Have we seen the last of free costume, respec, or other issue launch frrebies?
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DarkGob,
Posted on: 2012-07-06 14:17 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Well, we got a free respec with the anniversary of the game, in late April. We got a free hat on July 3rd.
So, I'm going to say that no, we haven't seen the last of the freebies. You probably just haven't been paying enough attention.
There certainly *seems* to be less free stuff. That may just be perception, though.
I DO get increasingly sick of bloody-stupid unlocks for costume stuff. Like iTrials, or the 'Only in Super Packs' costume stuff. It's like certain stuff isn't quite drawing the numbers the bean counters want it to, so other people who don't do the stuff (Trials, for instance) have to jump through the hoops to get the numbers up, with the 'carrot' being the stuff they might be interested in (costume parts, for instance).
So...meh. Iunno.
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I have been fairly satisfied with the content that has been delivered ever since Freedom launched. Other than Issue 23...zzzzzzzzz...I think Issue 24 and 25 will really take the game to another level IMO.
We got a freespec with i21, we didn't get one with i22 (but did get one for the Anniversary), we got one with i23 (er... I think we did, at least). Doesn't look like those are ending any time soon.
I don't recall getting any costume tokens in a while, though. These days, I have to save most of my vet tokens until I unlock all my Incarnate slots, so I can change them all to the appropriate color at once without paying ten million.
I'm 99% sure the Revamp to Blasters, Ranged Damage and similar changes will give us a Free Respec in i24.
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and as far as free costumes and powers and stuff, we are getting some of that as "free for VIP" which, if you played before* freeedom, its the same as the normal subscription soooo it's kinda sorta free
We also got the Princess Hat recently, plus the IDF costume set in I21, the Olympian Guard costume set in I22, and the chainmail and leather costume sets in I23.
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There certainly *seems* to be less free stuff. That may just be perception, though.
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Why are people having difficulty with this math?
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99% of the game is now free, compared to pre-Freedom when 0% of the game was free.
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...Because all the stuff from before Freedom doesn't count, OBVIOUSLY.
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And there's a LOT of stuff coming out for sale, so it kinda washes out the freebie stuff.
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I'm 99% sure the Revamp to Blasters, Ranged Damage and similar changes will give us a Free Respec in i24.
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We also got the Princess Hat recently,
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Hello all. Something struck me recently. Time was we'd get free costume tokens with the launch of many, but not all, issues. In a similar vein we would sometimes also get free respec tokens, although that was more limited to when they changed something significant.
With the launch of Freedom, have we seen the last of these?
Now for me this is merely idle speculation. I'm at tier 9 on the paragon rewards tree, so even when I make a new character, they have more free costume and respecs than I will likely ever use. But I'm curious if anyone else may have noticed or if I perhaps missed a relevant announcement.
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