GMan3

If y'all haven't read this, you might want to follow the link back and do so. It is one of the best, most well thought complaints for this game I have ever seen. Even if you do not agree with him, you have to at least see his point.

Bravo Fiery_Redeemer!

Same feeling I am getting. Seems to have moved from money AND community oriented as it should be to just money oriented. I'm not a PvPer, but how long has it been since that system was ruined for the people that do like participating? Or how about going back and fixing mission text or doors that you have to rezone/relog in order to actaully find?

I hope I am wrong, I just don't see it.

I don't do it often Nether, but I have to agree with your first sentence there.

The very first time I ever got on the forums about six years ago, one of the first posts I read was someone asking to have the Freakshow made into costume peices OR as a single full costume. That person even said they would be willing to buy it if necessary. After several dozen people chimed in that they agreed and/or wanted a different enemy costume I moved on.

Now with me starting to play the game a few months after it was first released, that isn't exactly day one, but pretty dang close. Incidentally, I didn't go on to the forums and make my own forums account for a couple years after that due to the bad taste it left in my mouth. But that was do to some fighting amongst people on the forums that thought they knew everything and yet DIDN'T.

With that being said, they have AVOIDED selling these "All or Nothing" costumes now for around six years when they could have been making money off of it.

I was referring to the selling of the costume codes, which to date I have not seen happen. They may have started the temp and perma temp powers later in the game, but it has been clamored for as a "for sale" item nearly since day one of the game.
With that being said, they have ignored a possible revenue source for a long time now (over six years). I can say (again) that an all or nothing costume does not excite me as it is too limiting and and just cheap by my standards, but I also realize that many people in this game would love it and have no personal qualms about them selling these costumes for a tidy little profit.

They may very well EVENTUALLY do that. But if history is to be learned from than we can safely say they won't. After all, they have . . . Six years . . . of not putting these codes for sale in the stores to make money off of? I will agree that if they do try to sell these costumes they will make some money, but I for one will not be buying an "All or Nothing" costume. Too limiting and just plain cheap for me.

No, he's just one of the most immature posters here. Now if he actually came up with some good ideas instead of just troll posting I wouldn't mind. He seldom does though that I have found.

We can hope, but I won't be holding my breath for that to happen. Still, would be nice though.

Rather short sighted post there. I DON'T own a cell phone. Though I could easily afford one, I see no reason to have a cell phone when my home phone allows me to call anywhere in the USA for $40.00 an month. I can do it at any time and for as long as I want. There are no "extra" charges for ANYTHING. I see no reason to waste any more money on a cell phone when I have everything I need in my home phone and for much cheaper than almost any cell phone plan.

Neither of my teenage children, nor my spouse has a cell phone either and for the same reasons. There are plenty of people willing to throw money away for the apparent ease of owning one of those things, but my family is not among them. There are a lot of people out here that do not own cell phones for the same reasons or even different reasons, to assume that "If he/she is paying for CoH and can't afford a cell phone, then he/she has other priorities to worry about and should probably cancel his/her subscription to save money." is just short sighted and immature.

The truly humorous thing about this "give away" is that instead of using it as a possible Christmas gift to all the players of this game, it is instead geared only toward those people who for some reason are drawn to social networking sites. You can't even legitimately claim to be using it as a defacto "Advertising" scheme since only people who "subscribe" to the sites for the game would get the info and only people who play the game are going to "friend" them. In all I find this to be ANOTHER disappointing "Give Away/Contest" from NC Soft/Paragon Studios.

You may be right GG, they did not promise us the rest of the Alpha Slot with Issue 20 BUT, this quote from the GR homepage does seem to say just that pretty clearly:

"Each Incarnate slot offers multiple trees or branches that you can select from, allowing for greater customization of existing powers and even letting your character gain never-before-seen powers. Every major content update will reveal new Incarnate abilities."

I did some pretty extensive searching here on the forums and couldn't find a whole lot more specifics. If you can, please feel free to post a link or a source, then I'll be happy to look at it. Until then please take your pathetic little wink someplace else because I don't trust your "special knowledge".

Your probably right. If memory serves me well, last year the servers were so unstable the first week and a half or so, that there were tons of complaints about the whole event. At least until they fixed it and then extended it to appease people.

Personally I wouldn't mind one bit if they did extend the event a few weeks. It's not like it really affects any zone except Pocket D after all and the ski slops are a kinda fun little "mini-game".

Ah yes, the typical "entitlement" /end rant post. I think what is pretty clearly being said by most people here is that they would like a more "fair" method of winning that allowed everyone to have a chance, not just people who are social networking site junkies. Most companies whose employees use computers purposely ban/block these sites to keep productivity up.

So how about this, why don't you "Chill the heck out".

PvP was shelved as a Non-Concern a long time ago. So if something suddenly decides to stop working there, I wouldn't count on a quick fix. Not trying to be pessimistic, but realistic. Though I really don't care about PvP very much myself, I do hope they fix that for everyone that does pretty soon.

Let me get this straight. WHF feels we should just get over a problem that has popped up for years instead of asking that it actually be fixed, right? Sorry, doesn't work for me. If there is a problem, please report it, talk about it in the forums and let the Devs/Company know that it is a problem for you. If enough people do this then MAYBE it will be made a priority to fix.

Personally though, I am hoping something is done about the server instability. I have been "Mapserver'd" more times in the last week since Issue 19 went live, than in the entire three months combined. If I had been playing during peak hours maybe I could understand, but I mostly play during non-peak hours and every time this has happened to me was a non-peak time but one. Did a Statesman TF last week and almost everyone was "Mapserver'd" at least once and one poor guy had it happen at least three times in each mission. At one point he even said he had never had it happen before and couldn't understand what was going on.

Good news on both parts. Thanks Avatea!

Now that is a question I can get behind. Good call.

I have to agree with both parts of your statement, but at the same time I can't blame the guy for feeling like he's being gypped.

Was going to say something here but I see two posters already beat me to it. I'll just walk away with a casual "You did it to yourself" as I shake my head and shrug.