Discussion: 75 Month Veteran Reward

This might be nice when I get it in 2011 but it's also the kind of thing that could be added to lower rewards along with a champions-style xp boost to level 20. Add a 5% increase to the 45 month for example.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Think of it as your job. When you are hired, initially, you aren't paid as well as others who have been there for a while longer than you. Then, as you work, you get paid better.

Why can't a game do the same with rewards?

A slight change to vet rewards could please more people. Let you PICK your reward from the list every 3 months. Those who have all the rewards this won't change what they have. Those starting now or behind can pick what fits their needs/wants without feeling the need to never "catch up". Sure most will pick all the cool stuff first then be left with just costum tokens but hey why not. With the new expansion hitting maybe more might like a free character slot over say Tech Armor. Maybe someone is a base builder and wants to pick all the base perks first. See every one would get what they wanted and no one would be left out.

MMOs are described as a second job by many players.

Pick and choose from various sources on benefits work. Airlines have benefits for those that fly more, and you pay them.

Sams club has special discounts to members with a membership fee.
Gas stations, using their credit cards gets you special discounts.

See, i can do the same.

Every single one of your examples are as well.

Fine.

Credit card companies can give special discounts to customers that have been with them for a long time.

Banks do the same.

Insurance companies do the same.

Excluding this game from all other MMOs is a poor excuse to dismiss my point.

Just because a game is unique does not mean it cannot be defined in the same criteria used in other games. Take Torchlight for example. Your character builds up exactly the same way as you do in CoH (just doesn't have the character designer). You get items (or enhancements) to make your toon more powerful. You can follow any line of story you want. Your character gains and grows abilities, but still uses their lower-level ones.

Weird I just described another game using CoH playstyle? But it's unique? Yes, in its own way, but can still be described in general context.

Torchlight feels like a job to me, just as CoH does, but one that I ENJOY.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are several games out there that allow you to customize your characters look right from the start as well.

If a single feature is strong enough to pull a customer from their current game for how it is, that feature has done its job. Do you honestly think a customer that comes from another game will give up the game because they have to play it to get a certain perk in addition to the feature?

How you play the game is how you play it, I might play it differently. My goal could be getting as many enhancements as i can. Or as much influence. I could not want to play the story-aspect of the game or care what my character looks like (Which I rarely do).

Better is opinion, and does not carry any weight in a debate or argument.

Comparison to other games is the best way to weigh how valuable something is. Without any perspective, there is no argument.

Then I should be able to do anything in the game without having to "earn" it. By earn i mean level. (I know that you have to learn to how play the game, but let's say you are a vet), You want a new character to play in a high level tf, you cannot, you are denied access to that particular part of the game because you haven't played long enough.

You can definitely get to play that particular part of the game, once you have played long enough.

I see the vet rewards the same way. I haven't played long enough to use it.

[bad analogy, but same basic line of logic]

A badge and 10% more prestige, for 75 months played. Worse vet reward than I thought it would be, and I was aiming low.

I know we won't ever get more vet reward costume pieces, or bonus powers like the Nemesis Staff, or nice stuff like that, because of all the complaining from the impatient, but we're down to rewards like 5% more from inspirations (virtually no gift at all), and 10% more prestige (when most of us 75ers have plenty of prestige by now, even for our personal bases).

I wonder what's next, 5% more travel speed? So 58 mph flying speed becomes 60 mph? I won't notice that either.

Vet rewards used to be visible indicators of veteran status. Now it's tiny stat modifiers. I suppose the 78 month vet reward will be 5% shorter log-off time.

Meh, Looks like just another *we don't want to offend the non-vets" Vet Reward again.

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