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Starting this Thursday, Cryptic Points are converting to ZEN. Read more for a link to our FAQ.
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"Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?" -Tony Stark
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Hm .. i always see CO and STO mentioned in the FAQ.
From the FAQ:
Q: I was on the Tribble Test Shard and the C-Store currency is ZEN but the prices haven't changed. What's going on?
We are still rolling out the conversion to Tribble and the prices should be updated soon. Please bear with us during this process. Prices on Tribble are not a reflection of how prices will look in-game once this conversion is complete.
NOTE: The ZEN conversion and C-Store price changes will take place simultaneously on Holodeck and CO Live so you should not see a discrepancy at that time.
This is relevant for CO how, now?
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The games use the same engine. The store itself uses the same engine. It makes sense to test once, apply twice if you have your version control under ...control. They DO reference CO in the 'Note' at the end. I don't fault them for looking at them as the same 'thing' in this particular instance.
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Here's some stores that stock them: https://billing.perfectworld.com/faq/store - there's a a picture of some of the cards there too, so you'll know what to look for. The cards say "Perfect World" on them just like the logo at the top of these forums.
Looks like some of those stores even sell the cards through their websites. (target, for example)
well have u checked gamestop around my place theres a gamestop that sells pwe cards
Is there even a Cryptic Studios anymore? Or have they been subsumed like Bioware was under EA?
Well to be fair, Atari was in the midst of absorbing Cryptic when it decided to sell it off. Remember when we got converted over to "Atari Tokens" and suddenly all support had to go through the atari site, and we were getting handed down rules that banned the use of languages other than English on the forums, etc etc.
This is actually a good sign though. It means that Perfect World has fait in the success of their ownership of Cryptic and it's IP licenses.. and wants them, their customers, and their profits to be a integral part of the Perfect World machine.
Q: What happens to the Dilithium / Questionite Currency Exchange in-game?
All open orders in the Exchange will be automatically withdrawn as part of the ZEN conversion process. Any C-points or Dilithium/Questionite that were escrowed as part of an open order will be returned to the player?s Exchange Balance. The ZEN in your exchange balance will be converted from C-points at the 1.25 to 1 rate. Your in-game Exchange log will show the orders being automatically withdrawn.
Does this mean the Questionite exchange is being taken away and all current orders returned to the players? Or is it just temporarily returning the resources, and then they're converted to Zen, and then the exchange will still be open and available to players, but run off Zen?
I think it means all current orders get cancelled and return to the player to get converted, then the player can play a new order with Zen. But the Q Exchange itself will stay.
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All open orders will be cancelled.
If you were selling C-Points, you'll get those C-Points back, if you were selling Questionite, you'll get that Questionite back.
Your C-Points balance(s) will become 1.25x as much (the number will go up), and the points will be called Zen.
Are those going to be removed too?
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Try using an Ultimate Game Card (UGC). They do the same job and they are found a lot of places. I usually get mine from walmart.
My understanding is that when you purchase ZEN it goes into a Wallet. You then pick which game you want to transfer ZEN to and it is moved to your balance for that game. Once the ZEN is, for lack of a better term, "assigned" to a specific game it can't be moved back out for use in a different game. Our stipend points will go straight to our CO balance. Once the points are in our CO balance they are effectively all the same and it doesn't matter which points get used first.
I welcome corrections, verification, and/or ridicule from the masses.
According to the FAQ there is no longer any way to directly gift points.
While not as simple as gifting used to be, it is still possible without relying on any type of postal service.
You could even buy the cards online (again, Target sells them via their website, not sure about the other stores), then either have them delivered to the intended recipient, or receive them yourself and then do the above.
If the engines are the same AND the features are equally accessible, then yes, your argument is sound, here, it isn't.
(Unless they re-enabled it since last week, which I pretty much doubt...)
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Ah .. its always good to have a litte more doom when there is not enough of it.
Better just give the people some torches and pitchforks
Originally players who received a stipend from both STO and CO could use the combined points for either game. Has this changed?
I believe you are mistaken...
Stipends have never been usable across games. Purchased points, yes, stipends, no...
