Got a question, can you explain why the SS bundle wasn't good?
Still haven't answered me from the last thread. <O<
Sorry, I don't think I ever saw that.
My reasoning behind it the SS bundle being not so good is that, sure, you have all these parts and internals and items. The internals and items are pretty cool to have just playing around... but you can get those with HC. Additionally, because most people are not ever really going to want ALL the items and internals this doesn't really make sense. Weapons suffer from the same HC issue, which is compounded by the fact that the AM-SAR is pretty useless on the SS. So now we go to the items that you get that do make sense to put in an all-in bundle - mech cosmetic parts.
By the numbers, the cosmetics that you're getting for the Sharpshooter clock in at 12229MC, which comes to $84.92 (at a flat rate of $1 = 144MC). And you're getting all of this for $20! That's more than 75% off - a pretty insane deal! ...except these are all locked to that one mech. I don't know of many people who have multiple custom parts per mech and who change them out regularly. I have ONE, which is my CRT kitted to look like an assault, and the only reason I change it back to look like a CRT is for Night of the Living Fred. Most people like to customize a mech and that's how it's going to look pretty much until the servers go down, because a) they're not willing to spend tons of money on a single mech and b) it can take a lot of time to change things up. So while you're getting this insanely good deal from a purely financial perspective, you're not going to use about 85% of those parts.
Now compare that to this bundle, which gets you 5832MC worth of gear, but it is gear that you can apply to every single mech you own or will own. Sure, it's only 50% off, ($40.50 at a flat rate of $1 = 144MC) which is markedly less savings than the SS bundle, but it's a savings that's not locked to a single mech. And since it is quite common to have different mechs tooled up with different thrusters, its utility is a lot broader than a bunch of items and internals and parts that you're never going to use.
So while a 75% savings isn't bad necessarily, a 50% savings that you're actually going to use is a lot better.
No, you know what, I'm going to go ahead and say a 75% savings on fuzzy bunny you're never going to use is late-night infomercial levels of bad.
Edited by Amidatelion, 15 May 2015 - 03:40 PM.