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Quote:THIS!!!!Originally Posted by Bosstone
Mainly because 90% of the feedback is coming from only a few players. It's only once it hits the store that they can see whether it's a profitable idea or not. Negative feedback from a few players holds very little weight if a large portion of the playerbase responds favorably at the store.
As I've said before I'm fine withe them trying nearly everything to make money via their store. Why? The game needs money to function/develop/expand. Simple as that.
That doesn't mean that I have to buy everything they offer. But it does mean when I see something I would never buy or that I think others won't buy, or can be improved, I'll say so.
Honestly, if the costume pieces were available for some price on the paragon market I think the objections to super packs would drop tremendously.
EDIT: With that said how would I improve the Super packs? Put a random chance in them for an orange or purple recipe to drop. 40% chance for an orange, 25% chance for a purple. I'd buy plenty of super packs with something like that in it. (And yes I can already hear the epic level of hollering others are about to make when they read my suggestion.)
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Quote:As to the bolded part the fact that there are going to be other costume sets (or other rewards) in that tier (which we've known from the get go) is enough reason for me to NEVER spend my extras on the random super packs. I'd rather save my tokens for the other Tier 9 goodies coming.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
It takes 3 Reward Tokens to complete a set. Because the sets are going to be available overlapping with the successive offerings, I'm confident many players will find they have spare tokens, "leftover" so to speak.
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Quote:lol I saw this question coming the second he made that statement.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Since you brought up the subject, Z, is this confirmation that future tier-9 VIP sets will all be three token as well, so there won't be a point to "saving" more than three tokens at a time? Can I get that confirmed in writing?
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Quote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AE a project of BOTH Dr. Aeon and Crey Corp?Originally Posted by Doc_Reverend
I think the devs have outright stated that the reason they don't really focus much on the lore behind AE is that they don't want the heroes to feel dumb for using it. It's, oddly enough, one of Aeon's more legit and above-board projects, which I kind of like. I like the idea that a mad scientist can make perfectly productive things that arn't automatically eeeviiiillll on occasion.
But that would be cool with us stepping "backstage" into a Tron-like environment full of code and digital information and whatnot.
I can see them copying the "data" about various heroes who use it for illegitimate means while still having AE as a legitimate business.
Just saying.
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Actually I'm not wrong:
Architect Entertainment is a company created by Dr. Thaddeus Aeon AQSA, with Crey Industries funding. The prime motive of the company is to bring opportunity to all citizens of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles to create their very own pockets of theoretical existence for others to experience first hand as a new form of entertainment.
Key factors in the origins of the company include:
Possibility of new perspective on how to deal with Professor Echo.
Revenge on Television for forcing Dr. Aeon to write a scientific report encouraging everyone to watch more television.
To follow up the commercial success of NutriPaste.
Dr Aeon and Positron have both noted individually that Architect has the potential for great beneficial and humanitarian results throughout the world.
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Quote:layoffs right after GR came out I believe. I think he works for a direct competitor now.Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen
I don't remember Synapse :/ I've been gone, uh, a looong time. Since August 2009. At least in the sense that I wasn't paying attention to the game and to the boards at all.
How did BAB get forced out? I liked him. He commented in my epic goodbye thread. I felt special.
someone who knows more can speak up and correct me if I've got anything wrong. -
Quote:Is it bad that I think that that is all kinds of frelling awesome?Originally Posted by Kioshi
Also this thread went to a quite unexpected direction...
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Quote:good for him.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
pohsyb left early in the year without any fanfare and took a job at Apple.
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Quote:Castle left, BaBs was errr forced out.Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen
... Is anyone left from the old days? Posi at least?
Melissa B, Synapse, and Matt Miller are still here.
And more importantly Arcanaville is still here harassi . . . . errr helping them all with valuable advice. (joke, don't kill me with math)
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[QUOTE=Void_Huntress;4028487]Quote:Errr, Void_Huntress, the Freedom model was VERY sucessful for nearly all the competition that tired it. In fact this game's direct competition would have closed down completely if not for them going to that model. That's not a very good argument to use, though I see your point. I'm down with them trying new things, as I've said before (including things my wallet wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole). However if I think something won't make that much money I'll say so. They are still welcome to try. I'm not completely unreasonable.Originally Posted by Mokalus
Just wanted to point out, Super Packs are not an "innovative new idea".
