday Sale Continues
Zen Charge Bonus
- Starts Friday, November 25 at 6:00 am (PST)
- Ends Monday, November 28 at 11:59 pm (PST)
Earn an extra 15-25% bonus on Zen purchased through select payment processors (PayPal, direct credit card, Steam, Skrill, PaySafeCard, BoaCompra and Xsolla).
- 1,000 Zen – 15% Bonus
- 2,000 Zen – 20% Bonus
- 5,300 Zen – 20% Bonus
- 11,000 Zen – 25% Bonus
- 23,000 Zen – 25% Bonus
Neverwinter: Save 40% on all items across Arc, Steam, Xbox One and PlayStation®4 from Nov 25 at 10:00am (PT) through Nov 28 at 10:00 am (PT)
- Arc and Steam Players: Save 15-25% on Zen from Nov 25 – Nov 28
- Xbox Live Gold Members: Save 15-25% on Zen from Nov 25 – 28
- PlayStation® Plus Members and PS4 Players: Save 15-25% on Zen from Nov 23 – 28
- PlayStation® Plus Members and PS4 Players: Save 20-40% on select item packs from Nov 23 – 28
- Arc Players: Save 50% on select item packs from Nov 23 – 28, plus adventurers who purchase Zen through Arc will unlock free items, including mounts like the Gilded White Steed, Ice Panther, Owlbear and more!
For additional details, please visit https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter
Star Trek Online: Save 25% all items/packs on Arc, Steam, Xbox One and PlayStation®4 on the following dates:
- Black Friday – Nov 25 at 9:00 am (PT) through Nov 26 at 9:00 am (PT)
- Cyber Monday – Nov 28 at 9:00 am (PT) through Nov 29 at 9:00 am (PT)
- Arc and Steam Players: Save 15-25% on Zen from Nov 25 – Nov 28
- Xbox Live Gold Members: Save 15-25% on Zen from Nov 25 – 28
- PlayStation® Plus Members and PS4 Players: Save 15-25% on Zen from Nov 23 – 28
- PlayStation® Plus Members and PS4 Players: Save 20-40% on select item packs from Nov 23 – 28
- Arc Players: Save 50% on select item packs from Nov 23 – 28, plus captains who purchase Zen through Arc will unlock free items, including R&D Packs, a T5 Sovereign, a T6 Prometheus and more!
For additional details, please visit https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online
Swordsman
- Save 20% of all Lv. 3 Gems and 30% off all Boost items from Nov 25 – 30.
For additional details, please visit http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/swordsman
PWI
From Nov 23 – 26
- Save 20% off Special All Class Pets.
- Save 45% off the War Front Supply Crate.
- Save 52% off Medals of Glory (5).
From Nov 23 – Dec 7
- Save 25-75% off select Mounts, Utilities, Shop and Fashion Items.
For additional details, please visit http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/pwi
Forsaken World
From Nov 23 – 29
- Save 34 – 53% off select Orbs.
- Save 20 – 25% off select Upgrade, Utility and Refining Items.
- Save 25% off a huge selection of Handhelds and Fashion Items.
Join a special event from Nov 25-30 to win a Kluer statue.
For additional details, please visit http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/forsaken-world
Diving Into Arc’s Daily Quests, Price of Zen
Earlier this week we learned about Arc 3.0, the latest client update for Perfect World’s library of MMOs. When Arc 3.0 launches, players will be able to complete daily quests to unlock Arc points which can then be redeemed for Zen, Perfect World’s real money currency. But how much are you going to have to grind in order to get that sweet payment? Let’s find out.
According to the above screenshot posted on the Arc 3.0 blog, the bare minimum of Zen (500 Zen worth $5 USD) Zen package will run you 5,000 Arc points. Each level requires 600 experience, and each level grants 500 Arc points. In other words, you need to level up ten times in order to afford the $5 package. With example daily quests running upwards of eight days, you could be looking at quite the time investment for these rewards.
The good news is that the dailies seem to be minimally invasive, simple ideas like log in eight days in a row or just play a specific game on the list. It would be irresponsible and poor business for Perfect World Entertainment to make it too easy to obtain Zen with as little work as the daily quests already seem to ask for, as people would simply use that as a source of income.
Still, we’ll have to see how the quests go when the Arc client launches.
Perfect World Apologizes For Extended Maintenance
Perfect World Entertainment is apologizing for recent troubles that kept servers down for an extended period of time this week. Extended maintenance on Tuesday and Thursday was meant to allow new hardware to integrate into the system and fix other problems, but the process took longer than expected and carried issues of its own. To compensate players, PWE is offering double experience and questionite in Champions Online until Tuesday.
In addition, the 15% charge bonus for Zen will be extended another day.
We’d like to apologize for the extremely long emergency downtime you may have experienced today. We’ve been having some problems with our network hardware that’s been causing issues, and we’ve been wanting to finally replace it with new hardware for a while now. The extended maintenance on Tuesday and Thursday was part of the new hardware swap, but the reintegration took a bit longer than expected. The good news is the update leaves all our Cryptic games in much better shape!
(Source: Champions Online)
Perfect World Wallet Shutdown Imminent
Perfect World Entertainment has issued a news update reminding players that the Perfect World Wallet system will shut down on Tuesday March 17th. Anyone with Zen still in their wallet will have it automatically transfer over to the new Arc wallet.
The migration will take a couple of days and won’t affect your ability to access Arc or any of our games. For any users who still use the Wallet system, never fear, the handy Charge system will be your go-to place to purchase any in-game currency. The Charge system is extremely similar to the Wallet system where you choose a game from the list, the server and method of payment.
Anyone already using the arc wallet will not be affected.
(Source: Perfect World Entertainment)
Neverwinter Permanently Drops Prices
Over at Neverwinter, prices are falling faster than snowflakes on something that repels snowflakes, I am not very good with analogies. What I can tell you is that companions are currently on sale for 60% off until December 30th, after which the deal will be almost as sweet. When the sale does end on Monday, prices will be permanently reduced by up to 47%. Reductions depend on the rarity level of the companion, but range from 29% off to 47% off for the rarest and most common respectively.
Companions will be priced between 800 and 2500 zen, which can still be obtained in-game by trading astral diamonds, following the update on December 30th.
(Source: Neverwinter)
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