Originally posted by Gadareth

To be honest, I reckon she will come round after seeing you play for a bit and what you have done will make things easier.  As for all you nay sayers out there, the biggest draw for games like CO is they are casual friendly meaning you can play as little or as much as you like without being forced to commit hours at a time (WoW raids being an example of that). This makes CO a very good choice for students or people with other things they need to do in their lives.

Finally for all you people who felt the need to throw insults come off it people firstly its not that much money (hell I know people who blow that much on two weekends at the pub). This purchase gives him something he and his daughter can do together and I think thats a good thing.

 

just my 2 cents

Gadareth

Exactly,

Me and my gf both play EverQuest 2 and enjoy it a lot. It's a game that takes more commitment.

CO is a nice distraction from that. To play on and off and have fun. It's completely different. Different setting. Different gameplay. Etc.

It's nice to be able to do something different once in a while, then constantly playing the same game day in day out. You will get burned out sooner then later that way.

Originally posted by Neiko

Luigi is so much better.

Originally posted by natuxatu

I don't think this game will be able to the problems it has as far as pvp, clunkiness, cash shop, ect... I give it a year... with DC Universe coming out it's going to do better because it will get more attention for having the DC in front of it's name. Plus it looks like much better from the screens.

So in enjoy the lifetime subscription... to bad it's going to be for the life of the game and not your life.

DC Universe is an SOE game. Therefore destined to be EPIC FAIL. Lifetime account good choice if the game last more then a year, which it will. Plus once the kid see you playing CO, more likely to try it out.

PvP not a real game changer,.

Clunkiness most developers work lag issues constantly with the games and this one started off better then most

Cash shop, RMT is everywhere -- aka gold spamers. The company may even do a better job controlling them, as they will be competion for them.

Originally posted by Fkinglinux

Don't really see the need to be insulting to the OP :(, Although I'll admit I want this game to flop so hard Cryptic goes out of business and no other company will ever again attempt to put Item Malls and Pay2Play together ever again out of sheer terror.

Why would you want this to happen? has Cryptic done you wrong? I personally don't want any of these games to fail. The more that fail the less that will be made and the less creative they will be.  There are costly to create and a big risk. we need some successes in the industry to show viability.

CO is a good game and deserves its players base. Cryptic has made a pretty solid game with an release that, while has some bugs, is completely playable and fun.

Why would you spend 200 dollars buying something for your daughter that you know she doesn't like? That doesn't make any sense. If it was anything else.. say for example you were in  Forever 21 and she saw a dress that she said was 'ugly and horrible', would you turn around and go buy it for her? I don't think you would.. it makes no sense. 

No offense dude, but if you really wanted to do something nice for your kid, you would could have spent 200 bucks on something you know she'd love. That would have been a truly sweet thing to do. This.. is just weird...

That's like if my father were to go out and say "Hey son, I bought you a lifetime subscription to Darkfall because I think it's awesome!"   and then I would die a little bit inside.

  Since I'm a fellow lifer all I can say is, hope shes like most kids. They always want to steal your stuff hehe. Sounds like he knows his kids personality is all.

Even now... I wouldn't dare speak to my dad the way it sounds as if your daughter spoke to you -- and I'm 24 years old. XD (Well, I admit that my dad has the idea of parental respect instilled in me, for better or for worse.)

(On a side note, I couldn't justify buying a lifetime subscription since I don't think I'll be playing CO that long, sadly.)

So I ran over to Gamestiop to pick up my CO pre-order and the guy who works there told me about a customer who came in.

This customer pre-ordered 3 copies of CO (Himself, Wife, Son) and stated they all got life time subs. That is over $750 US. That is a ton of money for one game. Could almost buy a big screen TV for that.

Originally posted by dougmysticey

So I ran over to Gamestiop to pick up my CO pre-order and the guy who works there told me about a customer who came in.

This customer pre-ordered 3 copies of CO (Himself, Wife, Son) and stated they all got life time subs. That is over $750 US. That is a ton of money for one game. Could almost buy a big screen TV for that.

