Chad Gulzow-Man

This is my only complaint as well. She's been a superhero for many of her 80+ years, and has witnessed just as bad--if not worse--at the hands of the Rikti and the Praetorians. You'd think she'd have more of a "time to get down to business" face on...

Otherwise, I am completely blown away. I'm really liking everything I've heard about Issue 21... and I'm hoping there might still be a few surprises tucked away that we've yet to hear about (Powerset Proliferation? Maybe? Pleeeeease? ).

There's different currencies. Paragon Points are for spending in the store. With the purchase or subscription earning of Paragon Points, you will also be awarded Paragon Reward Tokens, to be spent on the new equivalent of the Vet Reward system.

You can pay money for the perks, if you want, but you can't buy the Vet badges, which will continue to be awarded for time subscribed.

Personally, I'd actually like to pay for the "Loyal Customer" perk on my second account, which just got City Traveller earlier this month. It's the only big thing that separates utility of my accounts right now.

No, I stated that it wasn't up the developers to cater to someone with ADHD the same way that they need to cater to people with colorblindness, migraines and epilepsy. The fact that this game exists should be enough for those players with ADHD.

And I'm not going to bother discussing anything else in any of your posts. You don't need the Incarnate rewards to play the game. They are in no way required.

Honestly, that's in their best interest as a business--they're making money by providing a service. They should be more interested in catering to the "buy it now" crowd than those who are willing to wait for things to go on sale.

I expect that we'll see a LOT of new content get dumped in the stores upon each future issue's release with the point total adding up into the thousands, with a slow trickle of new things added month to month between issues to keep interest up and points getting spent.

Also keep in mind that, with CoHF/i21's launch, you'll have at least 1200 points (providing you keep your subscription active between now and then) banked up--if not more! If they put 2000 points worth of costume options and temporary powers in the store on the launch date and you've got 1600 in your pocket, then you can't really blame them if you're the one who feels the need to pay an additional $5 to get them immediately.

(I'm in the same boat. In the situation listed above, they're almost certainly getting my $5.)

You can bank them and use them later.

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Basically, they're releasing two new story arcs every month (one for Heroes, one for Villains) that allow you to work alongside one of the big name heroes and villains of the City of Heroes universe to achieve a goal. Each arc will be 3-5 missions long.

You might stop a bank robbery with Synapse, or do the robbery yourself alongside Ghost Widow. While those are cheezy examples, it should give you the idea.

We're doomed.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!

Had one of those all through high school. Finally asked her out last year (only twelve years after graduation). It was fun for a couple months, but it became apparent that it wasn't going to work out due to religious differences, so we split amicably.

--This has been another episode of TMI (also known as "Why the Hell Should We Care?") with Chad Gulzow-Man.

Don't go getting people's hopes up unnecessarily. But yes, I noticed the way that was worded, too.

At least that doesn't affect CoH... it's built off of OpenGL, not DirectX.

D'awwww... you'd almost feel bad for them, if they weren't the backbone of a soul-crushing regime of tyranny.

Time Manipulation has been stated to be included for VIP subscribers. Not free--if you drop your subscription, you lose access to it, but you keep if as long as your subscription is active. Access to Time Manipulation can, of course, be purchased by Free/Premium players.

The recent Massively.com article implied that the "Titan Weapons" powerset coming in the future will require additional purchase, though.

Reasonable. You can buy everything bit by bit over the course of four months at no additional cost beyond your subscription, or you can pay them a bit of extra cash if you absolutely have to have the new stuff ASAP. There's also going to be all sorts of nifty little consumeable bonuses for sale that will compete for your 400 subscriber points, such as Double XP bonuses and Enhancement Deslotters.

There will always be content in every future issue that VIPs have included with their subscription that Free/Premium players will need to purchase access to. There may be some content that everyone needs to pay for. There will also always be things that are free for everyone (such as access to the new First Ward zone), just as teasers to get the Free/Premium players subscribing to get the rest of what they're missing out on. And we know that there will be some content such as the Incarnate system that will only be accessible by VIP subscribers.

I have faith that as new issues approach the development team will make us aware of what will be included in the subscription fee and what needs to be purchased additionally.

Again, you'll probably be able to pay for Paragon Points on the character select screen the same way you do now for server transfers, rename tokens and bonus character slots.

We don't know that... it's unclear from the wording so far. I read it as a one-time expense, personally.

Yes they have--two arcs per month, one Hero and one Villain. Each will be 3-5 missions long.

