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For the store i found out its quite easy to see what is US and what is EU.
For all 'clients' (city of villains, city of heroes, architect edition etc), its shown based on your IP with a small text below it to the 'other' version/
For all boosters, upgrades and itempacks, they work on 'select account to apply', so it doesnt mather wich one u buy, it will auto detect all your active accounts on wich u can apply it to.
The bug at the moment is the Going Rogue item pack, it has seperate US and EU links, but both do not work on EU accounts (it only shows my US account). -
Stupid enough our topics in Tech.issues are flooded by the 'general Going Rogue error topics', no redname ever gonna reply to the store, serial key or DNS issues.
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Quite odd though, the Going Rogue expension works on the 'select the account' system, while the 'Going Rogue complete pack' has seperate US and EU links.
The Item Pack isnt working here.
It says (Europe) Item Pack clicky, when i click it and it ask me wich account, it only shows my US account.
Please select the City of Heroes® account you would like to apply this upgrade to.
City of Heroes® / City of Villains®: <account>
However, f i select the Going Rogue Expension clicky, it does show my US and EU account.
Please select the City of Heroes® account you would like to apply this upgrade to.
City of Heroes® / City of Villains®: <account>
City of Heroes® (Europe) / City of Villains® (Europe): <account>
Something aint working here.. that is for sure.
Also, all boosters say (europe) in the title, but they all use the 'select account to upgrade' system. Cant they just remove the (Europe) and replace by (multi-region) or something? Is is the Combined Edition that has a wrong name:
City of Heroes® (Europe) Super Booster I: Cyborg (works both)
City of Heroes® (Europe) Super Booster II: Magic (works both)
City of Heroes® (Europe) Super Booster III: Superscience (works both)
City of Heroes® (Europe) Super Booster IV: Martial Arts (works both)
City of Heroes® (Europe) Super Booster V: Mutant (works both)
City of Heroes® (Europe) Wedding Pack (works both)
City of Heroes® (Europe) Mac Special Edition In-Game Item Pack (works both)
City of Heroes®/City of Villains® Combined Edition Bonus Item Pack (Where is EU?)
City of Heroes® (Europe) Going Rogue™: Expansion (works both)
The last one of the packs not saying (Europe).
In short, item pack Going Rogue:
Europe - https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/St...em&item_id=216
US - https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/St...em;item_id=214
This is NOT working on Europe accounts, both only state my US account as only upgradable account. -
Quote:There was a time you could just buy the code and apply it, or use it for someone else.Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
You're seeing the same prompt those of us with US accounts are seeing. Buying a code that does not automatically apply to your account has not been an option for as long as I have played.
However, you guys have the boxed Going Rogue, meaning you have a way of getting a standalone serial key to use on any account, but we dont. -
Did you make previous orders in the past few days? I believe they have a limit on the ammount of purchases you can do within a certain timeframe, maybe you've reached this blockage?
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Personaly, this would be your worse moment to come back.
As Going Rogue just got live, and works entire seperate from CoH/CoV, the 'sod few' people left in Defiant will be on the Going Rogue servers, leaving Rogue's Islands and Paragon City rather empty.
My advice, get the US trial. -
Great, we've been shafted with basicly everything you guys could give to US, but cant give us.. And now not even the ability to buy the Going Rogue serial key itself?
All we have is a prompt 'select the account u want to apply it to', no ability to just get a freaking serial key to either give to friends who have no payment abilities (they use timecards, YES with a serial key), or... a fellow US player that wish to play on Europe side.
No wonder you guys aint a GamesCon, bad work for the Europe players. -
Strange enough, i still can acces the NCstore from my computer nor any other in my network.
If i go to some direct link to a product, i get a weird (as if CSS is fully missing) page that has the login link, but clicking sends me to a 'cant display page' or again a fully broken page.
I turn on my US proxy, all loads perfectly. On the other hand, maybe the server just having serious loading issues due everyone buying GR (im not
).
I found a funny one though:
Quote:On the EU websiteSo I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for your loyalty, your passion, and your commitment to City of Heroes and I hope that you enjoy all of the work that we have put into it. Thank you so much for making City of Heroes an amazing game to work on, thank you for your continued enthusiasm and excitement about this Going Rogue expansion (and beyond!), and - most of all - thank you for playing! Yes, we got loyalty, yes we got passion, yes we got commitment.. but what do you have?
(did you know the last created topic on German section dates from 19th july? Its scary dead over there).
