After an agonizingly long wait they have finally been implemented: Reserve Bank Keys are now available to players! After being randomly doled out in special crates on SiSi for testing last month, the keys were implemented in a small patch this morning. Excited players today were greeted with a new, fancy launcher background and advertisement for the keys.
Yes, after a much anticipated wait by krabbers, small gangers, solo PvPers, and corp directors ready to cash in on huge payouts (a feature that truly brought everyone together for once) the keys have been dropped on the website for low, low prices! Crates of 1, 5, and 15 keys are available at €4.15 ($5.00), €12.59 ($15.00), and €20.00 ($24.00) respectively. This also comes with the possibility of crate event sales and event login rewards. They do not, however, seem to be available to purchase for PLEX in-game. Instead, capsuleers will redeem them at stations much like SKINs.
In addition, Reserve Bank Key Crates are pirate redeemables that come in flairs of Sansha, Serpentis, Angel, Guristas, Blood Raider, and even Drone. The keys are black market items stolen by the unscrupulous agents of New Eden, and sold to capsuleers as revenge for the many foiled plots and fallen comrades in Anomalies. The Reserve Banks will take a little longer to infiltrate as they are more secure vaults with potentially big payouts. It will take a bold capsuleer 12 minutes to open a Reserve Bank, and only after the Main has been successfully stolen. This will give defenders ample time to respond and ensure plenty of exciting fights for the pirate-minded seeking content.
At the time of reporting this there were already four Reddit threads concerning the keys, with the response being mixed-to-negative. In keeping with the ongoing theme of monetization over Quality of Life, there’s been a strong backlash from the community regarding keys, the likes of which had not been seen since the initial ESS changes. From solo pilots angry that such content generation comes at a premium to them, to alliance execs mad that their krabs are less likely to shill out for those sweet taxes, everyone feels strongly in some way about Bank Reserve Keys.
