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#1 |
Server: Butcherblock
Guild: Ronin
Rank: Officer
Loremaster
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Anchorage Alaska
Posts: 435
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![]() Krono going live today and the interface for the krono in my character screen is hideous, obtrusive, ugly, and downright rude! This shove it in my face advertising UPSETS me like nothing else. You want marketplace fine, You want krono item fine, But leave it in the marketplace and stop shoving it in my face and cluttering up my UI with things that I don’t need, want, or use. The krono item itself is a good idea but the in your face gotta see it every time you look at your character screaming BUY ME! BUY ME! BUY ME! interface is a marketing technique that will definately NOT earn my business I don't care what your selling! I have tried my best to keep this post in line with the code of conduct of the forums. Now would you like to know how I really feel?/endrant |
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#2 |
Server: Antonia Bayle
Guild: Collateral Damage
Rank: Leader
Loremaster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 582
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![]() I wait anxiously for the fix to be posted on how to hack your UI files to remove it from your sight. |
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#3 |
Server: Butcherblock
Guild: Ronin
Rank: Officer
Loremaster
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Anchorage Alaska
Posts: 435
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![]() I am already looking into it myself. |
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#4 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 59
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![]() how do you know what it looks like already? though the update notes appear to confirm your concerns, i thought it would just be another item in the sc store. |
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#5 |
Fansite Staff
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 5,424
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![]() bucketon wrote:
Krono is on Beta. bucketon wrote:
Krono has nothing to do with StationCash. |
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#6 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 59
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![]() nor do subscriptions, but they are kept to the sc store ingame, they just link you to an outside website, i thought it would be like that. |
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#7 |
Apprentice
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 15
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![]() I agree that it could've been kept in the SC Marketplace just like Subscriptions are. You may not be able to buy them with SC, but they're there and they'll link you to the official site to make a credit card purchase. |
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#8 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: harrisburg,PA
Posts: 1,601
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![]() there most likley will be a new marketplace section just for chrono. i imagine they will be selling expansions for them before too long. |
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#9 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 1,198
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![]() I like how if you click buy it takes you to a page to buy multiple kronos, and it has a sign next to 5 Kronos that says 'MOST POPULAR!' It just launched today so they can't have any sale metrics for it - who's to say buying 100 in one sitting won't be the most popular?
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#10 |
Lord
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 658
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![]() Detor wrote:
lol never trust numbers or statics that companies release unless you can get a third party to verify. i agree though this should have stayed in the marketplace under the subscription pag and appeared in ads for free players to try and convince them to buy from toher players. we need to get this changed now as not to set a precedent for them moving more market stuff in the UI where it shouldnt appear in the first place. |
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#11 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 2,098
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![]() Oh, they are going to have tons of SC/Market place links appearing everywhere. You think the Krono thing is annoying?Currently on Beta every time you die there is an option to buy an instant rez item in the rez box. Oh joy.
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#12 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: harrisburg,PA
Posts: 1,601
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![]() [email protected] Bayle wrote:
im in game now, and the krono thing isn not visable on the character window . im using profit tho, so maby if you dont update your custom ui you wont see it. |
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#13 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 59
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![]() well after witnessing it i agree it is quite intusive. it should be in the sc store option only. Also i think it should be made a bit clearer that there is a cheaper way if you only want to buy your own subscription instead of trying to make some pp. |
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#14 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 653
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![]() You can use drums full UI, and boom no more krono. Just saying folks were asking. IF SJ wants folks who use the non standard UI, they are going to have to put the krono in the sc store. Just saying. That is where it should have been to begin with. |
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#15 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 104
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![]() Lower the cost to 14.99 so that it is competitive with store bought SC cards. I could be wrong, but I imagine walmart and the like make a dollar or so from selling the gamecards in shop, so that would be a dollar saved if people bought them in house. The Krono (plex) idea is good, but to charge 20% more for a digital feature is silly. |
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#16 |
Lord
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 658
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![]() crazyeyes321 wrote:
the drive for SOE to add it comes from demand from us and the extra profit they make from the transactions. why release it for the same price as a sub when you can charge more for the privelege of a safe time for plat trade? |
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#17 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 852
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![]() All the feedback in beta on putting the krono on the character screen was negative... this bodes ill for all the other feedback that has been given in beta |
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#18 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 641
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![]() Mermut wrote:
There are simply some things the producer will not budge on until confronted face to face with angrey customers. SC buttons, Krono UI's, and hiding flying mounts are things that are in that list.
