KyleVance

Alright, but for the sake of argument let's just say it's a seven day duration (for a returning player seven days is more than enough to know whether the game is worth coming back to). It would take 13 accounts to do a rotation and keep a second one active. The best way to do it would be to buy them one by one, and cancel them as soon as the free month is up. Let's just say you can get them for $15 instead of $20 for argument sake.

That's still 13 months of actually paying. You could then finally start rotating them, and it would take you another 13 months to recover from that initial investment - over two years before you even broke even and could start "profiting" from defrauding the system.

I'm not saying nobody in the world would do it, and I'm not saying there aren't people who would do it with less accounts and simply not have two accounts up 24/7. I'm just saying that the benefit would outweigh the risk of abuse

But at any rate it doesn't matter, that's clearly not how the system works - and I don't see it changing anytime soon so this discussion is a tad on the pointless side.

Oh I know, my point is that nobody would abuse it to play the game for a week every 90 days. If you like the game enough to play, you play - if not, you don't play. If it was a week every 30 days I could see that - but the "must be inactive for 90+ days" stipulation pretty much kills that sort of abuse.

That's the plan. We wanted to get our "big" toons into the mix so they could get an idea for what the game becomes. The low levels of CoX are pretty "meh," but once your characters start to bloom - they *really* bloom. :-D

Yes... I understand that my original understanding of the system is incorrect.

No, I realize it certainly isn't a large loss by any means.

Except that the invites would still need to be sent from an active account, and the bonus would not be awarded until the "revived" account actually re-subscribed and paid for a month of service. So lets say they let people invite friends back to the game for a week to try to convince them to play again, and you had 7 days before it expired. You could only be "revived" in this manner once every 90 days. So to "exploit" the system to play two accounts for the price of one you would need one active and legitimately paid for account - and 13 accounts that you rotate through to keep a second one active at all times for free. If they gave you 15 days to decide whether or not you want to resubscribe (which is far more than required in my opinion), you would still need six "alt" accounts to rotate through. This, of course, assumes that anyone would want to rotate between six different accounts - and purchase seven different accounts.

In short it simply would not be practical to try and abuse the system, and if it did turn out that people exploited it for whatever reason - they could simply limit the amount of invitations you could send out in a given time frame.



Look, I'm just saying that the revival did not work how I had thought. I'm not saying "OMG if NCSoft doesn't refund me my $30 then I'm going to call my credit card company and file a complaint." I do realize it was my mistake, not theirs. The wording could be more clear, but I should have read it more carefully. I would *like* a refund, but I'm not expecting one. It's not even that I don't want to come back to the game - I just don't like spending money that I did not intend to spend. $30 isn't the end of the world, so if I end up throwing it away it's not like I plan to swear off NCSoft and Paragon Studios for the rest of my life. Oh well, hopefully I can convince my friends to play with me and it won't be wasted money anyway.

The only problem is, I showed them Champions Online first. Personally, I think City of Heroes is definitely the better game for the team - but saying "Just wait until you get into your 20's, the game gets better" isn't very convincing when they just played "Ooo shiny!" that is ridiculously cumbersome to group in.