MajorPrankster

At the risk of going too far into the forbidden, I will say I am happy about it.

I am always happy when a business openly promotes this subject as it makes my choices as to where to spend my money, or not, as the case may be, much easier.

The messages are about a specific subject that is not allowed to be discussed on the boards.

They are promoting that subject matter and I will not give money willingly to any group that promotes said subject.

They are supposed to be tasty, but the 'messages' they choose place on the packages let me know they would never get my money.

Really Sam? Not being able to customize a character PREVENTS you from playing?

While there are a couple of nasty bugs in that list, that is NOT a list of show stoppers, nor would most of them, by far, have any REAL negative impact on GAMEPLAY.

You don't like the CoH stories very much, you don't like that you cannot realize your 'vision' for your characters. I get it. These are NOT show stoppers. They do not PREVENT you from playing the game. Your pedantic attitude does though.

But, as I have posted before, I do not really want to interact with you anyway, because you are such a negative person. So, again, I see a couple that are certainly nasty, but almost all by far would never get more than a "Hmm, that's odd" from me.

Neither is 'I want to get things faster.'

Which IS all your argument boils down to.

The market is not broken, it does not need to be fixed.

As for a salvage store, there is one in the AE, even if you think it's not good enough either.

This is not a console game, it is an MMO. They whole idea is a time sink.

So, you can't more than an hour?

If the bid won't fill in a few days, then you have at least showed some patience.

Additionally, what does it matter what something costs just because it is labelled common or rare by the devs? What matters is what people are willing to pay, that's it. That's all that matters. Rare and common are meaningless to the market forces. Only perceived value is important.

Besides, it's all play money in a pretend world. What the heck does it even matter if something costs more or less?

And, finally, the market is not, and was never intended to be, a convenience store, and most certainly not a bargain outlet. It is a player dictated economic mini-game that happens to allow easier trades between players.

I am glad you did not get your wish.

This system encourages people to play together, because of the diverse rewards.

Playing with friends of varying level on a TF and everyone getting a reward that is good for them at their level sounds like a really good plan to me...

It is not just about money.

It is about where the developers want to take the game.

It is about how they want to balance the reward ratios.

They could give everyone a NotW just for logging in if they wanted to, cheaply and easily.

What you think of as reasonable is not, necessarily, what everyone else thinks is reasonable, which is, IMO, what this entire, worthless argument is about; some people think they should get more than the developers are willing to give at this time.

Should everyone voice their concerns? Certainly, if they like.

That does not mean that everyone who voices a concern is right, or that their concerns should even be acknowledged.

As many have pointed out, these same arguments have occurred with every major change that has been implemented. The game is still here. I conclude, from this, that the developers might actually know what they are doing and that the Incarnate system will be successful, in turn, keeping the lights on at Paragon Studios.

Pleasing everyone, in any aspect of life, is simply not possible.

This entire argument, at this point, IMO, is nothing more than a few people that like to argue gnashing at one another in a public forum for attention. It serves no useful purpose beyond allowing both sides to posture and argue further, over something they have no control over, which is probably yet another reason they are upset.

The armchair developer brigade will continue to argue over every little thing that changes, just like the Trekkies argue over the best Captain of the Enterprise.

Thank you Paragon Studios for making a game that instigate so much nerd-rage. It just means you are 'doing it right'.

So, you just keep ignoring parts of the game and continue profess that you should get the rewards on your own, personally dictated schedule.

At least your are consistent in that respect.

You also misunderstood my reference to making your next level of power as easy as going from 49 to 50, because that IS what you are asking for...you want to log in, do the same thing you have always done and get the new rewards without doing the new requirements attached to them.

You cannot seem to understand that yours is an edge case, so far removed from the mainstream; that it would hurt the game to implement your desires.

I am sorry you are unable to understand that, I am, I think, finally tired of beating my head against this wall.

You win. Have fun trying to joust your windmill. It's not worth my time to read anything more from you. Peace.

So you want to be able to do what only the most high-end, well built characters can do, arguably something the devs never really even intended, but you don't want it to be any harder to get to that point that it was from going from 49-50.

You refuse to do things that would make it easier because you are applying some kind of real-world moral framework to a video game.

You seem to think it's selfish/wrong/evil/mean of the majority to not want to acquiesce to someone that is just flat out refusing to play more than a subset of the game.

You have painted yourself into a corner case that it would likely take significant development time to accommodate while, arguably, a large portion of the player base seem to be enjoying the game as implemented, if only from the pretty lights on the login screen for the servers.

You are anti-'anything beside punching dudes the face' it seems, yet you want to rewards for nothing more than that.

Your arguments range from "it's all about the evil extroverts" to "this is not what MMOs really are" to "my real world principles won't allow me to play that way."

In a couple posts I have seen, even going so far as to imply the way the business world that revolves around producing the income needed to continue development on the game itself is 'wrong' and that you cannot see any thing that 'justifies' why the business would run that way.

Really? You really think that is a reasonable, ration outlook? Really?

After all of the comments and wild, wrong, speculation doom crying from you and others, you have a lot of chutzpah to post this.

It's OK, I am sure someone will group with you.

I won't ever report you.

Then, I would not be able to laugh at you.

Your Hyperbole Stat must be over 9000! Good job on farming that one!

Respect does not equal Blind Hero Worship in any context I have ever encountered.

I am not trying to help. Neither are you.

There really is nothing that needs help here anyway. People love to make stuff up and argue about it. I doubt our genetics will change enough for that to stop happening anytime Soon(tm).

People will be pissed and annoyed no matter what is added or removed from the game. That won't change with or without information. In fact, several people arguing about this current topic, IMO, have gone out of their way to misconstrue every bit of communication that has come from the devs.

You asked others for proof, where is yours? Where are your hard statistics that 90%+ of the players do not team, hmm?

Just to clarify, I do not care one way or another if end game content requires teaming, soloing or the wearing of pretty hats. In fact, I like me some pretty hats, so that would make me happy.

The main thing I am 'on about' is derogatory statements about the developers. They have produced a very fun, financially viable product. I do not think that because of one system having been partially added to the game, they deserve to be attacked and reviled as they have been by people over this topic and others.

Additionally, personally, I cannot abide the spreading of misinformation. At all. For years my title at the conference our company hosts for it's clients has been 'Misinformation Eradicator'. Watching some people pull out supposed 'facts' to bolster their positions on this topic and others is like watching my Alzheimer ridden mother justify her decisions to set the house on fire. (And yes, my Hyperbole Stat is not 0 either.)

Funny, I thought it was people not being rational and patient that was causing unhappy subs.

It is not, at all, for me, about winning anything.

The reality here is that right now to get a NotW, you have to run a TF. In the next Issue, there will be other ways and that the developers are looking at specifically, ways that solo players can get a NotW, be that in i20 or beyond.

That's it. There is no more to it.

Accept reality and be at peace or fight it and be upset. Each person has a choice.

But, in the end, it's about accepting reality.

And if you think that people who actually like the game and respect the developers are going to let others trash it without voicing their opinions, well, I am not sure how to even address such an outlook.

Not everyone who thinks the system is just fine the way it is is an 'extrovert', either.