Golden Girl

Originally Posted by Daemodand

The character is great. That he'll probably make most bluesiders puke makes him even cooler.

Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

You're confused because you're looking at trivialities and not the big picture.

This month a technical problem gains them some extra impulse purchases.

Next month they'll have another excuse and another piece of content to lure in the impulse buyers.

By February they'll have cranked through the data and they'll know when to release things for maximum profit (hint: It'll be the first of the month, because that's just before most long-term player's start day of the 4th, which was release day) and they'll know how long to leave things on sale.

By next summer they'll introduce yet another currency, or another wait-for-points plan, or something else that ultimately will give them a marginal increase in profits.

It's not about any specific event. It's all about keeping the players off-balance so that they are unable to budget their money and their time. This makes more money flow toward the game.

It started with the bait-and-switch they pulled when they went back on their promise of giving all the points for a subscription on the initial renewal date. From here it will only get worse, more devious, and more difficult to understand and plan for.

Maybe. Maybe Paragon Studios hasn't succumbed to the evils of gamification and microtransactions, and all the shady coincidences so far have just been accidents. But every time these coincidences happen it looks a little worse. It is making me lose confidence in a company I once trusted.

Originally Posted by Tetsuko_NA

Is anyone else finding it odd that the OP is telling us of the severity of this problem and the hue and cry that shall inevitably follow it... while being told be literally every other person in the thread that it's just no big deal?

Someone's not having a reasonable perspective here. It's either the OP, or it's every single other person.
Make your own judgements based on that.

Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel

maybe you should reroll your namesake as a street justice scrapper.

Originally Posted by Von Krieger

Synapse has idea for new mechanics for old sets, but due to people playing them for so long he doesn't think it would be a good idea to do so. So he'll be making news sets with those ideas, as CoH is very alt friendly.

Originally Posted by MidNite

I think the devs are on crack to put anything in there for more than 50 points,

Originally Posted by Bright

But, as someone pointed out in another thread not so long ago, she's pretty obviously designed to be a "booth babe"-friendly marketing tool for the game. Given that, we're probably stuck with her.

Originally Posted by Lazarillo

Will they give her pants?

Originally Posted by Agent White

Shadowlord dwells in his keep in the Mirrorworld, you'd be saving her from Mother and probably Penny's sisters she doesn't like to play with. Though maybe Glowball will help with some of his teddy bears

Originally Posted by Black_Mercenary

I'm not exactly satisfied that Desdemona was the one to be the Carnival Queen...or the fact that she was necessary for the Underground Trial.

It was my understanding that Des was a "C/D-List" style character that doesn't make many appearances and is sometimes a plot device. However, making her into the Carnival Queen implies that she's far more important to the lore. Not to mention, the necessity of having her alive makes her more important than the player.

In my opinion, there was someone far more deserving of this. I think Penelope Yin should have become the Carnival Queen. I mean, Yin is supposedly the most powerful psychic on the planet....amplify that with the power of the mask. Also, Desdemona embodies the "Rogue", doesn't she? Rogues look out for number one. As much as Han Solo would love to help the innocent, it's about the money and fortune first, and less about the good deeds. Penelope, on the other hand, would jump at the chance to help people.

We've seen Penelope grow a bit. We help her rescue her father in Faultline, we defeated her guardian, the Clockwork King [Plus, teaming up with the Clockwork King to fight the Hamidon Avatar would be awesome], in the Lady Grey TF. She deserves a little payoff.

Do you agree/disagree, who do you think should wear the mask of Carnival Queen?

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

PANCAKE YES!!! MOTHER PANCAKING STREET PANCAKING JUSTICE. That's what I'm talking about. \m/

Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree

this constant theme of torture, betrayal and murder, on both sides, but it feels a little jarring in the Isles.

Originally Posted by NeverDark

Lex Luthor and Doctor Doom, rather than Ted Bundy and Jack the Ripper. Being evil doesn't mean being despicable.

Originally Posted by Biowraith

What the hell?! It's tomorrow already and no Bomb Armour! We were promised Bomb Armour!

Originally Posted by Agent White

The other thing that kind of bothers me about the whole destroyed Galaxy City as a major plot point is that you get tossed into this crisis, you get out of it and if you're villainside, it's promptly forgotten and you just go about until the killing game when it's all pretty calmed down and resembles something like Faultline or The Hollows. Heroside, the first few missions deal with the fallout from the crisis, having to deal with gangs trying to cause trouble in Atlas etc, but once you get going that dies down an things kinda continue on as normal. It just seems kind of clunky because most of the 'crisis' about galaxy city is contained pretty much in Atlas Park, outside of it paragon city is pretty much 'business as usual'.

Originally Posted by chartube13

They should give free players broadcoast and local at least. Other wise being a free player absolutely sucks!

Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan

Yeah, now that i think of it, the way she descriobed it, this could very well have been the case. I remember that confusing me in Beta too. That's a really stupid design feature.

Originally Posted by warden_de_dios

I hope this is a policy that Paragon will change in the future. If a preem buys content he should be able to invite his preebie friends along with him.