I convinced a friend of mine to try CoX

I conviced a friend of mine to try my favorite MMO, still is after all these years, but it wasn't all that much fun.

She couldn't send tells to me, even after I added her as a friend and she added me (both server and global).

She couldn't join my supergroup.

She couldn't join the user created channel I mostly use, when I invited her.

When we couldn't set up communication lines we went back to playing World of Tanks, I doubt she'll try again anytime soon.

How am I to convince her that this is a beautiful game with social people, when she's not allowed to communicate with them? I understand that having the possibility to send tells to random people might be restricted, but not to be able to send tells to global friends or to accept invites to supergroups and user channels removes so much of the experience that I'll doubt that I can convince her to join up again.

She could reply to tells (/r instead of /t), which really needs to be better communicated to free players.

And I know this isn't always an option, but a one-time $5 payment is all it takes to unlock tells & SG membership, which isn't a bad deal to be honest.

Alternatively, come up with a way for all free players to have access to the various communication channels without opening the door to all the griefers and RMT spammers to come charging in and spoil the game for everyone. It's not as simple as it seems, especially when a large section of the paying playerbase seem to be inherently against giving anything away to the free players, regardless of the consequences.

Premium account for $1.33

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Yes I knew all those restrictions, I just assumed, yes assumed not read every sodding patch note that when the game went Free to play, you could play the game with some restrictions on ATs, zones maybe, and other little things.

For me I would rather have my friend restricted to low level areas and being able to communicate with me and my friends than being able to go lots of places but not being able to communicate with us. For me communicating is the most basic part of the game, it's why I tried to bring a friend here.

I tried to get a new player into the game, I am sorry to have bothered the almighty forum gurus that only seem to be interested in telling me "You should have known that" and "If she doesn't pay she can do without" , with one exception the Friends channel I missed that, thank you.

I think I shall skip City of for a week or six, if this is the attitude we have to getting friends into the social parts of the game.

Edit: I started this, in this part of the forum to indicate why my friend probably won't join us in Paragon city hoping that I could get help to overcome the obstacles and get a new member. Instead I'm feel like I'm told off, when I try to get a friend into a game so that we can play together when it went free to play.

I understand your frustration, but you have to understand that ALL of those restrictions were asked for by the players to help cut down on RMT spam and theft.

Free players can't use tells? Because of RMT spam

Free players can't use broadcast? Because of RMT spam

Free players can't join supergroups? Because RMTers were joining supergroups and cleaning them out.


Does it inconvenience brand new players that are nothing but friendly, genuinely interested people? Yes, it does. But without those restrictions, we'd have a whole host of other problems to deal with, and those problems would be felt by every player, from free to VIP.

She probably thought you meant something else

Ha ha great title.

I have no intention to quit the game, I've been on the EU servers since they opened (except for a few days when my credit card was lost and locked just as the payment was due). I was talking about not playing, not about quitting.

Some people have provided help to overcome the difficulties, the /r and Friends channel specifically. Thank you for that, it might help but I doubt it will be enough.

The people that wanted to moan at me, I hope you enjoyed doing it so at least someone got some enjoyment out of it.

I will not post any more in this thread, I doubt I'll even read it since the thread instead of being about helping my friend enjoy her visit in Paragon city has been about my answer when I got upset about being told off.

I hope that if we meet, it will be under better circumstances like beating villains to pulp.

Edit: For those people that suggested payment options, the thought was good but she was here to try the game because I wanted to show it to her not because she wanted to be here so her motivation to fork up monies is/was very limited. I'm sure that if she had enjoyed the experience she would have paid to enjoy more of it, but now I doubt that will happen.

I was going to try to offer a few more suggestions for getting around the unfortunate but (as others have noted) utterly necessary limitations on in-game chat for free players... but reading your posts, it seems that what you really want is to vent. First at the game, and then at everyone who told you off. So, have fun with that.