How Much Notice Will We Get For CoHFreedom?
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Posted on: 2011-09-02 24:32 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Ta-da! seems likely, given the near-miss of the unannounced VIP Head Start on Tuesday (unless I obtusely missed advance notice of it).|
Originally Posted by Melancton
Or will they just "TA-DA!" one fine morning?
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I already have a couple of PMs to community management but have yet to hear back.
Extrapolating from all that, my bet is next week, either Tuesday or Thursday, on the assumption they've fixed the show-stopper bug.
I think that a few days before this happens, they'll post a message saying, "Hey everyone the VIP head start starts this Thursday!" On Thursday, the VIPs will be able to log into Exalted. In the meantime, they'll also be posting hot and heavy that CoH: Freedom will be live the following Monday. Then the following Monday, we'll have extended maintenance on all non-Exalted servers (possibly even Exalted, if there are any minor patches that need to be applied), and then the free and premium players will be able to log in.
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I just hope I know a day in advance; I'm going to try to fandangle working from home that day... For purely professional reasons, of course.
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i think the head start period would be longer than 5 days|
Originally Posted by TonyV
I think that a few days before this happens, they'll post a message saying, "Hey everyone the VIP head start starts this Thursday!" On Thursday, the VIPs will be able to log into Exalted. In the meantime, they'll also be posting hot and heavy that CoH: Freedom will be live the following Monday. Then the following Monday, we'll have extended maintenance on all non-Exalted servers (possibly even Exalted, if there are any minor patches that need to be applied), and then the free and premium players will be able to log in.
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my guess is they will have the head start period for around 2 weeks just ot make sure all the kinks are ironed out then they will open it up to everyone
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Head Starts usually don't run longer than a couple of days (usually something like a Head Start Weekend). For Going Rogue it was actually one day and was a surprise that wasn't even announced in advance.
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
i think the head start period would be longer than 5 days
my guess is they will have the head start period for around 2 weeks just ot make sure all the kinks are ironed out then they will open it up to everyone |
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true, but i figure they would want more time to iron out any remaining bugs since this is almost a complete revamp, while GR was nothing more than a big issue (i dont even really consider it an expansion since praetorians only go up to 30 and they arent even a real faction since they are essentially forced to leave at lvl 20)
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Originally Posted by Garielle
Head Starts usually don't run longer than a couple of days (usually something like a Head Start Weekend). For Going Rogue it was actually one day and was a surprise that wasn't even announced in advance.
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I think Tony nailed it, and I think the head start will be only a weekend like Thursday - Monday or Maybe Friday to Tuesday.
I also did not believe one second that they would roll out a new issue or Freedom over the Labor Day weekend. Does anyone remember Issue 2 and the weekend of no instanced missions? The current trouble with the servers although undesired were also predictable considering the hardware upgrades and changes in the game in store for Freedom. If they loaded Issue 21 on top of 'virgin' hardware we would have looked just like a comic book MMO that had their servers hacked -- down for an intolerable amount of time.
I support the pace and planning the developers have exhibited in a momentous change to this established and successful MMO franchise 
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Given how close they were to launching VIP Head Start before someone detected the potentially serious Level Pact bug, Paragon might be advised to have us road-test CoH Freedom for a little longer than a couple of days. (They might also consider a few precautionary stress-test events after yesterday's server outage.) Call it Thursday-Thursday for next week.
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"*Well*" meaning what, a week? Two weeks? A month? (Guessing not the latter at this point.)|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will know *well* in advance before Issue 21, and conversely Freedom, goes live.
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Just sayin'... I usually don't take the day off for issue releases, but if I were going to, I'd need 2 weeks notice to put in for vacation time.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will know *well* in advance before Issue 21, and conversely Freedom, goes live.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
"*Well*" meaning what, a week? Two weeks? A month?
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'Well in advance' makes it seem like it's still not for another month or something if they haven't announced anything yet. Bleh, kinda biding my time waiting for I21. Don't wanna start any new characters until it comes out. Then again, I'm more waiting for Street Justice to come out than any I21 feature. Good thing Twisted Metal got delayed, so I won't have any console-related distractions until mid November or so.
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My guess would be several days to (at most) a week. New issues are generally pushed live early in the week in case Something Bad happens and they have to spend the next few days fixing it. Devs like having weekends too. |
Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
"*Well*" meaning what, a week? Two weeks? A month? (Guessing not the latter at this point.)
Just sayin'... I usually don't take the day off for issue releases, but if I were going to, I'd need 2 weeks notice to put in for vacation time. |
In any case, they won't specify a date until they know they can make that date with a product that's stable and working on all platforms. Once they feel they have a stable product, there's not point is delaying any more than they have to.
So my guess is that Issue 21 will go live the Tuesday after they feel they have a stable product.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will know *well* in advance before Issue 21, and conversely Freedom, goes live.
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Is that some sort of reference to the Well of Furies?|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will know *well* in advance before Issue 21, and conversely Freedom, goes live.
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You heard it here folks! Next incarnate tier coming in I21! :P
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Is that some sort of reference to the Well of Furies?
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I21.5 would be more likely |
Originally Posted by Prexx
You heard it here folks! Next incarnate tier coming in I21! :P
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A mid-issue release with new Incarnate slots? I highly doubt it. |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I21.5 would be more likely
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Anyway, they said on the Facebook Freedom Friday thing this afternoon that there are no new Incarnate slots coming in i21. We can be reasonably sure that there's an i21.5 with another Incarnate Trial on the way before the end of the year, but if they add anything new, it'll be additional powers for the existing slots (the way that i20.5 added a ton of new pets for the Lore slot).
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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That wouldn't be a "Well, its going live tomorrow" type of deal, would it Z?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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What no shutting the servers down for a few hours then turning them back on with Freedom loaded? And that being the announcement? Drat I liked that idea. |
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will know *well* in advance before Issue 21, and conversely Freedom, goes live.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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If working as intended, then the use of conversely in the context Z utilized would indicate that we'll know about I21 "well" in advance but NOT Freedom..
So.. we won't know about Freedom coming, therefore it will be a surprise, so it must be coming RIGHTNAOOMGMUSTGETONLINE !
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Things are going crash and boom on servers, and I realize that Paragon Studios may have actually planned CoHFreedom to go Sept 1... and it did not exactly work out that way.
Will PS just suddenly one day say, "TA-DA! CoH is F2P, sign up now!" and the VIP server will suddenly be open or will they announce a date certain in advance?
How much notice do you think we will get? Or will they just "TA-DA!" one fine morning?
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