No, they haven't. It's been $14.95/mo in US dollars since the game launched in April 2004.

If you pay in a currency other than US dollars, then I can't say for sure whether your subscription rate changed or not... but US players have always been $14.95 for a one month subscription.

(It is still about $12/mo as a lump payment for a full year subscription in advance.)

My post was neither, and you're just trying to stir up drama because you want to get your way. I know full-well what living with ADHD is like. I often spend my weekends taking care of my neighbor's teenage ADHD son, and it can definitely be a hassle. But having ADHD isn't an insult unless you take it as such, and my point still stands: it's not up to the developers to cater to it.

Those two sentences contradict each other.

They're upping the reward for Apex/Tin Mage with the launch of Issue 20.5 today. I think it's going up to 10 Threads.

--yes it is-- Yes there is, but--wait a second... --oh, you were just spouting hyperbole! Whew, glad I figured that out, because it wasn't obvious at all-- EVERY OTHER PIECE OF CONTENT IN THIS GAME OFFERS REWARDS. Inf, recipe drops, experience, badges... you can get ALL of these elsewhere in the game. You don't NEED Incarnate boosts to play the game. A lot of people argue that they trivialize preexisting content. In fact, the level shifts you get by doing the iTrials aren't even used outside of the iTrials, so you can stop at a T3 Alpha, which is easily gained doing a few high level TFs and one Weekly Strike Target and nobody would really ever notice the difference.

The problem is that you're not willing to listen to anybody else, because you apparently know better than everyone else. The problem is that you expect the rewards to be given to you because you don't want to do the content associated with them. The problem is that you expect to get all the shinies quickly.

The point was NEVER to grind trials over and over for two weeks so you could max out all your slots on one guy. The POINT was that you should take the 4+ months between issues and work up to the new rewards over time, not just unlock and slot everything in a couple days. The fact that the developers made it possible to do so shows that they're sympathetic to your "gotta have it nao!" mindset, but there's a limit to how far they're willing to bend for that.

You're basically telling them you don't want the filet mignon they handed you because it's not on a golden plate and smothered with caviar.

And again, one final time: THIS THREAD DOES NOT BELONG IN THIS SECTION OF THE FORUMS. Ask a moderator to move it to the City Life or Player Questions sections.

Currently, they release free powersets in pairs, and usually about every 18-24 months. If they release a new powerset every three months, only you have to pay $10 for it now, isn't that still somewhat of an improvement?

Shortly before GR launched, Posi had the development teams split into groups. Presumably, resources will be allocated to those teams based on where the microtransaction money is going. If people pay money for powersets, then they'll get more resources, and we'll get more of them. It's a give and take.

If you want them, you can use your stipend and save up and get them at no additional cost, or you can pay a few bucks out of pocket. If it brings you joy, it's not a bad deal either way.

But if you budget wisely, you can get the whole pack and not pay a dime outside of your usual $15/mo subscription. How is this bad?

I'm still waiting for my 42 month Towel Cape!

In what scenario are you doing that, exactly?

Subscription cost is staying at $15/mo monthly (and keeping the same discounts for extended subscriptions). You aren't going to be charged anything additional to use the stuff that you've already got.

Worst case scenario, something you want is more expensive that you're willing to pay for it, so you go without. If you REALLY want it, you save up your monthly stipend of Paragon Points and pick it up a month or two down the road.

And that means you're paying the same thing for more stuff than you're getting now, no matter how you slice it.

In the end, what serves the interest of the company greatest is having people keep paying the $15/mo subscription fee as long as possible. If you cheat your customers too much--and we have got some serious math ninjas who post on these boards, so I don't expect that to become an issue--then you may get a big windfall of cash up front with nothing to use as a nest egg later.

I'm pretty sure their end goal is to keep the game running as long as possible, because that means they get to keep earning paychecks. Having more microtransactions will enable this to run smoother in the long run.

I read an interesting thread on the boards earlier about another game that's offering a $70 (real cash moneys!) monocle for their avatar to wear. I don't foresee that becoming an issue with City of Heroes Freedom--especially since they give example pricing of costume options in the first post on this very thread, the highest being $1.25 for an Origins Pack cape.

Official redname response is "Later this year." So... no.

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I can probably think of 20 or more people I'd love to see come back in under a minute, and I have great confidence that CoH Freedom is a great direction for the game. It just means that with all the new good, I'll be dealing with at least one confrontation that I'd rather avoid.