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#19 |
Tester
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 3,423
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![]() The look of the thing they put in the UI is pretty awful. They were told how awful it looked. Far to big and in a bad spot. I just went into the UI builder & deleted that file completely and squashed the persona window back down to it's previous size. No more Krono in my UI. Hurrah. I don't mind them trying to sell the thing, they just need to do it in a more aesthetic way if they are going to put in on the UI. They already have it listed in the marketplace (appropriately with memberships). If they really must add it somewhere in the world, stick it on general merchants. It really has no business being on the equipment page. |
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#20 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 641
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![]() [email protected] wrote:
My guess is it is on that page where it is so that you acknowledge it atleast once per play session, if not much more.
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#21 |
Lord
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 658
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![]() [email protected] wrote:
can you tell us the name of the file in question? |
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#22 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Reading, England
Posts: 2,309
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![]() YUKKK Get rid of it from the character screen - It looks horrible, and by every standard of good design it does not belong there. It certainly won't encourage me to buy them (I have never bought any station cash) Rather it encourages me to unsubscribe Also the horrible brownish red background colour has come back - How many times do I have to get rid of it? |
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#23 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 133
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![]() Geothe wrote:
Are you playing Free or Silver? I've been sending an alt to death numerous times this morning and do not see the option of which you speak. |
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#24 |
Tester
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 3,423
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![]() General_Info wrote:
You have to go into the UI builder. Under main hud find persona > main page > inventory > inventory page> and delete the Kronopage under that & save. You'll then have to add the persona.xml to your custom UI (if you didn't do it directly from your custom UI, which I don't suggest. I suggest using a copy in case something gets mucked up when you are changing things). If you don't already have a custom UI you will have to make one. |
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#25 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 132
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![]() [email protected] wrote:
My sentiments exactly. This is everything I had to say. |
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#26 |
Lord
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 20
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![]() Krono was $10.99 on the marketplace a few mins ago. Now none of the buy buttons seem to be working. Hmmmm /strokes beard |
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#27 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 2,098
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![]() Resstful wrote:
BETA server.Not live, yet.
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Smed: We aren't going to be allowing RMT in any way, shape or form on the non-exchange enabled EQ II servers. Period. End of statement. Smed: 5) This [LoN] is not some slippery slope towards selling items directly in EQ & EQ II. Lie #3: Station Cash. Enough Said. |
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#28 |
Lord
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 12
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I agree with you, this is pretty offensive and insulting and it almost makes me feel like SOE sells people their characters now adays instead of us all playing together and earning our status the old fashion way.. |
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#29 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 133
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![]() Geothe wrote:
Just got BACK on BETA where I'd been suiciding an alt and decided to create a new alt for suiciding. Still don't see that option in the revive window. Maybe one has to be 92 or higher? I'm using the default ui in Beta so not sure why I wouldn't see it. Also I'm on a gold account so figure I'd get more requests for purchasing options....then again, maybe not. |
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#30 |
Loremaster
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 14
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![]() [email protected] wrote: . . . I use the Default (Blue) UI and noticed some "red" in it now - like the character screen and on the right-click drop down, just to name a few. I'm presuming the above quote is in relation to that. [email protected] wrote:
This was very good advice . . . after taking a crack at the UI Builder and following the above instructions, I was able to remove the Chrono from my character screen, however, my buttons on the left side dissappear as well. I know minimal about UI modding, so I'm not sure where the problem is. |
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