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[Kathoc]

Hi Tripwire and Fellow Steam Community KF players,

Here's my Killing Floor story... I play Killing Floor on Steam. I've been playing Killing Floor since the start of the Summer Circus Event, around July 6th 2011. I have 176/176 achievements, all perks are level 6, I bought TF2 before it was free. I own The Ball. I will be buying Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad - GOTY - Digital Deluxe Edition during this summer sale. I own all the Steam Killing Floor DLC Character Packs. I'm a huge Indiana Jones fan. I've been pulling for a female in-game character.

It would be awesome if Tripwire could make Harchier Spebbington and Ashley Harding available for the post October 2010 Steam KF Community. I'm not saying just give the characters to everyone or for free, but at least give people some options to get their KF to 100% unlocked/completed status.

Example: Harchier Spebbington, it would be nice for people who own KF and The Ball on the same account to have some options to unlock him as a character. For instance, take the same route as Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad - GOTY - Digital Deluxe Edition, allow people to buy a The Ball Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade and/or add some achievements to The Ball to unlock him in KF.

That way everyone wins, you still promote The Ball as you did in pre-release both to exsisting owners and to potential customers. Giving current owners some more content to re-invigorate gameplay and to promote the game to new players. People who own the game, still spent the money as did those in the pre-release. It just helps people who didn't have a chance to buy it back in 2010 to still be able to get this awesome character.

Example 2: Ashley Harding, it would be nice for Steam customers to have an option in getting this character. Perhaps in a KF Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade or Steam Gold Edition. Perhaps Steam DLC Character Pack. Perhaps some Steam Achievements. Anything really would be better than no option. I'm sure our Steam KF Girls would agree too. I play with a few myself.

People spend money and time with KF, give us some options to get what we want please. Thanks for your time and listening to me. Please feel free to post +support of you agree with my thread. Hope you look at this Tripwire, you know your Steam Community fan-base would really appreciate things like this. Cheers.

[Gregs2k2]

Originally Posted by Kathoc

Example 2: Ashley Harding, it would be nice for Steam customers to have an option in getting this character. Perhaps in a KF Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade or Steam Gold Edition. Perhaps Steam DLC Character Pack. Perhaps some Steam Achievements. Anything really would be better than no option. I'm sure our Steam KF Girls would agree too. I play with a few myself..

They do have an option. Well, 2 in fact. Buy the Gold Edition from Iceberg, or this: http://forums.tripwireinteractive.co...ad.php?t=79900

[Kathoc]

Originally Posted by Kathoc

Example 2: Ashley Harding, it would be nice for Steam customers to have an option in getting this character.

Originally Posted by Gregs2k2

They do have an option. Well, 2 in fact. Buy the Gold Edition from Iceberg, or this: http://forums.tripwireinteractive.co...ad.php?t=79900

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you, but how do you unlock Ash Harding for your Killing Floor on Steam (Steam account) via these two options you've posted? Do you buy the Gold Edition then enter the CD-Key into Steam Product Activation or how?

Originally Posted by [TW]Wilsonam

And our thanks to Iceberg for confirming that we can release Ash to everyone else as a special DLC character after 1st August. We'll confirm an actual date/price and so on, nearer the time.

I see that Iceberg will be making Ash Harding as a DLC character after August 1st. Is that 2012? Will that be for Steam? So it is coming for Steam, just not at the moment? I play from Steam however I've played with people who uses the Ash Harding character in-game. I'm guessing another Steam DLC Character Pack will be coming soon. Well that'll be good, I guess I spoke too soon on the Ash Harding unlock, but I'm still hoping they'll do something for Harchier Spebbington.

Thanks for pointing out Wilsonam's post.

[FluX]

This may sound weird but I hope you get good responce to this thread. I see qutie a few threads like this but this one seems nice. I quite agree with you but I will say it as easy as I can. I will respect TWI for blocking characters as they are exclusive as we had missed the chance to get them but it would be nice if we still could.

[Gregs2k2]

Originally Posted by Kathoc

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you, but how do you unlock Ash Harding for your Killing Floor on Steam (Steam account) via these two options you've posted? Do you buy the Gold Edition then enter the CD-Key into Steam Product Activation or how?



I see that Iceberg will be making Ash Harding as a DLC character after August 1st. Is that 2012? Will that be for Steam? So it is coming for Steam, just not at the moment? I play from Steam however I've played with people who uses the Ash Harding character in-game. I'm guessing another Steam DLC Character Pack will be coming soon. Well that'll be good, I guess I spoke too soon on the Ash Harding unlock, but I'm still hoping they'll do something for Harchier Spebbington.

