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Honestly, there was never going to be a rotation of T9. They should never have said that. That always sounded to me like a completely unfeasible idea that someone tossed out there that was then communicated to the Community Team in error somehow.

Clearly, they are going to want to keep coming out with new things for VIP T9 in order to keep T9 people subscribing. If they didn't, then people would complain.

The fact that, down the line, they will continue to create more new VIP T9 rewards infinitely means that at some point it would have become completely unfeasible to rotate that tier in the way they originally mentioned. That's one of the first things I said to my husband when they mentioned that. At what point does it end?

It was always clear to me that they'd have to eventually come up with another avenue to get those costumes out there if getting them to people when they were replaced in T9 was something they wanted to do. It makes complete sense to me that they end up in the market for some amount.

Don't get me wrong, they said something and then changed their minds (essentially), so I understand why people are upset. However, I think it's something that people on all sides should simply have thought through a little more when it was originally announced. Logically, everything could not have rotated forever; so logically, another solution would eventually need to be found. Better to have put more thought into it and come up with a better plan from the first set that is being replaced (Celestial), than to have left things in limbo until we'd replaced 4 sets and people started to wonder when/where Celestial would reappear.

Keep in mind that it was never said when (that I saw, may have missed it) Celestial armor would become available by another means. It could still be vaulted for another 6 months or a year before becoming a permanent market fixture. It could be available for 1 week every 2 months, or something. It could be earned with Emp Merits, which would keep it VIP anyway. We just don't know. Wouldn't it be better to cool off a bit until more information becomes available?

Not excited for vanity pets. Particularly not excited about a chimera being called a liger, no matter what the reference is from. (Nope, never saw that movie, but thanks to those who mentioned it. It's good to know why it was presented that way at least.)

That being said, I am excited to see that they bundled the wild cats together. I hope that they will do this more in the future. The special travel powers are some that I could see benefiting from such bundling.

So many options on this one it's really hard to pick just one. I sort of hope that with 6 options to choose from they maybe take the top 2.

The monkey is definitely awesome. Fabulous concept, whoever put that together.

I really liked this. I have to admit, I felt a little tightness in the heartstrings reading the last few lines.

I'm no one official, but I think this is what happened:

Those of us who were subscribed before I21 are viewing the start of Freedom with the VIP Headstart on the 14th. Paragon is viewing it as when free-to-play actually started on the 28th. When Freedom officially launched (in their eyes) they reset everyone's vet reward date to that day, so if you had an active account before free-to-play became available, your vet reward date is now the 28th.

I would say, though, that if you were due to receive a new veteran badge under the old system between September 14 and September 28 but haven't gotten it, then you are probably owed a token. My guess is there was a glitch with the fact that they were technically using no system at all for those two weeks because they'd stopped the old veteran system but hadn't officially started the new Paragon Token system, since the new system wasn't planned to start counting until free-to-play was available.

Still nothing here either, with a bill date of the 4th. However, I noticed that my actual billing on the 4th didn't go through until the afternoon, so it's possible we'll see a similar thing here. I'm cautiously optimistic.

I also notice in my billing summary that all the microtransactions associated with Freedom launch (i.e. the awarding of the 1600 points I had at launch) happened on the 13th and 14th, so I figure I'm going to wait that long before raising a ticket. If by the 14th I'm still missing my points and/or my token I'll be contacting support to find out what's going on.

(I have no idea what date my vet rewards were previously due on, but since the awarding of such things changed with Freedom launch, if I don't have a new token by the time Freedom has been out for a month and I've been subscribed since the outset, I feel it appropriate to research what's going on there.)

I'm a fan of Zombie Man's list.

On the subject of consolidating the AT forums, I'm going to throw my hat in on support of leaving individual forums. I can see the appeal of grouping things into playstyles because that's how you've identified things in the game UI. However, if you do that I would use them as categories to finding the forum you want only. I would suggest that each archetype still have it's own actual forum.

Glad to see something like this coming back soon. Out of curiosity, how long will the reference stay active? What I mean is:

Say I refer my friend the day this goes live, but he doesn't end up paying for VIP for another couple of months. Will this still activate, or does he have to go VIP within a certain length of time in order to make this work?

I have quite a few friends who are going to be interested to hear about this. I'm really excited to be able to pass it on.

Yea, I'm aware of the 2 GR slots. Those were accounted for in my original 6 that I had prior to I21 release. I had 2 for vet status, 2 for GR, and those 2 thank yous. Hence now have 8 "Global Slots" is 2 extra somewhere, which is why I thought it wasn't the same thing.