Gemini_2099

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

That's just it - I raised hell about the Barbarian set being too small and excluding too much stuff, but when I saw what was actually in the set I was gobsmacked. The Barbarian set has A TON of stuff, much of it unique to the set and much of it opening new possibilities. The male loin cloth unprecedented, the arm rings are a whole new ball game and even the female fur-trimmed skirts are brand new stuff. Most of that set brings with it brand new themes. I was wrong about the Barbarian set - it had more than enough stuff in it, and it was well worth the 400 points I spent on it. Hell, I feel it was worth even more and like a cheated the studio by paying just 400 points. I would have easily paid 800 points for the Barbarian set without a second thought.

The CoT set isn't even a shadow of the Barbarian one. It's small, it's samey and it's missing too much stuff for too many people. It's not BAD, in the sense that if I had those options, I'd use them. However, it doesn't bring nearly enough to the table to be worth it as a bundle, not by a longshot. A lot of what it has, good though it may be, is "like" a lot of what we already have, and the couple of pieces that are worth in it aren't worth 400 points without my good will, and I lost my good will when I saw what was in that set.

CoT is not a bad set. It's just too small to be called "a set." This either should have been held back, or it should have been announced at Part 1 of a larger set to come later. Because, as you say, even Matt Miller doesn't seem to know what's going on, and if even he isn't up to speed, a second CoT set was never in the cards to begin with. And that's just bad.

Originally Posted by ShadowWings

So you don't play MMOs at all?

Originally Posted by Clouded

The gerbils revolted.

Originally Posted by Rapthorne

lol, don't start that line of conversation, please *dives for cover before the arguments start*

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

The puzzling thing is, until level 1s con grey, it's actually better exp to beat up lots of level 1s than it is to beat up the same amount of equal levels. When you are level 5/6 it stops being economic/worth it, but it is quite an interesting point to note.

Originally Posted by DarkWalker

In a nutshell: restrictions on how often I can respec are the big reason why I can't play this game for any long stretch of time.

I mostly love this game. I've tried to play it a few times across the years, I love some of the concepts, I really like how the direction Paragon is taking the game.

But, for whatever reason, I can't stand to play any MMO where I can't respec any time I want. The first time I want to respec and find I can't - or I get stuck when leveling because I can't decide how to spec, given that changing my decision in the future will be either hard or impossible - I simply leave the game.

It's what happened 3 times already with CoH; I try to play, make a new character (as I can't bring myself to play my old characters), but in a few days I end leaving in frustration because I either can't decide how to distribute my slots and powers, or else I find I really want to change my spec. This last try, I ever tried adding 4 months of game time at a time, to see if the larger money investment could make me stick. It just meant I wasted money, since I played for a week or two and abandoned the game just after.

None of the ways to obtain respecs are actually enough for me. The respec recipes are simply too expensive, the free respecs too few and far between, and respecs are one thing I would rather leave the game than purchase in the cash shop (since I consider them about as essential for my enjoyment of the game as, for example, being able to resurrect my character).
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Originally Posted by TerraDraconis

If you don't think the game is worth the money then don't spend the money.

I'm not seeing the problem.

Originally Posted by White Hot Flash

Two things pop out at me:

1) You're not taking advantage of all the ways you can work builds without having to commit to them, like second/third builds, or the Test Server.

2) There are numerous threads showing players how to build characters for various playstyles, there are threads explaining how to make Inf in the market, and other threads that make this game very easy to play. If you don't desire to follow any of that advice, I can honestly say you're playing the wrong game for your idea of fun. There is no shame in that.

Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy

Well, when you think about players who purchased the expansion because it allowed them access to certain content, and who were also told that they would never lose anything they purchased in the past, yes... Such players do exist. And a lot of them are making noise in this thread.

Originally Posted by BurningChick

Theme, I'd say.

Force fields are pervasive in comics and SF. They are, in fact, iconic. Star Wars. Star Trek. The Incredibles. Dune. You name it -- it's trivially easy to find SF and comics that feature shields and people using blasts to move objects.

Tangent: I think FF is so iconic that the devs didn't really bother thinking about how effective FF's powers would be in their designed roles in part because it's so freakin' obvious what FF does. And what FF does is tied into one of the stated design goals of distance = mitigation. FF is probably the easiest (de)buff set the devs have ever designed.

Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven

I love fighting at Level 20. I must be crazy. To me, if I get a character ABOVE 20, I must be pretty dedicated to that character. I have, I think, 10 characters within 5 Levels of 20 on one server, and I love to play them all... which is why none of them are above that yet, I switch off.

Man build? What the heck is that? All my characters are male.

Originally Posted by Kioshi

He's a troll, never once he responded to any of his claims with a good explanation, he just keeps saying EA is garbage and we all fell for it (me included).

Originally Posted by Diggis

Yup, because they gave everyone access to GR. Note how access to GR being given free includes access to the incarnates.

Originally Posted by Zyphoid

Yeah, this is incorrect. I can name one where I lost a race that was part of my initial purchase.