Discussion: Freebie Friday is Live!
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Posted on: 2012-05-24 16:12 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Thanks again for the freebie!!!
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But it is Thursday LOL
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Originally Posted by Thany144
But it is Thursday LOL
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Freebie Friday is based on GMT, not your local time. See, funny thing is that the game is accessible globally, and there's no way to have it automatically detect what time zone someone is located in whenever they log in, so they went with the default time zone for the whole planet. The world is much, much bigger than the town/county/principality/district you live in after all. Neat, huh?
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Nice Dark Tower avie, Thany.
Also, thanks much for the free Loot Paragon!
Thanks for the freebie. Not sure when I'll need it since my Staff/Nin Stalker is ripping stuff up.
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Way to be condescending. It's still a dorky naming convention.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Only in your time zone.
Freebie Friday is based on GMT, not your local time. See, funny thing is that the game is accessible globally, and there's no way to have it automatically detect what time zone someone is located in whenever they log in, so they went with the default time zone for the whole planet. The world is much, much bigger than the town/county/principality/district you live in after all. Neat, huh? |
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Considering the majority of the subscriber base is within the GMT-5 to GMT-8 range, and Paragon Studios themselves are based in California, I highly doubt they chose to run it during this time based on GMT. More likely they just don't want to have someone log in at Midnight to enable/disable the event when they're all off work.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Only in your time zone.
Freebie Friday is based on GMT, not your local time. See, funny thing is that the game is accessible globally, and there's no way to have it automatically detect what time zone someone is located in whenever they log in, so they went with the default time zone for the whole planet. The world is much, much bigger than the town/county/principality/district you live in after all. Neat, huh? |
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
The world is much, much bigger than the town/county/principality/district you live in after all. Neat, huh?
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The world ends at my driveway!
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Dear Paragon Studios,
I have been a loyal customer for nearly 8 years now. I love this game, and although I may stray from it from time to time when a new game comes out, I will always come back. I will be here until the servers are shut down, you have my word.
With that said, I'm being as honest as I can be when I say, as much as I love the idea of these Freebie Fridays, the stuff offered thus far is just more 'junk' that would farther clutter up my Character items window.
When you 'gave' them away in Super Packs and still very few people used them, that should have been a huge indicator that the majority of the player base didn't want them.
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"This free thing isn't the cool thing I want it to be" is a pretty lame complaint.|
Originally Posted by Mystic_Fortune
With that said, I'm being as honest as I can be when I say, as much as I love the idea of these Freebie Fridays, the stuff offered thus far is just more 'junk' that would farther clutter up my Character items window.
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Don't like it, don't claim it.
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Yyyyeah. Being a veteran of 8 years and having all the extra goodies and benefits and experience that come with it, maybe you should consider something.
Freebie Friday is not being targeted at you.
There are plenty of free and premium players I'm sure are digging the 'useless' goodies that they normally wouldn't have access to by the bucketful.
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I'm sorry, I thought a discussion thread was a place the players were allowed to express their opinions, rather their opinion differs from one another or not. I guess I was wrong.|
Originally Posted by Nethergoat
"This free thing isn't the cool thing I want it to be" is a pretty lame complaint.
Don't like it, don't claim it. |
*shrug*
"Yes, more free stuff! Gimme!!!"
Is that more within the lines of the mindless 'drone' response you were looking for?
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"This sucks."
"No it doesn't."
"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I was allowed to have an opinion."
You are. And so is everyone else.
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Everyone is allowed to have an opinion, but that doesn't mean they're all going to be equally valid as feedback.
For instance, if somebody went completely ape pancakes about getting a rez for free and treating it like he just won the lottery on Christmas morning, the devs would probably disregard that as a fringe thing and not representative of the group.
On the other hand, we have people like me and Mystic_Fortune (and I suspect a few others here based on their forum registration dates), who already have tons of this stuff included in Super Packs or as part of the Paragon Rewards Program, whose opinions don't really matter because of what what Agent White said above:
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However, I'm not going to complain about getting something for free, even if it's not something I really want. I'll either accept it or politely decline. Complaining and bringing up entitlement issues because you don't like the free thing that they're giving equally to everyone is just gauche.
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Originally Posted by Agent White
Yyyyeah. Being a veteran of 8 years and having all the extra goodies and benefits and experience that come with it, maybe you should consider something.
