Discussion: The Winter Event is back with extra fluffy snow!
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Posted on: 2011-12-13 11:01 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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I hope this happens. I was VERY pleased to see your earlier list of what's coming up this month.|
Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon
It's been under discussion internally here since we have to release those items onto the Beta server for testing.
I don't want to give an answer right now, but I did want to reassure you that we're talking about it. |
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Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon
Black Pebble / Marketing gets blamed for everything.
In Black Pebble's defense....: (snip) |
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I noticed. I was just about to send a PM to community reps asking if that was intentional. |
Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon
The Undead Survival Kit is off the Market (not that I think anyone noticed...
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And while you're probably correct that most people won't notice in this instance, you really should announce it before something is being removed from the market. I'm not upset by the loss of the bundle at all, but I am annoyed about the lack of communication about it.
(By the way, GF... have you checked out the Complete Paragon Market Listing link in my sig?)
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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I removed the Undead Survival Kit from the Paragon Market when the Black Friday Sales started. Since the Kit was selling for 400 points, and we reduced the price of the Qty 5 Inspirations to 50 points, I did not want a player to accidentally purchase the kit and be overcharged. After Black Friday ended, no one raised an eyebrow, so I left it off. |
Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
I noticed. I was just about to send a PM to community reps asking if that was intentional.
And while you're probably correct that most people won't notice in this instance, you really should announce it before something is being removed from the market. I'm not upset by the loss of the bundle at all, but I am annoyed about the lack of communication about it. |
We're still evaluating Inspirations, so I removed all Small and Medium Inspirations. To de-clutter the Inspirations section, I also removed all Qty 1 and 3 Inspirations.
Dual, Team and Team Dual Inspirations for now, will only be minimally be sold at Qty 5. They'll go on sale again at the end of the year.
The long-term prices for those specific items are still being discussed internally, and we'll address those in Q1 of 2012.
Since you are here and answering GF, when can we expect something new to come in for the Tier 9 VIP stuff?
And an addendum...is there any work being done on getting an actual fix or at the very least a timetable that doesn't shift from month-to-month for the awarding of Paragon Points and Reward Tokens for VIPs? That thread about such has pretty much been ignored by rednames for a considerable amount of time.
Or is that issue marked down as Working As Intended with no future thought given to it?
Did I miss something >?? Are the AT Specific IO's now live ????
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New Tier 9 VIP stuff : It was shown at the Pummit. I don't track the builds anymore, and that's largely a Doc Delilah / Skippy Sidekick question.|
Originally Posted by Dark One
Since you are here and answering GF, when can we expect something new to come in for the Tier 9 VIP stuff?
And an addendum...is there any work being done on getting an actual fix or at the very least a timetable that doesn't shift from month-to-month for the awarding of Paragon Points and Reward Tokens for VIPs? That thread about such has pretty much been ignored by rednames for a considerable amount of time. Or is that issue marked down as Working As Intended with no future thought given to it? |
Awarding of Paragon Points and Tokens : Lineage II just went Free to Play...(so our Billing Team may have been distracted).
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Considering that we've had the problems since September/October, this does not lead me to believe that CoH is at all a concern or priority for NCSoft's billing department. Which in turn leads me to believe that said concerns will not be addressed. |
Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon
Awarding of Paragon Points and Tokens : Lineage II just went Free to Play...(so our Billing Team may have been distracted).
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That doesn't even touch on the fact that the Discussion thread about said items has been all but ignored by rednames since the beginning of November along with the problems/CS experiences people are reporting.(Please don't take my posts the wrong way. It's just this is something that should never have gotten to this point.)
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This is an MMO - what kind of crazy talk is that? |
Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon
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Sounds crazy to me. But remember all those people complaining about a lack of a solo path to incarnate.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
This is an MMO - what kind of crazy talk is that?
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Small team path that's possible to solo. Few people want it to be solo only.
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Originally Posted by Hydrofoil_Zero
Sounds crazy to me. But remember all those people complaining about a lack of a solo path to incarnate.
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| Awarding of Paragon Points and Tokens : Lineage II just went Free to Play...(so our Billing Team may have been distracted). |
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Them taking our forum maint is one thing, them taking our ingame rewards for giving you money? Oh come on!
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The Winter Event is back with... yet another account wide / interface breaking... and heavy annoying Bug!
On logging in I do get my rewards.... I also get all my other powers removed from my tray
That alone is reason enough for me to NOT log in my main for the remainder of this event.
Can this bug be fixed someway?
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I'm going to repeat something I mentioned in the Patch Notes thread...
We pulled together a league to run the Winter Lord Trial.
Queued up... watched the counter go to "28 of 28"...
When we zoned, we had a league of 20.
The first 2 teams made it in intact, the other two were broken all to hell.... and we'd lost 8 players.
This happened twice in a row.
When we succeeded in the trial, I was notified that I'd received merits and a badge... then several of us crashed. When we logged in, we had lost our rewards (and I had no badge).
Apparently, this is a known issue.