I didn't say it was an entirely new idea, just that it was Paragon attempting to do something different. They're trying to explore revenue models, after all, and that qualifies as attempting to innovate within their market space.
The same logic you use here could be used to argue that Paragon should never have attempted the Freedom model, because it was 'less successful' for some competition.
You can't look at something from another context and use its success or failure to judge something similar in a different context. We don't have another City of Heroes to permit us control and experimental samples, so we have to do that here.
For me personally I like to know exactly what I'm getting with my money. I don't gamble in real life and I don't gamble in game either. This isn't inf. This is real money I'm spending, or in this case choosing not to spend. -
Quote:BTW, for that competitor players also complained LOUDLY about the random aspect of certain items being in their versions of the packs.Originally Posted by Mokalus
Just wanted to point out, Super Packs are not an "innovative new idea". Many other MMOs have already tried it, including our (I think less-successful) direct competitor. To me, that's enough of a reason to err on the side of caution - you should always be keeping an eye on what the competition is doing, but if you're pulling ahead then the #1 lesson you can learn from them is what pitfalls to avoid. You shouldn't be trying to mimic their behaviour.
There is nothing in these packs that would get me to buy them ever.
The costume pieces i await being available elsewhere also. But I'm not too much excited about them with what they've shown so far.
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Quote:With what the person you quoted listed, I don't consider that screwing up the zone. And unless I'm mistaken the only praetorian thing in there might be Diabolique's trial. And her story is trying to become Death Incarnate, nothing to do with Praetoria.Originally Posted by Stormbird
No, I mean screwing up an old zone that's otherwise interesting and just needs story arcs and such in order to make it part of the incarnate system, and I highly doubt they'd be able to resist adding a bunch of praetorian nonsense to it.
Now if this is another rant about the fog, the fog can go pound sand. It was annoying for travel there. The annoyance of that versus actually getting a REASON to go there . . . I'd do without the fog.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen
Anyone miss me? ... Or remember me? Been gone a while
WELCOME BACK!
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Quote:As you can see from my first line I agree. However I expect to see spoilers in this part of the forums. Hell the fact that Paragon Wiki is talked about constantly (where any player who is curious about what it is, can be insta spoiled about a lot of things if they go there) I think is an issue enough.Originally Posted by Chyll
Fair enough, but does that absolve the rest of us from practicing behavior that attempts to be considerate for others? Simple courtesy and all that... I'm surprised so few are interested in simply being polite.
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Quote:I'm pretty much nearing the point where I'm done with the Incarnate system until I22. Standing around for 20 minutes waiting for ANYTHING to form in Pocket D or Virtue is tiresomely retarded.Originally Posted by Necrotron_RO
Really looking forward to the DA content as small team/solo is always my preference over gigantic league play. My hope is that it features more straightforward gameplay than the 'gmmicks' in each of the iTrials currently.
As for the iTrials, I am not really a fan of the unavoidable damage patches being constantly used and the information overload that happens with constant red text spamming the screen that is too big to even read and/or covered by my power trays.
But alas, at least we didn't get a new currency, so I can run the few iTrials I find more fun than the others until the small team option is available.
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Quote:bwhahahhahaha. I c wut u did there!Originally Posted by Silver Gale
Yes, we definitely need more superhero-specific costume pieces. This game is based around character customisation, after all.
The right costume pieces mean the difference between a shadowy spy and a flashy speedster.
We don't want to be armored enforcers of a tyrannical regime. We want to be silent vigilantes lurking in the night.
No more anime-inspired martial artists, let's have more superheroes - say, in the vein of Iron Fist.
I hope this post illustrates how important it is to have the right costume pieces when achieving a truly superheroic look.
EDIT: With that said Johnny's list is good to go as far as I'm concerned.
And yes devs, we know some of those things listed won't be easy or fast to make.
