Discussion: Double XP Weekend and Account Reactivation

Alright, just came back to see what this is all about... now this is cool and everything who are still attached to this game. Looking at it from a realistic standpoint this is just an attempt to get subs back to this game from new MMO's that were released. You can nerdrage this all you would like, but the sad truth of the matter is... is that its a terrible attempt to get their lost subs back. The extension was due to the quota they failed to reach in # of people. So don't think they did this for anyone here.

Hmmph, i logged in Thursday night, friday during the day, saturday night, and earlier this morning, and all servers were green, and I stood around looking for a team for at least 20-30 minutes a pop, and the servers seemed bone dry.

Just seemed odd, its too bad, this was one of my favorite games for a long time, its sad to see the lack of support to be so harsh.

I'm disappointed in what I saw and heard over Double XP weekend.

First, seeing virtually all of the servers green except for Freedom which was yellow -- regardless of when I logged on -- was disturbing. In the past, I was always locked out of Freedom on these weekends. That's one of the reasons I started developing toons on other servers. Does this mean that CO is really hurting our subscriber base? What the heck is going on?

Second, my brutes with Invincibility - the toons I most enjoy leveling during these events -- were unplayable. The last patch "broke" Invincibility so that it played this really ANNOYING mechanical sound every time it came into contact with a mob. The only workarounds were turning off your sound or turning off FX in-game, which stripped them all away. I understand this is fixed on Test, but if you're trying to lure back subscribers, drowning out their favorite toons with SFX-gone-wild ain't the way to do it.

Third, no 2x in AE. Now I get that this was normal - and that in the past, getting double exp. in AE was the mistake -- but now that some time has passed since the dev's "fixed" AE, I fear (DOOOMMMMM!) that "ending farming" with lost experience and super-sidekicking is backfiring on CoX. Places that used to be hopping are now deserted. (this didn't bother me before ... but did when I saw how empty the servers were on 2X weekend.)

On a good note, I'm glad they extended the weekend over until Monday so that people who normally don't get to take advantage of 2x experience can.

Ok I do believe the servers (Freedom and Virtue) had their capacity increased over a year ago. Keeping that in mind, the amount of players is much lower now than compared to a August. Also, the last 2XP weekend as well as this one have not been busy when comparing them to the previous 2XP weekends.

It would be nice to see the servers hit medium and heavy loads but they are not. People have left the game and may/may not return. Nobody can say. I think people should face facts - the game's player base is declining. Hopefully this turns around.

It is unfortunate. This game can compete with a lot of MMOs including the new ones but too many weak updates. This game has stagnated but I hope GR changes that.

Kind of sucks when the feature that makes the game fresh and new all the time didn't work for double experience. If they really cared and didn't just disable double exp in the MA< they'd have a MA D-E only weekend. Far too convenient. I didn't see anyone on. No one is ever in Cimerora ever. I log in every night, no way to even get those costume pieces on one character, and I have 7 I want it on. Oh well.

I have been away for about nine months, and this 2xp weekend really seemed like a regular weekend on Freedom about a year ago. When it is (relatively) tough to get a sewer team together on 2xp weekend due to inactivity in AP, then the game has changed dramatically over time. Sure, PI had 3 instances, but that used to be the case on a fairly regular basis. It just seems like there is no new blood in the game, and without that new blood/interest this game will simply wither and die. I know I got bored and quit playing after about 45 minutes. I don't know what they did to the whole sidekick mechanics, but I really don't like it now. It was sad for me because I used to really like to play this game (far too much).

Have fun doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Fat E

Seems like there's a lot of complaining over this dbl xp weekend. Wait, isn't there always? You can't keep everyone happy. My views on what i've seen posted here.

1. MA isn't giving dbl xp. For all you crying that this was done deliberate, why don't you stop and think for a minute. MA has gone through A LOT of updating recently. Maybe, just maybe, because of those updates, it changed something in there that made it hard to have the dbl xp going in it. The devs say it's a bug, I believe them. Why do I believe them, you ask? Because, they have CHANGED a lot of the issues that were taken advantage of during the last dbl xp weekend, so it's not like you were going to be able to take advantage of it this time anyway. So stop crying.

2. Servers: For those crying about the servers not going above green. Like some others have already said, the servers have been upgraded, so you won't see servers in the red anymore. Now I played quite a bit over this weekend, during all different hours of the day, and noticed on several occasions that both Freedom and Virtue were in the yellow. So don't know how you can say that none of the servers were ever in the yellow or hardly in the yellow.

3. This kind of goes along with the servers. Finding people to play with. The only time I had a real problem getting a team was Sunday morning. You know, when a lot of people go to church, etc. etc. I had no problems whatsoever getting teams at any other time during the weekend.

4. Problems with the game, ie: rubberbanding, lag, etc: Honestly, I didn't see any of these issues. My game ran perfectly the entire weekend, and none of my friends, or anyone else I teamed with complained of any problems. For those that did have problems, I might suggest you look to your own computer first as a possible solution, graphics cards up to date, etc. etc.

All in all, it was a completely enjoyable weekend for me. I teamed up with a lot of people,ran all kinds of different missions and tf's, leveled up a lot of my toons, and had a lot of fun. Thanks to the Devs for giving us the weekend, and especially extending it to monday.

Have a nice day all!

Hmmmm....I had a little lag, but not enough to complain about it.

I hit that patch in Steel Canyon a couple times, the one where where my screen totally freezes and it looks like I have a picture on my toon flying flying through the air on my monitor instead of a 3D environment...not sure where it is exactly. I am always too busy cussin' and doing the ALT-TAB-DELETE thing which is the only way to get out, to take a coordinate reading, but I do know it is pretty close to the Yellow Line.

I solo, and have "No Teaming" on my Team locater message thingy, and I was still being asked to team all weekend on Victory so teams were indeed out there.

I too was sad about the MA being down, but hey, I took my new toons through the Hollows arcs, the Midnighter's Club missions, they did all the Faultline stuff, and also did the Skyway City safeguard which got them the Rez Temp Power.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

FTW!

Lisa.

When I said checking Coordinates, I cannot do it the official way /loc as nothing works, but I could look about my screen and jot down notes as to my location...which I think of as coordinates, but, the only thing on my mind is restarting the game.

Game's dying. I heard my neighbours daughters boyfriends secret lover had lag so the servers are clearly dying aswell.

Obviously...

I had one odd problem all weekend -- if I had been on a mission, then ran into Wentworths and clicked on a representative, then my game would crash. After verifying and reloading, everything seemed to work fine.