Old player, old account

[HighPlains Drifter]

I played this back when it was a premium subscription game, under cryptic studios... Been a few years, anyways I thought about getting back into it, but I'm if'y on my account details. I went to the website, now a different company and of course they have no account of me.

Is my old player account just gone then ? My characters and items and all that ? If I download the game thru steam, and tried to log into my old account, would it work ?

Just curious. Thanks

[Stormstriker]

Also to add to Bread's information, be ready to have your "username" be your e-mail address. I have a family member that didn't do the link of accounts when PWE first took over and now he can't log in with the username after they fixed it for him. He has to use his e-mail address for username. But if he logs out after playing to the login screen the old username auto-populates but still won't work for logging in.

[Ogdibus]

I ended up having my usernames, which were both already compound words, combined. Not only is it cumbersome, it's two things that are cute sounding by themselves, but evoke some rather grotesque imagery when taken as a single idea.

[Logos Ideation]

i just recently rejoined after abadnoning the game while cryptic was in charge like you.

In addition to the foregoing posts i woud add that you should expect your old toons to be wiped. You will have to make new ones; and if your a non paid player like me, you only get two characters to create.

[HighPlains Drifter]

Originally posted by Recreational Fascism:

i just recently rejoined after abadnoning the game while cryptic was in charge like you.

In addition to the foregoing posts i woud add that you should expect your old toons to be wiped. You will have to make new ones; and if your a non paid player like me, you only get two characters to create.

Ah, well if they're wiped there's not really much reason to worry about the old account then.

[Logos Ideation]

Originally posted by Bread-Tan:

Originally posted by HighPlains Drifter:

Ah, well if they're wiped there's not really much reason to worry about the old account then.

There's anything that you may have purchased. (Costume packs, costume slots, character slots)

That's right. It might be different if you had things that you purchased. I never purchased anything which is why my stuff may have been wiped.

[Rhia]

Dont waste your time, the game is run by PWE now who are notorious for their cashgrab and P2Anything bvusiness model. See the mess they made of STO and Neverwinter, Champions is even worse becuase unlike STO they lock original game content behind paywalls rather than just the new stuff.

[Rhia]

Originally posted by Bread-Tan:

Originally posted by Rhia:

Dont waste your time, the game is run by PWE now who are notorious for their cashgrab and P2Anything bvusiness model. See the mess they made of STO and Neverwinter, Champions is even worse becuase unlike STO they lock original game content behind paywalls rather than just the new stuff.

Not counting the advent of vehicles, theirs actually less stuff behind a paywell in CO since PWE took over then beforehand.
Back in my day, Adventure packs had to be purchased and their was no such thing as a Q system to let players grind for Zen to spend on the cash store

Ah yes the famous PWE Grind for Cash aritifical subscription inflating mechanic. Where they pay you wages that a 3rd world sweatshop worker would laugh at to artificially pump up their sub numbers at the same time allowing them to claim nothing is behind a paywall (except that it takes in STO months to grind a single ship)

PWE buys up corpses and attaches strings to them to make them jump and dance to seem alive. They utterly destroyed any fun there was in STO becuase they spend all their efforts on making new cash store items and providing expansion content that revolves around repeatedly grinding the same stale missions over and over in between the artificial cooldown timer they attach to how fast you can earn in game zen.

PWE appologists claim that "nothing" is locked behind paywalls but do the math sometime, factor int he exhange rate of Zen to real world currency and then do the math based on how long it takes you to grind up one item (in thie case of STO $30 for a t6 ship iirc unless they upped the zen cooldown takes a month or three.) and you will see how much they are "paying" you to keep their game afloat so they can wave sub numbers at their investors and claim success.

I played Champions when it was a sub game and soon as it went free to play and they locked entire archtypes and powers behind paywalls I quit and never looked back. I stuck it out longer with STO till the new Delta fiasco and the end game gear locked behind $30 paywalls and months-long grinds.

Yeah PWE is a fantastic company! Even Blizzard is not that greedy.