Slideshows, a treat for epic users

So I seem to keep implementing new features that you have requested and voted for in UserVoice and not only do I keep surprising myself at how fast I can get these new things released, but I seem to be increasingly happy with the results.

As of about 5 minutes ago the slideshow feature from UserVoice was released, satisfying a total of 40 user votes and it has really made my day.

You are only able to view slideshows of epic users since it is an epic account feature but if you want to have a look at one, check out my journal or any other epic user's journal.

I find the slideshows very entertaining to watch and I am looking forward to more people becoming epic and making their slideshows viewable.

The next step from here is to make the slideshows highly sharable as either a url or embedded content in other pages/blogs.

Enjoy!!

New rivalry page and the ability to filter rival updates

I don't know about everyone else but I was personally getting very irritated with the rivalry page. It was not nice to look at and I found it difficult to quickly find and comprehend the information I was interested in.

So what did I do?

The selfish thing of course, I devoted some resources to fixing it up so that in my eyes it was awesome :) I am extremely happy with the results and it leaves the page ready for all sorts of extensions in the future. I can now easily browse my rival updates without getting a headache.

Whilst I was re-designing the rivalry page I thought it was the right time to implement the next epic account feature, rival update filters. This was a UserVoice suggestion and it satisfied 12 user votes.

This feature allows you to use buttons and filter your rival updates by

• new comments
• new rivals
• new entries
• new gear
• stat changes

You can see what the interface looks like in the screenshot of this post. Everyone should also note that this filtering only works for rival updates made from now on since I have only now started categorizing them.


Anyway enjoy the new rivalry page and the new epic feature, I know I will be :P

Account pricing tweak

Yes I know the account prices have not been live very long, but I have already decided to tweak them :)

Based on some really useful feedback from users I have decided to lower the prices of both the epic and legendary accounts and also mention some of the features that are coming soon. The price changes are basically a result of me not really knowing a good place to start and also working in a foreign currency.

I hope this has not caused too much of an inconvenience for everyone. You can now all however enjoy the lower prices of $2/month for the epic account and $4/month for the legendary account (when it gets released). It is also worth mentioning that the epic account now removes the advertisements from all the pages on the Path of a Hero site.

Naturally all existing subscribers will have their subscription amount altered to match the new prices.

Anyway enjoy yourself and keep an eye out for new epic account features.

Are you Epic?

Alright after a few tiring nights, the Path of a Hero Epic Account is now live and ready to go. If you want to get a taste of what the epic account provides you can view Gloroth's journal. You can also take a look at the Account Types page.

The full screenshot functionality on journal pages is really sweet and it features some nice effects that make viewing the screenshots a joy. Also being able to see the talent trees of everyone's journal entries is a neat feature and I didn't realize how handy it would be until I actually tried it.

If the benefits of the epic account don't seem tasty enough for you to bite just yet then don't worry I am going to continue to beef up the offerings and also work on the legendary account. Eventually something might take your fancy. Don't forget of course I am open to suggestions either via email or in UserVoice.

That said the account is here for the taking at the moment for those that want to be epic before everybody else.

By the way the epic account satisfies 69 user votes by completing this and this.

I would also like to thank the Path of a Hero community for giving very useful feedback and support up to this point and I look forward to giving you more of what you want in the future :)

Anyway I am off to take a break and run some heroics. Have fun :)