MaestroMavius

Touché

Very interesting look at both sides of the coin.

Yeah, I've taken 6 month breaks here and there. Only RMT I recall was how annoying it was to delete the 30+ emails a day. I never received any via tells, I must've came back after they nipped that and forced them to adapt to email. (Was so thankful when email restrictions restored the peace.)

Anything that stays stagnant and doesn't evolve with the times is doomed to failure. This game never would've lasted this long had it not grown to be more than what it was at launch.

Be glad that the Dev's are smart enough to know when to adopt something and when not to. If they'd tried this in 2007 we wouldn't be here talking right now. The market wasn't ready at that point and neither were we.
Changing to this model is more than just about greed. While true NCSoft most likely did this in order to gain more profit, they also did it to ensure our beloved game remains profitable for at least another few years.

Thanks as always VK!

CoH UStreams, always seem to be a fun enviroment.

I've never bothered with Power Boost before but I'm currently levelling up a Sonic/Energy Blaster (finally giving sonic a go) and am curious if PB works well with any particular power/s in Sonic. Kinda surprised to see it only lasts a few seconds though, I always figured it'd be at least as long as aim.

Probably going to take a bit before the SO builds start being needed enough for most to know how to answer you. Everyone has gotten so used to optimizing builds all these years after all.

I've seen a few advertising for 'Classic sewers team forming' but the rest generally all say sewer team lfm when meaning the DfB.

I'd be interested. Though my bar brawling biker is good with Street Justice.

Indeed!

Got a rather large group around that corner? Summon your combat pet in the middle of them and wait for the distraction!

I think you can shield them though, I'm pretty sure I saw a power drone caked in Ice the other day.

Also, I recently read in the KB thread that someone puts Repulsion Bomb on theirs and lets it work it's magic.

I'd rather see this...

I usually avoid reposting my own posts but I feel taking the copy-pasty approach here is going to be needed, this won't be the last thread like this I'm afraid...

So, your're upset ViP's pay for powers?

When I 1st realzied they'd be charging for Powersets I felt this way as well. But then I realized the truth.

ViP accounts are exactly as they used to be when you think about it.

from 2005 to present, spending $15 a month got you everything except boosters. This included 1 or 2, sometimes 3 brand new powersets a year.

Freedom already brought us Time Manip for free and the Dev's are on record saying they will still be giving ViP's free sets.
So in essence, as a ViP, you've already gotten this years free new set.

What charging for new sets allows, is the creation of even more sets. If they weren't generating revenue specifically from them, they wouldn't be able to justify the time/expense to create them.
So Street Justice, Beam Rifle, Titan, Staff et al would not even exist if they weren't charging for them.

You can look at it that way, imagine any new set in the store doesn't exist and at the end of the year, you'll still be able to say you got X and X set for free, plus you'd be banking a ton of points.

ViP's are getting more any way you look at it. Not only are we getting the usual allotment of free stuff, now we have the option to get even more!

I'll gladly pay $10 for a new set if it means the set gets made to begin with. If paying for Street Justice means 3 additional sets will be made thats outstanding!

It's all in how you look at it. I went from being upset and feeling like my loyalty wasn't being honored, to actually realizing what was up and being thankful, almost overnight.

If you don't think that quoted post from Z was blanket market speak covering chat 'as a whole' I have nothing further to say on the issue except;

I don't see how your overlooking this simple concept, I'm not 'dead set' on anything. Just pointing out how silly it is for posters to hide behind the RMT excuse when it obviously doesn't apply.
I also don't see how asking the community to use common sense when defending their particular position is something you wouldn't want...

Now I'm wondering if tinting the dark blasts would make the skull look like a flaming pumpkin...

I would say, regardless of your secondary, Dark should be tolerable for a Werewolf and Frankenstein.

You could limit the Wolf to only using Smite and Maul, AS, maybe boxing etc.
You could limit the Vampire to only being able to use the blasts after a successful
'Feeding' via Siphon life.
Frank could be the combined pieces of monsters, giving him powers or he could just be slow and prodding and only use a few regular attacks and temps like the sledgehammer(Gabriels) and bat and such.

Then again, you could just mention the magical talisman he wears that imbues all forms with magical offensive abilities.

I never really aprreciated the impact Steve Jobs had on society until I watched the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. No matter how you feel about Apple, the fact is he changed the world.

Then came back to revolutionize music.

He may not have been the inventor himself but he did something better, he made it accessible and desireable to the masses. He had a knack for seeing how to mold complicated to use devices into stylish and simple pieces of art.

I agree with Devious, Rest in Style Mr. Jobs, and thank you.