Discussion: Retiring the City of Heroes free Trials

There is a dark, cold place for people who reference K-Pop in my vicinity...

How can you dislike K-Pop so much? Let me see... Like this? No wait, that's something entirely different.

I think I meant more like this. How can you hate that? Come on now.

Ok, it might just be me but it's always comments like this that actually make me worry. I mean, I understand the free play is a good thing but sometimes affirmations in a single sentence worry me. It makes it seem... determined and beyond argument that we're going to agree. Which often makes me want to disagree...

But, yeah, from what I've heard Freedom will be a good step.

Oh yeah?

You're just horked off coz it's not a theatre troupe.

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I'll be interested in hearing what this is

You'd hate Freedom even more, in it's current state.

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Hah JabberJaw awesome!

HAHA! We knew it couldn't be a typo!!
And... I think WW was planning on hiring me to help this, right, right?


Drats!! The job has been filled already!!

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What if we have trial/"alt" accounts with characters on/in them?

This was *previously* and during "Re-Activation Events" the only way to invite Alts to our SG's... (Apart from having a 2nd Subscription = which I'd refuse to do on principle alone, even IF I could remotely justify the expense!)

And to preempt any incoming arguments/comments about "Trial Characters can't join SG's" ,"can't invite other toons to SG''s", etc.

(*Last time I checked* during a reactivation) it was not true = IF the 'Trial Toon' was already a member of said SG, prior to all that anti-goldfarmer stuff going in - and if the trial account was/is "in good standing"!

So... to re-iterate
1. Any chance we can snag trial characters (Maybe even if it's just the costumes - which we might be able to do now - if we could load up the trial account with the toons, go to the Tailor & "save" the costume client-side(?) and reload the costumes into our active accounts from the saved files?? TBH, IDK if that's even plausible or if there's something similarly workable.

2. With all the 'certificate thingys', *technical term* - and whatnot...
It can't help but think that "Glee-mailing" ourselves SG Invites would be possible now.
How About it War Witch? Come on throw us a bone here... Please?


EDIT
3. I suppose I should ask for a method to move a trial account (over to my main "PlayNC" (NCSoft) account) I like MANY others - created 'new trial accounts' both to pad new SG's Prestige (to get the 20K per each of the first 20 SG alts/members) & ALSO to Invite Alts from my "Main Account" into my 'solo/personal' SGs.

Due to the temporary nature (2 week usefulness) of these trial accounts = in the past, back when Toons from trial accounts could still join SGs AND send out invites to your main account if you were running two instances of the client...
Well, that lead to a number of trial accounts (not so much with great names - although this was a way to place-hold names on a specific server) normally I used generic names - tied/similar to the 'Global Name' of the trial account in question. Particularly back when "Merry Base-mas" happened a couple years back.

I actually have an unused CoH Code Key attached to my account - a gift from the death of another NCSoft game - And while I believe I have the Original E-mail from a couple years ago - somewhere, Where its says " this code can be used on ANY NCSoft account". BUT even though, I've sent PMs and Emails to a number of Devs, tech support, etc. = More than once -> about applying this "freebie code Key" to a Trial Account, I've had no such luck!

The issue I can't seem to make work, and have never got any help, or even response to is - HOW exactly do I manage to finagle upgrading a Trial Account (created via a NCsoft Account using my middle name rather than my first name) with the Code Key and Successfully Move that newly upgraded CoH account over to my "real/main account" - I.E. The one that I actually pay for my subscription with???

Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.

They will grab trial accounts ON the 17th (as many as they can) since those accounts will be usable for the full duration giving them the maximum amount of time in game to spam you.

From a marketing standpoint, Free Trial programs are a good way to draw new players into a game, so it wouldn't make sense to suspend them until the last possible minute. This leads me to believe that Freedom will be launching September 1st, or very very close to that date. September 1st happens to fall on a Thursday which is typically not a good day for a major launch, being too close to the weekend. Best educated guess then is either the 31st of August (a Wednesday, which is the same day of the week that Going Rogue launched) or some time early the following week.

Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".

My guess is something to do with free Paragon Points for people who invite their friends back but only after their friends purchase time or something from the Paragon Market.

This is a feature I used quite a bit. I got six free months in 2011 by getting other people to subscribe.

No good, I've known to many Spaniards

Is that kinda like going against a sicilian when death is on the line?

HA HA! HA HA! HA...*THUNK*

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I haven't hated it yet.

One of the biggest vectors for RMT spammers is stolen accounts. So we may not be completely spam free, but it may be greatly reduced.

That's treating the symptoms not curing the disease. We need a non-unique naming system. If we get one, this stops being a problem at all.

Pass. Their non-unique naming system was the primary reason I never even tried this game's first main competitor. I may complain that I can't get certain names I want, but when I do score a cool name, I like knowing that I am the only person with that name (on that server).