perfect world. nuff said i have had nothing but trouble with them from the start. the final straw trying to buy zen points so i can git the new ships. i'm done i'm out and lol all you want at me the final fact is that pore to nonexistent support from PW cost cryptic a player and $50.00.

So you're quitting because you have to take an extra step when it comes to getting the same amount of cryptic points? Wow, that seems awfully petty.

Being a Cryptic customer, I don't understand. Are you saying using a PWE account you can ONLY by cpoints with zen? You can't buy them directly? Or is it because it's not a 1 to 1 conversion?

actually if you payed attention " i have had nothing but trouble with them from the start" and " that pore to nonexistent support from PW cost cryptic a player" comprehension is critical when reading. I wish Cryptic the best of luck but i don't have time to fool around with weak long waits from customer service from PW.

I buy my Cryptic points though Steam. No issues, no extra steps. Job done. Until I found you could do it that way though I'd found dealing with PWE and the added cost of the C-points (in Eur 1000 Zen costs the same as 1000 C-points, but at a 100-80 conversion rate, making it far more expensive) I just decided to not use the C-store. Not enough to turn off a whole free game though.

If you link your account to PWE, or come over from PWE, you are required to buy Zen instead of CPs. You then convert the Zen to CPs: they convert dollar for dollar, not point for point. So buying 500 Zen costs $5.00 but converts to 400 CP, which is also $5.00.

The Zen purchase takes longer then the CP purchase does from Cryptic, though. Buying Zen can take an hour to get approved whereas buying CPs can take 30 seconds. I think this has to do with the fact that PWE has many games and a lot more players then STO does so they're a little more cautious about CC purchases.