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Originally Posted by Virfortis

If someone talks about free players one more time I'm going to blow my fuse and get banned.

I'm talking about PREMIUM players! READ!

Originally Posted by TrueGentleman

Paraphrased for the 'net as: "Bad posting drives out the good." Sometimes, though, the reverse is true. While a new unmoderated F2P channel would probably swiftly devolve into Barrens Chat, a usefully functioning /help channel would be enough of a resource to maintain its integrity if dedicated players contributed. The Fr00bs would flock to the former, while the more serious players would be able to make better use of the latter.

Originally Posted by Vinceq1980

Maybe its me not having played all 7 years but just a few months here and there yet still adding up to 3 years time, However I just cant believe the devs are the ones wholly responsible for (as someone stated above) curbing RMTs from this game.

I came back on GR release after playing a few months here and there since launch. Let me just say that the IO system complete scared me and left me feeling so incapable of amassing the necessary means to achieve the outcome I so desired for my character. But after some google search fu-ing in a matter of weeks i was able to amass more than enough inf to trick out my character. And that just made me thirst for more.

Honestly its redic easy to make inf in this game. Farmers are not competing with each other for drops, Unlike other games where farmers are competing with othe farmers and BOTs for resources.

Like i said I came back after issue 18 but of the few influence spams ive seen its what 1 bil for 6-7 dollars? 6-7 dollars in other games is not considered half of the total they can ever earn. I really do believe its just not worth it when everyone and their mother has the ability to make SELF PL and SELF "trick" out (on just measly SOs) a SS/FIRE/MU brute!!!

Originally Posted by Machariel

Do you honestly not understand that preventing free players from meaningfully interacting with other players is going to mean that they come into the game, think "well this isn't fun, I can't play with anyone," and leave?

The point of a F2P system is to ENTICE people to come and spend money on the game.

Not to provide a lower class that people like you can look down their nose at and say "ugh, why give them anything, they're a dirty freem."

Originally Posted by General_CoH

I'm a long time reader of MMORPG.com who doesn't live in North America and still won a couple of competitions there, one of which was a physical product (a book), and one or two game codes, and so I find it hard to believe that it's the site that's limiting the competition. Some years have passed since I won, but I still see competitions there which aren't region limited, so I don't think there has been a major rules change.

Also, MMORPG.com is currently offering a free 30 day jetpack code to both US and EU players, which means that NCsoft can give non-US players something via that site.

It's entirely possible that there are MMORPG.com regulations which indirectly make it impossible for NCsoft to offer the prize internationally, but it would still be something related to NCsoft itself, considering that other companies can and do offer prizes to the entire MMORPG.com readership.

Originally Posted by Machariel

This is an excellent point. MMOs are not renowned for their single-player gameplay and as a single-player game do not hold up very well.

The amount of minor, annoying restrictions placed in the way of F2P players is frankly embarassing. Surely there's enough content in the game that the developers can entice people to pay with that, instead of forcing people to buy the most basic of conveniences?

Originally Posted by Scythus

Wow, people... what a way to display what huge jerks you are.

Psylenz is complaining about the Praetorian Invasion Special Events. Y'know, the ones they've been doing on each server one at a time?

Sheesh.

Originally Posted by Cake

I find that claim a bit hard to believe, I have played numerous ftp games without chat restrictions and never seen this become an issue.

Originally Posted by Bright

As someone else who's been making an effort to team with new players, I still want to know why we can't drop Inspirations on Freems... That's just a silly and annoying limitation all around, and one that did NOT exist for old trial accounts.

Originally Posted by AmazingMOO

In addition to a 'Free to Play' channel, we need an option like 'Receive tells from free players'. At the very least, if I, the paying VIP, send a tell to a free player, they should be able to respond to me.

Originally Posted by Chyll

No, no I don't.
I want to make my own.

Originally Posted by Jagged

Easier I think just to run multiple competitions.

Originally Posted by TrueGentleman

This is what Zwillinger wrote, describing the problem:

Obviously you're unaffected by the delay in transferring points since your billing date coincides with the receipt of your VIP Paragon Points.

