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New Snow Leopard Hover Tank

crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,630 Arc User
edited December 2012 in Champions Online Discussion
http://co.perfectworld.com/news/?p=794321

Since there is no link from the main site's article to a forum thread.

Discuss what you think about having a literal recolored item being sold in the store rather than letting us have the vehicle customizable color option.
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  • bwdaresbwdares Posts: 1,522 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    No one should buy it. It is a waste of Dev time.
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  • serendipitynowserendipitynow Posts: 554 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Thats not new, been that way since launch/inception

    What i find interesting is why its priced HIGHER than other tanks that have MORE slots and same stats!
  • spyralpegacyonspyralpegacyon Posts: 383 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    serendipitynow wrote: »
    What i find interesting is why its priced HIGHER than other tanks that have MORE slots and same stats!

    I'll have to re-check once I log back in, but it looks like they swapped out the laser for the +5 Heavy Cannon of Greater Boom. Interesting...
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  • spyralpegacyonspyralpegacyon Posts: 383 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Heavy Cannon, Micromunitions, two support for the same cost as Plasma Cannon, Micromunitions, one defense, one support, and a spare weapon slot. And 100 zen better than a Heavy Cannon, Micromunitions, two defense, and one support.

    I'm still not sure why the flat tank with three mod slots is worth less than the winged tank with only two, but maybe in this case we're paying a little extra for Epic Arctic Camo? I don't know.
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  • lotar295lotar295 Posts: 903 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    serendipitynow wrote: »
    Thats not new, been that way since launch/inception

    What i find interesting is why its priced HIGHER than other tanks that have MORE slots and same stats!

    This is exactly what makes me think the whole vehicle thing was just a money grab. They just put the ones that aren't worth that much in the C store for a price that they aren't worth, and put everything good behind a lockbox by either it being in a box, or in the drifter store.
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  • smoochansmoochan Posts: 2,567 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    It's bad and I don't like it.
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  • ariesmajorariesmajor Posts: 394 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Still waiting for that black grav bike.
  • jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,334 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    lotar295 wrote: »
    This is exactly what makes me think the whole vehicle thing was just a money grab.
    What? A corporation doing something to <gasp> make money?? Say it ain't so!!!
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  • lotar295lotar295 Posts: 903 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    jonsills wrote: »
    What? A corporation doing something to <gasp> make money?? Say it ain't so!!!

    What I mean by the term "Money Grab", is content that we buy, but it turns out to be a waste. In the vehicle's case, they're overpriced, we were promised customization,didn't get it, and the fact the game is starting to seem like "Vehicles Online" more than it is "Champions Online", only new content we've seen since the end of the Nighthawk event has been vehicles.
    bwdares wrote: »
    Trying to make money is what a successful business does. In this case they just charge alot for something that is not worth the price.

    I know that, its just that in the case of vehicles, the final product wasn't at all what they had promised. For example, we were promised customization, we didn't get that. We were promised more than a become device you can mod. Basically, my point is that the vehicles were made along the lines of "here's something that is not what we said it would be, now go buy it!". Other than that, this is a game where customization is one of the main attractions, with vehicles, everybody is just like the next guy. With the exception of the grav bikes, they take off a bit from what the jets and tanks do.
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  • bwdaresbwdares Posts: 1,522 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    lotar295 wrote: »
    This is exactly what makes me think the whole vehicle thing was just a money grab. They just put the ones that aren't worth that much in the C store for a price that they aren't worth, and put everything good behind a lockbox by either it being in a box, or in the drifter store.

    Trying to make money is what a successful business does. In this case they just charge alot for something that is not worth the price.
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  • enixonbbenixonbb Posts: 120 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    What gets me isn't so much the price in and of itself, it's that this one costs 600 more than the Hawkwing Command Ship that has identical mod slots and 100 more than the Flint Fire that has more slots than it.
  • smoochansmoochan Posts: 2,567 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    jonsills wrote: »
    What? A corporation doing something to <gasp> make money?? Say it ain't so!!!

    Right but... this is clearly a rip-off, and no amount of sarcasm is going to change that.
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  • clcmercyclcmercy Posts: 313 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Ahh, so good to see the new infux of money being spent on useless ingame items. Developer time that should have been used to perhaps bugfix or develop fresh, new, playable content goes instead to a vehicle reskin to give an excuse to reweight lockbox drop frequency even more!
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  • clcmercyclcmercy Posts: 313 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    enixonbb wrote: »
    What gets me isn't so much the price in and of itself, it's that this one costs 600 more than the Hawkwing Command Ship that has identical mod slots and 100 more than the Flint Fire that has more slots than it.

    Because someone actually took the time to RECOLOR AN EXISTING MODEL. Sheesh. Where's your logic?
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  • selpheaselphea Posts: 1,229 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    If only I could earn $17 per sale for recoloring a model in 3DSmax... $_$
  • smoochansmoochan Posts: 2,567 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    selphea wrote: »
    If only I could $17 per sale for recoloring a model in 3DSmax... $_$

    When I think of some of the model work I've seen done in skyrim mods... by people who aren't being paid... I just do this .-.
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  • bjoernrbjoernr Posts: 110 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Woah! This new Vehicle has enough content for the whole december!
  • datadaem0ndatadaem0n Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    clcmercy wrote: »
    Ahh, so good to see the new infux of money being spent on useless ingame items. Developer time that should have been used to perhaps bugfix or develop fresh, new, playable content goes instead to a vehicle reskin to give an excuse to reweight lockbox drop frequency even more!

    Developer time would require us to have Devs.....does ay one know how many we actually have ? it cant be more then a skeleton crew....you know our poor Community Rep and a few people to push buttons to do server maintenance and turn on "events".
  • serendipitynowserendipitynow Posts: 554 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I think the entire CO team (not just devs) could go on a works outing in a small family car...
  • xcaligaxxcaligax Posts: 1,096 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    All we get is "fluff" now a days. Our days of content are gone until NWN finishes. Even when that happens though, further zone additions and the like are...eh...
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  • hyperstrikecohhyperstrikecoh Posts: 470 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I can sum it up in twelve words.

    Vehicles? *SNORE* Call me when it's something that's actually worthwhile.
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  • meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,967 Arc User1
    edited December 2012
    Ah, yesss... Better to make a tank-shaped, overpriced pile of sh***t and sell it to maybe... Five players, than to make vehicles customisable, or practically usable, thus wanted by more players.
    This his how CrAptic is in touch with their players.

    CrAptic is one of the worst game developers ever and if there is someone who claims otherwise, this person is only a pathetic, brain-washed fanboi and can't be taken seriously.

    Guys, if you can't do better, and lately we have every proof that you can't, just spare us an even more embarassment - either sell this game to the somebody competent, like you did with CoX, or shut it down.
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  • fantasycharacterfantasycharacter Posts: 457 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    It's not a POS. It's clearly an attempt to create more interest in the Canada zone.:rolleyes:

    I heard the Snowbirds will be using these in their next aerial.
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Come on, guys!
    It's new coloring.
    Awesome!
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  • cybersoldier1981cybersoldier1981 Posts: 2,501 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    This is one of those "You had this much time, and this is all you were able to do?" situations that usually ends with someone cleaning out a desk and trying to figure out how they're going to explain it to their wife.
  • serendipitynowserendipitynow Posts: 554 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    As long as CO is still going the devs have a job - there isnt enough staff to fire anyone without not being able to run it!
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