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<div class="subhead"> Announcing Character Transfer and Rename Testing </div> <div class="newsdateFull"> Tuesday, July 17, 2007 </div> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Starting on Tuesday, July 17<sup>th</sup>,the Training Room Test Server will have two new game features enabledfor testing: Character Transfer and Character Rename. CharacterTransfer will allow customers to move characters from one server toanother. Character Rename will allow customers to rename a selectedcharacter. Both of these features are not part of Issue 10: Invasion.Although we are beginning to test them, we anticipate that they willnot be enabled on the live service until after the launch of Issue 10.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Weestimate that both features, Character Transfer and Character Rename,will carry a transaction fee of $9.99 each per use (there will be nofee for transfers to or renames on the Training Room). Should aCharacter Transfer have a name conflict on the destination server, afree Character Rename will be made available to resolve the conflictand rename the moving character.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thesenew features exemplify our commitment to improve the quality of theCity of Heroes experience. We feel the price of these features isenough to prevent potential abuse, but also reasonable enough to not beprohibitive for those who want to improve their gaming experience bymoving servers or changing a character name. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">IMPORTANT!Customers who are interested in taking advantage of the CharacterTransfer service should know that it is possible in the future that wemay make changes to the game that would remove the need to Transferservers. One example of such a change would be a “server-less” gameconfiguration where all players can group with anyone, without therestriction of which server they play on. We are not committing tothis “server-less” configuration, and in fact there are no plans toimplement a “server-less” environment this calendar year, but becausewe are charging a fee for these services, it is important that ourplayers understand that the possibility exists. We want to be veryclear in this regard so that those who do decide to make use of aServer Transfer, when it becomes available, understand that they maynot need it in the future. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Forthose interested in assisting with the testing efforts of CharacterTransfer and Character Rename, keep your eye on the Official City ofHeroes Training Room Forum for further details. Thank you for your continued support.</span></p>
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