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Discussion: City of Heroes 6 Year Anniversary Celebration!

2short2care

By 2short2care,
Posted on: 2010-04-21 17:37 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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It's that time of year again...for heroes and villains to reflect and rejoice!

We're turning six years old and want you to help us celebrate.

With Issue 17 on the way and Going Rogue™ just around the corner, the phrase: You're not getting older, you're just getting better has never been so true.
So many of you have been with us from the very beginning, and while we could never do enough to truly show you our gratitude and appreciation, we do have some fun activities planned to help us ring in our anniversary with style!

Please join us for a month of celebration starting on our birthday, April 28th and continuing on throughout the month of May.

Read on and plan accordingly so you don't miss any of the fun!

Issue 17: Dark Mirror
We'll start with the biggest news first. In honor of our Six Year Anniversary we are proud to announce that Issue 17: Dark Mirror will officially release on our birthday, April 28th!
The amazing visuals made possible by Ultra Mode plus new story arcs, player emotes, numerous Mission Architect additions, the introduction of animated tails and much more will hit the live servers for your enjoyment next Wednesday.

As part of this release you will be receiving:
  • 1 Free Respec (so use up your current one if you still have it to make room for this one!)
  • 1 Costume Token per unlocked costume slot.
So on anniversary day, see City of Heroes® in a whole new light (literally) and help us celebrate by playing and enjoying this latest free content update!

In-Game Events
Gameplay Fun!
You may have noticed that things tend to get a little... "out of hand" in-game on our anniversaries. Well, this year will be no exception! On Monday, April 26th and Tuesday, April 27th, get ready for chaos to break loose on a server near you! Don't miss out on this opportunity to band together with your fellow players to defeat giant obstacles, earn merits, badges, XP and maybe even pick up a 30 day anniversary title!
*Click here for the list of days, servers and times!

In-Game Training Room Meet and Greet with the Devs!
The developers want to wish you happy anniversary personally on Wednesday the 28th, so please join us at the following times in Pocket D on the North American and European Training Rooms:

*EU Training Room - 9am - 1pm PST, Wednesday, April 28th*NA Training Room - 3pm - 7pm PST, Wednesday, April 28th
  • 3-4pm PST(6-7pm EST) - Melissa "War Witch" Bianco, Sean "Dr. Aeon" McCann
  • 4pm- 6pm PST (6-8pm EST) - Matt "Positron" Miller
  • 4pm-5pm PST (7-8pm EST) - Jesse "Ghost Falcon" Caceres
  • 5pm-6pm PST (8-9pm EST) - Floyd "Castle" Grub
  • 6pm-7pm PST (9-10pm EST) - Chris "Back Alley Brawler" Bruce, Matt "The Television" Stults
*In some cases (and depending on availability), certain Devs may stay beyond their scheduled 'appearance' times.

If you don't currently have a copy of your character on The Training Room, make sure to transfer him/her there so that you can pay the Devs a visit! Go here to transfer your character now.

*Please note: Due to the content release on this day, if any problems with Issue 17 arise that require Dev attention, we reserve the right to reschedule the North American Training Room In-game "Meet and Greet" Event to another day/time.


Global Anniversary Address From War Witch
This year, the baton has been passed to War Witch who will present the 6 Year Anniversary Address to players. At approximately 8pm EST in-game (and shortly thereafter on the website), she will share some words of wisdom that will no doubt reflect on the past and help us all look forward to the future!

Declare Your Loyalty Anniversary Contest!
Leave your mark on Praetoria forever! Be watching the website within the next week for the debut of our "Declare Your Loyalty" Anniversary Contest which will allow Loyalists to create a piece of propaganda for a billboard in Praetoria and Resistance supporters to create a piece of graffiti that will appear around the city. The best thing about this contest? Winning entries in both categories will all be considered for inclusion in the game! There will be other great prizes too, of course!

Specifics are coming soon, but you only have three weeks to enter, start thinking creatively now about the piece of propaganda or graffiti that you want to submit. With any luck it will become a part of City of Heroes® for the rest of time!

Player Run Activities/Events
We're pleased to share that our players are getting involved by throwing their own anniversary-related activities and events. Keep an eye on the website and message board for what the "Off The Cape" Podcast and thecaperadio.com are up to for our six year anniversary. If you're planning on doing something for your fellow heroes/villains to mark the occasion, let us know! Send an email to cohcommunity@ncsoft.com and we'll help you promote it!

