Eva Destruction

When do they do that?

In the case of Longbow, they commit crimes to impress their female boss.

Longbow actually have gender parity though.

See, this is because they are the designated good guys. You know they are because they treat their female member the same as their male members. Now Arachnos on the other hand, they don't want girls unless they're psychic.

Did they have any other new options?

It's also the girls getting their own treehouse and stabbing any boys who try to come in.
It actually makes sense for low-level street gang to not allow girls.

One of the Cimeroran Traitor lieutenant models is female.

Yeah, that's another thing: Costume pieces that are allowed to have two colors should be able to take two colors. I've noticed that some of the pieces in the Barbarian set are limited to one color even though the category they're in allows for two. If we want to make the piece all one color, we'll make it all one color.

Too be fair, I think that's widely considered one of the worst makeovers in the history of comics.

@#&*! Honoree and his @#&*! S/L resists!

(No, seriously. Enough with the jacked-up S/L resistance on everything.)

If you think of this pack as "period specific" it is even more offensive, since the only women who would show that much leg in that time period were sex workers.

The "Dance hall girls" of which you speak were often also prostitutes, and at best would have been the period equivalent of strippers.

Other people have already posted period specific costumes for women that are more in keeping with an "I'm going to shoot you" theme. I mean come on, you can't even hide a gun in your garter in that saloon girl get-up.

Now see, this I would buy. It's so much better than the gaudy Michael Jackson-esque deal we're getting.

Actually, it isn't. Marvel and DC have been bleeding readers for years.

I'm sure Diabolique and Dominatrix can postpone their boob jobs so we can get more versatile costume pieces. And if they object, well, they're not paying subs and we are, so don't listen to them.

For people who predominantly play one gender (raises hand), it amounts to about the same number of options.

The magic pack has been out for over two years. If you had listened to feedback then, there would have been less offense.

I find it interesting that threads and comments about sexism are generally ignored, and it takes a thread in which multiple people express a refusal to give you money and many more people mention prostitutes to get a redname response.

Good enough.

I suppose this is a step in the name of equality.

So now our female characters can have lung cancer to go with whatever else they pick up in the course of doing the job they'll be dressing for if they use this pack.

Wow, stereotype much?

I certainly hope you don't wear jeans or a jacket in real life. I mean, you wouldn't want to be mistaken for a man, now would you?

Working for someone else by definition hampers creativity. Working for an established IP even more so. If anything, I think they need to set more rigid constraints on their creative teams. When you give your artists (and writers) full license to do what they want we get crap like the CoT v2.0 and the Reichsmann TFs.

But then they'd need to make fully clothed females. So you see, they can't win.

Most of the long hairstyles clip with pretty much all the jackets too, as well as clipping horribly with capes. I guess we should remove the option for female characters to wear capes then?

Oh, don't get me wrong. The female options all being inspired by prostitutes is only the most glaring issue with the pack. Frankly, I think the whole thing is ugly, and the pre-tinting just makes it worse.

I see far more people asking for jackets than more corsets.

It goes along with marketing catering to men with the mentality of a 13-year-old.

Well there is that too. But that particular ad shows a very distinct disparity in how the male and female costumes are presented. The preview clearly shows that this set will make your male characters look badass and your female characters look sexy. The heels do not help.

Because not everyone reads the beta forums. The more people complain, the greater the chance they'll actually listen.

No, the Barbarian pack wasn't in and of itself sexist. I'm all in favor of equal-opportunity near-nudity. And as an added bonus, the female top showed off your character's six-pack. Here they had a perfect opportunity to show off a sexy set that wasn't sexist and yet they still fouled it up in the marketing. The male characters in the preview looked tough and scary. The female character looked like Santa's Sexy Helper.

None? You're probably right. But at least we can't say we didn't try.

Princesses don't fight evil. Princesses hang around in towers waiting to be rescued. If I don't get armor for females I won't be buying the medieval pack. And by "armor" I mean "proper armor," not like in that big fantasy MMO which shall remain nameless.

By the way, I predict that Diabolique's upcoming makeover will involve less clothing and more boobs. Calling it now. Frankly, this obsession with T&A just looks like pathetic, childish pandering of the beer commercial variety.

No, they're really not necessary. Now a gimmick that is designed to be harder to deal with the more people you have on your team, that I would like to see....as long as it's not an "everybody scatter, sucks to be melee" effect. I'm sick of those.

It would pretty much have to be time gated.

Officially sanctioned nukes and Shivans. I like it.

I think you would still have to have content scale upward, unless the available buffs were absolutely insane. Teams steamroll everything you throw them at. Even a level 54 AV really doesn't stand much of a chance against a decent team, and once you start throwing in level shifts....yeah.

Of course, this entirely depends on if they want this content to be steamrollable or not.

They absolutely need to do this, otherwise teams will steamroll the "solo path" and it will be glacially slow for soloists to compensate.

Or there might have been more.

I'm not saying it hasn't existed. I'm just saying that not a large enough portion of the playerbase gladly participates in it to make it the basis of the whole endgame. Those players who do participate, do so heavily enough to give the impression that this is all anyone does.

After we take down Cole and we're finally done with Praetoria the next trial will be called Sapper Incarnate. He will be a Rularuu-sized level 54+4 AV who appears in the sky over Paragon City and blankets the whole zone with his sapping ray, draining the endurance of everyone in the zone and hitting them with a -9999% recovery debuff that lasts five minutes and persists through death. Everybody starts panicking and thinking we're all doomed, until they realize he is a still a Sapper and his damage is crap.

I knew there had to be a reason Recluse is so hell-bent on taking down Cole....

Just because some people are fine with endless grinding doesn't mean everyone is. Just because some people will follow the herd doesn't mean everyone wants to, if the herd is doing stuff they don't find fun. I don't know what it is that keeps you from understanding these concepts. Your playstyle isn't the default. It's just the one that screams the loudest.

Any time they tell us how awesome an NPC is even though the NPC is not actually awesome players begin saying Mary Sue, because informed ability is a common Mary Sue trait.

When you show that an NPC is awesome while still being a well-realized character, you get a Ghost Widow. When you tell us they're awesome and nothing more, you get a Blue Steel. When you tell us they're awesome over and over, and that everyone thinks so, and that even our characters think so, players start saying Mary Sue.