If they put Dark Aura up for sale would you mind Wisp Aura going for sale too?

I know I see the Wisp Aura a TON and it was a promotional thing. With the ordeal behind the Tweet code Thursdays and the Dark Matter Aura a lot of people want it for sale. However, so far they have said no since its a promotional item.

So how would you feel if as a compromised they released the Wisp Aura for sale? I think it would sell fairly well as I see a LOT of people using this aura.

Thoughts?

how they did the wisps aura was still better than this, the wisps aura EVERY player had a fair shot at cause all they had to do was start using the new launcher sooner than required

with the twitter promotional codes its basically whoever can enter it the fastest and who has the fastest most reliable internet

I got the wisps aura through the original way and I know I wouldn't mind at all if more people got it. More things for more people is my philosophy - nothing is diminished by sharing in my eyes. I like people to have as many tools as they can to create awesome costumes for me to look at.

I have the Wisp aura, and I like it.

It sucks though, to have someone ask me "What aura is that? How do I get it?", and I have to tell them that they can't get it any more. It REALLY sucked when it was a friend that asked me that. It made me feel kind of guilty, I had something in the game that they'd never get to use, and they simply weren't playing at the time they could have gotten it (RL issues).

I very much want them to put it up for sale.

Considering it has been quite some time since we switched to the NCSoft launcher, it wouldn't bother me in the least for the wisp aura to go on sale. Honestly, I'd forgotten that was how it was unlocked to begin with.

The thing about these types of exclusives, I've always felt they should be timed. A few people get their hands on it and its like saying look what you can get in a few months. Especially if it was given out in a way that we can longer repeat, like how the wisp aura was given out. For the same matter I'd like to see the items given recently put on the market, the Zeus and Tartarus mask and cosmic aura. I couldn't keep my account VIP the entire time, I can now thanks to a promotion at work, but at the time of the promo my wife and I could only keep one of our accounts active at a time so we'd switch back and forth on whose account was VIP during that time.

In short, I want these pieces they give away to be available to all at some point. It doesn't have to be right now, just some day. If I never get them, no sweat. Its a game, and they put out plenty I will buy. If they put things like Dark Matter aura, Cosmic aura or the face masks up for sale, I'll buy those too.

I wouldn't mind if *any* exclusives I've acquired through various means over the years were made available to everyone.

After a year of exclusivity, items such as Wisp and Dark Matter that people missed should be purchasable.

Two years later, earnable in-game.

What? Give it up for free?!! Yes, cause the train of exclusive items can relatively easily keep popping up fortnightly becoming a gravy train.

I agree I wouldn't mind if the loyalty things eventually went on sale. Exclusive for a year and sold thereafter I am fine... or maybe 2 years later.

Maybe if we raise enough voices here Zwil will take note and pass our concerns on. I just wonder if there is any legal problems?

I know the Prestige Power Slide has a legal issue tied to it and can never be released.

I honestly wouldn't care one little bit if the wisps aura went up for sale in the Paragon Market. Not one little bit. It's not like I was promised life long, exclusive use when I got it, being assured I'd never have to share with "noobs".

I would be completely chill with it and the Dark Matter aura going up for sale- let those who snag it free enjoy their new exclusive freebie for a little while, then put it up for sale for the rest of us.

I don't even bother with twitter thursdays. I know I'll likely not be fast enough to snag one of the incredibly limited number of codes, so the heck with it. I don't need the stress and button mashing.

I like exclusives, I like them a lot and I think they'll always have a place in social games, but none of the supporting studies I've read have tracked or considered the benefits of individual exclusive items over the long term. It's also been a couple years since I've read a study on them at all and the landscape has changed in the industry. But I think I agree with those who would prefer the exclusivity of these perks to be timed. I have an unfounded suspicion that exclusive items in games like City of Heroes, as wonderful as they are, do lose their benefit over time for the average player, both the have and the have-not. It's easy to suspect by reading occasional threads like this one that we have these perks that were great in their day because they helped sell a pre-order or special edition; but now, the way they're packaged, I don't know, maybe they're causing the studio a disservice. They're a resource that takes money and time to make, but can no longer be monetized, and they inevitably lose value in the eyes of the players who own them while creating a negative experience for players who don't. Candy for the players today, poison for the studio tomorrow.

I thought it was great how dual pistols and demon summoning were handled.

Add me to the list of people that would not be bothered by putting it all in the store and letting people have the freedom to buy want they want

I hear GEN-Y whining - where's my shiny trophy too......

I like the exclusivity of my Prestige Power slide and Cape of the Four Winds, thankyouverymuch! I was around then and paid a premium investing in this game (again) based on the perks in those packages, which were advertised as exclusive.

Enough with entitlement....old items that were exclusive should remain that way. Want to adopt a new philosophy for new promotional items going forward, maybe consider it. But, there is value to uniqueness though....

Desire for an item rarely drives people away -- going back on your word (as some suggest Paragon should, by giving things away previously advertised as exclusive) 1.) damages Paragon's credibility and reputation to some extent and 2.) generates negativity in those who had an inherent exclusivity to those items through previous transaction.