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Rainbow Flight Free Weekend!
trailturtle
Posts: 5,496 Perfect World Employee
Looking for a high-flying way to get around Millennium City? This weekend, we’re making the Rainbow Flight travel power free for a limited time!
From now until Monday, log in and claim your Rainbow Flight from the C-Store, in the Powers -> Travel Powers section. This is a permanent and account-wide unlock, and is normally 525 ZEN.
Make sure to get your Rainbow Flight fast, though, because this promotion ends on Monday 6/29 at 10am PDT!
From now until Monday, log in and claim your Rainbow Flight from the C-Store, in the Powers -> Travel Powers section. This is a permanent and account-wide unlock, and is normally 525 ZEN.
Make sure to get your Rainbow Flight fast, though, because this promotion ends on Monday 6/29 at 10am PDT!
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Yeah some things are broken... no I don't use/abuse them.. where would be the fun in that?
'Caine, miss you bud. Fly high.
If it's to take notice of the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, great, but why not say so in the announcement?
Also, what if we're one of the many, many players who already bought it years ago (with Cryptic Points iirc)? Is it a little joke, i.e. "Hey, we're already giving them a shiny they can't really use with the double XP on a weekend when we messed up Grabs due to incompetence, let's rub a little extra salt in"?
How about something useful, like a refund of the huge price of 750 zen we were cheated out of for the Variable Robot set? Go ahead and re-lock it, I really, REALLY don't want it.
Or maybe lower ALL travel powers that are just reskins of basic travel powers to a far more reasonable 200 zen permanently? After all, you have an infinite supply of the product, and it's basically just one costume piece that provides no in-game advantage. I'd pay 525 zen for a full costume set (with at least 7-10 pieces competently done and properly attached to the bones), but for one piece? No way.
Edited because the filter is a bigot.
Or maybe just "Thanks for the free thing" instead of feeding into the stereotype that Champions Online players are the most grumpy ungrateful potatoes on the internet...
The world of gaming is no shelter from bigots, in every game you will find pockets of "gay bashers", racists( of all stripes), sexists( both kinds) and "nationalists" that will drop every game of a company if it says it supports something they are against. Hence why very few companies ever publicly endorse a political viewpoint or social issue, they want everyone's money regardless of the source. Usually the only time you hear anything about a company of any kind supporting a political viewpoint or social issue is when it is privately owned and said owner speaks publicly about their own personal opinion on the matter, while the ones with shareholders and board members quietly keep their company mouth shut.
What free thing? I got nothing. Grateful for what? We're grumpy for a reason. Actually, several hundred of them.
Also, while for reasons relating to some people's personal issues they're not going to come out and say Rainbow Flight is free to celebrate the SCOTUS ruling, come on - you think it's just coincidence that it happened that afternoon??
Trust me, being a grumpy old man is overrated. Try having some fun and being happy for other people instead.
- David Brin, "Those Eyes"
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And John would know!
Everyone can now bask in the glory that is Rainbow Flight. Bask! <- Link (why is the link color the same as the regular text color?)
[at]riviania Member since Aug 2009
Every time I've kept my "cakehole" shut, it's gotten worse. Nodding and smiling when things are going wrong is never the right answer.
[at]riviania Member since Aug 2009
originalbaxter has a point and made it. Maybe the usual 20 people (me included) who respond to threads in the CO forums could avoid the snark and take stock of the opinion of a fellow player who has been playing and paying CO for years and who is always glad to help other players, new and old alike, without shooting him down and shushing him. No wonder most folks don't want to come to the forums
This forum needs to widen its gene pool because it's getting stagnant in here.
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My first thought was Eddie Murphy's "This diamond ring is too CLOUDY!" routine.
As for :"why not mention it", my guess is that someone in marketing or other branch of management is scared of being openly political or be interpreted as Cryptic/PWE endorsing a political party, so this was the easiest way they could do this on the fly with as few repercussions as possible.This is only speculation, though.
Make more. It's a free to play mmo, people come and go all the time. I've got so many friends that I literally *capped*, and had to delete a few hundred to make space. Probably 50 of them are on at a given time, and some of them never log on at all. 's the nature of the beast, dude.
Seriously, of all of the threads to post this kinda nonsense in, this is the absolute worst one. They literally gave something away for free to celebrate the fact that LGBT people (such as myself, and a sizeable portion of the community) can now marry anyone they want to. And you're complaining about it.
Heck, dude, if you're really that butthurt about the state of the game, go start a new thread on it. Don't ruin this, it's legitimately a really nice gesture on their part that they were under NO obligation to make.
RIP Caine
If you've already bought the travel power, then much like any of the other free promotional items you are simply sol. (Such as the hideout promotions) That is the way these things work.
I'm pretty sure they didn't plan for that xp bug, and they are actively working on it. Coding can sometimes be a lot like a game of jenga. Changing one line or forgetting to add a simple ; to the end of another can have consequences in areas of the code you may not have expected. While I feel the testing process Cryptic employs may be in need of some work, no amount of testing will ever catch everything, and sometimes things can break by simply going from beta code to live code. There is no way to predict what might break or when.
Sometimes, a gift is just a gift. Don't be clueless, a simple Google search will show why corporations around the world are offering Rainbow associated promotions and ads. It's really that FREAKING SIMPLE. So do us a favor and leave this thread alone so the people here who UNDERSTAND how important this is can enjoy it in peace.
Thank you again Cryptic!
Sadly, no, no you do not. Please stop trying to pick a fight. I'm glad you and others are happy about the give-away.
I was told, however, to be "grateful" for it as well, when I have no reason to be. This is not grade school, where a snide comment is allowed to derail a cogent argument.
Offering rainbow flight but not actually having the courage to publicly say why is not an "important" gesture.
I would have been more impressed and proud if Cryptic had made a positive announcement in support of the US Supreme Court's decision.
Corporations suddenly offering rainbow items is meaningless unless they actually speak up.
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I second this. Well said.
Reign in the bickering, please.
Oh, and baxter is a Debbie Downer.
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God, this f**king community kills me sometimes. Meanwhile, STO didn't even *GET* a bonus for the long maintenance. Maybe that's what we should do here. It's in the TOS you agree to when you launch the game that service may be interrupted and bugs may happen. They are under *no* obligation to make it up to anyone, or give out bonuses for the inconvenience. If all people are gonna do is whine when they do, maybe they should stop.
RIP Caine
STO got a bonus
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1191854/extended-downtime-thanks-for-your-patience/p1
Boo to grumpy people and their baseless accusations!
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hmm...I just looked back on the thread to check that quotation. It's not here. Did you post to the wrong thread?
If I have somehow overlooked it then please use the quote function to show me where it is.
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My mistake.
As for the other people you just quoted. It looks to me like notyuu is joking for effect and original Baxter is hypothesizing (see the use of "if"). But they can elaborate if they want to I guess.
Your quote of "But they're just trying to distract us from the real issues by offering up a meaningless token that says nothing about their stance on the real issues!" seems to still be missing.
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I suppose the equivalent would have been if they'd made another Tier 2 vehicle free...
- David Brin, "Those Eyes"
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Clearly, sir, you merely hallucinated those posts.
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Fair enough. I don't
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