6 Year Anniversary Badge
Another year means another commemorative badge!

Beginning at 11am EST on Saturday, May 1st, 2010 and continuing until 11:59pm EST on Monday, May 31st, we will be issuing each individual character you log into the game with, the following 6 Year Anniversary badge:


Just a reminder - this badge will be awarded per character, not per account, so be sure to log those characters into the game starting next Saturday, May 1st, if you want them to get the anniversary badge!


It all starts this coming Monday the 26th and we hope you'll join us celebrate the fact that we're six years and going strong!

Thanks for helping us make City of Heroes® the longest-running and most popular comic book-inspired MMO in existence.

Happy Anniversary!

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Looking forward to it.

 

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I'm game... and yep, I'll have something to show for the anniversary.

BTW, Avatea, the link to whatever the server stuff is? It doesn't work - gives a "you are not authorized to view this page" error.

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*Click here for the list of days, servers and times!
Link leads to "you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:" =(
Otherwise looks like good news!

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Same here, can't access that link.

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Everything sounds great. Love that the Devs have a relatively set schedule for the Pocket D visit. It always seemed so chaotic before.

The in-game chaos was pretty fun last time. Looking forward to that as well.


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just because I like to be involved, and it feels like a party in here, I can't access the link either! Shame I'm working for the meet and greet's but that's always been the case.

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Put me down on the "not kewl enough to access the link" list.

This looks really awesome, I can't wait to maybe earn a few badges on the lead up to the big day and I'm very, very excited for Issue 17!

 

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I really do understand that the 6th anniversary is a really tempting target for an issue release, but when you set a fixed release date, you should make sure that the issue is actually *ready* for release by then (ideally, aim to be ready a good time before the date to give some leeway in case of unexpected events). i17 may very well end up being ready by next week, but you're cutting it pretty close.

Other than that...

Happy Anniversary, and I hope you'll be around for a long time to come!

 

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I assume that this anniversary will be similar to last time where every zone will have GMs and RV heroes/villains to defeat and hopefully other interesting stuff like a grudge match between Abyss Hamidon and Hive Hamidon.

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Here's hoping we get the Praetorian AV's attacking the zones like the normal Heroes and AVs' did last year. Fun fun fun. BAB's had a horrible tendency to spawn multiple GW's though :P

 

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... Issue 17: Dark Mirror will officially release on our birthday, April 28th! ...
Given that both of the last two patches to go to test server has each broken the Ember Demon's Ember Shield power in yet more annoying and painful-to-play ways, this announcement gives me the fear. If you're going to make that deadline, internal QA really needs to stop dropping the ball.

And yeah, I'm pretty sure you typo'ed the link to the list of server-specific events. Not one of the company's better days.

 

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Woot, Woot! 6 years!

Looking forward to next week!

 

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Link leads to "you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:" =(
Otherwise looks like good news!
Ditto here.

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6 Year Anniversary Badge
Just a reminder - this badge will be awarded per character, not per account, so be sure to log those characters
Haven't you gotten enough complaints for this over the last 5 years to know this is a BAD IDEA? Seriously?

One of the comments made by Positron before the official lead change was that you (Paragon Studios) were looking into awarding the anniversary badges on a global basis to eliminate the need for players to log onto each and every alt they have in order to get the anniversary badges. You have the tech to award badges globally now thanks in part to the Architect. So it isn't even a tech issue.



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Haven't you gotten enough complaints for this over the last 6 years to know this is a BAD IDEA? Seriously?

One of the comments made by Positron before the official lead change was that you (Paragon Studios) were looking into awarding the anniversary badges on a global basis to eliminate the need for players to log onto each and every alt they have in order to get the anniversary badges. You have the tech to award badges globally now thanks in part to the Architect. So it isn't even a tech issue.
agreed with that

 

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I remember how much fun last year's event (my first) was and I can't wait to do it agin. I just hope it doesn't take forever to get a golden title like last time.

 

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Oh, yeah. Definitely need to make those Anniversary Badges account-wide. Otherwise, looking forward to the good fun.

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Haven't you gotten enough complaints for this over the last 6 years to know this is a BAD IDEA? Seriously?

One of the comments made by Positron before the official lead change was that you (Paragon Studios) were looking into awarding the anniversary badges on a global basis to eliminate the need for players to log onto each and every alt they have in order to get the anniversary badges. You have the tech to award badges globally now thanks in part to the Architect. So it isn't even a tech issue.
This is why I have one, and exactly one, badge toon. If I allowed myself even "a hero and a villain" I would end up driving myself insane!

 

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Does anyone know the name of the 6 year Anniversary Badge?

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Since it was brought up, Irish has to agree with making the Anniversary badges global.
Preferably retroactively awarding ones that we have on one toon, to all of them.