Discussion: The 12 days of Coralax!

A little understanding goes a long way. This is not, 'we want to give out these codes, and cannot find a better way'. This is 'we want more traffic, and we have these codes'. So they get people to subscribe to a twitter feed, or like a facebook page, or refresh the forums... all of which increases their stature.

This was not about giving you a code. So don't complain that it's a poor way to gift. It was about bringing all the players to the yard. So appreciate that it's a great way to do that. Work with it, or don't.

+1 to codes pack
+1 to random game logon 'door prize'

And how smart would it be to do both?

I think it's bad design.

If the intent is code giveaways for the broad range of serious CoX fan.

I love this costume and want it for both my accounts. Sadly, that's realistically not gonna happen unless you offer them for sale at the NCSoft store (or come teach my classes so I can sit idly by my computer for the next twelve days for the slim chance of getting one, let alone two).

Congrats, because it's been a while since the CoH team has actually made me angry at them and this game.

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Now if only we could get into the account section of the NCSoft site.

How about set random doors in the cities to reward the code to the first account to click it. Kinda like trick or treating. At least rewards you for being in game.

Again one of these "giveaways"? Please stop doing this sort of stuff this way. I also would be willing to pay for these codes.

Yeah happy xmas to the lucky few who manage to snaffle one of these, but really as promotions go it's very weak and both exclusive and elitist.

How about a competition where every member of the community can have a chance of winning?

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

Anyone know how long the "scheduled maintenance" usually lasts on the NCSoft site?

i wish i did..... i got a code to enter in!

Gah, a new costume that I have no way to trade for? Nooooooo!!!!

I guess there would be legal problems associated with giving them away as part of the Real World Hero charity drive initiative?

While the gold titles are nice, and much appreciated, can you imagine how much more money they would raise if every contributor also received a Coralax Code (limit one per account) for donating a minimum of say $5 or $10?

I sat refreshing the twitter page and the forums.

I managed to catch the twitter post within one minute of posting.

All of the codes are already claimed.

Within one minute.

Congratulations to the winners!

I will never win this kind of contest.

Just got my Coralax code.

I've replied back to the CoH_OCR twitter account several times that I would happily pay $9.99 for say my pick of 3 or 4 of the costume codes.

I've been lucky twice and nabbed the Party Pack and now the Coralax Code. I'd rather be able to buy the right costume for my Carnival Mistress and former Freakshow.

Many people seem to think others are complaining because they can't win.

It's not that. Really. At least not to me. I don't care if I don't win or if I do.

What I -am- saying is that the method in which these contests are executed in are incredibly absurd.

They could host an in-game event. They could have some sort of a trivia contest on the forums or twitter or whatever.

If they told me "Sit here and refresh this page for 10 minutes, and we'll post 20 codes at random time intervals within that 10 minutes!"...I'd even be okay with that.

But they want me to sit around for TWELVE DAYS during my last year's exam period, constantly refreshing some websites in a hope that I get one of these codes? And then I'd have to rush through to the NCSoft account, and depending on the billion factors that would affect the speed of that transaction, I may or may not succeed?! I'm laughing as I'm writing this! That's how ridiculous these contests are.

I seriously have better things to do! xD

And to those people who say "They're doing this to bring people together to Twitter and Facebook and other communities!" (I personally refuse to go anywhere near Facebook or Twitter after I closed and deleted both my accounts. xD)...they could do tons of things to do that that doesn't involve some silly contest mechanism like this.

Sorry to be the voice of discord and disagreement here, but I just got 2 codes, one for myself and one for my wife.....and according to Twitter the post had been up for 7 minutes!

It is possible to get these things, but I know how fast you have to be sometimes, it's driven me to frothing mouth in the past, but this time, I guess people just weren't trying hard enough!

I think (as others mentioned) it's more akin to radio show contests where they say the 93rd caller will win something. Who knows if they actually reward the 93rd caller or the 193rd? But they can keep track of how many calls come in, and show those numbers to advertisers, and say "See how many people pay attention to our show?"

Though I agree that there are a dozen other ways at least to host this kind of contest in a manner that is more obtainable. Then again, the codes do get claimed so the number of people whom they want to win, are winning.

I would love a coralax costume code.. I'll just have to hope I can get ahold of one some other way, some day.

That sucks that it was only on Twitter.