Zwillinger

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Captain-Electric View Post
    What surprised me was having new knowledge that there is zero communication between your realm and theirs. I'm getting the image of an NCSoft CS manager, who has little or no experience with City of Heroes, making a decision that creates a small mess on your side of the street; a mess like now.
    Oh if you got the impression that there's zero communication, I apologize. This couldn't be further from the truth. We have open lines of communication to CS. I just haven't familiarized myself with every single one of their policies.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Captain-Electric View Post
    This has sometimes been something I've wondered about: How much of Community Relations actually involves matters related to the in-game community? I've mentioned before how, out of my big global list of very active friends, I've never seen any of them on the forums. And many of the most vocal forum posters have occasionally admitted in their posts that they rarely log into the game during long stretches of time. Do you know where most of my friends find out about upcoming issues, new items on the market, and other new content? Me.

    Zwillinger, player petitions are a customer service issue, but the fact that you have no involvement in that process from a community relations position, is a fact that ought to be changed. The game servers are the REAL community.
    I worked customer service for over a decade, and I feel that what we do in Community is *very* different from what I did in Customer Service.

    Customer service is all about individual player relations. In Community , we're more focused on Community relations, as a whole. I draw a very distinct line between CS and Community and do not tread on things that are their purveyance. Our CS team are specially trained according to NCsoft policy to handle individual petitions with care. As much as I would love to be able to help each and every person that sends me a PM with a CS related issue, I don't have a team big enough to handle it, nor do I have the time required to perform due diligence.

    We certainly spend time on the servers, in a Community capacity, attending player events, hosting our own events and just randomly hanging out or dropping War Walkers on people. When it comes to policing said servers and assisting with the problem that require significant amounts of time, we leave that to the professionals.

    And for whomever was asking, our CS group is in Austin.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    As if talking to you will change the logs? Look at the logs. The logs do not lie or misremember, players do.
    There's something to be said for getting both sides of the story. Of course, I'm not privy nor part of the Customer Service policies or procedures, I cannot speak to this aspect of it specifically.

    Also, Dumps...I'm reading this thread, taking the feedback seriously, but the entire time, there's this voice in the back of my head going...

  4. Zwillinger

    Botched ritual.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mokalus View Post
    When you say "reduced" do you just mean the effect of the debuff, or the time (or both)? Just that from my point of view, it's the 20 hour thing which is bonkers, the actual debuff itself is bad but wouldn't really be worth complaining about if it was a reasonable time.

    For the record when I say "reasonable time" I am thinking in the 5-10 minute region.

    The duration of.

    Not sure what they'll change the duration to, but when we brought it up in a meeting it was agreed we'd change it for next years event.
  5. For those speculating as to whether I went running down the halls, ringing a bell, shouting "Double XP for all!" after posting the in thread the other day...



    You'll never know...

    We've actually been planning this for awhile. You can thank Black Pebble for it. I think he needs to level some alts.
  6. D'awwwwww....

    Who's da cutest baby?



    Dat baby!
  7. Zwillinger

    Botched ritual.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnstone View Post
    Wait. No, it won't really be reduced? Or no, there is not going to be a tactical strike? Stop sending mixed messages! >.< lol
    Yes, it will be reduced.

    No, we are not threatening anyone with physical violence.
  8. Great to hear Tony!

    Thanks for the update!
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bosstone View Post
    Don't worry, we'll find a way to conspiracy-theory this.
    This has nothing to do with the upcoming announcement of Super Duper Packs.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    I really hope they don't gate the Retro Sci-Fi stuff behind such a pack and just sell it for the usual $5 to $7.50.
    Retro Sci Fi will not be released via Super Packs.
  11. Zwillinger

    Botched ritual.

    This debuff will be reduced for next years event.

    On a similar note, we have ordered a tactical strike on the developer who's idea it was.

    No, not really.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vexen777 View Post
    Anyone know if the XP booster is effected by this at all? Is it Nulled? Doubled? Or just stacks?
    It stacks .
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Wait... You're putting ATOs into the game without enabling their trading in the Auction House like you said was going to happen?


    doom.
    If that functionality isn't there yet then that's a bug AFAIK. I know that was occurring during beta but my understanding was that it was corrected at some point.

    Also, it's important to note that the ATO's purchased using Reward Merits/Hero Merits are coming with Issue 22. The wait should not be very long.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    Dinkdinkdink DINK DINK DINK!
    I suppose this was inevitable.
  15. There is a word.

    Have you heard?

    About the word?























    Soon™
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Paladin View Post
    But if I'm out of line, I do apologize. I just thought Mr. Thirty Seven deserved something more reassuring.
    Our practices, discussed at great length and worked out with the Community, are: Unique pieces for females and everything else equally ported between the body types. Yes, this ends up resulting in more pieces for females overall, however after the last 12 months of reading feedback and lengthy discussion with the Community we made this decision.

    It's very unlikely we'll alter course on this in the immediate future.

    There is a point where the inability to refrain from negative comment is inappropriate. I'm the last person to stifle one's right to be critical (it is the internet after all), but sometimes we should take a step back and ask ourselves if this is really the time and place to make such comments.

    No apologies are needed Paladin, and I do understand what they were saying. It's a viewpoint we took under strong advisement when we made our decision.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tempest Teacup View Post
    Are the very rare table ATIOs going to be the same as rare ATIOs or the upgraded purple versions?
    There's only one quality of ATO's offered in the Super Packs. Purple ATOs are created using Catalysts (which makes them bound).
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark Energon View Post
    So.. what's the cost of one of these packs?
    80 points per, with discounts for buying in bulk.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by OmniNogard View Post
    PLEASE tell there's another way to get the element order coming with this soon. I don't have the money to chance of getting them. Saving for the power sets and other stuff.
    We don't have plans offer a secondary option in the immediate future.

    Sorry .
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Roderick View Post
    Thanks, Zwil. Can you tell us the odds of getting a Common/Uncommon/Rare/VR for each card as well?
    There's a guaranteed Uncommon or Rare each pack, I don't know the percentage chance for a VR off hand.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven View Post
    Yes?

    Oh... stuff for female avatars.

  22. In case there was any question: If you already own these packs, you will be granted these pieces automagically. If you buy any of them moving forward you will be granted these pieces.
  23. Before tomorrow's launch of the first Super Pack: Heroes and Villains, I wanted to share the breakdown of the odds of getting each item in the packs. This should be considered final and official.





    Items marked with "*" are account items that when removed affect the drop chance of all items in the same table if they’re removed.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Can you pass on the suggestion that normal mapped faces really need some kind of subtle expression to add life to them? A totally neutral expression makes them look too robotic.
    I'm sure that Dink is reading, but I'll pass that suggestion along just in case.