BellaStrega
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Quote:These are actually cute.Originally Posted by Premonitions
Did somebody say spiders?
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Quote:Yes, I think you do too.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
I
think I know who you're talking about
Indeed.Quote:Ugh, I feel dirty using that many smilies. 
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My days of not taking mercykilling's (or anyone else's) dislike of anime seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
I love having more armor options, and the mecha armor looks great. I already have two characters using bits of it. Possibly more. -
I don't see what all the fuss is about. It's just a spider.
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Quote:I was speaking of precisely one person, and that person wasn't you.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
The number of die hard CoH fans that would bad mouth SWTOR because it isn't this game is a drop in the bucket compared to the people that are unhappy with how that game turned out, and not all of the people complaining have cancelled their subs. There's no way for us to tell how many active subscribers over there are just as dissatisfied as the roughly 1.7 milion that left.
I honestly doubt that the number of CoH fanbois that are badmouthing that game make up 1% of the dissatisfied playerbase. -
Quote:Well, they don't all need daiklaves.Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon
My character inspired by my Exalted Terrestrial princess wound up a Beast/Nature. I'm almost tempted to switch or make an alt out of a Thug/Nature though. Ah, the many uses of Soul-Stirring Performance. I'd had Solar-type as a character here since launch, but she went through many permutations before I settled on TW/SR. I think it's SR.
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Quote:TOR really isn't a bad game. But yeah, the management.Originally Posted by Tyger42
Honestly, TOR itself wasn't a bad game. My problem had more to do with the management.
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Quote:Eh, sometimes guys get a bit insecure about spending their spare time playing a dress up game with action on the side, so they have to complain about nerds on the forum. Because there's no irony in complaining about nerds on a videogame forum.Originally Posted by Kirsten
Fixed. Might I remind you that nerds may sometimes ruin things, but we also created Doctor Who, Computer Science, and the Electric Guitar.
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I remember running into a few too many "all or nothing" regen debuff resist attacks during the Rikti invasions, which prompted me to retire my spines/regen scrapper. I may give her another go given that things sound fairly positive at this point.
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Quote:Then my work here is done.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I know what Exalted is, and am passingly familiar with the mentioned poet, but even that and the protection afforded by your parenthetical statement weren't enough to stop my brain from imagining a sort of Homer-Simpson-and-Guts-from-Berserk hybrid...
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Quote:The moment I saw titan weapons, I purchased it and made two Exalted*-inspired brutes.Originally Posted by Moderated_IRL
That's the worst part about Titan Weapons.
And I would do it again.
* If you don't know what that is, just imagine Homer (the Greek poet) mashed up with the most over-the-top fantasy anime you can imagine, with a side of Robert E. Howard, and you've got a good start. -
Quote:Why should I assume what appears to be fairly unambiguous and clear phrasing to be a minor error? Why would I (and how could I) guess or interpret what you were actually thinking when the literal statement you made seemed logically sound, if factually incorrect? Why are you getting so upset because I commented on that instead of simply saying, "My mistake, I meant to say "almost all the sets..." What do you get out of trying to cast me as someone trying to "gotcha" you?Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
Most of the new sets had to be paid for. Trying to twist what I wrote because of one missing word doesn't change that. If I hadn't put the main point in giant letters you might be right that it got confusing. However when I write in a caveat 3 times during the same post, it's probably safe to assume the one sentence that doesn't have one was a minor error and not the actual point.
I simply saw what appeared to be a factual error and pointed it out. I am sorry if it upset you, but I am really not trying to have a go at you, and I am sorry that you seem to think I am. Largely, I agree with what you've posted in this thread. -
The VIP perks are definitely worth it to me.
I like having 36 slots on my main server, and will upgrade to 48 when I use those up.
I like having 12 slots on each of the other servers.
I like incarnate content and incarnate powers.
I enjoy playing the SSAs. The story quality is unfortunately variable, but the actual missions tend to be fairly fun.
I appreciate getting some of the new powersets as part of my VIP package.
I love the tier 9 costume rewards.
But then, I am both a "VIP" and someone who buys additional points with money. I have unlocked every costume set and every powerset I could buy.
Truth? I haven't had more fun playing City of Heroes in a long time. I love the state of the game, and I hope they continue on the path they're taking. -
Quote:No way. That'd make it entirely pointless to have a premium category. The current system is really fine. If you do not need the VIP options, then don't pay for them.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
How about making *none* of the new powersets free, but increasing the VIP stipend so that they get as many points as Premium players do for the same amount of money?
Then VIPs will be able to afford all the powersets they want, yet VIP status will be more appealing. Right now the situation is very stacked *against* VIPs. Premium players have it much, much better and that's not the way it should be. -
Quote:I don't disagree with you, I was being nitpicky about the one thing.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Yes, but the devs give us PLENTY of lead time before a new pay for set arrives. In that time you could have save a long ways towards that.
So for me it make the complaining even sillier.
As you can tell I have a low tolerance for that sort of thing.
I'll just bow out here as I've made my points. I agree with your overall idea though.
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Quote:There's nothing wrong with wanting a new powerset as soon as it's released, or wanting to get other things with points which necessitate buying more than the stipend provides. That's what I do.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Now if one has the attention span of a gerbil in a spinning wheel or the patience of a terrible twos toddler . . . good luck to you.
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I actually am curious about how the decision was derived via "We hate the dreaded tank mage" rather than in terms of balance.
