Anniversary Badges

Hi all,

I'm wondering as we celebrate CoH's 6 year anniversary if there was some way for characters to purchase the other anniversary badges, either through influence, merits, tickets, etc.

As a 5.5 - 6 year veteran with many chars made more recently, it would be REALLY NICE if the other anniversary badges could be made available to us! (fingers crossed)

I fully agree.
My newest character that I roll up tomorrow or the next day may not have been around during the last Anniversary, neither is that character a 6 Year veteran.
But they have the Vet badges because I, as a player, had an active account for that long.
I would certainly like it if my Anniversary badges were account-wide just like the Vet badges, since I definately logged in during every Anniversary, maintaining an active account at the time.

But you aren't asking for as much as I am. Just an option to earn these badges again.
I distinctly remember being able to purchase some badges (Longbow Reservist, Scrooge, etc.) for Candy Cane Salvage during the Winter Event, but a quick breeze through the Paragonwiki (Link in my sig) doesn't mention the Anniversary badges listed as those you can buy. (My memory is playing tricks on me or....?)

There's also the Payoff badge available for purchase for AE tickets, but is the only badge you can purchase this way. I mention this because either of these two options could be a reasonable route to getting these long ago badges

A purchaseable anniversary badge? No thanks. Kind of kills the point of an anniversary badge. It'd be rather like being able to pay to have your name added to the list of "People who have climbed Mt. Everest," f'rinstance.

However, I've somewhat come around to the "Make them global" camp. I *personally* still like them per-character, and before anyone mentions alts I've got over 160 of them. But I can see the argument about the account and person being active for the real-life event and how it makes sense for them to be global.

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Just a quick clarification (because it wasn't explicitly stated in the OP as far as I could see) - to be able to earn or purchase the anniversary badges, you would still have had an active account on that particular anniversary, right?

So to get the First Anniversary badge, you would have had an active account on or about April 28, 2005, right? Not an inactive or lapsed account, or one started in say, June 2005?

If that's where you are going with this, then I'm more with BBQ on the topic - just make the badge global and therefore credited automatically to any character on the account, no matter when created. No need to earn or purchase anything.

OTOH, if the badge is available whether or not you had an active account, just because you have taken some other action besides having an account on the anniversary, then, no thanks. They become no longer *Anniversary* badges at that point.

I'm still on the fence on this - but only in terms of "global versus individual". I'm against any purchase (ingame or out of game) for things like this that go for "I was here when".

I was here, so my vet badges are on all my characters. But... my character wasn't here for the anniversary ... which... yeah. I think I'm gonna start slipping over to the global-anniversary badges on this one, because by this time, some of my oldest toons aren't even really playable and I have SO FREAKING many of them.

I think it'd be nice if they were made global. Partially because the aspect of a badge that is gone for good is a bit discouraging when making a new badger character... and partially because I just don't see what connection it has to the character itself. Yes, it signifies that your character was logged in when the game was celebrating it's xth anniversary... but that's really an out-of-game thing, isn't it? I don't think it says much about the character at all.


I'm completely against it being purchasable, though. You should at least have to have unlocked the badge in the first place to have it...

For 3 years I played the same 2-3 toons... they have all the anniversary badges. More recently I have developed a severe case of altitis .. and sadly they will never get the 1,2,3,4, and 5 year badges

I would love if anniversary badges were globally linked.

I will never support a "purchase" of anniversary badges. Either via in-game or out-of-game means.

I will ALWAYS support "global" anniversary badges. It's a real-life event (the game lore doesn't care about its launch date), so it should be awarded to the PLAYER (e.g. global), not the character.

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Global yes, purchase no.

Yes for Global. No for purchase.

*sigh* I swore I logged my Fire/Fire tanker in for year 4 or 5 anniversary badge, as she was my only one left with the year one anniversary badge (altitis and alot of deletions), only to find out later, I never did. :/

Now, I haven't even bothered to try to keep her up to date on badges, as I missed one on her.

It was also thought at one time that we would never get to change the colors on our powers too. Granted it was for a different reason but still, just because the devs have not done something yet does not mean they will never do it.

I guess Im one of the few that would not mind being able to earn them through some sort of mission or arc that sends you back in time 1, 2, 3 years ect. Just as long as that mission or arc is only playable during May. We can still earn previous year badges for the winter event so I am not sure what the fuss is about.

I would like these to be global badges for sure. My badger was created about 1 month after the Celebrant badge was closed, and because of that there are 2 badges I cannot get. The other, of course, is the gladiator badge for the 5th Column soldier you get when you have the 1-year and 2-year anniversary badges.

Hell, I'd even be happy to pay for it for that one character, since my account was active almost a year before the 1st anniversary. I would only support purchases for accounts that were active at the appropriate time.