Waiting isn’t fun, and we don’t think you should have to do it. Any time the server is queued, you’ll go to the front of it. Wow... I guess I'm glad I cancelled my sub, since the queue is no longer a queue. If I'm, say, #5 of 80, I may still have to wait for 20-30 people to log off before I could play. I guess you could say it's noble of Cryptic to better serve those people whose money they already got at the risk of losing those who contribute a continuous flow of income... but I suspect most folks will just put the "cancel sub" button on their hotbar. Unless they start pulling hardware, I doubt it'll matter much, cuz the sub base will pretty much be going downhill from here. Queues are soon to be history, if they aren't already. Haha, this is true. Put the lifers at the front of the queue? Well, you non-lifers can cancel your subscriptions at any time! In-Game Title
Visibly show off your support. Here's a title: "Lifer: please stop LOLing at me" Or maybe "Sucker"? It's more concise. In-Game VIP Lounge
Spend time in an exclusive area inside the game. This social area is limited to Lifetime Subscribers only. For me, the words "exclusive" and "social" just don't go together well. This is not an exception. "Hello everybody!" (chirp chirp chirp...) I bought the Good Vs. Evil in game pack for City of Heroes, it came with an exclusive "Pocket D VIP Lounge!" The place is always empty, it's the most useless place in the game. I expect the same will happen for this lifer lounge. Though the prison motif for the lifer lounge will be a tad depressing. A Unique Costume Piece
Show off your lifetime status in style. See comment regarding "ingame title". Shall it be a "kick me" sign on their back, or perhaps a "pity me" sign? Or maybe "the costume pieces QA rejected because they were too bugged and broken!"
At this point, it's become more and more a mystery how CoX got to be the not great, but perfectly decent game that it is. It's like they're TRYING to get people to cancel their subs.
It's a good thing they made Pocket D exclusive to certain players or that place would be packed!
Oh, wait...
To give a little credit, when they had GM events in Pocket D, the place was INSANELY packed. This was a few years ago, though.
It's still packed with dev events. Players also often use it for their own events, there was a dance party after an in game wedding that I attended recently.
These lifers are getting taken for another ride and its extremely funny. Who's going to buy all the garbage in the c-store when the subscriber base drops to nothingness? Lifers. Who's going to buy all Crytpics paid updates? Lifers. I hope they dont think for a second that these nice little updates that are coming now are going to continue for free, cause they wont.
Crytpic is greasing the money printer(Lifers). Reading the official forums and hearing some the lifers act like these perks suddenly made the game better?? Its the same crappy game that it was yesterday, just the lifers dont realize they are being prepped to open up their wallet to the Cryptic money machine yet again.
The sad truth is they are getting lubed up to get taken for another ride,and they are happy about it.
That letter reads more like... Hello suckers We just wanted to drop a friendly reminder in case you forgot that you paid $250.00 for a game that you had no idea about. Thanks to you, we made booko money for our launch and this will help stem the tide of everyone jumping ship once they find out the game is lacking several features and that our people skills barely ranks above third grade level. For being so blind and reckless with your money, here's some token features exclusively for you that no one in their right mind could give a damn about. Cheers Craptic
Welcome to the darkside, Ktanner3.
I remember early on during live launch, there was a thread by some lifer suggesting the lifer priority in login queue and the near universal bashing of the idea, even by other lifers. LOL at Cryptic for another PR clusterfrack. Granted, queues are no longer a problem due to pop dropping, but I wouldn't be surprised if Cryptic removes some of the servers soon to save money, and creates a queue issue.
The other lifer perks are yawn worthy. Do they really think they're going to get more suckers to buy lifer subs with those perks?
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At this point, it's become more and more a mystery how CoX got to be the not great, but perfectly decent game that it is. It's like they're TRYING to get people to cancel their subs.
It's a good thing they made Pocket D exclusive to certain players or that place would be packed!
Oh, wait...
To give a little credit, when they had GM events in Pocket D, the place was INSANELY packed. This was a few years ago, though.
It's still packed with dev events. Players also often use it for their own events, there was a dance party after an in game wedding that I attended recently.
These lifers are getting taken for another ride and its extremely funny. Who's going to buy all the garbage in the c-store when the subscriber base drops to nothingness? Lifers. Who's going to buy all Crytpics paid updates? Lifers. I hope they dont think for a second that these nice little updates that are coming now are going to continue for free, cause they wont.
Crytpic is greasing the money printer(Lifers). Reading the official forums and hearing some the lifers act like these perks suddenly made the game better?? Its the same crappy game that it was yesterday, just the lifers dont realize they are being prepped to open up their wallet to the Cryptic money machine yet again.
The sad truth is they are getting lubed up to get taken for another ride,and they are happy about it.
Welcome to the darkside, Ktanner3.
I remember early on during live launch, there was a thread by some lifer suggesting the lifer priority in login queue and the near universal bashing of the idea, even by other lifers. LOL at Cryptic for another PR clusterfrack. Granted, queues are no longer a problem due to pop dropping, but I wouldn't be surprised if Cryptic removes some of the servers soon to save money, and creates a queue issue.
The other lifer perks are yawn worthy. Do they really think they're going to get more suckers to buy lifer subs with those perks?
The title should be "Sucker".
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The title should be "Sucker".
Cryptic: Celebrating 10 years of screwing the pooch.