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I honestly think posting Spoiler in the title is not a bad thing.
HOWEVER, in a place on the forums where game mechanics are generally talked about and so is lore almost on a DAILY basis, it's nigh impossible to not run into something you didn't know if you weren't a new player of the game.
I agree with Venture in this case. If you don't want to know something about the game that would be a spoiler I'd urge folks to be slightly cautious about reading COH & COV general discussion. The title of this section of the forums almost screams for stuff folks didn't know and don't want to know yet, being easily found.
General discussion about the game is NOT just about game mechanics. Which btw some folks may not want to be spoiled about either, should we then be careful about not talking about game mechanics? Or how about the discussions about Paragon Wiki? Serious question here, where do we draw the line? -
Quote:Not at all surprising. It's costume recipes of old all over again.Originally Posted by Zubenelgenubi
Just some FYI on this...
I just got this drop. It was in the middle of the TPN, and not the end. I was not fighting Maelstrom at the time, but was outside on telepathist duty.
Not being able to craft it for Zube, and having no dual-pistols characters, I sold it at WW's. I got 970,000,000 for it (77 million fee)
Previous sales records were:
150,000,000
400,000,000
350,000,000
Only 4 have ever sold.
With how much the TPN won't be run, I can see these things being extremely rare and hitting the 1 bill inf cap. Easily. -
Quote:Yawn.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
this is not locking costume parts behind incarnate content
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Quote:I think he means at the part right before choosing a server to log into.Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Well you'd know that easily enough because you'd be logged into the server!
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Quote:I've found it to be significantly faster. And I've never had it crash. ever.Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
I never found that. It's a bit faster, but nowhere near enough to justify the grief it gives me
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Quote:Pretty much this.Originally Posted by Zyphoid
I think it will happen. Synapse made it very clear that he wants] to give us the extra slots, and that he would continue working towards doing so. At this point it is just a matter of time.
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Quote:Now I just think folks are saying it would look stupid.Originally Posted by SinisterDirge
Considering I never actually see the shield stopping a projectile, I don't see why we can't use our Titan weapon as the shield. I know my sword is plenty big enough to hide behind.
And are folks really arguing that you can't possibly carry a shield while having both hands wrapped around a weapon because it isn't realistic, but pulling a giant freaking axe out of your back pocket is? C'mon. -
Quote:And then there is this. The devs are working on content that doesn't resemble some of the idiocy I see in modern comic books today.Originally Posted by Lothic
For what it's worth I'm not against content that works well with a "four-person team" scenario. But there are already plenty of TFs/SFs/arcs in this game that can cater to that. The Devs are also currently working on "Solo Incarnate" content for those people who don't like huge leagues. My guess is that we'll also be able to run that stuff with small teams if you want. *shrugs*
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Quote:You mean like the dreck like crisis of the 5th crisis of 6th earth of the new crisis to end all crises that comic books are currently stuck in. (aka event fatigue).Originally Posted by Lothic
Again that's something that you want stopped.
Offer an alternative that could actually work effectively in a MMO setting.
I'm all ears here...
EDIT: You added to your post after I posted this. So you want a bunch of small team content? What if I think epic "comic book" battles are better represented by massive 24 member leagues all working on a single trial?
yeah I don't think that type of of thing is something that folks should point to as epic. I'd actually argue a lot of comic readers are tired of it. -
Quote:Once they fix some of the bugs the trials should be fine.Originally Posted by TrueMetal
Why is it every time the devs introduce a TF or trial that requires a bit more coordination and thought than hitting 1234-1234-1234 people start ******** about it?
If you got a frothy or elitist league leader the problem lies with them not with the trial. There really isn't anything in this game, aside from Master runs (and even then) that needs that much of a flawless execution for it to succeed. No reason to get so worked up about it. Yes sometimes trials fail. That happens when stuff is new and people are unfamilliar with it.
MoM might have just supplanted Keyes as my favorite trial, TPN completes the top 3.
Good job devs. Keep them coming.
Personally I'm more looking forward to the DA lvl 50+ content. They can keep THAT coming. Counting the upcoming Diabolique one, we have enough trials for now.