Orion_Star_EU
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Quote:If you haven't already purchased an AE box, this will give you a discounted month. It doesn't actually do anything AE wise, it was just names so to celebrate the release of the system.Originally Posted by shawnculli
I purchased both of the booster packs seperately a while back, so I'm wondering if you know how the free month works if you already have an active account? I haven't done much with the AE system and frankly don't have the time or inclination to make my own missions. If there is a free month at that price it would definitely be worth purchasing. -
Quote:Is that accounting for mutually exclusive sets?Originally Posted by Tiamat_XIII
If I'm accounting for everything, 684. 686 if you want to count the powersets the VEATs start with, though I don't since I'm reasonably sure you can't stay with just them through to 50. Entirely possible I missed something in there, though.
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I think that trial account ran out actually
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Quote:Well, no, only British people who also live in Canada and the US are eligibleOriginally Posted by Golden Girl
Looks like anyone from Europe can do it - except the British
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Quote:http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/con...liday_con.html
(d) you must be a resident of the United States (excluding the State of Rhode Island, and excluding Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, military installations and commonwealths), Canada (excluding Quebec) (Canadian residents will be required to answer an additional mathematical question in order to claim their prizes) and the United Kingdom.
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One thing I have noticed: They seem to be stressing the fact that the transfers are 'within the same server list' an awful lot, may this be a sign of things to come?
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I love you.
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<Insert standard code rant about the lack of quadruped skeletons>
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Quote:When I say 'Cryptic', I mean whoever is making those decisions. Whoever it is; they should be shot.Originally Posted by Psyte
Well, like I said earlier - this is to marketing (and to a degree, NCSoft, the publisher), not the devs/Paragon Studios.
And there's no telling how much of what's happened with Champions and will happen with Star Trek is Cryptic and how much is Atari. I'll give Cryptic the benefit of the doubt on that count - they do have to do what their owners say do, yes?
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Quote:I trust out devs* not to be greedy bastards though.Originally Posted by Psyte
Hence the original post!
All the CoH PO bonuses were mechanically identical, and in turn, they are all mechanically identical to sprint, so they do not offer any real advantage.
For CoV, it's just 4 very niche helmets that I rarely see used - again, no advantage.
For GR, I'm pretty sure we'll see something similar. Perhaps even a single PO bonus for all retailers (we can hope, eh?
), but again, nothing that grants an actual advantage.
The trend I'm seeing is that anything that grants an actual advantage (barring vetwards) is *always* going to be available from the NC store, and I hope it stays that way. Most cosmetic stuff is available there too, but some stuff has become ungettable unless some CE stock is found in a random store in Alaska.
Cryptic on the other hand have been, and are continuing to be, complete ******** when it comes to exclusives and perks (especially time limited ones), just see their 37 different pre order bonuses, microtransaction store, limited availability lifetime sub, and even items exclusive to some blu-ray re-release (Oh and look, that's time limited too! Yay!).
It's that kind of behaviour that just sends up a red flag stating "Please don't do business with us!" for me to be honest. The fact that their games suck (so far) and some of their CS staff are completely rude and unprofessional don't help either, though.
*By 'devs' I mean the marketing department (that supposedly hate us) or whoever makes that decision
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Quote:That's just disgusting to be honest.Originally Posted by Psyte
For example, Star Trek Online has seven different pre-order goodies, all from different places. Don't think the Collector's Edition is required.
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Quote:Considering Euro folk never had a shot at any of the prestige sprints (aside from Slide, and some accounts randomly had Quick applied to them), and only had a single Arachnos helmet available, I think it was a good idea to include them in the Vetwards.Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
#1 Open Letters on an interweb game forum are ... pick a fancier word than dumb with the same meaning...
#2 If you wanted to say something about PRE ORDERS you should have said something like, DO NOT PUT fancy pre order items in the boxes and then turn around and give that **** for FREE later on in the game. -
Marketing made ED.
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Hamidon. Or Cole.
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Quote:Well, Aion was preorderable on the PlayNC site, so you may be in luck. And you could always preorder via a friend if you trust anyone in the US enough.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
At this point, actually preordering anything is out of the question for me. I own the US version of the game, and so would presumably need the US version of Going Rogue, and purchasing that in Eastern Europe is out of the question. The CoV preorder I asked my brother to get for me, but that is no longer an option, so my only remaining option is online purchase. That means no preorder, and no preorder goodies.
Maybe I'm biassed, but yeah, I'd like to see a booster pack with the things somewhere down the line, the same as we saw for the GvE release and for the Mac release. I've never been a great believer in exclusivity, at least not forever and ever, so I have no problem with this. -
Erm...was my post deleted?
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Quote:Oh, I haven't seen that before. Although it barely ever happens on the EU servers anywayOriginally Posted by Fury Flechette
This is what occurs right now. Banners are sometimes triggered instead of zombi.
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I just transferred a character from Defiant to Union and it worked fine. No extra limbs or anything on the transferee.
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I wouldn't mind it if it left existing zone mobs in place, but as it is at the moment; it's really quite annoying.
Another improvement would be if it occasionally did the Banner event instead of Zombies for a little variety. -
It will be a paid expansion, but I would count on you being able to buy it digitally as well as in a box at retail.
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Quote:ShhhhOriginally Posted by Golden Girl
You need to delete your posts faster, Orion
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Perhaps they are adding cross-continental character transfers?
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Like others, I got it before we could buy slots, and before vetwards in fact. Now I only reactivate it if I want to play those characters.
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If they came up with a decent and efficient way to filter out the crap, then sure. But it's unlikely that will happen without a massive waste of resources.