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Sweet! sign me up. Tokens here I come.

If I go ahead and rassle him 5 times, can I go ahead and get the rest of my tokens for the year?

Sweet. it worked

My fiddling in Mids' makes think that way too for brutes anyway. I would like to have IS too, but there're too many other powers that are more useful.

For the reasons you note, perhaps they will offer purchasable customizations one day.

There are a lot of character concepts that would benefit from open handed attacks down with a clawed hand instead of attached blades.

Sell the alternate animations then.
Isn't that what the Paragon Market is for?

I have more than one character that I built largely with lvl 25 and lvl 27 IOs. The difference in the stats between those levels and the max level IO for the sets are real, but not large enough to be worth more than being able to mal down. A lot of the smallness of the differences is due to ED.

That's an important and powerful caveat.

That's a fascinating tidbit that appreciably ups their value in my eyes.

Are we SURE about this?

because you don't have that option atm

I thought I saw a screenie of BaBs goofing off somewhere standing horizontally on the vertical surface of a building to make a point about something or another.
Does anyone else remember that one that's in the memory hole somewhere?

I don't think it's related to a company's seriousness so much as to the ease with which a consumer can find an acceptable substitute for a company's product. I mentioned elsewhere that if we could pick up our toons and leave to play our toons somewhere else, then the MMO industry would be as responsive as other industries in a similar situation.

As per your example, you could have gotten glasses that were more or less just as acceptable to you at a different place of business.
But you can't play CoX anywhere else but here.

Iirc, you wont get those until next month

Well, besides the waiting, you also get access to incarnate content and access to Exalted and maybe one or two other things that you can't buy with points. I think. I haven't checked any list to see the details. Maybe there's some more stuff, idk.

Other than that it seems most everything else is purchasable.

I am having the same thoughts about subscribing.

Because premiums get their points right away, they are able to get more value out of their point because they have more time to play with what they can buy with them.
Getting my entire allotment of points in a lump means that for all of the next year, I will be able to enjoy w/e I want to buy with point as soon as it come available. I will be able to enjoy the items for the entire duration. That means more value, imho, since I will be able to have more enjoyment of the items [more time to enjoy the items].

I'd love to see the devs live up to the challenge that they have given themselves by making a subscription more worthwhile than a big pile of points by adding so much more [/i]useful and appealing[/i] "content" that "comes with" VIP [as opposed to available for purchase by VIP] that it's silly not to be a subscriber.
I had some ideas the other day, not for items but strategies, but I have forgotten them at the moment.

So we should already have October's tokens?

Any minute now

They have in effect a monopoly on w/e their game is. If you want to play CoX there's nowhere else in the world where you can get it.
That's some of what separates this industry from other service industries. In many other industries, the products and services are more easily or more adequately substitutable. Part of what makes MMOs less fungible than some other services is the investment in our characters. It's not just the awards an rewards that our toons have earned--those could theoretically be added to a new char somewhere else--but the learning curve and time spent acquiring information, experience and technique that is often very context specific to the game in which it was acquired.


That all implies an interesting business model for MMOs--what if NCSoft or Paragon or whoever, licensed their MMO to different franchises who administered the game? You could play Company A's MMO1 or company B's MMO1 where company A and company B would be platform providers of a sort perhaps providing a platform for games from multiple MMO makers.

Beauty would take breath if I could arise each day to look upon the waste I had laid to the world.

I think, but I may be mistaken, that if you have enough tokens, you can access these things w/o having to buy the licenses.

I have every intention to take a look at this option as well.
Upon cursory examination, it looks like an acceptable trade-off.

14,000 pts buys a lot of stuff for someone who is tier nine.