DarkGob

There are plenty of people who play the trials for fun. There are also people who play just for the rewards. Welcome to the game.

Much like your attempt at putting words in my mouth.

The OP is slightly confused and so are you. He's referring to the Super Packs.

OP, maybe you should try becoming more familiar with an upcoming feature before making suggestions, it's not anything like what you've put forward.

The Super Packs are only available on the Paragon Market. It contains 5 "cards" (no, it's not actually a CCG, just styled after one), containing items of varying rarities (one of which is a guaranteed "rare"). Contained within the packs are a number of consumables (unslotters, XP boosters, team insps, etc.), as well as a pieces of a costume set exclusive to the packs, and the much-anticipated Archetype IOs. You can get duplicates of everything except the costume pieces, and the Archetype IOs will be sellable Wentworth's/Black Market/whatever the hell Praetoria's trading thing is called.

Many are understandably not happy with the prospect of items being made exclusive to a pack that must be purchased with real money. Making the ATIOs tradeable mitigates that a bit, but you know they're gonna end up as expensive as purples/PvP IOs, and the costume pieces would still be 100% exclusive. The packs aren't tradeable, and I'm not even sure they'll actually exist as an item unto themselves that could somehow be represented as a thing to be traded. It sounded like all you're buying is a random roll for 5 items. So no, there's nothing to collect here, unless you are Paragon Studios and the thing you want to collect is money.

By an absurdly wide margin.

The first part might happen, but the second never will.

You understand that the last two can be the same, right? You can have content that is perfectly soloable but still allows a team to attempt it. See: the rest of the damn game.

You're being bizarrely obstinate here and I'm not sure why.

P.S. I'm also a mostly-solo player (no objection to TFs and trials, but anything else I usually play solo).

They should all have been recorded and available on Paragon's Ustream page.

Honestly until about halfway through the post I completely forgot this thread even had anything to do with the loading screens.

FTFY

Anyway, meaningless comments about in-game art aside, I still don't see them killing off the character that drives the franchise, especially when we've still got his Mirror Universe counterpart waging war on our universe. Maybe if the two of them ended up killing each other off Superman/Doomsday-style (and we all know how that turned out), but we know that won't happen since Who Will Die? will be resolved before Praetoria is (and it seems WWD is pretty much entirely separate from that storyline anyway). Also, who are they going to give his Task Force to? Back Alley Brawler? Statesman's Task Force is the signature Task Force.

No, it just doesn't add up.

I'm liking Back Alley Brawler for this. He's not a contact anymore, and all of his current appearances could be said to be set prior to WWD (but let's not even get into that spaghetti mess of interlocking continuities and timelines; wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey). I could also see Synapse buying it, with BaB stepping in to take his place, giving the devs an excuse to revamp Synapse's Task Force (although this seems somewhat unlikely after the Player Summit, but who knows, maybe the devs didn't tell us everything).

HOLY OFF-TOPIC POST BATMAN

I don't even know what that means.

My disbelief was mostly focused on you applying "gorgeous" to her looks, although I'd admit to a little American conceit in there.

Look at it this way, your post here will help future people who see your post and realize there's nothing else of value here.

There was also a lot of laughter and applause, standing in stark and hilarious contrast to the gloomy and pathetic mood of the marketing panel.

Yes, because they're going to kill off their flagship character.*

*No, Superman doesn't count.

With "less caltrops".

I would trade a Stalker Tweak for fixing MM pet AI so they're playable again.

They didn't want too much crossover* between Dark Control and Tentacle Control.

*I typed this as "grossover" at first. Not sure it was wrong.

I don't even care about "pay to win" because there's no way to win in this game. It's the randomness and not knowing what you're going to get that bugs me. I'd be furious if I got 5 unslotters.