Firemoth

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

We wanted to know, what have you liked most about Freedom?

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

I'm rifling through the closet and I can't seem to find her chaps or magic coat.

Originally Posted by BrandX

Hmmm...interresting, I found that on every server, not just Virtue.

Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence

While I'd like female pets I kind of agree with Devs on this one. I know a number of people who only want them so they can dress like Pimps and go around pretending to mistreat them. We get enough of that 12 year old stuff already, we have WoW for all the immature players.

Originally Posted by Cainus

Electric Armour would help with the high Endurance costs of the Titan Weapon set.
Stone Armour has always been highly durable, and with all the AoE in the set, it might work better than a single target set while solo or on a small team.

Both are Resist heavy armours, so they'd help your survivability when your Defence has been compromised.

I feel your pain, by the way. I cant stand auto-hit powers that floor your Defence, as my primary tanks tend to be Shield Defence (which, of course, is not available here).

Originally Posted by Heraclea

Pass

Raccoon stew.

Originally Posted by BrandX

And then you'd have people crying sexist all over again, and saying limiting of concepts.

Further proof, the devs cant win.

Originally Posted by daveyj3

we need to have more people see and post in this thread. i've gotten these reasons time and again also, along with "it's a minority of players that this would satisfy and we have to think about the greater good", and about scantily clad lady-parts: "this is what is expected from us from the players". right, the players who you dont want to give female masterminds so as not to objectify them... you give them female objectifying clothing.

Originally Posted by FoxLee

More to the point... Masterminds are lame as solo combatants. So what's really more empowering to females - a woman who has no choice but to let an army of men do all the fighting for her, or a character who relies a bunch of butt-kicking female thugs/soldiers/ninjas to do their violence?

We all know it - the opportunities for misogyny in the game are already without limits. The lack of female mastermind lackeys saves nothing.

I really want to see them fix the things that are withheld from males too. I'm not talking corsets or stockings (c'mon, we all know the prospective market for those is itty-bitty). But what about the so-called "tiaras" that women get, which are just headbands in a style that's actually quite suitable for barbarians or knights? What about the female "headband" detail, for that matter? What about the cloud and dragon bracers? What about shoulder pets? What about long freaking hair?

If the argument is that women miss out on lovely the stuff like the costume pack coats and boots because they have more options, then the obvious answer is to use give-and-take. I'll take your steampunk sleeves and Baron coat, you can have cool martial arts bracers and a haircut that isn't short bloody back and sides.

Originally Posted by Steele_Magnolia

Steam punk (despite the texture/tint problems) and Barbarian were the last costume sets I purchased. Barbarian was well balanced by archtype, lots of skin, but it fit so no problem. I've bought two pieces (shoulders, belt) from the COT set and the rest didn't suit me but seemed okay.

I was unhappy with the archtype balance for magic, which at least was well done artistically, but am more unhappy with the balance for this one. At least magic had the option for full body coverage if wanted and great witches hats. This set... that's not a cowgirl - that's a saloon girl. In modern day terms she'd be working a corner somewhere or at the Mustang Ranch.

When I read the announcement I was excited. Then I saw the pictures and was disappointed, wishing I could have the male's outfit for my female toon. Then I took a closer look and got mad.

I was ready to buy more tp to get this until I actually SAW it. The only piece I can see using is the belt. I wonder how many other players feel the same?

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

Zwillinger, please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm going to have to give you and Paragon Studios some rather unpleasant feedback. It isn't directly about the game, or even this costume set. It is more about how Paragon Studios does business.

I like the game. I really do. However Paragon Studios seems to have some fairly unrealistic goals currently and we're seeing the results of trying to adhere to those goals. For the rest of this post, the "you" I'm referring to is Paragon Studios, not "you, Zwillinger".
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An open letter to Paragon Studios:

You have set a goal to produce enough for the market to have something "new" on it every week. However you don't seem to have allowed yourself any time to correct anything but the unmitigated disasters based on feedback.

Your customers aren't all idiots, some of them can smell a sub-standard "feature" a mile away. Some of your customers are patient and don't expect miracles (despite what you might think). However they do expect to be treated in a fair manner (problems: VIP Perks awarding in an obfuscated fashion, EU players not being able to buy year subscriptions, Central/South American customers having to deal with a less than savory company that doesn't carry a full range of products, etc).

There seems to be a "We know best." attitude pervasive at your company. Even when feedback is fairly uniform across a broad-spectrum of players, you go ahead despite the feedback and tell the players "just test it" when testing if something is "working as intended" isn't the point. When your players tell you that the intention itself is wrong, that is the point where you need to step back and open a discussion as to "why" it is wrong. It isn't a cue to push ahead and fix things 6-8 months down the road "when you have the time".

You need to allocate less time to throwing everything including the kitchen sink at us. You need to allocate some time or people to bug fixes and adjustments, something that clearly doesn't have enough time allocated to do well. If you feel the need to disregard feedback, explain why. You have had over 7 years with this live product and the times you got into the most trouble were when you didn't explain yourselves despite protests.

Again, I like the game. I've remained a steady subscriber since 2005. I've a lot of time (and money) invested in this game. I intend to continue to subscribe for the foreseeable future. Are you willing to invest your time in a manner that will make me want to continue to subscribe or will you continue to drive customers away?

Sincerely,
Snow Globe.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Maybe boys are just more violent and likely to commit crimes?

Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare

Personally, I felt the last two sets almost made 'old maids' out of the female toons. I'm half expecting the next period costume set to be 'flapper' gear.

Buuuut... the main reason I wanted to post in this attention worthy thread is to point out that the entirety of the game has a sex-bias.

There's been a real under representation of females in NPC mobs that, IMO, goes hand in hand with the lack of female pet models for MMs.

I don't think there's a single female police officer between Paragon, RI and Praetoria and most of the enemy groups seem to be a boys only club (Wyvern, Sky Raiders, GBs, Malta, Tsoo, Trolls, Council, Prisoners, Lost, etc). Even some of the co-ed groups only have one female type in the whole faction (Hellions, Freakshow)

And I still fail to see why at least one pet per MM tier couldn't use the female model.