Lets see. I know me and the wife got our lifetime subs.  I also know a friend of mine and his wife got there lifetime sub.  Thats 4 that I know of.  =)  Personally I don't see anything wrong with it.

Originally posted by markyturnip

Personally I would probably not go lifetime, but I think it's great you play MMOs with your daughter.

Looking forward to my kids being old enough to do the same thing.

Yes. I have friends who play with their kids, and it must be a great way to socialize with them.

One of the reasons I regret not having children, but then, if I did, I couldn't afford all the games I enjoy.

Originally posted by Lobotomist

Whow, some people really dont know what to do with money

 

Perhaps you could invested that 200$ into your daughters education ?

WTF is your issue lobo? They guy can't play an MMO with his kid without you dragging your morality into it? Maybe education isn't an issue right now, maybe she's all set up, maybe her education isn't any of our business...

Maybe he's just talking about a game.

No, 200 bucks isn't a lot of money to us older career folks and 200 isn't enough to even dent educational needs, it's ike one textbook.

Get off your high horse and write about games.

Originally posted by Neiko

I just can't stop laughing at this Neiko!

I don't think is a problem he bought another lifetime sub account just in case he can't play with his daughter.

For people keep saying buying lifetime sub is a waste of money. You know what, He has money, but you don't.  Whoever people got good job will realize this is nothing for a choice!

Originally posted by Malakhon

However, for weeks I tell her about it and she says "I don't wanna hear about F'n Champions Online"

I hope you shoved an F'n bar of soap in her mouth for that one.

Originally posted by Manchine

Originally posted by dougmysticey

So I ran over to Gamestiop to pick up my CO pre-order and the guy who works there told me about a customer who came in.

This customer pre-ordered 3 copies of CO (Himself, Wife, Son) and stated they all got life time subs. That is over $750 US. That is a ton of money for one game. Could almost buy a big screen TV for that.

 

Lets see. I know me and the wife got our lifetime subs.  I also know a friend of mine and his wife got there lifetime sub.  Thats 4 that I know of.  =)  Personally I don't see anything wrong with it.

There is nothing wrong with it:) Just a lot of money and even more than the OP spent.
 

et me help put it in perspective. IF....huge IF, your daughter suddenly decides to like CO. Will she really play it for 1.5 years? Really?

Yep. Given I haven't been able to play COH since she took it over about 3 years ago, I'd say that was a wise investment.

Originally posted by Dionyseus

I looked at some of your past posts and I noticed that the day before you decided to get the sub you posted that your daughter played CO for an hour and she ended with "That sucks, I am outie."  I am beginning to think the CO sub is more for you rather than for her. 

post #12: http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/3052705#3052705

Yep! Which is what she said about City of Heroes back when she first found it as well. I suspect that in a few months she'll be like..."So, how about that CO subscription?" and I'll smile and say "Oh..well surprise."

I would definitely enjoy playing the game wITH her.

$200 isn't that much money at all. I spend that every 2 weeks on alcohol. Hell i just spent $700 on CHL season tickets and that only last for 5 months.. MMO's are still a bargain.

Originally posted by Torak

Originally posted by Lobotomist

Whow, some people really dont know what to do with money

 

Perhaps you could invested that 200$ into your daughters education ?

 

WTF is your issue lobo? They guy can't play an MMO with his kid without you dragging your morality into it? Maybe education isn't an issue right now, maybe she's all set up, maybe her education isn't any of our business...

Maybe he's just talking about a game.

No, 200 bucks isn't a lot of money to us older career folks and 200 isn't enough to even dent educational needs, it's ike one textbook.

Get off your high horse and write about games.

 

QTF and well said, hell the fact he has $500 to spend on a game all at once shows he's comfortable at the very least in his income. and losers without kids can spout thier nonsense all they want, when you have a common intrest/connection with your kids, we do everything we can to strengthen that. would be great if my duaghter was into mmos would be fun.

