City of Heroes 14-day free trial

Post by **Transient** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:16 am

https://secure.plaync.com/cgi-bin/coh_free_trial.pl

This free trial entails no obligations. It does not require your credit card information. You will simply need to provide us with your email address, and NCsoft will immediately email you a promotional serial code.

Sorry Euros, but there's no free trial for the European servers yet. I suppose there's nothing stopping you from playing on the American servers, though. =)

Post by **Foo** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:19 am

Pride?

Post by **Transient** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:20 am

There are other promotional offers in Europe right now. For legal reasons they can't do it, I think. If you buy a certain magazine it comes with 14 days free, however.

edit: http://uk.cityofheroes.com/news/articles/336/

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:33 am

I played CoH, IMO it's way too one dimensional, unless they added tons more things for a person to do.

Post by **Transient** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:38 am

They've been slowly adding more and more things to do. The next major patch is adding a whole new zone, and 2 more patches down the road will be a crafting system (or something like it).

Post by **inphlict** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:55 am

Do you need to buy the game before trying the trial or can you download it somewhere?

Post by **Transient** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:03 am

You'll be given a link to a page with the download. Actually I could probably give you the FTP link now. It's about 1.5 GB I'm guessing.

edit: ftp://client.coh.com/Coh.zip may work
It's 875 MB, but you'll have to download all the updates, which is another few 100 megs

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:04 am

i'll see peep's on there, my Char name will be Amidyfreak or f0cker

Post by **inphlict** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:07 am

I see now.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:10 am

wtf? there is no download link, they only say that the account is now active.

Post by **Transient** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:10 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:i'll see peep's on there, my Char name will be Amidyfreak or f0cker

There are 8 servers to choose. Guardian and Protector are both on the West coast. Pinnacle is on the East coast. I can't remember where the others are located. Keep that in mind. Some Euros say rubberbanding isn't an issue for them, but I guess it all depends on your connection type.

I play on Guardian, but using the Global Chat feature, you can talk to anyone on any of the 8 American servers. My global handle is @Tulzar if you have any questions. =)

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:14 am

yea, where can i get the client?!

Post by **Transient** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:15 am

They didn't give you a link when they gave you a serial code? Try this link: ftp://client.coh.com/Coh.zip

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:17 am

Transient wrote:They didn't give you a link when they gave you a serial code? Try this link: ftp://client.coh.com/Coh.zip

no, they dident.. thanks btw.

w00, 20 mins and ill be ready to kick some arse

Post by **inphlict** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:20 am

The download link is in the first email they send at the bottom, but the ftp link they gave me didn't seem to work correctly.

Downloading Coh.zip @ 105 KB/S should be done is 2 hours but I probally wont have a chance to try it this week.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:22 am

im pickin up 580k/sec, is your connection capped?

Post by **inphlict** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:24 am

Yeah my connection blows, my max is 125 download and 20 upload. I don't think it's capped but aparently I'm located in a shitty area for dsl service.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:26 am

ahhh, dsl, not a fan.. allright, well, gimmie a shout when you are on.. as i said, char name is amidyfreak, account is f0cker. ( yes, thats a zero )

Post by **inphlict** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:28 am

alright if I get time to play this weekend I'll give you a shout.

Post by **Transient** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:29 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:ahhh, dsl, not a fan.. allright, well, gimmie a shout when you are on.. as i said, char name is amidyfreak, account is f0cker. ( yes, thats a zero )

Account name doesnt mean anything in-game. People communicate via either your character name or your global chat handle (which will be the same as your first character name and can be changed once).

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:31 am

Hey, you are just jelluz that me and inplict are going to get our COH on and you arnt invited.

Post by **Transient** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:32 am

Post by **inphlict** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:33 am

I'm guessing you can't switch characters from servers, so I'll probally go east (Pinnacle or whatever)

Post by **Transient** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:35 am

You can't move characters from one server to another (way down the road the devs will implement a one-time switch), but you can make 8 characters on each server, and there are 10 servers.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:37 am

i'll post what server i connect to.. and my thaughts of playing it ( later tonight )