Chad Gulzow-Man

Way to dig, thanks very much Yydr.

Afraid not. Only dollars spent on Paragon Points, which cannot be purchased until CoH Freedom launches, will count towards Reward Tokens.

Nice try, though.

First of all, I used $100 as a base, because you can't really find a video card that will reliably run video games any cheaper than that, and there was a plus sign next to it for a reason. My card cost about $300 when I bought it, and it's devalued to about $200 now, but that's still money I can't afford to chunk in the trashcan.

I certainly can't afford a $500+ video card. I'd heavily wager that the majority of CoH players can't either; many have families to feed, the economy is crap, and dropping any amount of money on an already working computer sounds like a fool's errand to someone with no real technical background.

As someone with a technical background but limited finances, I generally buy a graphics card that's about 3 generations from the top ($150-200) every two years, and I'd still count that as unusual for the playerbase here. I splurged when I got into the Issue 17 closed beta and bought a Radeon 5800 for close to $300, but that also happened to be right after my birthday and the stars just happened to align that I could get away with the expense without having to sacrifice anything else at the time.

And let's not forget that early last year, Nvidia published a bad driver set that accidentally disabled the cooling fans on their graphics cards and caused them to burn out. A Radeon card was the obvious choice for me at the time.

TL;DR: Jumping ship just isn't an option for those who've made a significant investment, whether you find that dollar amount to be significant or not. You are being an Nvidia fanboy in an ATI thread, and it's neither helpful, necessary nor appreciated.

There was a redname post to the effect a couple weeks ago, you'll be fine. I'll see if I can dig it up for you real quick.

Edit: Can't find it, too much communication to sift through since Freedom was announced. While the level of communication is, of course, amazingly awesome, it does make it hard to pinpoint specific posts.

We need a Facebook-esque "Like" button for forum posts.

Ahhhhhh, thanks for the clarification. The earlier announcement made it sound like we'd be getting BOTH up front.

Now, if one has a multi-month subscription BEFORE CoH Freedom launches, will they get all their Reward Tokens at launch, or will they come per-month until their next subscription period starts?

Nothing that hasn't happened to them already. If they still show up in your SG roster, then they're not going anywhere.

If you haven't deleted them, then they'll still be there if you ever decide to load up that account again.

Now, you'll be limited in the number of characters you'll have available if you don't re-subscribe with them, but the characters themselves won't be deleted. A Premium account starts with two free character slots (total, not per server) and also gets a number of extra character slots equal to the number of bonus slots (beyond the standard 12 per server for a subscriber) that you have earned or purchased, to be used on any server or combination of servers (except the VIP server) as you see fit, up to the maximum per server. Any characters that you don't have enough slots to unlock will remain there, greyed out, until you either re-subscribe or purchase more character slots and unlock them again.

They're largely populated by people who don't read the forums, and their capacity to answer questions is dependent on what the marketing department will let them say. There's also the fact that people keep asking the same questions with slightly different wording and get frustrated when Beastyle or Zwillinger don't address them specifically with a response, despite having already answered the same question three times in that session.

I did talk to Z a bit at Comic Con, and he said that a lot of times the long space in between their posts on Facebook during these events is because they're awaiting authorization as to how specific an answer they're allowed to give. And that's if they're allowed to answer it at all; otherwise you get the canned response, "We'll be discussing that in more detail in the coming weeks."

It's one of the reasons that I and other similarly-minded people try to jump in and answer the "easy" questions; the more of those that can get batted away, the more new questions we can get answered.

Correct. The "powers" that are locked off behind Tier 9 VIP will continue to be things similar in magnitude to the existing Vet Rewards, like the Nemesis Staff/Blackwand choice, Buff Pets, Assemble the Team, etc. None of the powers earned through Paragon Rewards will be game-changing, because that would defeat the point of having them as bonuses; they'd be the goal of every player to achieve, and the game would shift from being "Free To Play" into "Pay To Win," which would cause a hemorrhage of free players and lower-tiered subscribers alike.

And putting an entire powerset behind that barrier would just be an awful business move--Paragon Rewards are a bonus that's part of a subscription or for every $15 worth of monetary transactions you make towards Paragon Points. Rewarding veterans thusly might make them happy, but it would peeve off the lower-tiered subscribers and will ultimately put less money in Paragon Studios' coffers than if they just offered it for purchase in the Paragon Market... and putting them in the Market for everyone to buy is exactly what they're going to do.

That's also because it wasn't supposed to be announced yet; there was a bit of a snafu as to what the author of a recent Massively.com article could talk about, and he mentioned Titan Weapons (though not by name), so they had to do a quick announcement the next day.

But you are correct, the developers have not specifically said whether it would be free to VIPs or require additional purchase... though the Massively.com article said that it would be available through the store, so I'm inclined to believe it'll cost extra.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...61#post3756161
Everything that anyone else has said is out there and has been verified by some redname, be it on the forums, through Facebook Fridays, Ustream chats or face-to-face conversations at Comic Con.

Between not looking it up yourself and ignoring those who answer your questions with phrases like "with all due respect" and "lol"ing at them just shows that you lack respect for them at all and that you aren't worth the time it takes to answer your questions.

So congratulations, you don't have to worry about me answering your questions instead of a redname anymore.

No, the new powersets (Street Justice, Beam Rifle, and eventually Titan Weapons) will need to be purchased by everybody, be they a VIP subscriber or a Free or Premium player.

They will be in no way tied to Veteran/Paragon Reward status.

I believe that specifically refers to the repeatable Tier 9 rewards (not Tier 9 VIP), which are consumeable (limited use) items such as enhancement boosters and unslotters, etc.

Everything else I can remember from the Comic Con build was global like the existing vet rewards, and the Celestial stuff for Tier 9 VIP was global as well.

Those were Praetorians, and the sorceress you noted is the Praetorian War Witch (Sorceress Serenity, I think?).

Because throwing away a $100+ video card and buying another is an option for everybody. If you're not going to try to say anything constructive, just keep your mouth shut.

Or defense-based sets like SR to not get the crap kicked out of them by absolutely everything prior to getting Elude or good IO sets.