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nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
edited September 2013 in Champions Online Discussion
4:41 AM Server Time September 25, 2013
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The Questionite Exchange at the same hour.
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  • sweetnightmaresssweetnightmaress Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    more things that actually have value need to be added to the q store
  • somebobsomebob Posts: 980 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    more things that actually have value need to be added to the q store

    Exactly.

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: There's exactly jack and **** worth buying on our Q-Store. STO and NW both have TONS of stuff to buy with it. We have nothing.
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  • bluhmanbluhman Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    spinnytop wrote: »
    This is my response.

    Click here.

    This is quite an apt metaphor for the state of the game.

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    Girl with guy's voice - Players.
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    All i can think of.......

    IS THIS!
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  • crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,619 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    We can start by putting the lockbox costume pieces and becomes in the Q store.

    No one got mad when they put Christmas becomes in there so any argument to the contrary is pretty much invalid.
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Theres Effin Christmas Becomes In A Effin Q-store!!!!!??????
    And It's Not Even Christmas!!!!
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  • ariesmajorariesmajor Posts: 394 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    don't buy it. inflation stops.
  • sistersiliconsistersilicon Posts: 1,687 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    Theres Effin Christmas Becomes In A Effin Q-store!!!!!??????
    And It's Not Even Christmas!!!!

    I know, right? And they keep the halloween stores open year round! They even got a fancy one in the Powerhouse!
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  • jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,318 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Last night, I bought 750 Zen at 240 Q per.

    Were you constantly checking the Exchange for when the more reasonably-priced offers finally sold out?
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  • chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,732 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    That was on the first tab?
    what was happening om the second tab there?

    anyone?

    as for the Q store,
    vigilante gear- I don't want the same stats on all 3 peices of gear.
    heroic gear- only for 40's- useless,
    becomes the ones they can't sell in z store,
    vehicle mods- only the crap ones nobody wants,
    costumes- got them,
    inflation - no,
    limited amount of zen coming in from stipends and people who buy it to dump,
    large amount of people who want free zen,
    I'll still dump mine on at the same price 50, after all it sells it at the highest offer anyway.
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  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    more things that actually have value need to be added to the q store

    Pretty much. Once you've bought everything you want on the C-Store and nothing else is getting added, what then?
  • nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    You guys don't get it. You really think this is about the Q exchange?

    Its about less than 100 people in all of Millennium City, for eight hours every night for a week and every week going forward. Our overnight population base has been cut in half this week. Down from the consistent 150 players overnight for the last two years to little over half that.


    7:25PM Server Time Prime Time USA September 25 2013
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    The Q exchange when it started was an incentive to play the game, to add value to our accounts.
    The top price overnight exchange rates are only going to drive more players away.
    Who wants to beat Kevin Poe three times for one lousy cent?
  • biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,739 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Okay.

    What is the purpose of this thread?
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  • cptcooltasticcptcooltastic Posts: 221 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Okay.

    What is the purpose of this thread?

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  • nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    It's about the population.

    How low can we go?


    Lets see what happens tonight. Maybe some of the eleven million people
    that tuned into Marvel's new TV show will get their hero on and join our game.
    I'm sure Cryptic bombarded citizens with advertising during this tremendous opportunity.

    I should also remind everyone that this week Cryptic is paying players 2000Q or about 8 cents
    for beating up 30 or 40 robots in the same city everyone has been loitering in for years and
    yet we are missing bodies all around the town.
  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Its about less than 100 people in all of Millennium City,[...] Down from the consistent 150 players overnight for the last two years to little over half that.

    7:25PM Server Time Prime Time USA September 25 2013
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    Really? Maybe my calculator is broken, but I'm pretty sure those numbers add up to 246, not "less than 100."
  • sistersiliconsistersilicon Posts: 1,687 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Really? Maybe my calculator is broken, but I'm pretty sure those numbers add up to 246, not "less than 100."

    A little bait and switch here? Or do you think we're not paying attention, nextnametaken?

    The OP has a different screenshot that adds up to 91, but it says 4:41 AM Server Time, which would be 7:41 AM on the east coast. Prime time? Maybe for Good Morning America and Today. You expect me to run Andrith at that hour? I can barely make my morning coffee in a Keurig.

    In what universe is 91 people playing just before dawn in most of North America DOOOOOOM?
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  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Indeed. The fact that there are that many people in Millennium city at that hour seems to be good news to me.
  • nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Really? Maybe my calculator is broken, but I'm pretty sure those numbers add up to 246, not "less than 100."

    That's not the 'overnight' crowd after prime time.
    This is the overnight, which starts around 11PM server time.

    1:00 AM Server Time September 25, 2013
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    4:41 AM Server Time September 25, 2013
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    I posted this one specifically because of what also happened to the Q exchange.