Jus' so's ya knows....
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Very logical for real fans of this game who want it to be successful and thus continue for a long time to come!
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Originally Posted by Chrome_Family
I don't know whats crazier.. the fact that the supplier is not doing this, or the fact that the consumers are complaining about it so they can take our money faster..
 Logic seems to fail on both accounts for the consumer. |
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Ouch.
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Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon
I knew it was last minute, but I have some items held back in case of emergencies. The Warwolf Whistle was the anchor of the pack, and then I padded it with interesting consumable items (the bat / slugger, temp revolver and inspirations) plus I added the self-revive power.
I also asked that the Halloween Event be extended by a week. Well..., long story short, the pack was released, exposed some strong feelings about the price of inspirations (which we later tested on Black Friday), and someone didn't approve the Halloween Event extension. |
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I love the event in general so don't get me wrong, but after the addition of the Halloween trial, I was hoping to see another new Winter Trial or mission added. So based on that, I am a bit upset to not see anything new other than some new FX and badges.
I know you all are under a time crunch and all, just a bit sad to not see anything new... But I will get over it.
Other than that, the snowmen pet...awesome, snowstorm, awesome (would love to see more weather effects like this), and of course the badge idea is awesome as well.
Looking forward to what next year has for CoH!
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Extra Enhancement Trays: Price Drop or Sale please. Chop-chop! |
Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon
I (Ghost Falcon), as the Business Manager:
4) propose and schedule all in-game and in-store weekly sales promotions (even Black Friday), |
(Seriously, $20 is even more absurdly overpriced than the $6 German Shepard pet... o.o)
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Yeah, I'm a new player so everything is new and shiny, but seeing what has actually been added this year, and comparing to what we just got with Halloween, the Winter Event is kind of lackluster. The Lord Winter Trial is worth running pretty much once unless you really really want those merits and candy canes or want the badge on multiple alts (I don't). Not to mention the pain of trying to pull together a league to pull it off. I'd really love to see a 2-8 person trial sometime in the future.
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Aha! So, was it you who priced the full set of Kinetic Combat at more point than buying all of the set's IOs separately?
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Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon
1) proposed and got buy off on all prices in the market prior to Freedom's launch
2) schedule all new items to be released in the Paragon Market. 3) write up 90% of all Paragon Market in-game text, 4) propose and schedule all in-game and in-store weekly sales promotions (even Black Friday), 5) examine all in-game store sales metrics and adjust prices / remove item(s) accordingly. |
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The Holiday Spirit temporary power. Use Holiday Spirit to grant 48 hours of 25% Experience Debt Protection.
The Holiday Cheer temporary power. Use Holiday Cheer on another character to give his or her a Mystery Gift that could contain a rare temporary power, a sack full of Influence or Infamy, or a winter-
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Yes, this!|
Originally Posted by DIABL0
Have not received the below on any characters that I have loggedon. Is it BUGGED?
The Holiday Spirit temporary power. Use Holiday Spirit to grant 48 hours of 25% Experience Debt Protection. The Holiday Cheer temporary power. Use Holiday Cheer on another character to give his or her a Mystery Gift that could contain a rare temporary power, a sack full of Influence or Infamy, or a winter- |
This was an issue last year and not fixed yet. One would think with the sparsity of additional features they should have been able to fix this.
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Supposedly fixed ingame now, according to most recent Announcement as of this post...
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Originally Posted by Impish Kat
I'm going to repeat something I mentioned in the Patch Notes thread...
We pulled together a league to run the Winter Lord Trial. Queued up... watched the counter go to "28 of 28"... When we zoned, we had a league of 20. The first 2 teams made it in intact, the other two were broken all to hell.... and we'd lost 8 players. This happened twice in a row. When we succeeded in the trial, I was notified that I'd received merits and a badge... then several of us crashed. When we logged in, we had lost our rewards (and I had no badge). Apparently, this is a known issue. Jus' so's ya knows.... |
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Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
Aha! So, was it you who priced the full set of Kinetic Combat at more point than buying all of the set's IOs separately?
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There's a funny story there... (or I'd like to think so), not funny "ha-ha", but more of a face-to-the-desk moment.
If you read the guidelines above about Black Friday, essentially ALL RARE IOs within a set were supposed to be on sale for 50% off. And then if the entire set was sold, the K.I.S.S price was to put the set on sale for 400 points...
Well, if you break down Kinetic Combat (5 IO set), there are 4 Rares and one Uncommon IO. I accidentally put the Uncommon IO in the 50% off sale (literally right after my last house guest left on Thanksgiving night in preparation for the Black Friday launch at midnight that evening). The difference by buying it a la carte versus as a set was 12 points. Some folks brought it up to my attention, but in the end, I felt like I would be the biggest jerk to raise the price of the Uncommon IO while the promotion was active, and for the most part, the error was in everyone's favor. So during the holiday weekend, I made the call to just let the 50% off the Uncommon IO remain. Kinetic Combat was a deal at 388 points or at 400 points either way.
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