Lothic

Yes. But even if I wasn't then there would always be -some- time I could play, even if that was at my 3am local time. The fact that you don't WANT to play at your local 3am timeframe is immaterial. You're paying for it anyway so why don't you play at 3am?

Going by the logic of "getting every last penny's worth you paid for" if you paid the $15 this month then you could, at most, play for 720 hours (24X30) this month. Do you normally play around 720 hours each month or do you manage a few hours of sleep/work/school/eating in that time as well?

This idea that you deserve compensation for the lost "portion" of time you paid for is laughably ludicrous given that basically NO ONE plays as many hours as we've ALL technically paid for.

I only hope that I can someday live in a world where missing out on a few hours of playing a GAME made me think it was reasonable and justified enough to get the company running that game to either refund me a whole entire DOLLAR or give me an extra day to play. I only wish I had so little to worry about that something like -this- would be important enough to get upset about.

There's a thing call "choosing your battles". This is not a battle worth fighting.

No but it is an incredible example of petty "entitlement whining" that I would never be caught dead doing with any company that has given me good service for 99.9% of the time for the last 7.5 years. YMMV of course.

You have to remember when SGs first appeared the limit was only 75 members.

The Devs' original idea for SGs weren't as social groups as much as they were meant to be static teams for base raid PVP. The 75 limit was there because they figured as a worst case scenario you could have up to 150 people (two SGs) in a single base instance fighting each other. The limit was more of a server limit thing than anything else.

Of course as we all know the whole SG base raiding thing never took off. The Devs did increase the member limit to 150 a few years ago, but now it's pretty clear there's no lingering reason to keep it that low. Raising it to 500 is as good an increase as any.

So while I'd agree the 150 limit is too low I also wouldn't call it "insane" or "idiotic" because there are some specific historical reasons why it is what it is.

From a code point of view its pretty much always going to easier for something like this to have a large but fixed limit. Sure it might be nice to say make SG membership "unlimited" but at a certain point (like say at a few thousand) it'd become so cumbersome that it'd be more trouble than it was worth. I'd say raising the limit to 500 in this game would be more than sufficient.

So will having like an extra day of time tacked onto your account really provide you any satisifaction here?
Is that going to "punish" them enough for trying to make the game better for you in the long run?

Well now you'll have plenty of time to waste customer service's time to get your dollar/euro back to really "stick it" to them.

We're only talking 12 hours here so it really just a matter of $0.25 for this one time.

You two must live in a different world from me. Then again it has probably been years since I've had any service like this down long enough to get spastic about it so maybe times have changed...

How often do you get money back from your power, ISP and/or cable company when you lose any of those services for a period of time?

While I think your reaction to this is perfectly understandable I think your request is not likely going to happen. At best we'll get some Paragon Points for this but actual money? Hardly...

Nose, meet face.

As a software engineer with nearly 20 years of professional experience I've never been under -any- delusion that what I've been playing here for over 7 years now was anything other than one long never-ending beta test.

I would not be a bit surprised to learn that the English word "sale" was actually based on the French word in this case. Typically stores usually only put things on sale that are somehow less than good or "dirty" in some way.

I'm inflexible in my belief that this gaming community might eventually become flexible enough to consider Inf to be more than just money. How's -that- for not doing flexibility?

We all know that if this thing turns out to be something that is forever sold individually as 7 separate parts then everyone will eventually figure out which parts are the "most worthwhile" and forget about the rest. For all we know this first of seven parts will be the worst of the seven.

I simply maintain that it's not worth judging this first part too harshly either way. *shrugs*

There's a range of content for all levels already. It's not like I have any say over what gets released when.

That's actually one of the many reasons why I try to make my level 50 characters effective at any level: there's really no guarantee what level ranges any new content is going to cover.

Just to be a tiny bit nit-picky this Signature Story Arc is actually just like the Ouroboros TFs in that they can either be run solo or as a pseudo-TF with a team of players.

If you think your "level 50 EX'd down to 20" is too gimp you can always do these things as a team.

You've yet to give a rational reason why we shouldn't be able to choose to do less than level 50 content with our level 50 characters. Yes it may be a "fact" that level 50 characters are more powerful than level 20 ones. But that's not a REASON for why a level 50 character must always be run at level 50.

And I'll again ask the basic question: Even if the "tech" as you say exists why -must- it be used in this case or any case? Why is it actually "wrong" to have some new content in this game that is not doable as a level 50?

All you have to do is avoid all that "evil" low level content then. Your problem is solved...

In a few months when we have all 7 parts of this arc to look at and judge then I'll be more willing to -actually- agree or disagree with you about this.

And I'll just say again that I ultimately see no reason why ALL game content must be geared towards level 50s.

I never told anyone to "shut up" about this. Vote about it all you want.

I'm just perhaps more willing to judge this thing when we know more information about it. *shrugs*

I'm not actually going to judge the arc until I see the rest of it. It might turn out that the other 6 parts of this arc are equally less-than-stellar. But it's always possible that this thing, as a whole, might be pretty cool.

Happily I just leave my "feedback" on it to a time when it's more appropriate.

There's no rule that says that every bit of content has to make every "paying" customer happy. Like most things I imagine for every person that doesn't like this there's probably at least another who either does like it or at least doesn't have a strong opinion about it either way.