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Quote:You dont get any code from the NCsoft store, no code, no serial, nothing. THAT is the whole problem! Once you select the product you want to buy, it will ask you wich account you want to upgrade (or create new). If you would get a code, the OP wouldnt have a problem (i could have bought Going Rogue for him). Ok behind the scenes they still work with a code, but this is a auto-applied code wich you cant give as present or just buy 'to have and not to use'.
Not sure why you're telling me what a serial code is. I buy a booster/time card/GR/City of X game and I get a code. I am perfectly aware of that.
As far as I can see - and experiences in this thread - that code is region specific. An item bought on the USA part of the NCSoft store can only be applied to the USA account. (Vice versa in the OPs case.)
However, they never made it 'either this or that', the NCstore (for EU visitors) became a fook up of 'items that you can apply to any' and 'US version also available'. It was only recently, i believe during the last released booster pack they changed this 'select your account to apply the booster' system, so it gave less stress for the packs. Before this, EU players had serious issues trying to get a US booster on their US account, in my case i just used a US proxy to get it all working.
Its like you said, 'europe' or 'US version also available', this still apply to all the client versions (Mac, Complete, Going Rogue, Mac Special, Architect etc etc). Strange enough, i'm billed in Dollars, my paypal account is charged in Dollars. So as European you can pay in Dollars, but as American u cant pay in Euro's?
From my payment history:
Mar 14, 2010 City of Heroes® (Europe) [1 month subscription] €12,99 (EUR) Paid
Mar 14, 2010 City of Heroes® [1 month subscription] $14.99 (USD) Paid
The US one only cost me € 10,70.
Magic one, the boosterpacks for my _US_ account are charged in Euro's.
The last option is out of the question for Europe players, the boxed-serial keys are US region bound and cant be used on EU accounts. Even if i pay tripple the ammount US people pay for a boxed (the box, shipping costs and additional import-stuff/fee/taxes), i cant even use it on my EU account.Quote:My options are online or wait and pay extra to have a box shipped from Amazon.com or something. -
Quote:To clarify:Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
So .... Ummm. Everything in this thread says 'region specific' (as does my common sense because the purchases say (Europe) next to them. The PM says it isn't.*I'm not risking it.
I feel for people like the OP and those in South America who are utterly stuffed.
Serial code =! upgrade/booster/NCsoft digital store.
Serial code is like a scratchcard, a boxed version or any other way you have bought this game, a bunch of numbers that make a game code. -
Quote:Not sure if you've seen the flood on new topics about GR issues, but i put 100 bucks on your post just will die a 'unread unreplied' death.Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
I put a new post in the Technical area yesterday about this too in an effort to try and get some sort of feedback from either the aptly named Black Pebble or one of the Community Mods (Mod12 seemed to be rampaging around yesterday when I posted it but I got nothing).
Hopefully someone will take a whip to the lice-picking monkeys who do the web development and get them to actually resolve the issue.
Although I wouldn't hold my breath.
IP / Region locking is the work of the devil and whatever genius at NCSoft decided to implement it should have unpleasant things done to them with a blunt spoon. -
Few remarks that i have experienced throughout my US/EU adventure:
All keys are region bound, i have used over 20 different keys to packs, upgrades, thingie and sortlike, all only useable to either US or EU (aka, region sensitive).
So this part:
[quote]Now, I remember what that support guy said to me about serials not being region sensitive[/]
is false, they are sensative.
I can use paypal on both my US and my EU account, this might be due my paypal account being international verified and yours maybe a US only? (few years ago they changed to region-locked accounts, only by filling in a bunch of forms you could make it international again).
I am uncertain if they digital boxes of Going Rogue only can be purchased within a active account (you can directly upgrade), or you get a seperate serial key wich you can give to others. As i'm not going to buy Going Rogue for now, i have no way to test this.
Your escape would be someone buying GR for you (digital), and pass you the key to upgrade your account. Provided you get a serial key, and not the 'select your account to upgrade'.
Edit, and another FACEPALM for EU support:
Please select the City of Heroes® account you would like to apply this upgrade to.
City of Heroes® (Europe) / City of Villains® (Europe)
Seems in no way you can obtain a 'normal serial key' from they NCstore, only can upgrade your existing accounts fromout the NCSoft account you are logged in. Are there any other stores outside the NCstore that sells the Going Rogue? If not, this would imply you cant even give Going Rogue as present to your friends? (my friend birthday in a month).
The only thing i can think of, creditcards has a limit on the Store to be used, i believe after 2 or 3 payements it will be auto-flagged as 'possible fraud'. -
Quote:Let me gues.. US player?Originally Posted by Xzero45
Someone's always gotta be a complainer.