This, on the other hand, is a succinct description of the problem that affects players whose billing date occurs in the first third of the month:

And to reiterate, the larger issue is the context of assorted problems that players have experienced lately. The open question is how Paragon Studios might address it.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

They're also releasing more than 400 points worth of new stuff each week, which is forcing even the VIPs to buy more points.

Originally Posted by all_hell

The issue was whether or not they would do weird things with obfuscation pay structures etc to maximize profits or if that was merely paranoia.

I don't think anyone questioned that they want to make money.

Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

Whoops. My start date was May 4th -- I thought I was there at launch, but it looks like I was about a week later. My mistake.

So they'll probably deliver new content items on the 15th of each month. Whatever is the best time that their data tells them for grabbing those impatient buyers.

Originally Posted by Shubbie

Kinetic melee is junk, Super strength is overpowered, Martial arts is very good for tanks, Stj is weak in aoe, very weak.

Originally Posted by BeyondReach

People's arguments that "so it's middle of the road, every new powerset doesn't have to be uber" are null.

Yes, not every new powerset has to be uber. Free powersets don't have to be uber. But powersets you have to pay should be superior to free powersets. Otherwise, make them free.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

You're saying its good business to tell all of the players that they can buy anything whenever they want, and at any time for any reason all they have to do is push a button and get their money back?

That's one opinion. Mine is that I would veto that idea by strangling it to death in the first design meeting it came up in.

You say its bad practice to "leave customers unhappy." Is that an actual rule, or just something thought up for this situation? If its a rule, what's the cut off. Do we refund people who decide they are unhappy with the set in the twenties? Forties? How about people who decide they are unhappy with the performance of the set in incarnate trials? If its bad business to leave people unhappy, all these situations should be bad business. Which ones deserve remedy? All of them?

How about if they rebalance the set? Unhappy, so refund? How about if they just make all the other sets better but don't change the set at all? Still unhappy, so refund?

To me, this is extremely impractical. Its sets a dangerous precedent the company can't really follow through on consistently, and inconsistency is worse than doing nothing. Far, far worse.


Now, as to the issue of demanding a refund for a powerset for which you do not have the numbers, if you actually know that this is a position you believe in, you have a personal obligation not to actually *buy* a powerset you don't know the numbers for. And saying you tested it in beta doesn't matter, because all beta testers, among lots of other things, are expected to recognize and understand that everything in beta is subject to change at any time, and subject to change prior to release without warning. If you can't accept or agree to that, you are not supposed to beta test.

Originally Posted by Shubbie

I already said Im not upset enough to do the chargeback, but it is an option that some players may take.

Im sure they dont want to be dealing with all that.

They need a refund system to deal with unhappy players in their house instead of someone else's.

Which has been my point all along

Originally Posted by Shubbie

Yeah they can close the account, but they would loose a paying customer who has been with them for 7 years and I would loose my account.

But I would still get the money back.

But again, not good business.

You never want to loose a customer for stupid reasons, and not offering a refund even if the customer is wrong is one of them.

Originally Posted by TriAngel_EU

And would probably get you banned.

Originally Posted by Shubbie

So I have to say I am extremely disapointed and unhappy with Street Justice .

The set is just plain weak... the aoe's are so small as to be meaningless, and a 5 target limit on one and a 10 on the other.

ITs inferior to SS in both single and aoe damage.

The set was changed from the time it came off beta but before live, and did not go back on test.

This feels rather bait and switch, even though it wasnt nerfed live.

To move onto a general point, will we be able to get refunds on sets, powers, etc that we feel disappointed with.

There was no way to view the real stats before purchasing, so again I feel this was a somewhat deceptive.

I am EXTREMELY unhappy with this.

Originally Posted by ArwenDarkblade

That's essentially how I feel - VIP accounts should be as they were before. I don't mind that we have a cash shop, or that we have microtransactions. I just don't think VIP subscriptions should have to use it/them. I see I'm clearly in the minority, so this "drama queen" will stop now.

And for the record, I bought every paid expansion to the game. Bought the collector's editions even (I like the swag). But if every week we're going to have a mini version of a paid expansion, I think that's a bit much. The shiny will wear off that coin pretty quick at this pace.