Memphis_Bill

So a two year old having a temper tantrum is having a mid-life crisis?

Of course.

Personally, I expect it to peter out soon, then come back when they can do a somewhat different (more... "slinking," I suppose) animation with them.

My "Wouldn't be surprised" list:
- Dogs/other creatures in the city.
- Random dog-like creature with new group, possibly with attacks other than the lunge.
- Porting 2-3 other dog types over once they're NPCs/scenery.
- The "Dog Pack" with multiple variants in the market, 800pp.

Not really - and let me point out that one thing that's come up for *years* is "Where are all the animals? Why are there no dogs or cats roaming areas of the city?" I expect we'll get to see that soonish.

As far as "no other theme," you're comparing a "theme" with a powerset. Not really valid. Titan Weapons came out, for *multiple* ATs, and then had an extra pack for more weapon variety. And then we had one - *one* - mastermind set based on animals. And a few temporary powers that others can use to fill out their character ideas (shapeshifting druid, archer with dog pet, etc.)

Before this, we've had people asking for more animal parts, companions, etc. They're finally able to fulfill many of those requests - so why shouldn't they? *They're able to do what we've asked for, and they're doing it.*

And no, obviously by "we" I don't mean everyone. But as far as "we" a portion of the playerbase? Heck yes.

So, y'know what? If you (by you, I mean all the people complaining about "all" the animals) don't like it, all you have to do is wait. Others *have* been waiting, and they're getting their requests done now that it's possible. In a little while, something else will be filling the requests of other customers, just like Titan Weapons did, for instance, and if it's new tech they had to develop, they'll use it and we'll see the same old "OMG they're overusing it I'm so sick of seeing it" threads on that.

... and ignore that, I bought them (for example) when non-VIP. They're getting steady cashflow for other things.

Getting stuck in the trap of "seen through VIP eyes" doesn't help. After all, not everyone's VIP.

More than we had before, which is what we have now.
Because, after all, there's not anything like, say, a retro/scifi pack being made now. Nope. All ligers and tions and beers.

We're not losing anything.
Since when does april have only six days?
And then when they miss something or it gets pushed back, we get the "They promised, they're missing targets because of <something I don't like>, I'm quitting!"

y'know, when I had spore's character creator, I should really have tried making that. Don't know if anyone did.

In looks, maybe. He's really rather annoying... don't know that I'd run his arc again.

Didn't they get burned by that sort of thing at least once already?

(Or even release order... remember the SSOCS that... er... never showed up that was supposed to take some sting from ED? Instead, we waited for Inventions.)

Note it may not be "they are in the financial situation where they have to," but "The work (time/money) taken to do so is no longer worth the cost given the market."

A healthy company can still shut down products/services/variations that are an economic drain that won't be paying back that cost. It's done all the time.

Non animal releases -

Powersets:
Beam rifle
Dark blast
Dark manipulation
Street Justice
Titan Weapons (and added skins)
... feel like I'm missing about two other than Beast.

Costume sets:
Imperial Dynasty
Pocket D
Defense
Olympian
Elemental
Fire and Ice
Celestial
Gunslinger
Carnival of Light

Other - ignoring things like super packs, ATOs, etc.
Leprechaun buff pet


While yes, there's a lot *recently* (as they're trying to get some stretch out of the new rig,) on balance it's not all that bad.

Good thing everyone goes to you to find out what they should and shouldn't like, huh.

If the "X" is hard to hit (on the window I think you're talking about,) just click the word "Salvage" above the powers bar again and it'll close. I almost never use the silly-tiny buttons.

That's less a "set" than a "theme." (And I do so, as well... any electric powerset, pretty much, gets a version of my first 50 - it's a big multiverse. So, elec/elec blaster (with a few copies,) elec/elec brute, elec/elec dom, elec/nin stalker, storm/mercs (since, well, it has some storm clouds... so, elec ) elec/elec tank... probably a few I'm forgetting. Only one of her variants that doesn't have somethign electric is the dark/therm corruptor, for rp reasons more than anything.

Just going from how it sounds. I don't keep up with the various dev comments, etc. like I used to. It's easier to enjoy the game that way.

I see the problem. With that picture, people are going to look up in "awwwwwww."

Just had this quoted in another thread.

I'd have to give an "It depends."

I'm going to start off with Epic ATs, as (to me) they'd somewhat make sense to unlock. I think some of the responses are still seeing epics as "primary/secondary, one or two." Frankly, I think the unlock for Khelds and VEATs are cheaper *now* because the work's been done for years.

A proper EAT (I'm going to use Coralax as an example) would be, *at a minimum,* 1200, to go with story arcs, and I'd expect higher as we're looking at 1-50 arcs. Given two options like the other EATs, I'd probably love 1600 and consider it a steal.

Now, if we're just looking at a regular AT, like blasters or tanks but "something new" - hmmm. A power set runs 800. I'd expect at least two powersets, probably three to be released with a new AT if they need creation from near-scratch - and then there's the work coming up with the AT, balancing, etc. it (and new ATOs for it.) But you'd still want people to buy it... 1200, with a discount/free token for a future powerset for that AT (shared or unique.) Why higher than MM/Controllers? Because it *is* new - you're not just locking work that's previously been done away because of server load. (If it's easier to port some powersets to this new AT because they're not from scratch, I'd hope there'd be 4-5 within the AT at launch.)

So basically the same way we had "OMG They're going to a serverless environment!" going on for a few years because, when they started offering server transfers, they put in a disclaimer that said "no refunds if we ever do anything that would make this invalid, for instance going to a serverless environment."

They put in an example of something and some people were practically jumping up and down going "they promised!" and the like.