So it's basically just like the old seasonal subscription offers - just not seasonal and with some new stuff?
Printable View
While everyone whining about vet points, have someone saw the new items ? I mean the Dust brigade new items ?
Are they on aoitems ? Anyone screen-shots / links / anything ? :)
The boots are nice. 20 AAD and evades. Nano skills and damage. I tossed them on my Enf. They aren't NODROP. At first, I thought "OMG awesome." But, overall I don't know that I like that, to be honest.
I was given a random part as the reward. If we could instead pick what reward we wanted, and it's NODROP I think that would be better.
The stuff is too strong to be trade-able. Just saying...
Another wonder of ******* - No Balance, No PvP improvements...but more (useless)items and dailys. Yeah dailys and ruin old vet system, thats it who everyone here talking about to make AO better.
I suggest to read forum and make what your community want...will help alot..
Put Character Transfers BACK!!!!!!! No more of this April Fool Joke!!!!
Emma
This veteran points and character transfer drama was just 1st april fool joke people ... March monthly update posted on 2nd April with title "april fooled". Im confused, thanks for the confusing monthly update FC. Normally its me troll people, now i feel like FC is trolling me
Maybe, but pranking paying customers isn't smart :P
They need to bring back character transfer ASAP. Also, the veteran points for new toons is a confirmed problem, not a case by case problem, and shouldn't be treated as such.
Both of these need a resolution, and we should be given a timeframe for when it will be completed.
Whats the reason Funcom removed the claims of the new items for lifetime account people?? Got all the items on a character last night, but today nothing is left to claim on any of my toons!
So the veteran points and character transfer drama is real or its "late" 1st April fool joke? If its real then why put April fooled in the monthly update title? Anyways if its a joke then its a bad joke due to this monthly update was posted on 2nd April which is overdue 1st April fooled joke, and if this is real then its bad news. Its like here is horse sh!t and here is cow sh!t, whats you gonna believe in? they are both sh!ts. What a confusing soup of a monthly update.
Come on guys, you can't honestly think that this is some elaborate April fools joke?
The new dailies from ICC, they are only available every other week for one week at a time. I only get to play on the weekends for any decent length of time so this means I get to do about 2 dailies a fortnight. The forums have shown that gauntlet is a massive fail because of its schedule... here more content is hidden behind crummy schedules. :(
Are the rewards offered by the completion of the missions (IE the dustbrigade armor) due to change with each visit or will they be static rewards throughout?
the char transfer will be looked at didnt they say so? they didnt say its shut down forever. i dont know why people react so bad to that except for that they could given a warning about it much earlyer that it would be taken down.
also i used some days to chew on this, and i cant realy attack and be grumpy just yet.
would like to know how the new vet system work here if i may even call it that.
This new system is exactly like the one they implemented not too long ago in TSW and are going to implement in AoC shortly. Basically as you continue to have a subscription, you will earn new rewards. So 6 months from now you will receive the 180 day rewards. However, if your account is already paid for into the future, either through promotions or GRACE, then you will be given the rewards up front for time already subbed.
It is a system that works very well in a game that is B2P as an additional perk to paying for the subscription, but for AOs subscription model, just seems a bit out of place. Though I wonder if they are going to take a look at how membership works moving forward, as they have announced that AoC is going to be getting its F2P system overhauled. Would love to see a system more like TSW where the base game is free once purchased and then new content would be behind DLC (which if you sub, you would have enough points each month to purchase).
It is a system that rewards current subscribers, not really different than earning Vet Points each month. However in this instance, there is not a choice in what items I can purchase with those points through the vendor, instead opting for known items (which yes encourages some to purchase longer subscription plans). Don't get me wrong, I like(d) the Vet Points system, but then again I have 300 points (at least I should when FC fixes that issue). Newer customers however might have different thoughts on the matter and right now FC is looking to gain new customers. How they go about that is up for discussion, but that is the goal with these new membership rewards programs.
As this patch and its ramifications become more apparent, I can't help tasting the sour flavour of cash-milking in my mouth.
good for new subs, but old loyal subs dont realy gain any appriciation. you are now not rewarded anymore for still beeing here, but rewarded for how much you plan to pay in advance pretty much
Yeah, and that's what makes all of this even more sad/fun, is FunCom going to unleash a mega 2K promotion campagin for AO? Fix the beta client and get us on steam shortly? If not its just another punch in the groin for veterans, and milking the few brave souls who venture into this domain.