Casual_Player

Mmmm, mmm mm!

Sooooooo good!

I'm still a little apprehensive about the tacked-on 3D, but otherwise: BIG THUMBS UP!!

I understand that.

That's why I called it the 'last' brass. It'll be the last Brass anyone buys from the market before (temporarily) clearing out the market's supply.

I'm pretty sure the one I put up for 20 million went last, but because I don't know when it sold, I'm not 100% sure.

This time, I'll be sure.

Unless some other person decides to put one out there for 2B.

Which, now that I think about it, might be a project for the 88s. Post as many salvage as they can to the market, each priced at 2 billion. It'll take 100 million / piece posted out of the game, 200 if some poor fool actually buys any of them.

Seems like somebody did this once with Luck Charms, but I'm not sure. Luck Charm mania was a while back.

Extended trailer/first scene thingie now up on YouTube here.

Man, it's like this thing was designed to specifically appeal to my scots-descended wife. I may as well start camping out for the line now.

I sold a piece of Brass salvage recently for 20 million.

I don't know when exactly, as it was on a character I hadn't checked into for nearly 3 months- but sometime since Thanksgiving.

I understand the market ebbs and flows, but really, someone must have wanted that one bad.

It's not like this was a random bonanza where I dropped a brass for 1 inf and lucked into someone's multiple-zero typo bid.

I was playing in the Brass niche last winter before other folks caught up. Before I bailed out, I deliberately put one up at 20 million, just to see if it would ever sell. It was kind of like hiding an easter egg.

Well, it took a while, but it did. It's true- you can't overestimate the public's willingness to buy under the right conditions.

So I've moved my goalposts.

The last Brass in the market is now on sale for 2 Billion.

Have at it, folks. I will happily report in again when it sells.

I'd like to thank all you people who are blowing money on this stuff for supporting the main game that I enjoy.

It's moderately annoying to me that development time and effort has been burned on yet another niche mini-game, but at least its a mini-game that will directly bring in dollars to fund development on the center stage.

So go ahead, pack lovers! Spend!

Now if only there was some way to monetize gladiators, arenas or even PvP in general...

Off to go watch the trailer now, but I'm guessing from the commentary here that it's essentially "Foolkiller: The Movie"?



/edit: After watching trailer: A-YUP! Foolkiller with a teenaged girl sidekick! Gonna have to see this when it gets out.

Oh, I should have been clearer. Yes, I haven't spent any actual money beyond the regular subscription, and never really intend to. Paragon Points are just another in-game currency as far as I'm concerned, tradable for the stuff in the Paragon Market.

And I'm quite happy with Freedom as a whole. I'm playing the heck out of the new Sig Story Arc, for example.

I just feel like I should be using the new market/currency more than I am, and I'm trying to figure out why it's not grabbing me.

So we're 3 months into the Paragon Market and I have 3 months worth of Paragon Points laying around unspent. (1660 to be exact)

I've spent nothing since a brief flurry of buying stuff with my banked Summer points in September-October.

I thought briefly about actually spending some of my Christmas money on some Paragon Points. But looking at what I have banked and what I've spent points on, I have to ask: will I actually use them once I've bought them? Given the past 3 months as data, probably not.

This is obviously not the result the devs intended. In my case, the new mini-game is failing somehow. I'm trying to work out why.

I bought one powerset, beam rifle, but haven't been tempted by the new ones. More punching powers? Don't need that. A weapon set with hideously slow animation and huge end/acc slotting requirements? I *really* don't need that. Plus, Beam Rifle just hasn't been that exciting. That little bit of buyer's remorse is making me think several times before getting another one. Staff is now delayed and it already looked like an animation-heavy, underperforming S/L melee power.

Costumes? I got the Halloween pack and was quite happy. It was weird and wonderful but y'know... kinda specialized. The other costume sets strike me the same way, but without the 'wonderful' part. Eminently skippable, specialized things that I just don't need, given the thousands of parts already in the game.

Game bonuses? Extra character slots, enhancement slots, etc. Yeah, those could be interesting. But ye gods, look at the point cost. And hey, they've had sales. I don't think I'm spending 3 months of points on something that might be on sale in 2 weeks.

Consumables? :eyeroll: I haven't used the free ones I got with my new vet rewards. I played for 7 years without them, I expect I can keep going without them in the future.

What's left? The occasional miscellaneous funky thing? I bought the rocket board in September and can't imagine needing another travel power. Little pets? Got plenty already, thanks, and I can't use them all together any more.

And what are we getting in the future? "Collectable!" randomized stuff? Yeesh. That's just pitiful.

Writing this out, I think I see some things that are deterring me from spending points:

1) Buyer's remorse. The stuff I got already just wasn't as wonderful as I thought it would be. That's depressing my desire to get anything else.
2) High point costs/random sales. The costs of the "big-ticket" items feel like a bizarre crapshoot. They're deliberately pegged too high for casual consumption and then randomly lowered for impulse buyers.
3) Old Habits. I've gotten along for years without single-slot unenhancers/boosters, team inspirations, etc. Why would I want them now? They're new, but they're not shiny. I just don't see enough advantage to them to buy them.
4)Poor Salesmanship. I *might* want new stuff if I actually saw someone use them or there was some article explaining how great the new stuff is. Or even, y'know, some basic generation of expectations. Right now, things hit the market and the community reps give us an almost non-descriptive description of the new items *after* they're available. To paraphrase Capote, 'That's not salesmanship- that's typing.'

I *want* to like the new market! I love the old market! But right now, the P.M. is doing absolutely nothing for me. And I'm afraid that if this trend continues for another month or three, I'll end up ignoring it the way I do with the other failed mini-games in CoH.

Since it now seems to be company policy, let's go with it.

Post 'em if you've got 'em, people!

OK,

It looks like you're going for just superheroes then, or close approximates.

I'll think about this some more, but right off the top of my head there are a couple of kid movies to add to the list:

Zoom Academy for Superheroes
and
Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl

I can't say I'd recommend either of them. Word is that they're both awful. But they fit your criteria, so I thought I'd bring them up.

Awww.

Truly one of the founding fathers.

Is there anyone even left from the Golden Age?

I think he may have been the last one standing.

Zomg, that was PERFECT!

Voices, look, mannerisms, slapstick- all DEAD ON!

The only thing that struck me as off at all was the bikini nun, but the original Stooges had a heaping of good lookin' dames in several of their shorts, serving the same purpose for 1940s sensibilities.

Ye gods, its worth it for the Snooki eye-poke alone!

When can I pre-order tickets?

Anyone working for a studio producing a Tsoo-infested level 50 zone needs to see Big Trouble in Little China


And if we're talking off-the-wall 80s genre movies, you also need to add Rustler's Rhapsody

What's all this Spring stuff? Did the issue release paradigm change when I wasn't looking?

I22 should be 4 months after I21, and that would be January. Even considering the delay from 21.5, we should be looking at the next issue in February at the latest.

If I'd change my predictions any, I would maybe swap Darkness Control with Staff Melee to put I22 in its properly scheduled place.