 The Paragon Wiki Archive documents the state of City of Heroes/Villains as it existed on December 1, 2012.
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Game Time Cards
Overview
Game Time Cards allowed players to play any NCsoft subscription-based game without needing to use a credit card. Although cards were originally branded for specific games (including City of Heroes, City of Villains, Lineage II, and Auto Assault), they would work for any current game that required a subscription. Over time, these games also included Lineage, Dungeon Runners, Tabula Rasa, and Aion.
Game time cards were originally only available in 60-day values. NCsoft later merged all individual cards into one generic card that came in 15-, 30-, and 60-day values. These were repackaged several times as games were introduced or cancelled. By early 2012, game time cards were no longer necessary because all NCsoft games were free-to-play. Existing cards can still be converted to NCoin for use in Lineage II and Aion.
Game time cards are NOT the same as Game Cards.
North American Cards
City of Heroes Version 1
With Statesman on box and a scene from a poster on the card, this was the original time card marketed for City of Heroes on April 28, 2004.
City of Heroes Version 2
Released a bit after issue 2, this card features Hero 1 on it as he was before the events of the Rikti Invasion.
City of Villains Version 1
Lord Recluse is found on this card, initial release was actually with the Cov Pre-order, but official release was Oct 31, 2005 with issue 6
City of Villains Version 2
Featuring Ghost Widow and her long hair, this card was released a few months after issue 7 and stayed out until the new unified cards.
Generic Cards
Released on April 10, 2007 to replace all existing NCsoft game Time Cards, these cards came at a small markup from the old cards but in 3 different time amounts and had 2 different runs in the USA, 3 in the EU (note, the EU seems to still be using these while the US branch has discontinued them).
At $10 a card, these where the 15 day time cards. Featuring yellow highlights to distinguish them, they where the rarest of these the unified cards and appear to not have been printed in the second run in either US or EU.
Bearing red highlights, the 30 day time card retailed at $20 and was the most common card to find at a retailer.
(Depicted here is a first run US and a second run EU)
The 60 day time card was purchasable for $30, or rather, the original price for previous time cards. Highlighted in a deep blue, these cards were printed in both runs, though not in the quantity of their 30 day siblings.
(Depicted here is a second run US and a third run EU)
For the 30 and 60 day cards, multiple runs have been made due to cancellation of several of NCsoft's games. The second run of both US and EU versions swapped out the terminated Auto Assault.
The third run for the EU also takes Tabula Rasa out of the list of games, but keeps the associated figure up at the top. Second and third printings in the EU had vastly different front layouts from the first printing, but between the later ones didn't alter the package other than removal of dead games.
For the US versions, not only was Auto Assault removed, but CoH and CoV where merged into one spot on the card with their second spot going to Dungeon Runners, a free to play game.
European Cards
City of Heroes
Generic Cards
Released on April 10, 2007 to replace all existing NCsoft game Time Cards, these cards came at a small markup from the old cards but in 3 different time amounts and had 2 different runs in the USA, 3 in the EU (note, the EU seems to still be using these while the US branch has discontinued them).
At $10 a card, these where the 15 day time cards. Featuring yellow highlights to distinguish them, they where the rarest of these the unified cards and appear to not have been printed in the second run in either US or EU.
Bearing red highlights, the 30 day time card retailed at $20 and was the most common card to find at a retailer.
(Depicted here is a first run US and a second run EU)
The 60 day time card was purchasable for $30, or rather, the original price for previous time cards. Highlighted in a deep blue, these cards were printed in both runs, though not in the quantity of their 30 day siblings.
(Depicted here is a second run US and a third run EU)
For the 30 and 60 day cards, multiple runs have been made due to cancellation of several of NCsoft's games. The second run of both US and EU versions swapped out the terminated Auto Assault.
The third run for the EU also takes Tabula Rasa out of the list of games, but keeps the associated figure up at the top. Second and third printings in the EU had vastly different front layouts from the first printing, but between the later ones didn't alter the package other than removal of dead games.
For the US versions, not only was Auto Assault removed, but CoH and CoV where merged into one spot on the card with their second spot going to Dungeon Runners, a free to play game.
