Zwillinger

I get not wanting to spend money for the chance at an item. I'm not going to argue about whether or not this should be considered gambling as I believe it's all a matter of personal perspective and the value that you personally place on the items that are included in Super Packs. If you're only after specific items and only place value on said things, I can understand how you would feel adverse towards the packs.

What are some things to consider?

• We're going to continue making Super Packs in a responsible way. We believe that part of the success of the first series of Super Packs was the fact that we collaborated closely with the Community during their development. Did we completely agree with every single point given by the Community? No. Did we compromise and rethink several aspects of the original concept of Super Packs? Absolutely. Things like making ATO's able to be acquired in game, making Catalysts drop in game and allowing Super Packs to be purchased with Reward Tokens are all examples of player feedback directly resulting in positive change.
• The success of Super Packs directly contributes to our ability to continue to make new content, both free and in the Paragon Market. Believe it or not, not everything we release in the Paragon Market is profitable, from a development standpoint. They may be popular with a segment of the population, and great QOL improvements, but that doesn't necessarily equate it being considered successful from a business standpoint.
• We're not closed off to the idea of making costume sets from Super Packs available via an alternate method, however it's going to be some time before we offer it. We've made this statement regarding things like the Tier 9 Paragon Rewards, and the same is true about Super Packs.

Super Packs 2 should be on Beta tomorrow, so be sure to check them out if you're VIP.

-Z

Not WAI AFAIK.

We've got a bug report in for it.

Just a friendly reminder that this is a thread for you all to give your suggestions to the art team about costume pieces. Please make sure that you're posting your bug reports in the appropriate forum so that the QA group can find them in their nightly scrubs. Also, make sure that anytime you post about a bug, you also file an in game bug report as well.

That being said, let's please keep this thread on track so it doesn't derail from it's original intent.

Thanks!

Good luck to you! Always good to see a small business trying to take off!

Hi there!

The VIP Beta and the Training Room (test) servers are indeed VIP only.

Best,

-Z

In this particular case, the giveaway is being hosted by MMORPG, so it's their rules.

In general: It's not just Non U.S. and E.U. countries we're unable to facilitate giveaways in. Some states and Canadian provinces have local laws that make any sort of giveaway with a cash value either extremely difficult or out and out impossible (New York and Rhode Island for example...and Quebec as has been previously pointed out). Even without a cash value, there's limitations with what we can do.

We have to run each of our contest rules past our legal department prior to announcement, so they all take a considerable amount of time to put together.

Don't worry, you'll have Staff Fighting Soon™ enough!

Waaaaaaaaiiiit a minute....

I'd like to thank Arbiter Hawk for taking time out of his work week to answer all of these questions for the Community. I know he's busy, what with all the [REDACTED] he's working on for upcoming Issues, so we really appreciate it .

Also...

In general, there's a lot of zones that we can revisit these days.

I was *just* speaking to some of the devs the other day about this, and yes, we're aware that there's some areas where we could stand to have more content. Some of the underutilized zones present an opportunity to improve that situation, and hopefully we'll get to more fully explore that in the future.

This isn't a hint that Skyway is getting revamped in an upcoming Issue, just that we're not above doing things like rethinking level ranges for a zone, if it can be justified.

Because this thread is being updated with new information on a semi regular basis and the information is not being posted cross forums I am not considering it a "necro-thread". Should, at any point in the future, that change, we will re-review this position, however for now, we appreciate the Community service that this being provided by highlighting the various SG's and VG's within the Repeat Offenders Network.

Please feel free to PM me with any further questions you may have on this subject, however I do ask that you refrain from further comment within this thread.

Thanks.

Neither Paragon nor NCsoft will be at SDCC this year. This also means that there won't be a meet and greet.