"Yearly" Veteran Badges

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Sadly the situation with Gate Crasher needing to be renamed to Spinebreaker is a far, far different issue than the problem plaguing the Anniversary Vet badges. It's been six months since CoH:Freedom left those yearly badges broken and there's really no sign that they'll be fixed anytime soon. Hopefully it'll happen ASAP but I'm not holding my breath for it.

Don't. It's a known issue, which means you'll just be distracting CS from real problems that other folks are having.

And if the scuttlebutt from the Pummit is to be believed, they will never be fixed. So pestering CS isn't going to accomplish anything.

Do. It is a real problem. The devs have punted and said it's a billing issue (and the billing department is shared with several other games). Either way, the yearly badges need to either be fixed or removed.

The only way something like that will get priority is through volume of support tickets from paying customers who are unhappy about it.

I'm not saying spam them, but one ticket from each customer who is paying them a monthly fee and not getting the perks they're supposed to should be plenty.

1. I think our definition of a "real problem" is pretty different. I would see a "real problem" as something game breaking--not a minor cosmetic item that only applies to a small number of people. I do agree with your concerns regarding fixing or removing them.

2. I disagree with your theory of opening mass amounts of support tickets. This flies in the face of your, "but don't spam them" line. Further, as this is a known issue (not on the "official list," but called such by the devs), opening additional tickets accomplishes nothing. It doesn't get added to the known issues list multiple times, and it doesn't add any weight to the existing entry. It's on the list.

3. Again, if the talk from the Pummit is to be believed, they're not ever going to be fixed. And now we're just making a scene and being nuisances about something that no one has any control over.

Then if they aren't going to be fixed they should be either all activated on all accounts, or just take them all away and replace them with some other badges, or else toss about 9000 paragon points to the long term accounts that will be hit by this.

Suggested replacement badges: perhaps some of the "lost" AE badges that were removed during the great purge? perhaps any missing anniversary badges are awarded to all characters that currently exist in the accounts? Perhaps a set of badges of players choice for all their alts that they submit in a ticket?

example: you are an eight year vet and are going to be stripped of all current vet badges you have plus the ones that didn't get rewarded for a total of 8. Pick 8 badges that all your alts could receive and submit that list. Note: only ONE list per account, so what you pick goes to all alts. Also note that if you want say the Immortal or Empath or Leader badge then you need to have all the other badges of said badge set. Anniversary badges should be able to be chosen as well during this.

or restore some of the lost AE badges, albeit with reasonable requirements, thus people need to use the AE to get them. Farming might spike of course, but AE usage in general should increase and perhaps some older or even newer players may find the AE fun to use thus restoring some lost interest in AE.

Or just yank the vet badges and you get 1000 paragon points per badge taken plus another 1000 points per badge that you should have gotten but didn't.

While I am not a fan of badges being yanked, that may be the simplest solution.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Hey I hear ya! I should be an eight year vet but instead I am stuck at 6 and am about to be two badges behind. But since fixing them isn't a priority then they need to do something else about this.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.