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You will never get an official response here. This is the Players asking players section of the forum.
If you want an "official" response you need to direct your question to customer support. You can do that by clicking on the support button on your CoH updater. Then follow the instruction there to get an "official" answer to your question.
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As I said in my post earlier:
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I have sent PMs regarding use of NCcoin on CoX but have gotten no response.
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So to make it sound as if I am asking the question on this forum for the first time is not accurate.
I have sent PMs to Devs and Community folks and have recieved no official response.
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In your earlier post you said that. The post you were quoted from, however, does make it sound like you were posting here wanting an official answer.
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I have sent PMs regarding use of NCcoin on CoX but have gotten no response.
I would love it if NCCoin were usable for monthly subs as well as the Boosters. My family is always trying to figure out what to get me for holidays, and a couple of NCcoin cards would be great if they applied to this game.
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You obviously don't understand the purpose of NCcoin. Exteel is a free game. There is no monthly subscription. NCcoins are used to buy in game items to trick out a players Mechanaught.
If your family wants to get you something, they can buy you a 30 or 60 day PlayNC time card, or even a $20 CoH game card which comes with the nifty Jetpack.
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Not sure the reason for the "snark". I thought the OP made a reasonable point.
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I wasn't addressing the OP. If you bothered to look at who I quoted to see who I was responding to you would have seen that.
Furthermore the OP never made a suggestion, nor did he say anything about sending PM's to the powers that be.
This is what the OP actually asked:
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See the EULA for a discussion of NCCoin--but what IS it? How do we get it?
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His two questions were asked and answered in the first three posts. The OP has yet to post a second time in this thread.
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I just don't see them switching this game over to it any time in the near future.
Now if this plan is a resounding success for DR, and I mean more than just covering their expenses, then they might think of expanding it to other games like this one.
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Again, its not "switching to" but "adding to." They could do it regardless of DR's success or failure. Exteel seems successful enough, but, again, Lineage II, Guild Wars and City of Heroes all have microtransactional services available, plus its not unreasonable to assume Aion will have things to offer in time.
* COH has 5 booster packs, the jetpack, server transfers, renames, character slots and AE slots that are buyable.
* Guild Wars has buyable character slots, their Bonus Mission pack, 2008 Upgrade thingie, Game of the Year upgrade, skill unlocks, weapon unlocks, additional storage, makeover, gender change, pet unlocks, and renames.
* Lineage II offers a gender change option. Their subclass change and server change options are a whopping $50, so those are hardly micros, but still, accepting multiple timecards/NCCoin cards would work.
And, like I said, adding it to the available options, bringing NCCoins into players hands could actually be helpful for Dungeon Runners and Exteel. If you buy $15 worth of NCCoins, spend $10 on X from another game, you have a $5 balance that will either sit unused or can be spent on something else or somewhere else.
But, and again, the biggest thing is it gives friends and families of players a convenient way to feed our gaming hobby. Regardless of the game it directly benefits, that is worth NCSoft's time. There are players who use timecards because they don't use credit/debit cards (for whatever reason), don't want to use one of those pre-paid debit cards (and their outrageous fees), etc., who wold love to buy things for their game of choice but haven't because they can't pay for it, so they would certainly benefit too.
Or, basically: compare it to Apple and iTunes. You can use a credit or debit card online, sure, but you can also buy cards in the store. Same with Microsoft and their Live points; buy online or in stores.
NCSoft already has Timecards and NCCoin cards available. All this is doing is making them more versatile for players. In turn this might make them more attractive for retailers, also (since they make money off those things too). And it would certainly make the cost they spent setting up the whole system more sensible than only support one game (Exteel), maybe two (Dungeon Runners).
edit: While I'm thinking about it, I can't remember the last time I saw an in-game ad in COH. They could really use that advertising system to promote DR and Exteel. Or advertise COH and other games in Exteel. Last ad I remember was for TR 
At the time of it's introduction, NCSoft was telling investors about a whole suite of microtransaction based games "coming soon™". So far only Exteel has appeared, at least in NA/Europe.
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So I decided to just Necro this super old thread since I think this question is going to come up with I20 every now and then. I logged into the Beta server and saw the new EULA placement. With I20 the EULA is now right after you log into the game and the word NCCOIN is pretty porminate whereas on the cohupdater you had to scroll down (like actually read the EULA) to see anything about NCCOIN.
It had been so long since I'd heard of NCCOIN I had to google it and just figured I'd give the Player Question forum a heads up.
*The background looks like that becuase I swapped out the normal login picture on test installs. Nothing sucks more then getting all the way to server selection and realizing you launched the wrong game.
Please create a new thread if you feel there's anything you need to add to the discussion about NCCoin.
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You will never get an official response here. This is the Players asking players section of the forum.
If you want an "official" response you need to direct your question to customer support. You can do that by clicking on the support button on your CoH updater. Then follow the instruction there to get an "official" answer to your question.
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As I said in my post earlier:
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I have sent PMs regarding use of NCcoin on CoX but have gotten no response.
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So to make it sound as if I am asking the question on this forum for the first time is not accurate.
I have sent PMs to Devs and Community folks and have recieved no official response.