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Offline SectorNine50

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Re: Suspend Account
« Reply #15 on: September 12, 2010, 02:53:14 AM »
I'm saving 90% of all the money I make thats not already allocated to aces high, so I can pay my way through college if I have to. I'm trying to get a scholership, but I'm planning without it so I won't have too many nasty suprises. Since I may be taking a break, I thought it would be cool if HTC could pause, deactivate, or suspend an account, and reactivate it later. Maybe save the $180 a year.


And I could care less about perks, since I can easily earn the GV perks (about all I use) needed to use the M4A3 and the odd tiger without watching too closely.

Biiig +1 from me... Not that I'm anyone of consequence.

I'm in college, and recently I haven't been able to spare the $15 for this game, but I do hope to come back when money isn't so tight.  As a result, I have to keep canceling and creating new accounts.  While this ultimately works fine, I was very bummed to find out that I couldn't re-activate my old name so that my stats would carry over.  It was always fun going back and looking at historical data.  Personally, perks mean jack to me since I don't ever fly perk rides, unless it's a squad thing or something.

I personally would like to see a pay-as-you-go option.  Basically, you pay for a month's time, you get a month's time, and whenever you pay again, is when you get the next month.  Many, many subscription type games have this option, and it is really a very nice feature and adds flexibility and simplicity to those like us.

I don't really understand why the policy exists as it does now, if it's about server space, I feel like all the newly created accounts would take up more space rather than storing an inactive account that will be used again in the future.
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Re: Suspend Account
« Reply #16 on: September 12, 2010, 09:13:45 AM »
Biiig +1 from me... Not that I'm anyone of consequence.

I'm in college, and recently I haven't been able to spare the $15 for this game, but I do hope to come back when money isn't so tight.  As a result, I have to keep canceling and creating new accounts.  While this ultimately works fine, I was very bummed to find out that I couldn't re-activate my old name so that my stats would carry over.  It was always fun going back and looking at historical data.  Personally, perks mean jack to me since I don't ever fly perk rides, unless it's a squad thing or something.

I personally would like to see a pay-as-you-go option.  Basically, you pay for a month's time, you get a month's time, and whenever you pay again, is when you get the next month.  Many, many subscription type games have this option, and it is really a very nice feature and adds flexibility and simplicity to those like us.

I don't really understand why the policy exists as it does now, if it's about server space, I feel like all the newly created accounts would take up more space rather than storing an inactive account that will be used again in the future.

Did you just try to reactive on-line or did you call HTC? I know of a number of people that have gotten their old name back. They called HTC, and proved the account was theirs with the login info, email info and such and the name was released back to them. I don't know how often they purge the servers of un-used names, but I know the names stay on the boards for awhile.

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Re: Suspend Account
« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2010, 10:18:15 AM »
Label the option as R&R?

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Re: Suspend Account
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2010, 11:45:31 AM »
I'm saving 90% of all the money I make that's not already allocated to aces high, so I can pay my way through college if I have to. I'm trying to get a scholership, but I'm planning without it so I won't have too many nasty suprises. Since I may be taking a break, I thought it would be cool if HTC could pause, deactivate, or suspend an account, and reactivate it later. Maybe save the $180 a year.


And I could care less about perks, since I can easily earn the GV perks (about all I use) needed to use the M4A3 and the odd tiger without watching too closely.

I can appreciate saving money, especially for school (Hope you do well!), but it's 50 cents a day. You can't buy a soda (typically) for 50 cents anymore. My college sold em for $1.25 as an example, or $450 a year. $180 a year sounds good in comparison. But we must add add in anything you do for fun to get a true picture.

If you were to go out drinking say.. twice a month at a bar for a total of say 8 hours (4 hrs per visit), then you'd spend on average (I used mine and my friends alchohol consumption as my baseline. I rarely ever drink) $20 a trip, or $480 yearly. Let's say you don't drink, but you do smoke cigarettes. Let's be ultra conservative and say you smoke half a pack a day. Let's also assume you live in a great state where it's not $7 or more dollars a pack, and it's just $5.00 a pack (is what I can get them for in VA, am in MD), well, that would be $5*14days (we'll even use a 28 day month) then $70*12mo= $840 a month of nicotine. Other smokables would be higher.

But there are alot of good souls who don't do any of that. Let's say you just get NetFlix or something along that line. 2 DVDs at a crack is about 15 dollars, and 3 is about 18. There's AH right there. I could go on and on about similar things, but the basic idea is this: You will spend money on entertainment. It's all about finding what you want most. I'm sure that is HTCs stance on such, and why they changed the way they removed names.

Couple of years ago, you could walk away for months, even a year before they would remove you account and or name if at all (I can attest to such with my name and account and members of my squad). It's your choice on what you want more: Name saved, Fun Activities, School. You need the latter 2, but you can incorporate the former into that as well. Sometimes you can have your cake, and eat it too... But I doubt this is one of those opportunities.

I also apologize for the harshness I came at you with initially. The tone could be turned down a bit, but the point is the same. I hope I didn't carry the tone to this response.  :salute
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Re: Suspend Account
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2010, 12:33:00 PM »
No.  It makes good business sense not to when you actually take a moment and "think" about it.  When people become tied to their persona they tend to keep it alive if the alternative is persona erasure.  If people could "suspend" their accounts then I can guarantee you HTC would spend a considerable amount of time just deactivating the reactivating accounts add naseum.   Therefore when the time comes for a person to "take a break" then chances are they really need to, and the break will tend to be sufficeint enough that when (and if) they come back they will be fully recharged.

Besides, if it made such good sense then it would have been a feature years ago.

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Re: Suspend Account
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2010, 08:02:42 PM »
Not a problem SEseph, I try not to let things like that bug me. If they did, I'd have been driven off the boards a while ago.

I don't smoke or drink, and I'm a fairly cheap bastard about gas money, so I'm just looking for ways I can save money. I mean $180 will by me a couple months worth of ramen noodles or macaroni and cheese, and I assume I'll be living hand to mouth through college unless I can get a high paying part-time job.
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Re: Suspend Account
« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2010, 08:48:40 PM »
Did you just try to reactive on-line or did you call HTC? I know of a number of people that have gotten their old name back. They called HTC, and proved the account was theirs with the login info, email info and such and the name was released back to them. I don't know how often they purge the servers of un-used names, but I know the names stay on the boards for awhile.

Just tried to reactivate online, I'll have to do that when I get paid, would love my original account back! :cool:
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Re: Suspend Account
« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2010, 09:17:41 PM »
Did you just try to reactive on-line or did you call HTC? I know of a number of people that have gotten their old name back. They called HTC, and proved the account was theirs with the login info, email info and such and the name was released back to them. I don't know how often they purge the servers of un-used names, but I know the names stay on the boards for awhile.

If you call HTC and request your old name be released, they will do so 99% of the time. Was what I had to do back in Jan/Feb to get it back, but it's not that big a deal.

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