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I know it will be useful to members of our SG who have tight finances and can't really afford the booster packs at their standalone price.

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*waves* That's me! I am happy now....Roll on pay day!

And... are we going to be able to purchase this via the Store soon? or will i be forced to use Steam?

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To be fair, I'm using steam a lot more recently and it's been a dream to use. All my old Hlaf Life games are registered on it and as I just reformatted my PC, reinstalling them was a doddle to do, just installed Steam and set them all to redownload, wasn't even that long to do on a fast speed connection like mine

As for the Coh install, paying for it on steam was very easy, very fast and the game was installing within minutes. I even used a cheeky trick to make the install go quicker. As I already had Coh installed, I paused the download via steam, found where it was installing it on my PC, copied contents of my normal CoH install across to the new folder and told Steam to carry on, it checked all the files and just needed to download an update, presumably the latest patches and it was done, took about 3 minutes!

I know play the game via steam, I can remove the CoH icons off my desktop and also have a hadny back up copy if needed if for some reason Steam won't work properly!

Honestly, it's very worth using and Steam often have special offers on as well, apparently I just missed out on Left 4 Dead for £13 as I was not using Steam at the time! Seen a couple of bargains on there as well, original Far Cry for £6

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GR, if you're reading this, pass the feedback on, please

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I did, this morning, when I had a terrible time trying to get the GW promo storage pane for my 3 accounts... The issue is being looked into currently, and the experts are looking at exactly what's happening currently.

FWIW, I know what happened re: people getting "Try Again" error messages with the Magic Pack. What you were getting was actually a browser error message, because the browser was deciding that the process was taking too long and timing itself out. Unfortunately the ncsoft.com store was actually still processing (just slower than the browser expected). Even more unfortunately, the browser-prompted "Try Again" resubmits the entire requests and the store sees it as a new request, and processes it as such. Hence why a lot of people ended up buying multiple packs.

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Thanks for letting us know, GR, nice to know it's not just us then

I just fear for any poor new player trying to sort out an account atm, gonna be a nightmare for them. Not the best advert just as the games go on something as big and popular as Steam is.

FINALLY!!

After so long of trying, i finally got the mail confirming it had applied, checked in game and the power was there, also, on the account the extra months time has also been applied, so I can confirm one hundred percent, the code works via steam

Applying the code via the NC Soft account system, on the hand.....is a bloody nightmare! That SERIOUSLY needs sorting out if you want to get new players in the game. I dread to think how long it takes to actually create a new account to get started. GR, if you're reading this, pass the feedback on, please

Ok.

It's now been over 90 minutes of trying to do this and due to a crappy response time from the NCSoft account pages, I'm having no luck.

Worst of all, when i finally thought I'd done it, it timed out on me. I tried again, it tells me that the code has already been used, yet there's nothing new in game, no new powers, no new cossie options......so where the hell has the code been used???

And it's taking so long for me to get into the account pages, I can't see if it's been used elsewhere or not!!

Why do I see several days of dealing with the support team to get this fixed coming up......

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Booster and Code Applied. :>

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Well, at least we know for definite it works

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/em Jeremy Paxman

Yeeeeessss, because it's hardly conceivable that they'd have an automated payment system reporting things unreliably, is it?

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When I say works, I mean the code applies ok to a EU account, it's not a US only code that Steam gives you.

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Booster and Code Applied. :>

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Well, at least we know for definite it works, now I just need to get onto the account to do mine

What's causing it is somewhat irrelavent, I think. For something like this, for the purposes of actually being able to accept peoples money, it's should work smoothly and flawlessly. It's basic common sense for any company, Business 101. Make it easy to for the customers to pay you!

Alongside the fact that they have had issues with accepting certain types of peoples cards through the game shop, difficulty for people to find time cards, etc., this is yet another issue for people not being able to get to play the game and it's stupid, plain and simple.

I know some factors are beyond their controls, the changing os the Maestro cards for instance, but honestly, NCSoft, let us pay you money!!

Yup

One more thing in the long list of things that stop this game doing so much better!!

honestly, how is anyone supposed to sign up for this game if it takes this bloody long just get to your account page!! I shouldn't have to wait for over 10 minutes just to apply a bloody code, this should be instantaneous!!

Same here, having a hell of a time trying just to get into my NCSoft account to add the code

I'm guessing that's only on the US test server....you know, the one we can't get on.

Or will the devs deign to remember us poor saps in the EU?

Not impressed if they can't be bothered to come over here

Edit: Also, someone needs to tell them a week consists of 7 days. Tuesday until Sunday is only 6 days.

And I love the get out clause on the t-sgirt competition that it *may* get made for real. Bet that's not open to people outside the US either. Hope we get come clarification on any of this.

I am feeling very underwhelmed by all of this

Wasn't it Bridger who used to take time off before big announcements were made?

Yeah, that was mentioned above already

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If feedback was mandatory, it would stop things like this a lot easier!

