Discussion: Freedom Fridays on Facebook!
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Posted on: 2011-06-23 18:09 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
The Facebook Q and A was meh for me. The devs seemed to answer the same questions over and over and just ignored or didn't want to answer the other ones. Maybe for the next one they should state what topic of questions they are willing to discuss vs. wasting the time of people coming on and asking questions and getting no response.
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That's good, yes, but it still doesn't trump all the people asking how much more VIP is going to cost.
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Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
Eh not bad questions though none are pressing and are things that are likely to be answered between now and COH:F's launch.
Unfortunately some have errors of logic in them such as asking what happens if you go from premium to free. Since you can't go from premium to free the question doesn't make any sense. |
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And they answered that question like 4 times too |
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
That's good, yes, but it still doesn't trump all the people asking how much more VIP is going to cost.
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Yes, BUT WHAT IS THE COST!?!? |
Originally Posted by Gothenem
And they answered that question like 4 times too
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I'm curious if Lifetime accounts will become an option and if discounts will appear based on earned veteran time?
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The cost of a VIP account |
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Yes, BUT WHAT IS THE COST!?!?
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You have a lifetime account now, you don't even have to pay for it
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Originally Posted by Gypsy_of_Paradox
I'm curious if Lifetime accounts will become an option and if discounts will appear based on earned veteran time?
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This is just me taking a wild guess but I doubt discounts to the subscription are going to come with the launch of Issue 21 or anytime after. To me, it would involve tinkering around with the billing system and I don't think the devs really want to mess around with that.
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Originally Posted by Gypsy_of_Paradox
...if discounts will appear based on earned veteran time?
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Are the questions meant to be only related to CoH: Freedom, or are I21 questions allowed too?
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Gothenem, I can answer two of your questions:
1) Assuming you have only one year of veteran rewards, then you will lose access to your Mastermind characters if you drop from VIP (aka. subscription) to Premium. If you've somehow accumulated three years of veteran rewards, you won't. Note that as a Premium subscriper, you can still pay to unlock the Mastermind archetype. (This is based on an official post by Positron)
2) I assume that if you drop from VIP to Premium, your locked characters will remain part of their supergroups. This is based on what happens right now if you let your subscription lapse.
Right now I don't see that "Freedom Friday" was a very big success. This is for a couple of reasons:
1) Out of the 100s of questions asked, only a handful were answered or even acknowledged.
2) The questions that were answered have been answered before (forums, uStream, news articles), and were even in some cases aswered more than once in the FB thread.
3) Yes there were a lot of posts in the thread, but people new to the thread were asking quesitons already asked multiple times (must not have wanted to read through the thread).
4) There was more help from other players answering questions then the Mods.
Possible changes that may make it better in the future:
1) Acknowledge all unique questions. I know there are lot and you cannot comment on all of them, but the vast majority of them appear to just be ignored. Maybe even compile a forums post that answers them. There are some really good questions there that deserve an answer even if it is the trademark "we can't comment on that right now" answer.
2) In the opening post, refer people to the FAQ post for Freedom and the new one from Positron regarding character slots. I can't count the number of times that one was asked. Let's let people know what has been answered and remind them to please refrain from asking about it again.
3) Answer more then just five or six questions. This was billed as an interactive Q7A. It didn't feel that way.
I think it was a good idea, but right now it just isn't working.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Are the questions meant to be only related to CoH: Freedom, or are I21 questions allowed too?
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Since it's being called Freedom Fridays I guess it's questions about CoH: Freedom, but doens't Issue 21 tie-in to the launch of CoH: Freedom. So I don't see questions about Issue 21 being out of place, but that's just me.
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To throw in my suggestion. If you're only going to be fielding questions then let the people know up front. Let them know that you'll only be handling questions about account changes for this sessions, the next session about the VIP rewards program, and so on versus just saying we'll be taking all questions and then picking which ones we are authorized to answer at the time.
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Originally Posted by enderbean
Possible changes that may make it better in the future:
1) Acknowledge all unique questions. I know there are lot and you cannot comment on all of them, but the vast majority of them appear to just be ignored. Maybe even compile a forums post that answers them. There are some really good questions there that deserve an answer even if it is the trademark "we can't comment on that right now" answer. 2) In the opening post, refer people to the FAQ post for Freedom and the new one from Positron regarding character slots. I can't count the number of times that one was asked. Let's let people know what has been answered and remind them to please refrain from asking about it again. 3) Answer more then just five or six questions. This was billed as an interactive Q7A. It didn't feel that way. I think it was a good idea, but right now it just isn't working. |
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One further suggestion: Start the thread by including the questions you answered in the previous round. Or at the very least, create a second thread that JUST has the questions and answers from the previous round, so people can refer to that thread when the same questions inevitably get asked 23 more times.
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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My friend and I would love to ask some questions for some ex SG mates but we been shadow banned from posting on the CoH facebook page. So much for taking part.
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Why?
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Originally Posted by fallenz
we been shadow banned from posting on the CoH facebook page.
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We were not cheering on the grind fest of the Itrials and the fact that most players were not asking for another Itrial but for more story arcs and taskforces for access for A and E merits and threads. Alot folks who voiced what we voiced found ourselves shadowbanned.
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What's are the questions? Maybe some of us that have facebook access can ask for you.
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Originally Posted by fallenz
My friend and I would love to ask some questions for some ex SG mates but we been shadow banned from posting on the CoH facebook page. So much for taking part.
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How were you voicing it though? Polite or aggressive? |
Originally Posted by fallenz
We were not cheering on the grind fest of the Itrials and the fact that most players were not asking for another Itrial but for more story arcs and taskforces for access for A and E merits and threads. Alot folks who voiced what we voiced found ourselves shadowbanned.
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Originally Posted by fallenz
Alot folks who voiced what we voiced found ourselves shadowbanned.
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What does "shadowbanned" mean?
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I can be polite? WTH! Why didnt you tell me that before? LOL
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
How were you voicing it though? Polite or aggressive?
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I was a "little" passive aggresvie in my respose to 2nd Measure proud statement we want more Itrails. And another SG mate is posting questions right now so all is good.
edit: I'm loving this Chad guy on the Facebook comments. He doing a good job answering questions. Hey Mods, hire this guy.
So, did this session go any better? Did we get any new information?
I havn't seen anything new that wasn't already talked about here, so I guss it was mainly for publicity/advertising, not that there's anything wrong with that, but I was hoping for some new information.
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