Lothic

I've said it once in another thread.
Other people have said it in this thread.
But I'll say it one more time now: Caveat Emptor.

This game does NOT need to bend over backwards to make it trivial to get refunds.
The people who play this game need to take mature responsibility for their purchases.

No one FORCED you to buy this thing instantaneously. If you were really this worried about getting your money's worth out of your several dollars you would have taken some time to "read the reviews" and reactions of other people before you jumped in and thought it'd be cool to instantly whine about it the mircosecond it didn't live up to your expectations.

Please do yourself a favor and slow down, take a breath, and learn from this flailing rant how to better react to things like this in the future.

So for you it sounds like the costume slots would be "a waste of money" even if they sold them for one cent each. To each their own.

One could only assume that if there was some wonderful feature out there that you "really, really wanted" and had been waiting for over 7 years to get that you could see yourself spending $8-10 for it. It just so happens that for some people that feature was the extra costume slots.

I would simply offer that your definition of "good enough" in this case may differ from someone else's. *shrugs*

Apparently at least some of them do...

Allowing people to try RELEASED versions of things before you buy them is one idea I'm not particularly opposed to.

But having the expectation that anything under beta test will exist in the live environment in EXACTLY the same shape or form as it did during beta is borderline naive and foolish. If anyone attempts to ask for a refund for something because "it doesn't work in live the same way it did in beta" then I can only hope, for their sake, that the customer service people don't laugh -too- hard at them for trying.

If I had to guess there will be someone trying to "embarrass" them with threats of refund posts in relation to just about everything they ever sell in Paragon Market from now on. Just don't get your hopes up too much over this. Caveat Emptor after all.

Yes your points about not knowing who her boss was makes the situation bad enough.

The part about it I thought was dumb was that if the science guy pulled some strings to get her recommended for Terra Nova surely her records would have said she was married already. If he was somehow inexplicably ignorant of the marriage then he was naively stupid in his attempts to get back with her. But if he -did- in fact know she was married but thought the husband was "safely" locked away in prison then that would make him a fairly naughty/bad man.

So we're left with the science guy being either fairly stupid or cut-throat in his desire to have her back. Either quality seems to point towards his days as a "main" character as numbered.

I factor in the cost of something like this to the relative long term use I expect to get out of it. Sure $10 (or even $8) for one costume slot for one character can be considered to be way too expensive for most people. But if what you're buying is an extra slot for DOZENS of characters that will be available anytime you want it for potentially YEARS into the future then all of a sudden that $10 doesn't seem too far fetched. At least that's how I see it. *shrugs*

If you understand the "shell game" being played with these point systems and understand the "real" value of the things being sold then there's really no point in fearing or avoiding these things. Sure it's Monopoly money designed to trick us, but that doesn't make it intrinsically evil.

It is pretty amazing how well Nimoy, an old man, can pull off acting like an old man.
It's like he was born for the role.

It's always possible the new science guy is a Sixer spy, but they established that he goes off for days at a time on research trips. It'd be hard for him to be spying on Taylor if he was gone from Terra Nova that often. Of course he could be spending his time away from Terra Nova -with- the Sixers, but I guess that remains to be seen. At this point I'd suspect Washington as the spy more than anyone else. As a top lieutenant of Taylor's she'd know everything he was doing and be the perfect "insider" for the Sixers.

I figured there was enough "action" in this episode for it all to make sense. I didn't really need to see them driving through the juggle or tossing the barrel of pheromones wherever they tossed it. It was handled well enough with that bit of exposition at the end. Besides they have to save as much of the budget for the show as they can when they can.

Frankly I'd rather have this game be offering too much to buy for the 400 monthly points than not enough.
It's a much better "problem" for this game to have in the long run.

I was one of the people who bought 5 costume slots the first day CoH:Freedom went live. It was far from an "impulse" buy for me because I've basically wanted them for over 7 years now and was prepared to buy them at any price. I always accepted that they would likely go on sale at some point. I'll admit I was a bit surprised to see them go on sale as -quickly- as they did, but I have not and will not ever openly "complain" about it. If other people are now getting them cheaper than I did then more power to them.

Since I bought those extra costume slots I've loaded in dozens of new costumes and gotten many hours of enjoyment out of that. They've been well worth the price I paid and I expect I'll get plenty more enjoyment from them for the remainder of the lifespan of this game.

So sure sales happen and some people are always going to get caught buying something the day before the price drops. No point in whining about it either way. *shrugs*

For me it comes down to this: Up until now I've never be much for purely melee oriented characters in this game but I'm actually looking forward to giving Street Justice a try. If this powerset can get a non-meleer to try it then there must be something good there.

Maybe because deep down we've always known mathematicians were perverted.

I'm quite sure that's exactly what they were going for when they chose that name.
The Japanese are fairly funny when it comes to using English in novel ways.

The title is right there in the pic.

The show Beastyle was referencing was almost a "Batman with a gun-toting butler and a female sidekick" rip-off to begin with.
Apparently this new Batman show would be ripping off the rip off.

lol bingo.

Thing is these three together won't be able to fight any crime because they'll be too busy texting each other and shopping at the mall.

This whole "article" sounds like a joke to me...

Ah, but then again "reasonability" when it comes to pricing is always going to be in the eye of the beholder. Ironically there would be people complaining about it even if the Devs only charged 10 Paragon Points for this.

I would simply argue that part of what you were paying for when you bought those expansions were new powersets. Of course we can quibble about what fraction of that expansion cost was specifically for the powersets in question, but that doesn't change the fact that at least part of your money went towards paying for powersets.

Having to pay for individual powersets in the Paragon Market is just a different formulation of the same scheme we've already had in this game. Paying for powersets is not a "new" thing - it existed long before the Market came around.