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One word: "kjsklwqr"

Enforced feedback doesn't work on the Internet.

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True, but at least I'd know who it was and if a lot of other people have had 1 star ratings from the same person, it could be shown to be griefing.

Well, dunno who the first vote was, again, no feedback, the second was Blue rabbit who told me what he rated me at, cos he's nice like that

Fair point about the cross country problem, must admit I never thought of that, but it's still confusing to get such a low mark. I'm not trying to flatter myself it's a master peice, but comepared to a lot of the so called 5-stars out there, I think it's a good storyline, good custom group etc, and this was backed up by Rabbit, so the 0-1 star vote is weird!

And I already posted it on CoG

Ok my latest arc, Stuff 'n' Fluff has just been rated down.

After 2 people had rated it, it was 5 stars, one of those people was Blue Rabbit who gave feedback and pointed out a couple of spelling errors, which are now sorted. Huzzah thinks I, people are enjoying it, cue many smiles!

I got to check it now......3 ratings....now 3 stars!...and no bloody feedback!

Now, if this is based on averages, I reckon that has to be at least a 1 or 2 star rating to get 3 after 3 ratings.

Now, fair enough, if someone doesn't like it, then mark it down, but they could at least give some feedback as to why they didn't like it! Was it the storyline? Spelling? The bosses? What???

Now, how do I know this isn't someone griefing, or just being a pillock??

If feedback was mandatory, it would stop things like this a lot easier!

Seriously, I feel like not bothering anymore. I'm not averse to criticism, I welcome it. I'd rather know the truth about what people think so I can adjust the mish if I agree or just make my own decision about it based on feedback. Random people marking it down with no info is just demoralising

Heh, thanks all, nice quiet day watching the footie and chilling out

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Happy b-day Coin! As a prezzie I'm going to do your arcs today! ^_^

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Best prezzie I could get mate, nigh on impossible to get your arc played with so many arcs out there!

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Coolies!! Thanx Psy, she looks great. I know ya busy so won't bug ya for any more just yet... but if ya get a lull in requests...

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Yeah, cos that's that gonna happen

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Yes, perish the thought players should be able to garner time for two day jobs at the same time... ¬_¬

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Well I must admit it became really difficult to get to the portal what with everyone camping around it, getting two day jobs at the same time

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Erm, if they were getting Day jobs, then they wouldn't have been visible to you...

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ROFL!!

I believe the word is....pwnd?

Anyone who feels up to reviewing my arcs, go ahead, the numbers are in my sig, but bear in mind the spawning issue has the potential to screw up the first one

Second one works well because of the spawning issue though, talk about playing to the faults

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Evolution rigs it so that yours get some weird mind control over you so you can stand em even if you hate other peoples. It also warps your mind so you think the fact they smear their own poo into their hair when you're not looking means they're artistical geniuses rather than gross little monsters.

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It also stops you from murdering the little ba... darlings, when they use the wifes lipstick all over the bathroom, then try to wipe it off with an ENTIRE pack of wet wipes, then cram then down the toilet, flush it, and completely block it.

So much fun, having your arm jammed round the u-bend...

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Yeah, I hear that!

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I have limited expectations.

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That would be because of your limited mind, my friend

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They could start off with the go attack the Rikti thing and when we get up there, we find they've all be slaughtered...

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... by Lobo.

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More likely.....Sephiroth!!

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Interesting. I take it there's a Defeat All Corporate Lawyer arc after that one?

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Actually, considering Lobo's history of crossovers, I wouldn't be too surprised to see him show up in CoH as part of a April 1st event or something of that sort (probably beating Statesman up with Recluse or something.)

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This would seriously rock, but I doubt Marvel would go for it.

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Marvel wouldn't be able to say a thing about it. DC Comics might though

No, there's no official news here, obviously, just more of a general meandering wonderment.

Of the little we've heard, the rumours were that it was going to hit around the 5th anniverary, which I believe is the middle of May? Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that date, can't find the cool calendar to check the numbers.

If so, I don't see that happening. Unless the beta is in Closed Beta for it already, that only gives us about a month for testing, and we've heard nothing official on it yet!

It is possible for the dev team to working on a mssive surprise for us, as it's the anniversary, keep everything hush hush, so to speak, but I find it hard to believe anyone will be able to keep the genie in the bottle

So, what things are we expecting? New zones? New AT's? Power Proliferation? Raise the cap to 60? A massive return of old villains such as the 5th Column? (this one at least has been hinted at) Or maybe a whole new villain threat to shock us?

Will we get a massive graphics upgrade, potentially upsetting players on lower end machines? Will it be another badge-gasm like the Architect is? Will we see Architect 2.0? Or is it too early for that?

I'm curious as to what people are hoping for or even expecting from issue 15, especially when y'all expect it to arrive!

Let the specualtion commence, I say!

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Also, anims only trigger if you use the menu thing, not a /cc command as far as I can see - which puts paid to thoughts of lovely scriptings

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Actually, DW, listen to the wise Back Alley Brawler