Aoide Muse

This. Majorly. This.

As someone who's stepping down the Premium since they can't afford a sub right now (my sub expires on June 11th), sales of the EATs like this are a big thing (I have a lvl 50 PB, lvl 50 WS, and a lvl 50 Crab). Add in the fact that for the foreseeable future I won't be able to buy more points (and thus buy the EATS at their regular price) sales like this could be considered a 'big thing' since that's /THREE/ lvl 50's that will be 'locked' once I go Premium. There seriously should be a way for people to buy things like this when VIP (especially since I highly doubt we'll see a sale like this on the EATs again any time soon).

Beastyle was in chat (or at least someone with his name) and was the one telling people to restart their browsers, try other browsers, etc., and that 'it'd eventually work'. Thus my claiming that a 'Red Name' was saying that.

-Aoide

Oh they responded at times. By telling people to do stuff they just said they'd done, or it'd 'work eventually'.

And on top of that, it was just the CoH Live feed that was doing this. I went to half a dozen other UStream feeds, almost all which were live, and they worked fine, even with multiple running in different tabs at the same time, which in turn made the non-working CoH feed even more frustrating.

-Aoide

I'll put this here since it keeps getting downed out in the UStream chat (usually by the people doing the 4 lines of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

UStream is /NOT/ working for some people. They keep saying it. I'm one of them. It worked fine for the first 3 minutes I was connected to the site. Then around the time Aeon supposedly showed up, it died and became the 'loading spiral of death'. I restarted my browser after 5 min, and video/sound didn't come back. I tried a different browser, and nada. Multiple different browsers, and nada. Restarted my computer and /NADA/. Was told by one of the 'Red Names' that it'd eventually load. 30 minutes of 'Load Spiral' later and...... You guessed it, Nada! And yes, I restarted my modem, and several other things as well, and nothing helped.

Now if it was just me, I wouldn't be saying this. But the fact that multiple people kept saying they were having this problem in the UStream chat, and they were being told to do this even /after/ they'd done all of this and that it'd 'eventually work' and wasn't is very, VERY frustrating, especially since it looks like you're trying to use UStream as a 'public relations tool'.

To be blunt and honest, if it's something that flat out won't work for a chunk of people, especially if you're telling them to do things that they've said they already tried, or that 'it'll work eventually' and it flat out /won't work/, all you're doing is creating /bad/ public relations.

Sorry for the rant.

-Aoide

Yes, but if you're logging on initially via the NC Soft Launcher it could be an auto unlock for the new character/character creator /because/ you're using the launcher, thus it might not be account based.

That actually brings up another good question. Is this an account based reward (ala the Pocket D VIP badge) or is this a per character reward (thus you have to log on each character via the new launcher to get it)?

Quick clarification. I did not mean 'Limited Time Only' in a 'The Aura will go away from the character' kind of way, but instead a 'limited time where you can get it, and anyone who doesn't get it in that time is out of luck' kind of way.

If when you do this, and you still have room Monkey (and want a Sonic/Energy Blaster), I'm more than willing to help!