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Like this?

Yeah it could mean a couple of things. Maybe they have changes planned, maybe they anticipate a bunch of returning players and don't want them to find a bunch of name genericed characters.

Who knows.

Personally I love having unique names but I can understand that switching to a hybrid F2P model may result in their changing that.

/What GG said.

We're going to be getting an entire new server that people can transfer retired alts to. Or they can be transferred to the French and German servers if a player isn't playing on them. That's 36 unused slots for some people. 24 if they go Premium.

How about they sell the items at a 1 for 1 price. 1 Inf = 1 dollar. That way it will limit the people that buy them from the store will still feel like they are earning them.

And I was just pointing out that a lot of people on tight budgets don't look at it that way.




A lot of people don't take 2, 3, or even 6 months to decide if they will stick with a game.



Most of the people that pay month to month don't compare the savings they could get on a 6 month or yearly sub to an LTS when they look at it. That's usually done by people justifying why they don't want to buy a lifetime sub.

The monthlies compare what they are actually spending each month on the game in question. So when a month to monther does the math it goes more like this.

$15. * 12 = *180 (rounding up a penny is easier)

So a lifetime sub that costs $199. is roughly equal to 13 months $299 is roughly 20 months or just over a year and a half.

Why do they do that? Because some of them don't think the discount is worth paying 6 months to 1 year ahead. Others feel they might take a break from the game and feel paying monthly will be cheaper. Some have other reasons.

Yet the enticement of never having to pay to play the game ever again for as long as it's active . . . That's something that's worth the headache of scrounging up $200-$300 bucks. Oh and any perks that go along with buying an LTS (like a nifty decoder ring, etc) also help.

Oh and BTW your LTS pricess aren't entirely accurate. When the company that originally created CoH launched their other super hero MMO they originally offered the LTS for $199 and their space game was $230. I know because that's what I paid for them.

They jacked up the prices of their Lifetime subs $100 after launch. (edit: moving this, it sounds confusing here. -I know because that's what I paid for them.) Everyone that chose to wait a few months to see if they really liked the games got screwed.


If you don't think a games going to last a year, or if you don't think the game can hold your interest for a year let alone longer then a LTS isn't for you.

Everyone has to ask themselves those questions. Even if they are an occasional subscriber they have to ask if they can see themselves spending the equivelant of a lifetime sub playing the game. If they do they may decide to simply buy it when it's available and always have an active account.

We've been told they aren't going to do a name purge.





http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showpost.php?p=3690577&postcount=221

You're entitled to your opinion even when it's wrong. I don't farm 50's so I have no use for purples. The only reason I have two 50's on my account was so I could unlock the epic AT's back before they dropped the level requirement to 20. So the inf I get from regular drops is more than enough to outfit my alts with anything I want. The rest gets converted to prestige.

The only thing sad in this thread is your refusal to pay attention to what you are deleting.

I wasn't critisizing your suggestion. I was asking Winter if he was aware that Premium players can also send and recieve tells so they would also benefit from being able to block RMT spam not just VIP's. This whole F2P thing is new to everyone and theres a lot of confusion about what the account types will have access to.

To me that sounds like he might think only VIP's would be affected by RMTers sending tells.

/signed

But why would people have to send blind invites to free players? Free accounts can't respond in most of the channels but they can see what's being said in them.

Just announce in broadcast that a team is being formed at a certain location, like the entrance to the Hollows for example, and then invite the players that show up. People have been doing this successfully for years.

My suggestion remains that the OP pays more attention to what is being deleted. Please feel free to disagree with it.

If the OP paid the same amount of attention to what he was deleting as he pays to this thread he'd never have deleted that purple recipe by accident.

And that very lack of funds is exactly why many of us that are having trouble making ends meet will jump at the chance to grab a lifetime sub if it is offered.

If money wasn't tight we'd never even consider spending $200-$300 bucks on a video game. But money is tight, and we have trouble [paying our bills each month. We can't afford to go out and spend a lot of money on various entertainments, but if we can come up with the cash for a one time purchase of a lifetime sub that's $15 bucks we can put to better use each month and we never again have to worry about keeping our accounts active.

And if the game goes F2P we hit the jackpot because there is a very good chance that the game will be giving it's paying customers and lifetiome subbers free points in the games online store. A certain other super hero MMO has already paid me $37.50 in store credit since it's gone F2P and that's a year after my account would have expired if I had spent the money for the lifetime sub on a monthly subscription. So I've saved $179.88 in sub fees on top of the $37.50 store credit.


Most if not all lifetime subs cost the same as a years subscription in advance. Now if you don't have enough faith that a game you like to play will be running a year later that's you business. I'm sorry to hear you feel that way.

I see nothing posted by the devs that says players who only have access to the local, team, and help channels can't use the help channel because they need help getting invited to a team, or help recruiting teammates.

If you know of such a post please link it. I would appreciate seeing it for myself.

What Dechs posted

/unsigned

If only you paid this much attention to your recipes instead of deleting them without looking at them.

No one called you lazy for making this suggestion. I called you lazy because you keep saying it's too much effort to pay attention to what you are deleting.

I definitely would disagree. I make a lot of influence off of selling common recipes.

When someone repeatedly proclaims it's too much effort to look at what he is deleting and skip over the purple recipe then I think the term lazy is a fair assesment.

But your are free to disagree with my opinion.

Before crafting anything it's a good idea to look to see if anyone is bidding on the item. If there are no bidders no one wants it. Crafting something no one wants is a waste of time. Just sell the recipe at a vendor.

So not only are you too lazy to pay attention to what you are deleting, you are also too lazy to spare 2-3 seconds to check your recipe/salvage inventory and delete stuff during any one of the hundreds of pauses teams take between combats that occur in each and every game session so you don't have to go thru a whole list when the inventory fills up.


Why are we not surprised to hear that.