    This is 1055AM Server Time September 25, 2013
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    This is prime time again.
    7:25PM Server Time Prime Time USA September 25 2013
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    That's the best its gonna get all day.
  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    That's not the 'overnight' crowd after prime time.
    This is the overnight, which starts around 11PM server time.
    4:41 AM Server Time September 25, 2013
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    Really, do you have an 11pm screenshot to prove that, and another screenshot to prove those are all the same people between 11pm and 4:42 am? Honestly, it's been proven time and time again that your numbers are meaningless. Different people sign on at different times of the day and unless you have access to Cryptic's own data-mining, you really have no idea how many people are playing this game.
  • nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I do have to sleep sometime, but lets see,
    930PM September 24 2013
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    Here's near midnight on the 22nd
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    It doesn't matter if they are the same people are not. What kind of argument is that?
    If there's less people to team, less people to answer questions, less people to see, the game looks actively abandoned.
  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    It doesn't matter if they are the same people are not. What kind of argument is that?

    Actually, it does, and it's a good one. You keep claiming these numbers of yours are "proof" that the game is DOOOOOOOM, yet the argument rests on the fact that most of these people would have to be the same people logged in 24/7.

    Yeah, we likely are one of the lower populated MMOs on the market, but the incomplete data you keep peddling is absurd and doesn't prove a damn thing.
  • nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,212 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    You're argument doesn't make any sense at all.
    Doesn't matter how many new players there are every minute if they don't stick around.

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  • decorumfriendsdecorumfriends Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    jonsills makes me wonder about a wonder:

    Last night, I bought 750 Zen at 240 Q per.

    Were you constantly checking the Exchange for when the more reasonably-priced offers finally sold out?

    I'm not even sure why you're asking. I thought his cherry picking ways and spurious connections were well established at this point. :biggrin:
    'Dec out

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  • ariesmajorariesmajor Posts: 394 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    A little bait and switch here? Or do you think we're not paying attention, nextnametaken?

    The OP has a different screenshot that adds up to 91, but it says 4:41 AM Server Time, which would be 7:41 AM on the east coast. Prime time? Maybe for Good Morning America and Today. You expect me to run Andrith at that hour? I can barely make my morning coffee in a Keurig.

    In what universe is 91 people playing just before dawn in most of North America DOOOOOOM?

    He's the only one playing at that hour so he thinks its the end of the world when things look a little empty. I'm sorry but I can only entertain zone chat for so long. Personalities like Caliga and Nepht and MissBehavin can take up zone chat and entertain for hours.

    I on the other hand clock out at 8 and think the op should get a life outside of the comedy club because even the people inside of the TV are real and need to sleep.
  • jennymachxjennymachx Posts: 3,000 Arc User
    edited September 2013
  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,133 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Set a Strategy! DO NOT spent your Q right now, you will waste too Much Q for little Zen! Keep Gather Q but DO NOT SPEND IT!
    Wait AFTER the Mega-Destroid Invansion end along with the Drifter Daily, the Prices should go back at 200-220 (or even lower)

    This is ALWAYS happens during Q Events / Double Q weekends :rolleyes:
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  • kenpojujitsu3kenpojujitsu3 Posts: 1,320 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    jennymachx wrote: »
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  • alexofspades#2085 alexofspades Posts: 287 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    If you look at those numbers and see that 400~500 people are playing the game simultaneously at peak time, you can already know the game is very empty. 500 is a very low number for highest number of users connected at the same time. Even if it peaked at 600 during events, it still would be very low compared to other MMO's. That's half of what we got in the brazilian server of an old korean game (Aika). And it was a ****ty, unknown game with a server dedicated to a single country - you can expect low populations. And even then it beat CO in peak number of players. CO's population is apparently the same of, i dont know, one out of the thousands of pirate servers of mmo's out there.

    But then, Champions is riddled with bugs, has no GM's and no updates, zero marketing, pay 2 win strategy, community is made almost entirely of trolls... Geez... we're a pirate server and nobody told me? That's what i got in the A ion pirate servers i used to play ages ago.

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  • spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Next whatchu doin? :O

    Trollin' trollin' trollin'! Toxic forum trollin'!

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    You need a hobby. Try playing MMOs.


    To everyone else... stop trying to reason with him, he's just gonna post more photoshoped pics (and then fap to them later :O)
  • biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,739 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    It's about the population.

    How low can we go?


    Lets see what happens tonight. Maybe some of the eleven million people
    that tuned into Marvel's new TV show will get their hero on and join our game.
    I'm sure Cryptic bombarded citizens with advertising during this tremendous opportunity.

    I should also remind everyone that this week Cryptic is paying players 2000Q or about 8 cents
    for beating up 30 or 40 robots in the same city everyone has been loitering in for years and
    yet we are missing bodies all around the town.

    Not good enough.

    No one is under the assumption that the game has tons of people. Everyone knows exactly where the game is at. You posting about it doesn't help anything and solves no problems. This is just going to turn into your typical "Your numbers aren't reliable," and "Yuh-huh they are," thread.

    Closed.
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