Doctor Roswell

Okay, gotcha. So it was basically an upgrade from standard to collector's edition after the fact.

The point remains, the dev stance has always been "if you missed it, you missed it." That's what makes it an exclusive.

I still wouldn't be opposed to changing that, nor to offering a functionally-identical-and-cosmetically-almost-identical version now.

I think you're thinking of the Good vs. Evil pack that was available when CoH and CoV were consolidated into a "single" game: VIP badge, Pocket D teleporter, Justice and Sinister costume sets, and the jump pack. Arguably the first "super booster" offered, though they didn't use that name for it at the time. It came free with the CoH/CoV combination retail box, or could be bought separately online.

The collector's edition pre-dated CoV's release by a good long while (the version of the game included on the DVD was updated to issue 2), and the Good vs. Evil edition by even longer; Prestige Power Slide and the Cape of the Four Winds were exclusive to that edition, and, according to the devs at the time, would never be available by other means.

Same deal with the Arachnos cape and chest emblem that came with the collector's edition of CoV when it was first released. There's a different Arachnos chest emblem available as a vet reward, and a modified version of the cape that non-crab-packed SoAs can use, though, which brings up an interesting possibility: why not a version of Power Slide that's not exactly the one from the collector's edition? Maybe one that uses the same animations, but without the glow effect at the character's feet? That might work better with the current game's path auras anyway.

They were asked about it directly, and specifically said it will be co-op in a uStream chat back in November.

Is it Monday again already?

So now my stalker can't even one-shot a minion? He can only take it down from 100% to 75%? Even if he's level 50 and the enemy is level 1?

Even the current "gimped scrapper with a neat trick" lets him take down a +1 lieutenant before its friends know he's there...

Same problem here. In IE and Chrome. I'd hardly call it a "random" logout bug -- that implies it sometimes doesn't happen.

We have no direct control. Just like we have no direct control over which items a store sells or which channels are provided by our cable company.

But if you think customer feedback isn't a major factor in the decision-making process of the people who do have direct control...

Three things:

1. Nobody's accusing him of lying. But this is apparently the first anyone's heard of an "old" Omega aura, so people are trying to solve the mystery. People who "don't lie or anything" can still make mistakes and/or get incorrect information from others.
2. Yes, old costume parts sometimes get replaced (see: Gladiator shoulder piece), and the old versions persist on characters/costumes that already have them until they go into the costume editor and it "finds" the new piece instead of the old one. But again, this is the first I (or, indeed, a number of other people who have responded to this topic) have ever heard of that happening with this particular piece.
3. Is English your first language?

True, because the files are stored locally. As code. Text that says, "this item in these colors." So if you load up a saved costume with an old version of the aura, no matter when it was saved, (if I understand correctly), one of two things would happen:

1. The indicator in the code points to "Omega aura" (however that's indicated -- a numerical code, most likely) so the editor will pull up the piece it has that matches that indicator: the current version.
2. The indicator in the code points to an old version of the piece which the costume editor won't "find" (they're no longer a part of the editor), so it will give the "hey, we can't find that item; you may not have access to it. Do you want to attempt a fix?" prompt in the load screen (like when you try to load a costume with a cape or aura on a character that doesn't have those unlocked) and would never let you load it up with "bad" pieces in the first place.

Transfers don't work in that direction, unless your friend was doing something that's at best a violation of the EULA and at worst a violation of several federal and international laws. And they'd remember doing it; it's not something that happens by accident.

Looks like Toxic Vapor to me. I think.

Not true. There's currently a bug with the Halo auras not showing up when they should, and that means that changing a costume that has a halo will cause it to disappear (because the costume editor can't find it). But it doesn't mean that the halos have been taken away or removed from the account. When the bug is fixed, that player will be able to add the halo right back to any character who has the aura unlocked.

Same story with Wisps, by the way.

It's possible to lose access to "free to VIP" costume pieces by dropping from VIP to Premium (the Imperial Defense set, for example), but that just means it will be locked in the character editor, so you can't "finish" creating or changing a costume that has a locked piece. Costumes that already have those pieces are still available.

It's also possible to "lose access" to crafted costume pieces in the sense that, if going Premium means losing access to the invention system altogether, you won't be able to craft more. But any already-created pieces will still be available.

Ascension boots, unlocked with empyrian/astral merits earned via Incarnate trials. They're an account-wide unlock, but can only be claimed and used by a level 50 character. Which means that dude was PL'ed like crazy. Where's MARTy when you need him?