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    Default City of Heroes going Freemium

    Big Shock, old game going freemium

    Le source:http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=...medium=twitter

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    old players are premium??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ricardo0110 View Post
    old players are premium??
    That and new players who purchase premium, pretty much like LoTRO and other games.

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    another one bites the dust.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sinnful View Post
    That and new players who purchase premium, pretty much like LoTRO and other games.
    Cant wait to play again..

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    guess there trying to beat champions online

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    Quote Originally Posted by xBlazex View Post
    guess there trying to beat champions online
    CoH >> CO

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    Ugh, I knew this day would come. Yet still I'm not ready for it. But at least I get premium and can play the game whenever I want, so that's something. I'll just have to go buying character slots by the dozens, now. I suspect they'll be making most of their money off of them anyway.


    But from the looks of things, super groups are going to die out almost instantly. If free users can't join them and premium users can't talk in super group chat, are they expecting there to be enough VIP members to make super groups active enough to join?


    Quote Originally Posted by Ricardo0110 View Post
    CoH >> CO
    Massive understatement. And if going F2P does to City of Heroes what it did to Everquest 2, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it quickly becomes one of the most popular F2P MMOs out there.

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    they should fix that.. its kinda odd if it will go live like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ricardo0110 View Post
    they should fix that.. its kinda odd if it will go live like that.
    It's also odd that they'd take out base raiding and never put it back in, but I guess the developers aren't that big a fan of super groups in general.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bacn View Post
    It's also odd that they'd take out base raiding and never put it back in, but I guess the developers aren't that big a fan of super groups in general.
    Base raiding was one of the things that made the game cool imo. There are other things but that was fun to

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    haha "Thousands+" for VIP wtf...
    so many greedy mofo's out there...just let the good games die...

    isn't CoV better than CoH? or did were they always the same? i only played the character creation at a friends house back in the day...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seagram View Post
    haha "Thousands+" for VIP wtf...
    so many greedy mofo's out there...just let the good games die...

    isn't CoV better than CoH? or did were they always the same? i only played the character creation at a friends house back in the day...
    CoV = Villains CoH = Heroes

    but with the expansion you can be both whenever you want if i'm correct

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seagram View Post
    isn't CoV better than CoH? or did were they always the same? i only played the character creation at a friends house back in the day...
    They're more or less the same game with different classes and locations. Although I would argue that the classes in CoV are far superior to CoH due to having actual mechanics.

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    I like how specific they are.

    Premium = 8+ Archetypes
    VIP = 14 Archetypes

    So how hard it is to be specific?

    Costume Pieces = Thousands+ <--------- lol wtf?

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    i don't like those options one bit >.<cant even use he mail or auction house properly .
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    Best part: free players can't whisper. Not like you'd need to communicate with others in a mmorpg anyway.

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    2 Char slots total? Not even per server? They're either business geniuses or stupid beyond measure.

    I'm not too pleased about all of this but oh well.
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    f2p limitations do like rather harsh... But this has intrigued me anyway. When does this launch? I am definitely going to give it a try

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    Quote Originally Posted by Creid View Post
    Best part: free players can't whisper. Not like you'd need to communicate with others in a mmorpg anyway.
    lol thats lame, still. good to hear it has f2p options

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lefos View Post
    I do have an old katana scrapper. I could do this.
    lol same got a 50 katana/regen scrapper

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    ...What the **** is this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Untamed1337 View Post
    I was being sarcastic in my ending statement. There's no way in hell that would happen, I was stating it as a joke because of how limited the F2P user was.
    I have nothing against CoH, and I find it to be one of the best super hero MMO's available. Don't assume something based on a remark so stupid that it had to be sarcastic.
    I even said that I was going to try it when it went F2P, and said I might sub. =.=
    Sarcasm isn't always obvious in text form, I have seen people make stupider remarks while being completely serious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryukiri View Post
    aka not good enough for p2p <3
    no your right the game only made it 7 years as p2p and still has a decent population.

    anyways i dont know how i feel about this.. it is one of my favorite mmo's but with it going free i dont see my self playing it, maybe if being prem means you can get anything the cash shop can offer in reasonable time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mattychew View Post
    So many limitations on it, only point of having f2p is basically an unlimited trial, but worse...

    Not going to even think about downloading it, the f2p has so much limitations i might aswell play a shit singeplayer game, cause that's really all it is...
    That has always been the point of freemium services.

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