Originally posted by abyss610

QTF and well said, hell the fact he has $500 to spend on a game all at once shows he's comfortable at the very least in his income. and losers without kids can spout thier nonsense all they want, when you have a common intrest/connection with your kids, we do everything we can to strengthen that. would be great if my duaghter was into mmos would be fun.

 

Well naturally, 200 bucks is not something I would say is chump change. I work for a living and recognize thats an investment.

However, when I look at the fact I tend to subscribe permanently to a game when I like it, 200 dollars seems like a steal.

I have Lifetime to LOTRO and I've been subbed to WOW and COH since launch.

As to getting your kids into MMOs, there are plusses and minuses to anything. The key is to stress "Hey, make sure you get other things done first"

I have to admit though with the CO launch, I could hardly think of anything else today. This game really seems 'special' in the same way I felt WOW was special on the first day of launch.

Meh if someone wants to spend the money for lifetime sub and enjoys the game more power to 'em.

My personally I couldn't get enough into CO (was in the CB when it started right through..) to want to pre-order it.  Yet as I like to piont out games are subjective..

I actually often wish I had paid the lifetime sub for lotro when it came out.. 

200 bucks is about 3.5 console games. I've got stacks of those sitting around my house gathering dust. So if you want to get on me for buying anything stupid, its probably 'Superman" for XBOX360. The Gamestop guy was like "Its like GTA except you are Superman" and I totally believed him (He hadn't lied to me before).

I have a friend who thinks everything on the internet should be free. I guess he was there that day when someone said "All services on the internet will cost zero dollars". So while he makes a comfortable living and would think nothing of spending 15 bucks on lunch at a decent restaurant, spending 15 bucks to play a game with dynamic content for a full month blows his mind and makes steam come out of his ears.

I think when you put that 15 bucks in perspective to the amount of fun you get out of it (or do not) as it compares to the cost of a lunch or a console game (or whatever form of entertainment you want to compare it too) it's really pretty good value.

I would not consider myself the typical 'fanboi' type. I am a professional who has been playing computer games since the early 1980s. My favorites are turn based strategies and open world games that lets me choose my own path (fallout 3 or GTA types).

I am skeptical of mmos and games and their promises, yet at the same time I try to look at it on the positive side. I empathize with the developers releasing this game and tweaking it is a massive undertaking. It takes a lot of coordination, change control and analysis. I doubt they do stuff 'randomly' or with no direction or plan, however I also don't delude myself into thinking its ALL coming from bill roper.. There are proabbly several opinions on how to do this involved and they may even have opposing viewpoints on how to do that.

This game however, I don't have a problem spending the first 200 bucks for myself. That was a given. I had decided that during beta this was worth the risk. The big issue I had was it was killing me 15 minutes before this deal was gone to think "Hey in about 4 months when CO kicks COH's ass and all her friends go to CO will she change her tune and want to play? and won't it be cool if I can say "Hey, I knew you would want to play with your dear old dad, so I got you a copy." (even if in reality, it will be her friends that probably bring her to CO. Its the user community on COH that keeps her there, not the game so much)

Originally posted by Fkinglinux

Don't really see the need to be insulting to the OP :(, Although I'll admit I want this game to flop so hard Cryptic goes out of business and no other company will ever again attempt to put Item Malls and Pay2Play together ever again out of sheer terror.

Right because it's not fair people buy those game breaking action figures. Which do nothing but follow you around.

I don't understand the hostility because the guy like the game or he bought a second sub. in the end does it really matter to you trolls?

Originally posted by qotsa

Originally posted by Fkinglinux

Don't really see the need to be insulting to the OP :(, Although I'll admit I want this game to flop so hard Cryptic goes out of business and no other company will ever again attempt to put Item Malls and Pay2Play together ever again out of sheer terror.

 

Right because it's not fair people buy those game breaking action figures. Which do nothing but follow you around.

I don't understand the hostility because the guy like the game or he bought a second sub. in the end does it really matter to you trolls?

Cryptic has already stated there will be gameplay changing items from micro transactions, just because they aren't there on Day 1 doesn't mean they will never be. Also, I hope you aren't calling me a troll for defending the OP.