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10-03-2009, 11:50 AM
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Ya, the hubby and I got ours, now hopefully we can convince our WoWers that went to **** to hop on board.

And anyone notice the date that their lifer goes to, mine says

"Subscriptions

* Champions Online Lifetime Subscription ACTIVE
Play Time Until: 1969-12-31"

So, we go backwards in time!
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I doubt they have an expirary date, as the original friend keys that came in the CoH box when I got it in 2004 still haven't expired (actived one only weeks before CO came out).

About the topic of CO dropping in playerbase, I doubt it. There's always tens upon tens of different intances of popular maps, each with atleast 100 players in them at any given time. I played during the day, and also did a few all-nighters, and some of the maps were always locked out as the intance was full.

I'm also holding on to the keys until Blood Moon. It'll get my friends excited to play something Halloween related, and it'll give me a reason to play with them at low levels. :)
I had recently been on a nocturnal kick so when I would play CO it would be kinda empty, but having just logged off the population looks good and healthy.

I'm gonna be saving my keys until Blood Moon comes around, as well. I think it'll add a bit of excitement for my buddies. Brand new power set, events going on. It'll probably make them more likely to buy.

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"Subscriptions

* Champions Online Lifetime Subscription ACTIVE
Play Time Until: 1969-12-31"

So, we go backwards in time!
Yup. We lifers are just epic that way. ;o
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10-03-2009, 12:50 PM
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Why limit this move just to lifetime subscribers? It's not like the rest of us don't have friends who are holding out for the free trial to play the game as well.
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10-03-2009, 12:59 PM
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Superlative!

I've already managed to hook two of my friends on the game*, and I shall use these buddy keys to bring in even more, no doubt.

* - Werewolves, that's what hooked the first two. Cryptic, if yer listening, moar beast stuff! It only serves to addict more people!
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10-03-2009, 01:10 PM
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Why limit this move just to lifetime subscribers? It's not like the rest of us don't have friends who are holding out for the free trial to play the game as well.
I'm fairly positive that they'll be providing keys to all subscribers in the future. For now, I can see why they would target the lifetimers first, as they'll be no longer providing a revenue stream unless it's by recruiting others.

It'd be foolish of Cryptic not to make this available to all subbers. *insert joke about Cryptic's competency here*.
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10-03-2009, 01:17 PM
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dang..nothing for the 6 monthers?
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10-03-2009, 01:54 PM
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Yay! Thank you Cryptic! My coworkers will love you forever for this!
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10-04-2009, 05:53 PM
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I have no idea if the playerbase for this game is dropping or not.
But this "buddy keys for lifers" deal does make reasonable sense for Cryptic regardless.

As far as profits go lifetime players are no longer going to be providing Cryptic any direct revenue themselves. But if they can allow the lifers to hook some new players into to the game then those new player could potentially make up the difference for the players who aren't paying month to month.

It's a clever move on Cryptic's part. ;)
I think the C Store was stuck in with Lifer's in mind. Regardless, I'll be sending my 3 keys to friends. Thanks Cryptic! :D
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10-04-2009, 05:56 PM
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i guess their player base is dropping quit rapidly.


doesn't surprise me.
You do realize that all MMOs offer free trials at one point or another. Typical MMO marketing strategy. You must be new to the MMO market.

PS: Odds are Life Time subscribers like myself probably received them first because we have more faith in the company/[product to take the leap of faith. Or it could have been all the players that were in the beta I personally haven't checked the email/wording to see which.
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10-04-2009, 06:42 PM
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Perhaps they are worried about the people who pay monthly redeeming the codes on themselves when they have no intent on paying. 3 codes 2 weeks each. Lifetime subbers are not in a position to benefit by using them on themselves. I would think they would have some sort of system to prevent this but maybe not.

I was just gonna ask if we could use these codes on friends who had head start but quit because of the "Launch Day Debacle" without them needing to create new accounts and I thought of the above reasoning.
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