The issue with that is that I think that the same decision that gave us defenders who could not buff themselves also gave us blasters with no defenses. How would blasters fare in such a brave new world? -
Quote:I like how you frame this as if you've got the objective truth on the matter, and VIP players are confused, or perhaps deluded into thinking the "minor perks" are "worth it."Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
It is more cost effective to buy points in bulk then pay a monthly sub.
Some people can't grasp this or cling to minor perks as being "worth it".
I like the stuff I get for being a VIP, which includes access to the tier 9 costume sets, access to all of the existing content, access to incarnate powers, 12 slots per server automatically with a maximum of 48 (as opposed to 2 slots period with a maximum of 36 per server). I tried being premium for a week and I have been VIP ever since.
If it's worth it to me, then it's worth it. That has no bearing on whether it's worth it to you or anyone else. It doesn't mean I'm wrong, because I do enjoy playing. It does mean that blanket statements such as yours are often wrong. -
Quote:This is great news.Originally Posted by mauk2
SS/inv is looking to be THE hot ticket for a tanking brute with the upcoming IO changes.
Luckily, I have a 50 of that exact combo, patiently waiting in the 'to be given deific build' queue.
Invuln tanks don't gain so much on I24. Invuln brutes? Ohmy. My SS/Inv is also 50.
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Quote:Preach it. Buying the cape and aura unlock made me love character creation all the more.Originally Posted by Zortel
PS: The Aura unlock and Cape unlock? First things I bought from the store. Being able to make a character with a cape and the Glow eye aura from level 1? For any character on that account? For the low-low price of 160pp*2? A-freaking-mazing.
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Quote:That's doubly weird because auras cost 80 points each.Originally Posted by Ironik
Maybe there's some way to unlock these for free, but the game is telling me they cost 160 points each. Most of these were auras we had before the switch to Freedom.
Is this shot from a character that has not done the aura mission?
Have you purchased the account-wide aura unlock for all characters so you don't need to do the mission? I've purchased 10-11 auras total over the past year, but all the others have been unlocked all along.
You can unlock all otherwise "free" auras (that is, any auras you had access to prior to Freedom) for all characters without needing to do the mission, though:
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Quote:This is what you said:Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
How is it contradicting what I said? I didn't say all or every, I said very limited and usually. I never said we never got any for free, I just didn't bother picking them out of the list and doing a count, because the number we paid for was obviously greater.
This isn't true, and there were powersets offered alongside trick arrow and archery, and you didn't need to buy CoH to gain access to the other free powersets.Quote:Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
Allow me to correct you. Only a very limited number of new powersets have been initially been offered as part of your simple $15 subscription fee. Archery and Trick Arrow were free, but after that everything was initially locked behind buying City of Villains, or buying Going Rogue.
You can say that's not the same thing if you like, since all those powers later became open to everyone through other means, but really it is:
When a power set is brand new, there is usually a premium for getting it.
You're shifting what you said, though, which was that everything after trick arrow and archery required purchasing CoV or Going Rogue, and that is not true. Now you're trying to say you actually said something else. It's not a thing if you correct yourself, but what you wrote doesn't communicate what you're saying it communicated.Quote:You're right that everyone was given CoV, but that was more than a year after their release. Which is precisely my point. We're talking about getting powersets when they come out. Over the history of the game, most new powersets have been behind a pay wall of one form or another when they come out.
My point about CoV being free was to point out that proliferation happened after that.
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Quote:Which one? When I came back to the game, all the auras that were available to me when I unsubbed were still available to me. The only auras that I've had to pay for are auras that didn't exist when I last played, during and after the launch of Going Rogue and issue 18.Originally Posted by Ironik
I think it pretty much works out in favor of VIP subscribers overall, but I do find it annoying that previously free auras are now gated behind the market. I wanted to use one the other day for a character only to find it was no longer available. Kind of a minor nitpick, all things considered.
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Quote:This makes no logical sense. Why devote as many dev resources to revamping Dark Astoria, to all of those trials (most of which are actually fairly fast and not a grind), to incarnate powers, etc. Why provide tier 9 costume sets? Why do anything extra for VIPs as they have been doing if they don't want VIPs?Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
All that being said, you have to remember that VIPs are actually the least important players in CoH. The management wants to make money through microtransactions, they want everyone to pay that way, and so they structure their content to entice people to be Premium. They do not want VIPs. So it's no use whining about them not treating VIPs very well. We are no longer their preferred customers, so of course they're not going to be as generous to us as to their micro-paying horde.
Also, many subscribers also buy things through the store, so it's not as if you have VIPs on one side and people buying points on the other side. -
Quote:On the contrary, Sonic Blast and Sonic Resonance were released with Trick Arrow and Archery, in issue 5. Dual Blades and Willpower were added in issue 11. Shield Defense and Pain Domination were added in issue 13. Issue 16 provided powerset proliferation.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
Allow me to correct you. Only a very limited number of new powersets have been initially been offered as part of your simple $15 subscription fee. Archery and Trick Arrow were free, but after that everything was initially locked behind buying City of Villains, or buying Going Rogue.
You can say that's not the same thing if you like, since all those powers later became open to everyone through other means, but really it is:
When a power set is brand new, there is usually a premium for getting it.
All of those were available for no additional cost. I believe that everyone who had a CoH or CoV account was given full access to both games prior to Pain Domination's release.