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xcaligax
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So it's obvious that I am a lifetime sub ( notice the helmet ).
I've been thinking though. A Lifetime sub basically says you made the ultimate commitment to the game. You will forever be with it until it shuts down. You can never unsubscribe. So essentially, shouldn't a lifetime user be entitled to all the veteran rewards if they will get them regardless? Does a lifetime subscriber, who can never unsubscribe, have to wait 1000 days just for millennial flight? Thoughts, concerns, gripes, opinions please. This has been bugging me for a few days now.
I've been thinking though. A Lifetime sub basically says you made the ultimate commitment to the game. You will forever be with it until it shuts down. You can never unsubscribe. So essentially, shouldn't a lifetime user be entitled to all the veteran rewards if they will get them regardless? Does a lifetime subscriber, who can never unsubscribe, have to wait 1000 days just for millennial flight? Thoughts, concerns, gripes, opinions please. This has been bugging me for a few days now.
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Especially because they made it already for STO. There you get with a LTS all the Veteran Perks immediatly.
Even i have some concepts i can just create in two years because then i have 900 days for the Avian Warrior Set.
Please Cryptic, bring the LTS Veteran Perk from STO here too!
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Join Date: 19 June 2011
Lifetimers/subscribers have been left in the dark a lot recently..the least you could do is give NEW lifetimers pre-existing benefits to make it more appealing.
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@Pallih in game
This would be woulderful! Get all in the LTS or earn-by-time if you sub.
Marvelous!!
I WANT! :B
I got too excited :b
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Regular subscriptions should work the same way.
However, you still have to wait the full amount of time before you get the next set of rewards, including the amount of time for the rewards that you did get.
You did commit to the game for life, but you got a pretty massive discount compared to someone who's just going to keep re-upping their subscription for life; that other person will, over time, potentially commit more money.
Champions Online: Be the hero you wish you could be in a better game.
They were called Veteran Rewards in STO, too.
I don't have a horse in this race, as I'm not a lifetimer or long-time subscriber here, and I'm not interested in the lifetimer thing here; but PWE has established a precedent over in CO's sister game. If it happens here, it'll probably be via the same sort of method: pay lifetime, get everything at once in the program: no previous time required.
It's probably just a matter of (development) time.
Personally, unless such a thing is accompanied by a REALLY good deal, I'm just as happy earning vet rewards every 100 days. I'm in no particular hurry.
If Cryptic feels that making the kids happy with their instant gratification is important, then so be it. If they feel that more instant rewards with a LTS will sell more of them, then that's what they'll do. These days, the bottom line is always going to be more important to corporations than customer loyalty.
It doesn't really affect me, as I have them already, so have at them.
Why would it be "spitting in the face" of anyone? Especially with that last sentence. It doesn't ruin anyone's experience if someone else has the same thing they've got.
Veteran rewards were added retroactively as well, if I remember correctly. Meaning some of us didn't actually have to wait 100 or 200 days to get some of the stuff.
In City of Heroes, I really wanted wings for one of my characters. I wondered if I bought time in advance, if I could get the wings early. Sadly, no. By the time that I was subscribed for 15 months, I was uninterested in the game.
For the record, I'm not a fan of veteran rewards. I spoke against them when they were being discussed at first. I hate the whole "I have this stuff and you can't have it" mentality. But, if we're gonna have em, let people just buy em all up with a Lifetime membership.
So, I'm good with this. I don't think anyone will be offended by it.
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This was awesome while it lasted
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The real question is probably "when will this happen". I assume that we will get it whenever there is another LTS sale.
PVP is starving without rewards
1. Please give us Daily PVP missions that reward Questionite.
2. Please give us an exchange rate between Acclaim and Recognition so that PVP has access to all "On Alert" PVE rewards.
Except it looks like we stopped having those... Even when STO gets lifetime sales, we don't.
This right here is the reason this cannot happen. I see a millenial flight once in a blue moon, and it's allready too much. What were they thinking making that... and what are people thinking using it.
Champions Online: Be the hero you wish you could be in a better game.
I fully support giving all Vet Rewards to all Lifers, regardless of when the LTS is purchased...
M-O-O-N, that spells @Rhyatt
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!
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The problem there is that they are also awarded for having subscribed via monthly fee; it's not just free with an LTS, regardless of how they do it.
The problem, as I see it, is that the rewards are not satisfactorily (not to say clearly) defined as being a reward for either time committed or money committed- they're dependent on both. Personally, I would like to see the Vet rewards granted up front to those willing and able to pay for the LTS, but I also don't have any huge objection to waiting- even if it does mean another year before I have everything.
basicly all other vet rewards were available by other means except the 300 day. some by glitches others were put in the recog store.