Moving empty character slots to another server?
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Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2011-12-22 16:48 in Suggestions and Ideas
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Which would be exactly the point of the pricing. It would discourage everyone but the most stubborn from using the service. It's a tactic the devs have used in the past effectively for years with server transfers. While other games in the industry were charging $25 - $50 for server transfers NCSoft only charged $9.99 but it was still high enough that a lot of people refused to use it because it was still too high a price.
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Originally Posted by Rathulfr
Ah, but I do have something in the first place: I have slots on Virtue. I purchased/earned those slots years ago, prior to CoH:F.
Now you're telling me to go buy new slots on Liberty. Sure, I could do that (in fact, I did buy 2 more slots for only 400 pts, because they're having a sale); however, I'd be doing so to gain MORE slots, not to re-purpose the slots I already own on Virtue. My point was not to gain more slots, but rather to re-use the slots I already own. I simply wanted to avoid paying twice for something that I thought I'd already paid for. But now that I know that I cannot do so (under the current terms of use), that point is moot. |
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I wouldn't be surprised if they set the price point higher than I'd like, but if they set it the same (or higher, for that matter) as buying a new slot it would be actual robbery. And while I honestly wouldn't be shocked about that either, I would certainly raise a brow disapprovingly.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Don't try to pretend that you are unaware that the company has in the past deliberately set prices on items that while affordable, discourage people from using them constantly.
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Unless i'm misremembering when you drop to Premium you're granted a number of server slot unlock tokens and you decide which characters and/or empty slots you're going to unlock. If you're a long time player who had previously unlocked a lot of slots before going Premium it's rather unlikely you'd be able to unlock every slot on a server, so you'd have to choose then exactly which characters you want to play.
Moving slots around as a VIP wouldn't change that very much anyway.
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Moving slot unlocks around WITHIN THE SAME SERVER isn't the OP's issue. The OP wants to move their Virtue slot unlocks to Liberty. This is not possible.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Unless i'm misremembering when you drop to Premium you're granted a number of server slot unlock tokens and you decide which characters and/or empty slots you're going to unlock. If you're a long time player who had previously unlocked a lot of slots before going Premium it's rather unlikely you'd be able to unlock every slot on a server, so you'd have to choose then exactly which characters you want to play.
Moving slots around as a VIP wouldn't change that very much anyway. |
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Let's say you have a bonus slot on Virtue which cost you 480 points. And you want to move it to Liberty, so you pay 480 points to move it to Liberty because you're too stupid to see the con. Now you've paid 960 points and you only have one bonus slot, which is on Liberty rather than Virtue.
Or, when faced with that ridiculous pricing, you can be aware of the con and spend 480 points to just buy a new slot on Liberty without losing the slot you had on Virtue. Now you've paid 960 points and you have two bonus slots - one on Virtue and one on Liberty.
So you could either have one slot for the price of two, or two slots for the price of two.
Surely that was apparent and you're just having me on?
Don't try to pretend that you are unaware that the company has in the past deliberately set prices on items that while affordable, discourage people from using them constantly.
That's been a constant argument over the pricing of server transfers for years.
So no I wouldn't be surprised to see them do it again with this if they were to actually add this feature. But since we all know that it probably won't happen there's no need for you to get your panties in a bunch over players speculating what might happen.
Heck I'm cynical enough to not be surprised if they charged the same price as a character transfer between servers.