Freebie Friday is not being targeted at you. There are plenty of free and premium players I'm sure are digging the 'useless' goodies that they normally wouldn't have access to by the bucketful. |
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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Perhaps we need multiple 'Feedback' threads. One can have all the "This is great" posts; one can have all the "This sucks" posts and one can have actual feedback.
Anyway, the "random free item" so far appears to be selected from the "stuff people aren't buying" table. Today's is basically a free wakie. I don't see what else they could go with though. Giving away non-expendables probably isn't sensible and producing expendables worth making a fuss over would attract "pay to win" complaints.
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This is what I did. I already have a pile of temp rez powers I never use from the Super Packs and don't need another, even if it's free.
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Don't like it, don't claim it.
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Originally Posted by Mystic_Fortune
... more 'junk' that would farther clutter up my Character items window.
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Originally Posted by Creole Ned
This is what I did. I already have a pile of temp rez powers I never use from the Super Packs and don't need another, even if it's free.
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Character Items is almost completely unusable though. I'll likely never use any of my team/dual inspirations or temp powers because they're items I can't remember the names of half way down a 58 line alphabetical list in a 4.5 line tall window that doesn't resize.
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This is pretty much what I was trying to convey with my first post. This is why I need a personal writer. What I think, what I say and what I type never appear to be come out the same.
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Originally Posted by Edana
Anyway, the "random free item" so far appears to be selected from the "stuff people aren't buying" table. Today's is basically a free wakie. I don't see what else they could go with though. Giving away non-expendables probably isn't sensible and producing expendables worth making a fuss over would attract "pay to win" complaints.
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I'm just amused that every Freebie Friday thread is pretty much identical to the last. I suggest saving time by creating a txt file on your desktop so you can easily copy and paste your opinion each week.
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*sigh* i know. It's a bad habit, or at least something i've been more prone to lately as a reaction to ongoing things completely unrelated to CoH. |
Originally Posted by Agent White
Way to be condescending. It's still a dorky naming convention.
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And yes, the naming is somewhat "dorky" (or at least counter-intuitive for most). Some of the reasons for the current implementation were covered already by some of the red name types the past week if anyone wants to browse the Community Digest.
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Originally Posted by Zandock
Considering the majority of the subscriber base is within the GMT-5 to GMT-8 range, and Paragon Studios themselves are based in California, I highly doubt they chose to run it during this time based on GMT. More likely they just don't want to have someone log in at Midnight to enable/disable the event when they're all off work.
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While this week's freebie is something i already have plenty of, much like the previous freebie, i do like the idea of free stuff and won't complain about getting anything for free even if i have no pressing need for it. Seeing as they're easy to replace if i decide i want more i also won't hesitate to use the freebies just for the heck of it.
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Freebie Friday is a promotion aimed at the freeloaders and low tiered Preems who don't use the market. All you ViPs who get 400+ pts a month already have your incentive to use the market.
People are ******** about free stuff for people who don't pay a cent for this game.
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If they made an option to resize that part of the window and sold it in the paragon market for 5000 points I would likely still buy it.
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Originally Posted by Edana
This is why I did claim mine, I already have a pile of them taking up space so one more doesn't add any more clutter.
Character Items is almost completely unusable though. I'll likely never use any of my team/dual inspirations or temp powers because they're items I can't remember the names of half way down a 58 line alphabetical list in a 4.5 line tall window that doesn't resize. |
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I agree, and let me throw in my praise for the condescension, too. Well-done condescension is infinitely more entertaining to read than the inevitable complaints about how it's not Friday where I live or I hate this free thing you're offering me that I'm under no obligation to accept. More condescension, please!|
Originally Posted by Agent White
Way to be condescending.
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And thanks yet again for the free thing, Paragon Studios!
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theres Ape Pancakes??? are they free?
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
For instance, if somebody went completely ape pancakes .
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as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.
This week's Freebie Friday offering is live, and will be available until 4:00pm PDT tomorrow afternoon!
Freebie Friday is a new test program in the Paragon Market where all players, Free, Premium and VIP, can claim (only once per offer) a random free item! The item could be almost anything currently available in the Paragon Market and will change every week! Currently, we plan for each promotional item to be available for 24 hours. For the trial run, we'll be putting the item up at 4:00 PM PDT/7:00 PM EDT/12:00 AM BST this Thursday, May 17th, 2012. The item will be available until the same time (4:00 PM PDT) on Friday, May 18th, 2012. You can find the Freebie Friday item under the "Featured Items" section of the Paragon Market.
So log into City of Heroes and claim your item!
Kevin Callanan
Community Specialist
Paragon Studios