Discussion: City of Heroes Facebook Facepalm Promotion
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Posted on: 2011-07-21 13:56 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Despite being banned from the Facebook group over complete garbage (I said that I thought there were better artists on the site to feature than Golden Girl), I was able to snag a code for myself and my wife using her facebook account.
Thumbs up!
"I saw my advantage and took it. That's what heroes do." - Homer Simpson.
Bam! Got one! Alpha finally has the most fitting of emotes 
So, how do you use them? /e facepalm and /e doublefacepalm? (Seen two variants in screenshots now, and not got the game on my laptop to test )
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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They are in the emotes menu, but doublefacepalm doesn't work.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Bam! Got one! Alpha finally has the most fitting of emotes
So, how do you use them? /e facepalm and /e doublefacepalm? (Seen two variants in screenshots now, and not got the game on my laptop to test ) |
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Originally Posted by Rabid_M
Personally, I don't mind that it's being given out this way. I just want to know that I can get it later without doing something that I'm morally opposed to. (And yes, I know this is an odd thing to get morally stuck on, but stuck on it I am.)
Given that I work 12 hour work days, I'm not fond of contests to get things because I'm often WAY too late to get a shot at them. Again, I don't mind there being contests that give them out first, just so long as I can get them later. |
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
Hopefully these will be offered again after this weekend. I'm at SDCC (sitting in the CoH panel now), and FB won't let me log into my account from my smartphone.
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3. DURATION The contest period begins at 9:00 AM (CST) on Thursday, July 21, 2011 and ends at 11:59 PM (CST) on Monday, August 29, 2011 (the "Promotion Period"). 4. SELECTION OF WINNING ENTRIES All eligible entrants will receive one code for an in-game facepalm emote until the earlier of (i) supplies run out, or (ii) the end of the Promotion Period. Winners will be notified via e-mail and announced on the [Game] web site on or about [Monday, November 7th, 2011]. |
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
They are in the emotes menu, but doublefacepalm doesn't work.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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I do not, nor will I ever use Face-Twit-Space-Linked-Ning, or anything like them.
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Hmm, I've looked all throughout the quickchat menu and haven't seen them (I have gotten ;facepalm to work, but yeah, doublefacepalm doesn't, nor any variant I have tried thus far).|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
They are in the emotes menu, but doublefacepalm doesn't work.
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You say they're in the menu? Where?? Me no see!!
Thanks!
@Zethustra
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Only just saw this, went to do the code and still works 
I got a facepalm emote yay! 
Edit: Both the NA and EU ones were still available but only used the EU
@Damz Find me on the global channel Union Chat. One of the best "chat channels" ingame!
I am right now in the FB/Promotions webpage, seeing a pic of Maelstrom with a thumb up and a "Loading Code" blue square in the middle... I am not using "Secure Browsing". Codes finished or just me being impatient?
EDIT: found the culprit. My FB account is set up in Catalan. I switched to English-UK (bottom-left) and got a functional code... happy panda!
@Arda
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I just want to go on record as saying that the idea of locking such a ubiquitous emote behind a serial code is just.... Well,
Hello, my name is @Caligdoiel and I'm an altoholic.
Love it!
This is the first one of the contest type thingys that you guys run that I was actually able to get something from.
Cool!
Time to macro it
"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho
It's hardly a "contest". The first batch of 5,000 went up yesterday and there's talk of 20,000 total, which should cover just about everyone who actively plays I suspect. The goal is to promote CoH's profile on facebook, nothing more.
@Texarkana
@Thexder
Woot! got mine 15 minutes ago and applied it successfully!
now Im off to disable my facebook account again
And my only comment to this is: why do you keep pushing stuff like this via Facebook and/or Twitter when there are people that refuse to use them for justifiable reasons?
You have a perfectly good forum, and in game events where these could have been handed out.
EDIT - Thanks to all who gave the idea of creating a fake account in the name of one of my toons (and a fake email account too). I know have a code. And I feel less dirty than I end up feeling at the end of a Friday night.
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I got my facepalm emote yesterday, there is a double facepalm emote too, I didn't even see that, cool.
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
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The goal is to promote CoH externally. The forums are for those "in-the-know". By essentially pulling the forumites out into a social media tool like facebook, it raises awareness of CoH to the extended network of the forumites and, furthermore, all of those "likes" will eventually push to be a suggestion/recommendation to those outside of the forumite network. It's an easy, relatively free way to market the game. It's a good strategy.
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
And my only comment to this is: why do you keep pushing stuff like this via Facebook and/or Twitter when there are people that refuse to use them for justifiable reasons?
You have a perfectly good forum, and in game events where these could have been handed out. EDIT - Thanks to all who gave the idea of creating a fake account in the name of one of my toons (and a fake email account too). I know have a code. And I feel less dirty than I end up feeling at the end of a Friday night. |
@Texarkana
@Thexder
Took me a few minutes to figure out the https issue but when I did, I managed to get mine. I'm tempted to create a dummy fb page so I can get another for my second account, but I just can't be bothered for just a cute emote.
Glad to have it on my main acct though.
@Quasadu
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I have two Game Accounts under my Master Account. I was successful in getting the code, and it works fine on one Game Account but not the other. Does anyone have any idea why? There's no mechanism for assigning it to one Game Account over another, but it would surprise me if only the first account to try to use it is the ONLY account that could ever use it.
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When I got my code it specifically asked which of the two accounts under my Master Account to apply it to, and it did the same for my partner with the other code. You definitely need a different code for each account; I tried to use one twice and it reported that the code was already used.
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Originally Posted by Sax_The_Slayer
I have two Game Accounts under my Master Account. I was successful in getting the code, and it works fine on one Game Account but not the other. Does anyone have any idea why? There's no mechanism for assigning it to one Game Account over another, but it would surprise me if only the first account to try to use it is the ONLY account that could ever use it.
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Interesting. . .it didn't ask me.
I went back to the CoH website, but I keep getting the same code. Maybe it's over?
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Not over, just likely that's the code assigned to your facebook account.
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Originally Posted by Sax_The_Slayer
Interesting. . .it didn't ask me.
I went back to the CoH website, but I keep getting the same code. Maybe it's over? |
@Texarkana
@Thexder
Good point! :-)
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my point was that every other time they do a give away, I miss out for one reason or another. It is a contest though, If you are number 5001, no code for you. Until next round
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Originally Posted by Texarkana
It's hardly a "contest". The first batch of 5,000 went up yesterday and there's talk of 20,000 total, which should cover just about everyone who actively plays I suspect. The goal is to promote CoH's profile on facebook, nothing more.
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"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho
... except when I tried to log into my NCSoft master account, I ran afoul of your authentication system and some incorrectly formated challenge questions from 7 years ago.
Guess I should have cleared that up with support back when you implemented this system and saw all the forum posts complaining about it.
Gratz to all those who were able to apply the code and got the emote.
So, hopefully, after you get your account log-in info worked out, the code will still work!
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan