Some of us were chatting about precisely this dilemma (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=10392241&Main=10392241#Post10392241) while in-game yesterday. Looks like it may come true, and that right soon! :thumbup:
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Hm, purchasable character slots? At $10 a slot, probably.
I doubt I'd do that... but maybe on Freedom...?
I imagine there'd be some kind of limitation on it, some maximum number of slots.
Quote from: BlueBard on March 14, 2008, 12:52:50 PM
Hm, purchasable character slots? At $10 a slot, probably.
To me, buying a new slot for $10 is cheaper than transferring a character. I'd pay $10 in a heartbeat.
I'm a noob. I still have 6 slots on Freedom and 9 on Virtue. The other servers are pretty much completely empty (minus the AFBL toons on Liberty). I don't have any use for extra slots yet but I know plenty of people will have use for them.
If NCsoft makes these affordable and easy to set up, they are set to make a mint. Enough money to keep us from having to pay for an expansion any time soon.
-MJB
Yay!
I still think free extra slots should also be available as vet rewards, though... After all, it's the people who have been playing for a while who are most likely to need them.
$10 each would seem likely, but I'd love to see a "2 for $15" kind of deal offered. Or a vet reward, that would make the most sense.
While giving away character slots to veterans would be a nice thing to do it just won't happen IMO.
Veterans who have been around for 48+ months are the primary consumer for this service. Giving them slots for free would be silly when they can charge a fee. Most who have complained about slots would pony up regardless.
NCsoft is looking for ways to pad their wallet for future gaming ventures. CoX is the foundation for all that is to come. They'll still treat us to a couple free issues a year but they will also pepper us with costume packs, emotes and character slots to keep the moolah rolling in.
-MJB
Quote from: MJB on March 15, 2008, 09:57:18 PM
While giving away character slots to veterans would be a nice thing to do it just won't happen IMO.
Veterans who have been around for 48+ months are the primary consumer for this service. Giving them slots for free would be silly when they can charge a fee. Most who have complained about slots would pony up regardless.
NCsoft is looking for ways to pad their wallet for future gaming ventures. CoX is the foundation for all that is to come. They'll still treat us to a couple free issues a year but they will also pepper us with costume packs, emotes and character slots to keep the moolah rolling in.
-MJB
Yes, but I think most of us would still end up buying additional slots, even if we had one or two vet reward slots. Giving slots as vet rewards might even make players more likely to stick around long enough to want even more slots.
Thanks to that nice "vacation" I took for a couple years, I've got a LOOOOONG way to go before any of the cooler vet awards are available to me.
On the other hand, I don't think I'd EVER pay for more slots.
Hmmm....$10 per additional character slot?
Just think, for the low, low price of $1000 Alaric could transfer all his characters to Freedom. :P
TBH I'd use the utility but I balk at paying more than 5 bucks for it.
10 dollars so i can spend months playing a character that already supplies COH with $15 a month? no thanks.
I figure they have to price it the same way they do transfers, which is why I'm saying $10. It's the difference between "do I start over?" or "do I transfer?".
Of course some folks will probably buy slots for the express purpose of doing transfers, so I'd expect Freedom to become very, very busy very, very soon.