Jophiel

It is a logical answer. I'm a fairly casual player. The current system works because there is a multitude of easily acquired IOs that will give you a solid build for kicking some serious butt available to even the most casual of players and without raiding or serious time commitments. The current system works because there are some plum drops you can -- again -- acquire solo and via casual playing which allow you to slowly increase the strength of your lvl 50s which keeps some interest in playing your 50s. The fact that you can't get all of those drops immediately is not a game flaw. The fact that you can't easily buy them is not a game flaw. The fact that those drops only marginally increase your performance (and in a game designed around SOs where even a frankenslotted player should stomp mobs regularly) validate the lack of need to hand them out like candy or force their availability to other players.

I've played games where there's a legitimate gulf between casual players in their Battered Tin Breastplate of Smoldering Embers and the "hard core" players in their Gleaming Mithril Breastplate of Roaring Inferos and the only way to feel like less of a chump was to start raiding full time for the chance to one day have that sort of gear. City of Heroes isn't that game.

Hi. As someone around the 54 month mark (had some breaks in there since my original join date), please stop presuming to speak for when others are having "fun" or what we need to have "fun". I don't need purpled out characters to have "fun". I don't need PVP IOs to have "fun". I have "fun" on a host of characters with standard set IO builds or frankenslotted characters. I feel powerful on those characters when I can run a x8 mission solo and survive. I don't need to solo GMs or take down pylons before I'm having "fun".

Maybe the people here aren't the ones who need to be reminded of what "fun" is.

Again, "doubled their revenue" is a meaningless phrase without looking at the whole picture. If I'm making $500,000 at my job, then I'm fired and get a job for $15,000 where I'm then promoted to making $30,000 I've just "doubled my income". Bragging to my friends that being a corporate lawyer is for chumps when you can "double your income" while working in a grocery store still wouldn't make much sense.

I haven't seen a layout of revenue per year for said game and so I have to take "doubled revenue" with a healthy grain of salt. Also, the lesser point that "revenue" isn't "profit" and I doubt any company is being very open with their operating expense and if/how they've increased under the new plan.

The only thing "doubled their revenue" does without more information is sound good on the gaming blogs.

He said he bought complete sets. I haven't looked at them to see how "appropriate" they are to his AT/powers but he wasn't frankenslotting them.

Unless you're a mercs Mastermind

You can also take advantage of some set bonuses as you Frankenslot. It's easy to arrange your Frankenslotted sets to get a couple minor bonuses to regen, or recovery or a status resist bonus. Nothing earth moving but they're things you'll never get with SOs or Generic IOs.

Really? Most people here are in favor of building with IOs and think his budget is more than enough.

You set the bar pretty low for "over reaction"

So don't bother talking about it if it's happening and don't bother talking about it if it's not happening. Got it.

Actually, the "point" is just to talk about the F2P model. I don't think anyone suspects that their voice is going to tip the scales or anything. Sometimes people just, you know, talk about stuff.

I know of at least one instance where an in-game item drop was largely removed when it became available for F2P users via a cash store. Which meant that it no longer dropped for pay users either.

And if they're not yet, then this would be the perfect time to speak against it, huh? Seeing as how we don't know what they're doing, remaining silent now because my "vote" might be wasted seems kind of silly.

No, that's pretty extreme. I can't think of a single other forum with a policy half as extreme as that which is good because you'd just edit the name out anyway.
It's ridiculous is what it is.