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Quote:onRPG for Benelux.. was that serious the best they could do?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I dont get this 'twitter crap', F5'ing for finaly getting a key, to find out it was already taken. -
Quote:I had to pick this one, i send a support ticket earlier.. Lets bring in the truck of "YOU'RE WRONG!".Originally Posted by je_saist
I'm not saying you should let it go without a fight.
I'm TELLING you this isn't the place.
There isn't anything you can do on the forums to get the attention of the people who MATTER.
The EU players can whine, hiss, cry, roast effigies of the Developers, and so on... but as long as it's here on the CoH forums, nobody in NCSoft Corporate is going to notice.
I am TELLING the EU players WHERE to vent their fustrations. I'm telling them WHERE to send letters that will actually get the attention of the people that MATTER.
Let me quote (i only pick that part, rest is irrelivant).
So you tell me.. who is right? You or this kind person who replied my ticket?Quote:If you would like to share your ideas with them directly, we encourage you to
express them on the forums, where they can view your feedback first hand. You can
reach the message boards at http://boards.cityofheroes.com. I'm sorry if your
specific answers had not been addressed as of yet, but I still have to encourage you
to use them.
Now i hope my text wil be read by developers, it was a bit offensive but i think fair questions:
So everyone, make support tickets!Quote:I will forward the information you provided on to our Development
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Sidenote, for those (i wont mention the names from a PM) who say 'go buy the box in US', any idea how freaking expensive that will be? The box itself aint expensive, shipping and additional taxes (customs) easy makes the price of the box three or even four times more expensive.
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Oh well, what can i say? We're f00ked yet again, what else is new?
Would that be another reason why they are not going GamesCon?
Quite funny, if you look at registration date of majority of posters here, most veterans sticking in this game 4+ years already. Normaly those who would stick with CoH no mather what, and even they have a bad feeling about this stuff.
(And u can send a letter to NCKorea, but NC Korea has nothing to do with CoH, its a full NC US product) -
I dont really have big problems getting in a lowbie team on the US side, but on EU side i'm pretty often the only one around there (specialy redside).
But indeed, the sewers are pretty good for the teaming, imho a bad thing since you kill the entire low-lvl zone in the blue and redzones (even for future characters, if GR is easier/faster, u would rather make your toon there and eventualy move it to red/blue side - pretty sure about this as GR 'world' is way smaller then the whole content of 1-20 in CoH). -
I've been searching for a while now, but i cant find anything on the forums.
Is CoH not going Gamescon? (NCsoft itself will be there, but no team of CoH people around to promote GR and such)? -
Quote:But afaik, not limited to only 'GR toons'. So you could create a new one in Paragon/Rogue's and stick in the normal places.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
All 4 new power sets are only available if you own GR.
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Quote:So true, main reason i still log in my EU account once in a while, just to be sure they wont nick my toon names. (i got nearly 3 accounts full on Defiant). GR will smash down the playerbase ever further, as u cant team up the first bunch of lvls untill you actualy leave GR itself with those running around in Paragon/Rogue Islands.Originally Posted by Cambo
I have been toying with the idea of a NA account, but it's annoying to say goodbye to the alts I've built up over five plus years.
Until server transfer (EU --> NA) becomes an option I'll be making sure the swords base remains neat and tidy!
But i still have to get myself a demon summon MM and cant resist getting a kinetic and elec control toon, the only 'fast' way of getting a villain to heroes would be using GR, so im still in the 'yes no yes no yes no' zone. -
If only they would have taken it more serious, i wouldnt be waiting around for weeks now.
(And the so called 'NDA', they publicly announced all 60+ months vets will be invited, i never said i was actualy invited - thats the difference). -
The only safe zone you have, i believe Kinetic set is not GR exclusive so people would also start a new kinetic toon on the 'normal' CoH.
But indeed, the majority will go out and play GR, wich is quite time consuming if you want to follow the entire arch (and redo it several times due to several spin-offs based on your choices). -
Quote:On <im not gonna mention the website here>, on the forums someone posted alot of stuff about the beta.Originally Posted by Impish Kat
If you could cite your source, we might be able to help ya a little better...
The NDA is somewhat a joke, i cant acces support nor accountwebsite, but i cant ask anything here due to NDA. -
No, you are wrong. You should join a active SG, join the event channel, open your eyes because there are alot of players, make your own party...
Crap, i just blew my sarcasm generator.
In terms of party and creating one, this game has nothing good for it.
