Any Chance to Enable VIP for all the Premium Players So CoH Can Go Out with a Bang?
By
ebon3,
Posted on: 2012-09-01 13:36 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I have a RL friend who I've been gradually enticing back to CoX; he joined about the same time as I did and has been playing on his Premium account with me lately.
Please, if there's any way, do this for all of us.
Or alternatively, take my money! :P
Seriously, I'd love to end City of Heroes with playing a bunch before it ends.
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No!
My limited 9 open character slots is the only way I'll be able to focus over the next 3 months!
J/k. Yes, it would be nice.
I would really appreciate this too.
This. A thousand times this. I was about to re-sub my second account when the announcement came, and now I can't.
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I think it would be best to give VIP to everyone for the simple fact that those of us who are current subscribers will have their paid time run out before November. I never purchased months in advance but always left my card on auto-renew in order to keep my sub going at all times. I will be very disappointed if my sub runs out before the servers go down and I lose access to things I am willing to pay for until the very end.
Adding my voice to this, would love to have VIP enabled until the end. My account has lapsed at the moment and I'm gutted I can't record all my characters before the lights go out 
When NCSoft killed off the sci-fi MMO Tabula Rasa, the devs added special high-powered gear to the game and boosters that allowed for greatly accelerated levelling. The idea was not to just click their fingers and "godmode" everyone to max level who wasn't already max level, but rather to still preserve a sense of gameplay in the short time that remained for the servers.
At the same time, they also paid homage to the player community by naming the newly added weapons after some of the most active community players!
Upshot was that by the time of the server shutdown, and the big shutdown event the devs had planned, many players had been able to experience content that would otherwise have taken them many months - different classes, zones, strategies, bosses, instances...you get the idea.
Opening up VIP to all players in CoH would achieve the same thing, without question. Players who've so far only been able to get a taste of the full content of CoH would then be able to at least see the world they'd otherwise have missed, before it goes boom.
The more people can see the entirety of this great game, the better. I want memories of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles seared into the minds of every player. It would also allow those of us with subs to share our experiences ingame with the newly elevated F2P players, and every story told, every experience shared, is one that will live on.
Opening up VIP to all would achieve all of this - the idea gets my vote!
agreed
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Oh please.
If for nothing else than the fact that I won't be able to use my main if I go down to premium.
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I actually have a video somewhere of me taking advantage of the XP booster, red weapons/armour and doing the 1-50 run in just over an hour. Judicial usage of knowing which zones to go to helped a *great* deal in that one.|
Originally Posted by Turjan
When NCSoft killed off the sci-fi MMO Tabula Rasa, the devs added special high-powered gear to the game and boosters that allowed for greatly accelerated levelling. The idea was not to just click their fingers and "godmode" everyone to max level who wasn't already max level, but rather to still preserve a sense of gameplay in the short time that remained for the servers.
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| Upshot was that by the time of the server shutdown, and the big shutdown event the devs had planned, many players had been able to experience content that would otherwise have taken them many months - different classes, zones, strategies, bosses, instances...you get the idea. |
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Opening up VIP to all players in CoH would achieve the same thing, without question. Players who've so far only been able to get a taste of the full content of CoH would then be able to at least see the world they'd otherwise have missed, before it goes boom. The more people can see the entirety of this great game, the better. I want memories of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles seared into the minds of every player. It would also allow those of us with subs to share our experiences ingame with the newly elevated F2P players, and every story told, every experience shared, is one that will live on. Opening up VIP to all would achieve all of this - the idea gets my vote! |
I don't think any of us VIPers would mine if everyone was VIP now and all market content was unlocked (power and costume sets, emotes, etc.).
We can't buy points anymore. Not sure if VIPers will even get their stipends anymore.
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With no way to upgrade to VIP, many of us 7+ year veteran players are left out in the cold with no way to screenshot our beloved characters or play the heck out of City of Heroes before the servers go down. Let's make it go out with a bang!
Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if we activated VIP status for all premium players until the end of days? City could go out with wonderful memories being made up until the final moment.
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