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Originally Posted by mijjestic: Ultimately, though, MMO players throwing stones at each other in this fashion is basically one nerd pointing and laughing at another nerd whose glasses are thicker.
Laws yes!
if only... my 2400 CP from my LTS to STO would be SOOO awesome to have for CO.
Pretty much what Rhyatt said. This has never been the case. They were always separate.
Problem is, if i remember correctly, BattyBatty is Aussie, as am i. We don't have walmart in Australia.
It stinks when i checked the PW site for storea nearby selling pre paid cards... guess what... all their nearest stores links assume i am in America, i'll have to waste time in the weekend looking in stores if they might have pre paid cards etc... it doesn't help that Game is getting closed down due to being in recievership becasue the company that bought it out, forced them with a court order to give back the money they were given as a "gift" so it's looking rather bleak for aussies or anyone not in america to get pre-paid cards because no way in heck would i wish to give my details to PW
Turns out, Target sells the PWE cards online. http://www.target.com/p/perfect-world-gaming-card-20/-/A-12853287
Also, you could consider using a third-party payment handler, like PayPal, Google Checkout, Skrill, ClickAndBuy, or Online ?berweisung...
Or you could use prepaid cards and or vouchers from Playspan, Rixty, PaySafeCard, Ultimate Game Card, Ukash, MOLePoints, or Boleto Banc?rio...
Or you could bill the transaction to your mobile phone via Boku, BilltoMobile, Allopass, or Zong.
https://billing.perfectworld.com/options
On their site, they say those in Australia can use UKash to load $. Therefore, you do have an option that doesn't involve giving CO your information. (I didn't give them mine, I either buy the cards or use Steam Wallet.)
I think the Atari deal also showed that no matter how 'bought out' a company is, it can still be sold off and be itself again. So, if PWE doesn't work out and Cryptic becomes independent again, there's every possiblilty Cryptic named currency would return as well.
There's actually very few conglomerates with the absolute soul crushing power like EA and Activision SA.
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Kind of tangential to your main point, but it's a bit of a sore spot for me - especially recently, I've run into so many people acting like jerks in various forums (or alleged "comedy" routines), then trying to take refuge in "freedom of speech" when they're called out on it...
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So you'd prefer to buy Zen, the go thru that all the hasle to convert them to CPoints?
'Thank you, sir! May i have another!'
I don't. Ofcourse that would mean i actually buy the points....
And i also think that Steve Carell should be locked in a looneybin. And prevent him using his right to speak...
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Well, Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948) would seem to disagree with you.
Incidentally, the phrasing of Article 19 is in part related to why the UN has been considering whether access to the unfiltered internet would constitute a "Human Right".
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Umm, you realize whatever the UN says is just words, right? They can't do anything without the permission of a country to do something, and thus are powerless to really act on anything, and in short, are full of hot air.
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This was a declaration, but it was a declaration of unified agreement between the member states of the United Nations. Universal agreement. And you can sit there and say that these things are "only words" if you like, but they're good words. And they're words that form the very standards that countries hold each other, and their leaders to.
That enforcement may not be universal, and there are surely plenty of "bad actors" on the world stage, willing to flaunt their people's Human Rights..
But that doesn't make them not Human Rights.
To put it mildly, you can try to spin doctor whatever you like out of it, but it doesn't change the fact, that the laws you are trying to misuse as your point have about as much weight here as hot air. Trying to make believe it does doesn't change the fact it doesn't.
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I never said it did.
I said that Freedom of Speech was a Human Right. Something jonsills claimed didn't exist.
The poster is entitled to his opinion, just as you are to yours. Ironically, that's also covered by Article 19.
Not really. This is a private forum, and they can choose to delete, edit or outright ban your post if they so choose.
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The UN has, as I recall, also declared that everyone in the world has the "right" to enough food. What methods, pray tell, does the UN have in place to fight the ongoing famine in Somalia? None, you say? Then it's hardly a "right", is it? It's just pretty words, with no substance.
Your freedom from government interference with your speech in the United States is guaranteed by an independent judiciary. Thus, it's an actual, legally-enforceable right, not just pretty words.
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Was gonna ask the same, been a lifer since launch, havent used any points at all basically, and now after the converstion im down to 0.