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Lepidus  11/28/06 4:29:46 PM
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Laura Genender looks at Veteran Rewards in anticipating of tomorrow's big expansion. Issue #8: To Serve and Protect is a largely City of Heroes focused expansion. When we last spoke to Cryptic at AGC, they told us that from here on out players can expect the expansion to be equally focused across both sides.

Introduced with the "Issue 8: To Protect and Serve" expansion to City of Heroes and City of Villains, Cryptic Studios will be implementing a Veteran Award system that rewards players based on how long they've had an activated account for the duo of games. These rewards range from costume pieces to special powers to extra base items, including a lot of novelty items that City of Heroes and Villains fans have been anticipating since the opening of the game.

That's right, we're talking wings.

The full article is here.

 
Anofalye  11/28/06 4:37:40 PM
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Must...resist...urge...to rejoin...can't...must resist...

 

Resistance isn't futile...resist...resist....RESIST! 

 

Check: Aggravated enough toward the PvP enforcement to resist for now...better find a game fix to resist longer...

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Genkaarl  11/28/06 5:56:14 PM
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Bad if they want new players, but guess they werent getting many of these so it's good way to keep these customers who they already have paying.
 
Guler  11/28/06 6:33:26 PM
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All I can say is yuck, yuck and yuck again. I can't believe they would limit something as essental to a character as wings to veterans. Who would want to subscribe to a game knowing they can only play the character they really want after a year or two to get the veteran rewards. Not to mention giving powers to veterans would create a huge unbalance between old and new, in any hopes for player vs player hero/villan style.
 
Thor79  11/28/06 7:25:59 PM
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Issue 8 went live today...veteran rewards are available right now...as well as everything else in Issue 8.

Check out the patch notes if you don't believe me:
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/patch_notes.html

oh yeah...not to mention the forum post about it:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=7081387&an=0&page=0#Post7081387

and I can confirm this is already live on the servers...my account is up to the Loyal (12 month) level of veteran rewards....3 months shy of the wings...damnit.

Veteran rewards are always something people complain about...especially if they are new to a game or haven't been playing for long.
 
DemonOvrlord  11/28/06 9:05:23 PM
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Originally posted by Guler
All I can say is yuck, yuck and yuck again. I can't believe they would limit something as essental to a character as wings to veterans. Who would want to subscribe to a game knowing they can only play the character they really want after a year or two to get the veteran rewards. Not to mention giving powers to veterans would create a huge unbalance between old and new, in any hopes for player vs player hero/villan style.

Agreed.  And this marketing ploy didn't keep me playing, I cancelled. 

Note that I would have qualified for wings in one more month but I quit in disgust at seeing them place that vital costume component as a reward.  That's garbage. 

The costume-creation process is the one thing that makes the CoH/V game stand out and they want to turn the most requested addition for it into a ploy to keep players.

Didn't work with me. 

 
Thor79  11/28/06 10:11:36 PM
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Originally posted by DemonOvrlord

Originally posted by Guler All I can say is yuck, yuck and yuck again. I can't believe they would limit something as essental to a character as wings to veterans. Who would want to subscribe to a game knowing they can only play the character they really want after a year or two to get the veteran rewards. Not to mention giving powers to veterans would create a huge unbalance between old and new, in any hopes for player vs player hero/villan style.


Agreed. And this marketing ploy didn't keep me playing, I cancelled.
Note that I would have qualified for wings in one more month but I quit in disgust at seeing them place that vital costume component as a reward. That's garbage.
The costume-creation process is the one thing that makes the CoH/V game stand out and they want to turn the most requested addition for it into a ploy to keep players.
Didn't work with me.

you must have been already ready to quit if that kind of thing forced you to quit...

what keeps me playing is the game itself...not stuff like this...I find the game fun...if you don't you shouldn't be playing anyway...if the addition of a simple costume option is something that would make the game fun to you...perhaps you should go find a ball of yarn to play with...you're obviously easily amused...
 
Enigma  11/28/06 10:51:53 PM
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Originally posted by Anofalye

Must...resist...urge...to rejoin...can't...must resist...

 

Resistance isn't futile...resist...resist....RESIST! 

 

Check: Aggravated enough toward the PvP enforcement to resist for now...better find a game fix to resist longer...


lol...just watched Superman Returns....I just got suckered into reactivating it lol. 

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hehenep  11/28/06 11:22:10 PM
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Originally posted by DemonOvrlord
Originally posted by Guler
All I can say is yuck, yuck and yuck again. I can't believe they would limit something as essental to a character as wings to veterans. Who would want to subscribe to a game knowing they can only play the character they really want after a year or two to get the veteran rewards. Not to mention giving powers to veterans would create a huge unbalance between old and new, in any hopes for player vs player hero/villan style.

Agreed.  And this marketing ploy didn't keep me playing, I cancelled. 

Note that I would have qualified for wings in one more month but I quit in disgust at seeing them place that vital costume component as a reward.  That's garbage. 

The costume-creation process is the one thing that makes the CoH/V game stand out and they want to turn the most requested addition for it into a ploy to keep players.

Didn't work with me. 

They mucked up actually.  They started talking about wings and promising them as a feature of I8 way early.  Then they realised that the 'invention' (AKA crafting) system wouldn't be ready.  Wings were to be part of the invention system, which includes a lot of costume pieces (presumed craftable) to include wings.  Instead of turning around and saying it'd be another issue 'till wings, they just 'teasered' them by having them as a vet reward.

<shrug>  Fun times.
 
docupuncture  11/29/06 12:22:13 AM
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