Thanks for pointing out Wilsonam's post.

Yup, Ash will be on sale sometime in August, after the exclusive deal with Iceberg runs through. You could just buy the Gold Edition, you'll get the character straight away. That would mean you'd have a spare copy of KF + DLC (if you own all the previous character packs) spare. These are fully giftable on Steam, so if you know somebody who doesn't own the game, you can generously give them a copy. Everybody wins.

[MinaTepes]

No.

[aesdana]

TWI said you only got the guy by pre-ordering The Ball. Some people bought it for this reason.

You´re asking TWI to go behind their backs and break a promise? Not gonna happen.

[Mike Powell]

I don't have the character from The Ball, as the thread's autor I bought KF during Summer Event. I didn't had chance to buy this character. I own the rest of the DLC's except Ash Harding too. In my opinion it's too expensive. Buy everything again and gift someone for free, just to get only the character.

[lammah]

Originally Posted by Mike Powell

I don't have the character from The Ball, as the thread's autor I bought KF during Summer Event. I didn't had chance to buy this character. I own the rest of the DLC's except Ash Harding too. In my opinion it's too expensive. Buy everything again and gift someone for free, just to get only the character.

$29.99 Is not that bad if, like me, you bought the game for only $10 and spent nearly 1000 hours on it ... much better than buying CoD for $60 and only play it for 20 h ....

[tehmadcap]

Originally Posted by lammah

$29.99 Is not that bad if, like me, you bought the game for only $10 and spent nearly 1000 hours on it ... much better than buying CoD for $60 and only play it for 20 h ....

I pay $50 a month to run servers that don't suck.

[pie1055]

Originally Posted by GhostOfTheFallen

Funnily enough, I don't hear anyone who bought the Gold Edition early complaining that their exclusive incentive is now gone (as Ash will soon be DLC).

The decision to offer Ash as DLC at a later date was made before Gold Edition was released.

[pheonix322]

Personally I vote with my wallet. I don't have Harchier Spebbington character, but I'm very much a completest. As such, even though I have some of the older character packs and unlocks, I refuse to buy any newer character packs, including Harold Loft and the RO2 upgrade. It's pretty simple, if Tripwire won't let me have a complete game, I won't let them have my money. Even though I have The Ball now, I'd happily pay extra for the character, it's just if I'm going to pay money I want a complete game, not still have characters locked out.

People also seem to forget The Ball wasn't on mac at release, does it seem fair that I, and others, should have been expect to pay £15 for a game we can't play just for a dlc character?

[rickyhorror]

I completely agree with what the OP is saying, up to here:

Originally Posted by Kathoc

Example 2: Ashley Harding, it would be nice for Steam customers to have an option in getting this character. Perhaps in a KF Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade or Steam Gold Edition. Perhaps Steam DLC Character Pack. Perhaps some Steam Achievements. Anything really would be better than no option. I'm sure our Steam KF Girls would agree too. I play with a few myself.

Having a way for us to unlock The Ball character for Killing Floor would be amazing. Seeing as my computer died right before the pre-order started and I didn't get it back up again till after it's release. I didn't have a way to pre-order it. But I still bought The Ball because I love TWI and all their games.

But Ashley Harding, their giving to everyone who buy a physical Gold Edition of Killing Floor. Even if you buy all the content again, and it goes to your inventory, it's not like you'd have to gift it to someone for free. I mean Steam did come out with Steam trading for a reason. You can trade your extra copy of Killing Floor and DLCs for a game you don't have. That's what I'm going to do when I get my Gold Edition. [: Just get the Gold Edition.

But TWI, if you're reading this thread, could you do something about this for the community? We would appreciate it.

[~Ren~]

I was under the impression Harchier Spebbington was being looked at?

I remember reading a post here and a dev replied after someone else made a suggestion regarding this character.

[zYnthetic]

Originally Posted by ~Ren~

I was under the impression Harchier Spebbington was being looked at?

I remember reading a post here and a dev replied after someone else made a suggestion regarding this character.

and it ended with everyone reading far to into it, twisting it into something it wasn't.

[Morari]

Personally, I already have Harchier Spebbington from pre-ordering The Ball way back when. I knew that I would like the game, having already enjoyed the UT2K4 mod previously. That said, I think that it would be nice (and neat) to allow newer players the chance to somehow acquire the character for Killing Floor playthroughs. I wouldn't feel "put out" by losing exclusivity to the character.

I wish I could get the two Red Orchestra characters through some sort of alternate route. Though as much as I like Tripwire and want to support them, Red Orchestra just isn't in any way my kind of game.