MajorPrankster

Personally, I always save one of my costume slots for a 50th level version.

Additionally, I revise my favorites constantly as new parts are added to make them look better and to freshen them up from seeing the same costumes for so many hours of play time.

Costume revamps are done all the time even for major comic characters, so I see no issues with having 50th level only costume items.

Because some of us actually like playing the game and having some challenges now and then...

Fonzy cool?

I took the winky completely wrong it would seem...

I am now sad I was sad...

You have read nothing of the sort posted by me.

How on earth is my posting I think blanket statements of one type are funny some lead-in to make you think blanket statements of an equally silly nature are not?

I think the doomsayers are perhaps the saddest of posters, if you really want to know.

Well, it might be news to you, but not everyone is so negative about the game.

Some of us like it and like where the direction is headed, including what you call punitive costs.

As for being called a sucker for actually liking the game, I will counter with the fact that many of the negative Nancys appear to be the suckers, because they still pay to play for a game they apparently don't like.

Thanks for all the changes, Paragon!

These types of blanket statements on the Interwebs always make me chuckle.

No, it's not.

Done wrong, like any business move, it is.

Done right, it works.

Will it work for City? That is the big question that NO ONE can answer ahead of actually doing it.

If you learned the answer, you would have to be 'disappeared'.

But, apparently, when I give my negative opinion on some things people say, it's trolling.

Interesting double standard, that.

I would disagree.

What I have seen are things like "I should just hang-up on this stupid discussion." I have seen martyrdom and the like as well.

Constructive criticism can be very helpful.

However, even here, you simply state the participation metric is terrible and flawed. While it might be flawed from a having code bugs standpoint, it is not terrible. That is an opinion of it from your viewpoint and mine. Personally, I find the system to be just fine, real code bugs aside.

Constructive criticism and complaining (especially incessantly) because you don't like something based on how it makes you feel are two different things.

I have a wonderful group of people with whom I play the game with daily. I don't much care what forum posters (or people in general for that matter) think of me. Just because my methods and language in posting offend some people does not bother me. I am blunt and I speak my mind. Apparently, some people, including moderators, think I am a troll for speaking my mind, because they assume I am attacking them.

*shrug*

I live in a place where I am allowed to say what I think and I rail against being censored.

The point I have been trying to make through all of the various flare-ups and rage on the forums for many years is simple, IMO. I do not want decisions that have an effect on the game and therefore my enjoyment of it, to be made based upon the uncontrollable emotions of rage and angst. I have no respect or patience for people who make decisions with emotion over logic.

So no matter what you will find something to about which to complain, even if it's good?

I can't wait for the day I no longer want to play this game so I can really speak my mind on the forums.

I thought you did not care anymore?

Says who, exactly? Apparently, just a few vocal forum posters, because the Developers don't agree with this anymore than the busy servers I see everyday.

This an MMO. It is not a single player game. In an MMO, you have to put in the time, doing the required things, to get the goodies. It's how they are designed.

While this may be super-pretendy-fun-time, there is NO reason that all players, of all types, must be treated equally. The game has not, since it's inception, done this.

From the very beginning of CoH, those who play more and play the team content have gotten more rewards than those who have not. You play with teams in CoH and you get stuff way faster. It has always been this way.

To address the poor-tech thing specifically, I was dirt poor for a number of years. I never once whined that I should be given anything because someone else that could afford to do that something faster/better than I could. Sometimes life does, indeed, suck. The developers are not under any obligation to cater their product to someone that cannot afford a good machine to run it, that's truly absurd. And they are not unethical for not doing so either.

To conclude, I still think anyone that is really upset over this, I mean truly upset, might want to think about not playing these types of games. I really mean this. I doubt playing these games and becoming so emotionally embroiled in them is healthy for you. I had a friend lose his job, house, everything because he took an MMO too seriously. If a change/addition/nerf/whatever to a video game really upsets you, please take a step back. Even in the dealers in Vegas tell you not to gamble with the Mortgage money.

Been doing it for 43 years now, works just fine for me.

My company, well...they do cater to an awful lot of illogical idiots, it's true.

While your post was very insightful, might I ask, if a person is so emotionally fragile as to be insulted over a game design decision, why should any care about them any in terms of designing said game.

The peeps that want to be insulted and mad will ALWAYS find a way to be insulted and mad. I say ignore 'em.

This is what I keep thinking.

Some folks are playing to get these rewards as if the game is going to go offline tomorrow and is they don't have them, they are going to lose their house and job.

Some folks are just taking all of this WAY too seriously.

Humans do so love their hyperbole.

Oh I get the point.

You are putting too much emotional investment into a game and it is not healthy.

If you cannot play, for any reason, then simply find something else to do.

If you are unsatisfied with the product, then stop paying for it.

Ranting here will to nothing but what you see posted in this thread.

You did so in your OP, IMO. This is why I started posting in the thread.

I would not be annoyed, because I have suffered through the same downtime, here and in other games.

I am reasonable, I have a life and I go enjoy some of it when the game is not available. That is what a reasonable person does.

A couple of days is a big chunk of time to you? Really? Again, not reasonable. The game will still be here next week, next month and hopefully next year.

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Obvious is obvious.

Calling the OP unreasonable, childish and entitled is simply stating the truth, IMO.

IMO, this simply screams out envy, as does your first post. "WAH! I did not get something for not being able to play for a few hours!" is all it says to me.

You want to rant on these forums, fine. But don't expect everyone to agree with it and for no one to call you out about it. You want it to be public, deal with the consequences.

My opinion is that anyone who would get frustrated enough to make the OP, needs to take the game less seriously.

You insult and degrade the devs, you deserve no better.

You ARE exaggerating and you ARE over-reacting.

I never said you were not allowed to voice your opinion.

I was simply voicing mine as well.

The precious game-time that you feel you and other gamers have lost is a microscopic bit of carbon in a galaxy made of it.

So there have been a few hours out of YEARS of up time. Even if you try and use the 'getting worse' angle, then is been a few hours out of weeks of up-time.

It's quite obvious you have absolutely no clue as to the complexities of a system of this nature, at a technical level nor at a business level.

Your OP is neither constructive nor warranted.

Downtime has NOT been ridiculous, you are exaggerating, over-reacting and sound like an entitled petulant 6 year old that has not gotten a nap.

Is my point clear enough?