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The thing is that the money I spent, a yearly subscription, which is now being applied to Freedom, was spent in a chunk.
I am receiving less value for that money than if I had held on to it and spent it today.
The decreased value comes, in part, from having less time to enjoy the fruits of that expenditure--I could be playing w/ w/e things from the Store atm if I had not given them the money in advance.
But, because I gave them the money in advance, the amount of time I have to enjoy the items from the store is decreased because I cannot purchase the items for months to come even though I paid for the points to spend before the people who waited until now to pay.
So, annual subscribers are getting less value for their money than those who waited until now to give NCSoft their cash.

I may be mistaken, but I think that this is, in part, what the OP was addressing.

I haven't done any of the new stuff yet. But I know where I will start now.

For hero stories, you can't have a good story w/o a great bad guy.

I still don't think it's a question of what "fair" or "right."

Most places make these sorts of policy decisions based on more pragmatic principles.

tbh, I "own" a lot of stuff i have no idea that I "own" because I bought packs for one or two items in them.
I can't tell you what all costume parts or auras or emotes that I already have.

I have held off spending some money on the PM because it seems I need to engage in a multi-step process to keep myself from making purchasing mistakes in a system that doesn't offer easy access to refunds.
Sure there're work-a-rounds and other stuff. But, I will not be bothered to go through that.

So that leaves us where I can be content with what I have, or the PM can be adjusted to make it more likely that I spend more money.

How important is or how much of an impact does "deserve" in this instance?

For many customer interactions, deserve has nothing to do with it. The issue is decided on some other criterion/ia.

I am beginning to think that no one really knows

Super Nigel: You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at damage cap. You're at cap here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're at damage cap on your brute, on your blaster. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiSpider: I don't know.
Super Nigel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven?
Super Nigel: Eleven. Exactly. You get -res. Then your team goes to eleven.

sonics is useful
it's under rated
people are ignorant
water is wet

I am eagerly anticipating the arrival of my points. I am very interested in the content in this thread.
I had been hoping that the points would arrive at the beginning of October.
Then I hoped they would arrive on my billing renewal date, which is today--which is not over yet.

Some people are saying that we won't get our points for October until November. Which is fine. w/e.
I am not sure what's going to happen nor what's been said should happen.


anne tissa payshun

I am paid to be rude.

Energy melee is very, very average and unexceptional. Except it may have the longest animation times, idk.

You should probably stay away from secondaries that require you to mash buttons, like regen as a fair amount of your combat time can be spent waiting for animations to finish. Since it can be >3 sec from start to finish, you don't want to need to activate a power to stay alive during that period.
So, one of the set-it-and-forget-it secondaries may bring you more playing pleasure.

On the plus side, the animations are a good time to take a sip or a nibble, and a good time to do your in-game chatting.