Jophiel

No, but if the review led me to believe that reviewer couldn't even plug in the Toastinator correctly, much less figure out how to work the settings and spent his review claiming that setting it to "Light" was too hard... I guess him missing the 500-A model would be one more reason to write off his review.

Yeah, it does. Lvl 20 SOs are 80% equivalent to SOs at your current level. Given that the game was based around SOs, you're not really much of a hit to be using lvl 20s and you should be moving into higher level IOs simply by playing the game.

Not really. You could stock up on lvl 25-30 IOs and never switch them out again and be getting at least the same results as you would with replaced SOs each time you hit the appropriate level. You could use lvl 15 IOs and be getting DO enhancements or better. Again, the game isn't really made with the intent that once you hit 25+, you have all SOs as evidenced by the fact that DOs continue dropping into the early 30s.

I played EQ from pre-Kunark to early 2009. It was the same game the whole time -- just more mudflated as time went on. Not that it was a bad game (heck I played it for ten years) but it never really innovated itself.

I'm not writing my own review, I'm giving feedback about your's.

So you're saying you would take a review seriously that fails to mention the game's latest content?

Well, apparently you and I approach reviews in very different ways. Because you just have a whole lot of rationales for why you didn't have to mention it and I think not mentioning it is just really poor reviewing.

No, I wouldn't agree with that at all. In fact, sets in the low 30's range are often the most valuable because people want to keep their set bonuses when they do lower level team content. Yep indeed, even though those won't be the highest possible numbers when they're doing lvl 50 content, they'd still rather have the lvl 30 enhancements.

Like I said, it's just laziness or lack of understanding. Keep handwaving away why it's okay but it really shines through.

I think you're under a couple mistaken impressions. One is that you "deserve" the best stuff at every single level and that if you have to make due with a collection of DOs and SOs instead of all SOs or have some lvl 20 IOs in among your lvl 30 IOs, there's a problem with the game. The second is that you don't know how to manage your inventory space. You keep harping on the lack of inventory so you can't make things. What exactly are you doing with the stuff you have? The whole idea is that you collect stuff as you go along and the stuff that you can make things with, you make things with and the stuff you can't you sell. Salvage for standard IOs is common. If you need the auction house to make lvl 25 Accuracy IOs, you're doing something wrong.

What game are you playing where you're not getting enhancement drops along the way or salvage to make IOs or influence to patch in the holes? Why would it be between a lvl 10 IO and a lvl 30 SO?

Again, I think much of your "issues" with enhancements, the invention system, inventory and the auction house stem from a feeling that you deserve to have the best stuff each level rather than working towards it. It's like saying there's real problems with your stock fantasy MMORPG because I don't get raid level gear at leach level and have to actually slum with this Sword +2 for a couple levels.

What insults? You're asking for feedback and I'm giving it.

Would you take seriously any review that completely neglects the most recent expansion of an MMORPG? If you saw a review for WoW that was made weeks after Cataclysm was released and didn't mention it at all, would you think "Wow, this is a well researched and thought out review"? If I saw a review for a game on a professional site or in a magazine that didn't bother to mention that game's latest content addition, I'd bust out laughing at it.

Did you just not understand set bonuses? You explicitly say in your review that the only reason anyone would want IOs is because they don't go obsolete. This is so wrong it's just ridiculous. It shows either a major misunderstanding of what you're reviewing or just plain laziness that you didn't research or experiment with it.

And that's pretty major stuff, not "nitpicky" stuff. A lot of it just reflects on a lack of getting the hang of things such as your criticisms of the auction system. There's valid criticisms to be made but the fact that you can't just buy whatever you want ready-made for the price you want isn't one of them. Influence is easily made by people who put "research" into their ride up to level 50.

Are those numbers supposed to sound impressive to people who've played the game much longer and spent much more time researching?

No, I don't think they're going to do anything to change your opinion because, honestly, you sound like the type of person who'd spend more time being offended that everyone didn't think his review was the bee's knees and would rather circle the wagons than admit that his work was pretty shoddy in places.

Yet you defend yourself against every criticism and tell us we're off base rather than say "Yeah, maybe I should revisit that" about anything.

I don't know why you'd need feedback when you're already correct about everything

lrn2play what?

City of Heroes is already easy. No reason for it to be easy and tedious.

Must have been a change in climate as well for all those palm trees to be growing in Rhode Island.

Oh no, global warming!