CoX now has wings

[Brinian]

... as a veteran reward:

http://www.cityofheroes.com/community/veteranrewards_wings.html

The (very short) video looks cool, at least.

edit: Just announced, but not live yet. Should be in Issue 8. :)

[Shotan]

How long of continuous subscribership to get that vet reward?

[Brinian]

They haven't said how long yet. Looks like the vet reward milestone frequency is 3 months. As a guess, I'd say a year or less; that way the folks who started playing with CoV could gain access to them too.

[ArmsmanCoH]

Now if only they'd add some real fun/diverse/high-level content; or get the 'Invention' system up and running. Then I might re-subscribe.

[mentoslad]

I actually re-upped to try things out on the CoV side and have been more than pleasantly surprised. The archetype design and overall mission progression is flat out better than CoH. Of course, I also came in with the implementation of Issue 7 which apparently fixed a lot of longstanding problems in the game.

Then again, after becoming completely burned out on WoW raiding, it's possible that I'd enjoy staring at a screensaver and find it more fun :lol:

I fully expect to start hating the game again in the 40 range, but until then futzing around with alts and the plethora of content has been a delightful change of pace.

[Dalantia]

Hasn't gone live yet, I8 ETA is supposedly Oct/Nov, please don't ask them to turn my favorite game into a loot grind, etc etc.

[Baccas]

I still think CoX is the most fun casual game out there. I'll play maybe 15-20 hours total a month. It's well worth my $15 a month to keep it. BTW, I have a day one account, so I'll let ou know what all the Vet awards are since I should be eligible for each one. :p

[Taallyn]

I think the wings are the 1-year Veteran rewards. Trenchcoats have been said to be the 3-month reward.

On an unrelated note: Did anyone else see the annoucement for X06 that Cryptic is developing the Marvel Universe MMO for both XBox 360 and Vista?

[Dalantia]

Wings are at 15 months.

Saw it. Giggling to myself occasionally at the people that said "omg Marvel MMO".

[ArmsmanCoH]

Cryptic teamed with Microsoft to create a Marvel MMO on X-Box 360 and future Vista OS PCs? Classic! Now we know how/why the lawsuit was settled so amicably and without further appeals. And I'm sure they're spouting the line, "But this will in NO WAY affect our support of Co(X); the Dev Teams are seperate, etc." (aklthough in THIS case, I sincerely hope it's true as a super-hero MMORPG with interesting and varied content WOULD be welcome).

Still I bet NCSoft isn't too happy, but hey, they got the korean PvP version of the game up and going, so, beyond licensing the technology, I doubt they really need anyone at Cryptic anyway for that; and it'll probably continue until the Mavel MMO is ready; and Cryptic shuts down the US and UK Co(X) servers while offering a 'free' subscription (or something related) to the remaining Co(X) sunscriber base. They HAVE to be using the Co(X) engine as a base, or there's no way they would have the game ready in less than 3 years otherwise; and by that time, MS would most likely have the 'Vista' replacement OS hitting the market.

But, for me, all this is funny as hell.