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

I joined far too late for the wisp aura, and would very much like to buy it.

Also, agree with all of the exclusive stuff going up for sell.

Oh, and the Think Tank should go in the market permanently. Every time it shows up I miss it.

Been in since beta, bought every pack or box that CoH came out with and got every "exclusive" thing out there except the giveaways at conventions and meetings.

Sell it all.

I suspect one reason that, generally speaking, there's less "yes I got it and it's exclusive and I want to keep it that way" is that there are so many costume pieces and sprint alternatives and whatnot, of really high quality and high impact, that these things aren't heads and shoulders above other similar things and really stand out. Yes, they're nice, most of them, and there are some costume concepts that they'd be really great for, so you have friends who notice and say "hey, that's a cool aura", but it doesn't scream "Look at me!"

I don't know the law well enough to say if there are legal issues in offering for sale again things that were listed as "exclusive", I suspect it depends on the language ("only for a limited time" might be troublesome). As memory serves, the price difference between collectable and regular editions wasn't that high, and came with a number of benefits beyond the in-game stuff. (I loved having a DVD install for the game instead of a couple of CDs) and it's been so long that the present value of that difference is pretty small.

If we had a vibrant PVP community and if these exclusive items provided a benefit in PVP, I can see why people might want to keep it exclusive. I can sort of see the show off advantages for a PVE advantage but on the other hand I want people I'm teaming with to be effective and efficient. (Nirvana is joining one of the old task forces as WTF and discovering many of us have team transporter.)

But for purely cosmetic - give a period of exclusivity, and then sell them all. The only exception would be if a part is actually tied to an event - say a chest design that's the logo for a convention you went to, I can see tying that to that event and forever exclusive.

I'm not a fan of exclusive items that not everybody has a chance to reach. The old vet reward program, given time, everyone had a chance to reach the items. The Twitter Codes, I guess technically the same was true, but not enough time was given for everyone to have a fair shake at it. At least more time was given with the Facebook codes. Other problem is not everyone even knew about it until it was done or even at all.

Just chiming in to add another "I'm fine with previously exclusive items being made available to all". I'm not sure if there's currently any I've missed that I'd want to pick up, but it wouldn't bother me if everyone got access to any or all of the ones I do have (indeed, I'd generally be in favour of it).

As a general rule for how to handle exclusive items, I most approve of the suggestions that go along the lines of: exclusive for a certain period of time -> purchasable for a certain period of time -> earnable/available in-game after that.

So far the score seems to be:

Keep them exclusive: 1

Make them available: Everyone Else

I say keep them exclusive. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go use this pitchfork to fling puppies into a portal to hell by the dozens! MWAAAAHAAHHHAHAHAHAHA!!!


No seriously, the exclusives thing is one of the stupidest parts of the comic book medium. We're in a digital age now and that means that the "true fans" get bragging rights all to their own - everyone can see how old our accounts are, how long we've been posting, etc. Giving exclusive stuff just for the sake of exclusives is bizarre, unless it's done Pokemon-style where mutually exclusive stuff encourages teamwork and trade, instead of just being rare for the sake of being rare.

Look how much more successful Pokemon is than the things it was inspired by, including Magic the Gathering.

I say, make it available for a price, say, seven gold plated diamond-studded yachts, and then have a sale every once in a while where people can get the aura for slightly cheaper, like 0.02% off or something. Then everybody wins.

Except the puppies.

/pitchfork

There are things that I want that I can't currently have (Prestige Power Slide being the big, big one) and there are things like the Dark Matter aura that I do have and wouldn't mind letting others have the ability to get at any point. I'm at the point, though, where I've started to become hopeful yet wary when I see the "exclusive" argument brought up.

I believe everything should go into the store and that promotions should just be a kind of coupon way to save money, and draw interest to a new product. Using a gold star item to promote the game and then locking people out of it is going to make some people unhappy, and some of those are going to walk away disgusted.

I just get disappointed every time I think about all the cool stuff that some folks have never had the opportunity to get, like the power slide, the facepalm emote, or the wisps aura. The Kirby dots are another one added to the pile. I have all but the Kirby dots (and just can't bring myself to do twitter to get them). Also, I have no illusions to think I'd be lucky enough to win them in a random event.

Anything locked away from a player or group of players "forever" because they didn't start the game early enough, aren't inclined to social media, or just suck at being lucky enough to get the random reward, is just dumb in my opnion. Especially if they could make a profit off it by selling them in the market at some point.

Exclusive for a time is all fine and good. "Forever" in a game that encourages players to make any look for their characters, to fit any theme (except for this one thing because you suck nya-nya) just makes no sense.

Drop exclusivity. Let folks buy whatever they want in the market, even if they have to wait a while to do it.

A twitter account actually wasn't needed in order to participate in the giveaways. just a link to their twitter feed, and a quick reaction time at around the 29-minute mark of every hour, as well as the stroke of the hour.

As I mentioned in the other thread, opening up the link to their IMAGE feed and refreshing it while having your ncsoft account window open in another tab/window/whatever and just being quick for that very short window of opportunity could do it.

You could dramatically increase your odds from say one in 500 to around one in three, varying based on how many people were trying the same trick and had pre-chosen the same code that you yourself were going to choose.

I got #3 in the list, roughly 30 seconds before their twitter feed updated to show that they had uploaded a new image.

I wouldn't mind at all. Other people having to pay for what I got free doesn't bother me in the slightest.