Jophiel

There's people in this thread (and previous threads) asking for exactly that. People complaining that not only do women not get chaps and baron jackets but men don't get skirts and shoulder kittens.

I disagree that there must be 100% parity and think it would be a huge waste of developer resources to give men the wedding dress parts (for example) but it's dangerous to say "no one wants this" because some people DO and any decision the developers make will result in someone complaining about how unfair it is.

They made some very positive changes to the Steampunk set and some changes to the Animal set. Which makes it disappointing that the response to this set is "Yeah, maybe but don't hold your breath". And perplexing because the same issues from the Steampunk set (mainly pretinting) occurred again in this set which makes you wonder what kind of notes they're keeping over there.

On an ironic note, I figured some of the Saloon girl bits would work nicely with my character Prairie Blaze. But the sleeves don't work with jackets and the belt doesn't work with jackets (and is pretinted to the point of never matching the rest of the outfit anyway) so there really wasn't a single part usable for a girl from out on the plains.

Edit: I tried the ringlets but they made her look like a giant version of Nellie Oleson.

It's only gotten worse since the costume selection itself has grown so much. At least the original set was somewhat self limiting and you could sometimes get an idea or two (that you would tweak into a real costume). Now it's a serious mish-mash.

The other problem being that it uses every slot so you always wind up with some weirdo with wings, a tail and an aura.

Good thing I didn't say (and made this point before) that there was a "flaw" in their pricing, just that the logic of "It sells for this much on eBay under completely different circumstances" is flawed.

I bet you'll win the next argument you make up in your mind as well. Have fun!

If they gave it any particular weight, I'd think it was silly of them but it won't keep me up nights.

Keystrokes are cheap? Not being interested in a costume didn't preclude me from seeing the flaw in the "But they sell for $50 on eBay!" remarks.

The rail crossing sign looks just as silly to me because I have to think "Why is he just carrying around that sign everywhere?" I could see someone tearing it up as an impromptu weapon but lugging it around through an office building or Crey lab? Can't he afford a real weapon? Heck, at least sewer-shield sort of makes sense since a manhole cover would make a decent shield if you're (super)strong enough to heft it about. A rail crossing sign just looks impractical.

I believe it has some ramping damage mechanic where you build damage or effects based on previous hits. So essentially another combo based set, I assume.

I do think the giant weapons, silly as they are, would look even worse without their own animations and just plunking them into Broad Sword.

Paragon has finite time and finite resources both bought with consumer dollars. I see nothing wrong with giving my opinion of how they spend those resources. Which isn't to say they're required to listen to me or anything but I at least get a voice.

I feel the same. Plus, when I see a sword like that, my mind assumes it must be made of Nerf and it loses any impact.

I think you're overstating the complexity of it. There's already a mechanism for characters with "invalid" powersets; if you're not a VIP and haven't bought Demon Summoning for instance, your Demon summoning characters from your previous paid-sub days are now locked. No drama about "POOF" or "How can they strip it?", it's just locked. The same thing would be appropriate for refunded points -- your StJ characters are no longer accessible in game.

I thought it was painfully obvious that I was refering to physical inventory but if it makes you feel better, I'll go around a corner before rolling my eyes.

This really isn't an argument in your favor. Are you actually saying that it's harder now because things are digitally tagged? Hang on, I need to hit the corner again.

This isn't an argument that it's not.

There's people who abuse any policy. It's up to the business to decide what the value is in pleasing the rest of their customers versus those who try to hit the loopholes. I personally have doubts about the outlier cases being enough of a reason to refuse a refund period but, again, I don't work for NCSoft. I'm just giving my opinion as a consumer of what would be nice for me and appreciated.

The obvious solution here is for me to threaten to (poorly) draw your character unless you pay me not to. That way, no goods are being exchanged for the inf.

So they're likely still getting paid for.

These edge cases of people powerleveling a character up to 50 in three days and then permanently shelving them just to save a few dollars aren't very convincing to me but then I don't work for NCSoft anyway.

Subscribers still have to buy select sets from the store so I'm not following you.

Good point. Chrysler made cars for nearly a hundred years so it stands to reason their operators knew everything possible about what consumers wanted in a car and had nothing else to learn. Wait... Why am I speaking of them in the past tense again?

For free, how? If all you're getting back is the points, you can't use those points for anything else because then they won't be available for getting your power set back. NCSoft already has the cash money for those points so they're not losing anything by your scenario. And I honestly doubt it would be worth anyone's time to juggle several different purchases for any length of time.

As for leveling to 50 in three days, people usually do that because they want to PLAY lvl 50s (iTrials, IOs, etc) not because they want to shelve the character.

This makes no sense to me but maybe you can explain it better. NCSoft doesn't have to do "inventory" per se because they're working with digital goods that don't really exist. They don't sell you a box of Street Justice, you just get your account flagged at StJ enabled.

NCSoft, I would assume, could tell you at any given moment how many accounts are StJ enabled so even if it was an issue, they could give you an accounting easily enough.

As for revolving purchases, provided you limit the refund period, I don't see an issue but I'll admit I'm shooting from the hip here.

Oh, please. No, she's not "lucky". This isn't PS doing her a favor or a lucky break, it's a 100% calculated business move designed to drive revenue. One could as easily say that PS is "lucky" a returning customer is giving them ANY CHANCE AT ALL to sell their product to her after they failed to keep her the first time.

Personally, I feel like PS was disingenuous on several fronts about this and, even as a VIP, I feel like I'm getting less than I used to with fewer options where it matters to me.