Dante

I laughed.

And this sums up neatly why I hope this never, ever comes to pass. Either leave it in the hands of the current team or not at all.

It's one of the many ways, yes.

Get used to it and assume the position I'm afraid. I don't see it ever getting any better.

I'm glad that this is a question being asked because I honestly do not feel like much of a VIP these days. I could go into a long list of things that I have disliked since Freedom launched but apparently, that's 'entitlement' according to some posters. On the whole, Freedom has been positive but as a tier 9 veteran, there is little I would lose from dropping to Premium. Access to the dire Incarnate system (although I am hoping the revamped DA will fix some of the issues I have with it, despite it still being stupidly complicated) and the Tier 9 armour (which, being pre-tinted, I have little interest in) is all I think.

What bothers me most is how VIPs are treated exactly the same as other players when it comes to purchases. I have no problem with buying costume packs and powersets but there seems little benefit to being a VIP when doing so. As much as I despise the proposed Super Packs, the idea was announced with no concessions for VIPs. Surely as a VIP, I shouldn't be forced to gamble like the rest of the playerbase to get these exclusive items? Although I welcome the proposed changes, this was a place crying out for VIPs to get better treatment.

The same goes for Titan Weapons. This set is going out with a tiny amout of options so that you can charge us more for further options. Instead, how about VIPs get all the skins thrown in for free, just because we're VIPs?

It's this kind of thing that's frustrating to me. There are not enough places where it seems that being a VIP carries any perks. Sure, we get a whole server to ourselves and if you're lower down the reward tree, it's more apparent and I won't deny, £5 worth of points is nice every month. But there needs to be more places where being a VIP has apparent and obvious rewards. If you're looking to convert more Free and Premium players to VIP accounts, those rewards need to be more obvious and ongoing.

For each new marketing initiative you guys come up with, consider how VIPs could be treated differently. You've already got our money, stop trying to squeeze more out of us by treating us the same as everyone else.

Have a great holiday season.

I can recommend that thread. Since the Atlas Park revamp, I've come to use it a lot more often. I think a couple are broken but I can't recall which ones. They're all fun and none are of the dire standard of Dumbshot's arc.

But I will agree with the OP. The old arcs were a bit naff but they treated you as a real hero from the word go (as does, admittedly Habashy's). Dumbshot's may have been intended as an extended tutorial but the manner in which your character is treated makes you look like an idiot. The villainside one is just as bad.

I also don't get why all the contacts were moved from Galaxy, retained their contact rings and yet do nothing. I think only Azuria takes part in later missions.

This is the one thing I really hope the new Dark Astoria has less of. They're so overused now it's silly. I can handle them when they make sense to the mission but they really are so tiresome. Captain Ambush needs to tone this down a lot, ambushes are not a 'Go Faster' button.

This is how we often run Militia nights when we have two teams going. As long as you sort out an IC reason for how they keep in touch (in our case, portable communication devices), it can really help to keep the chatter and interaction going between both teams even though you're on separate missions.

I think this is the thing that I find most depressing. That they ask for feedback but it doesn't seem to change a thing. It makes a beta test for art assets a pointless exercise, nothing more than an opportunity for VIPs to test out the new pack but not to change it.

Probably because most of the feeback in that thread can be summed up as 'PLEASE DON'T!'




Which I completely agree with.

And yet the sexism in the Cowboy and Strumpet set that's just gone live is forgivable. Yep, logic has no place here...

Chuck in the snake and the bar and I'm sold.

And count me as another person who won't be buying the Cowboy & Strumpet set. When you guys come up with a Gunslinger set for both genders that has no pre-tinting on it, I'll probably buy it. But not this time.

*punches the air with joy*

Thank you very much. Apologies for missing the acknowledgements.

Very pleased that it's going to be fixed. I was worried it was going to be turned into a feature.

And yet I'm not sure if I've actually seen it acknowledged as a bug yet. Or if a fix is on the way.

Credit to the programmers, they managed to address most of the bugs from 21.5 swiftly but this is one that is really annoying and making some of my characters unplayable. I'm sure others are loving it though.

Just some confirmation that a fix is being worked on would be a big comfort.

Seconding this. For what reason is it ok to offer NA subscribers a 12 month subscription plan (+2) and yet deny it to EU players?

Discrimination? Bad exchange rate? Or perhaps an archaic hangover from when NCSoft EU were pulling the strings? Time for a change. Time for EU players to have access to the same deals. This has been asked many times and yet all we've ever had is stony silence.

Please.