Trials and Global Friends

Since when did trial accounts become unable to accept global friend invites? Is that part of the "cannot join any global channels"? I could swear I was able to accept one from my son when I first joined.

A friend of mine gave me a surprise phone call last night asking me to meet him by Ms Liberty. I rushed over and sent him a global friend invite and he said he was accepting the invite but I didn't have him in my global list or vice versa. He said his chat box had nothing related to the invite - either an error or an acknowledgement though I could believe he was just missing it.

I could make him a regular server friend but that hardly helps me know he's on if I happen to be on an alt.

So either he's doing something wrong or this is just one more thing about trials that drives me crazy.

*wanders over to Amazon to check out the box titles... Christmas is coming soon anyway*

yeah, Trial accounts get no use of the Global Chat Server (which Global Friends is a part of).

Adding global friends was a little buggy not long ago: couldnt friend someone in same zone or the like.

Might be related to that.

I'd hope trial accounts could be friends.

I'll try from another zone. It isn't like it's giving us an error and I know it used to work so it is definitely worth a try.

I can /friend him but that only tells me if he's on with the same toon. Not a perfect solution by any means. Especially since he can't (rightfully) use the friend channel so still no way for 2-way communication unless it's convenient to join in a team.

His game is in transit now. He should have a full version by Monday. I told him it was an early Christmas present... too bad he didn't tell me he was downloading a trial so I could send him a referal instead. He'll be the 5th person I've gotten into the game but not a single credit yet LOL.

I was on trial in June of last year. There were plenty of restrictions. I remember my friend and I waiting outside each other's missions because we couldn't team ourselves together. I also remember being unable to talk except in local mode. And I remember my son reactivating his account and inviting us to be his global friends so we'd all know when the others were online. That was when I learned the difference between Global and Server friends. That was all well before I upgraded to the full version.

I also remember after i14 went live, I got another friend to try it out and I only removed him from my global friends list a month or two ago because he never upgraded from trial. So obviously I was able to invite him.

So yeah, I'm pretty sure you could invite (but not be invited by) a trial account to be your global friend at least as recently as this past spring.

Nope, didn't work even from another zone. Sometime along the line they did remove the global friends capability. No matter, Monday he'll be playing with a full deck.... about time.