Nethergoat

I have a couple of blasters that languished unplayed for many months after I9 launched. When I finally dusted them off and started playing them again they were BUH-ROQUE in a way I'd already forgotten. We're talking level 29 and still using TRAINING enhancements in some powers. Yellow DOs. A couple of accuracy SOs and a damage or two and that was IT.

And bankroll? lol.


So yeah, in the old days poverty was a substantial problem (or rather, design choice).

Way back when, in the bad old days, "permadebt" was an actual earning strategy, one of the few available to us.

And now it'd be even more lucrative since you'd be getting more drops.

QFT.

coincidentally, I'm loving my new DP/Storm corrupter.

Honestly, it doesn't take any special savvy or know-how to dump your junk on the market for a couple of inf and rake in the profits.

There's no magic to it, it's just using the system that is explained to them in the tutorial.

Good point- I forgot how low the bar was for a minute.

=D

Guess they know content when they see it too.

If they were spending all their efforts on junk nobody wanted, you'd have a point.
But MA is extremely popular, so your numbers don't fly.

Well, I want a castle made of gold. Of course, I realize my desire is unrealistic so I don't get all cranky and whiny when I wake up every day in a regular ol' house like everyone else.

The point being, what you want and what is realistic are not necessarily compatible.

There are legitimate complaints and desires, and there are silly ones.
Complaining about 'no content since Issue Whatever' falls into the latter column. There has been a vast plethora of content released in the last year or so.


I'm ridiculing people who are claiming the devs have given us NOTHING in the past 18 months.

Not the same thing.

This isn't subjective at all.
They've released a metric ton of content in the last year or so, saying otherwise is ridiculous.

Sorry if that's embarrassing for you, but you're on the wrong side of the facts here.

So, professional game designers were just paralyzed by the (completely predictable) forum hysteria surrounding a gargantuan global nerf, rendered powerless to change it in any way by a bunch of enraged nerds using intemperate language?

Huh.

Anyway, ED + IOs works fine- if IOs had followed ED at a more reasonable interval things would've played out differently.

Running into other people is an occupational hazard of the genre.

=P

Right now, having the game experience and stable of characters I do, I'd likely enjoy the challenge of the 'original' respec.


At the time, my highest level character was in the mid 30's.
The character I wanted to respec was JUST 24, and slotted mostly with aging DOs. At that point I was still a 'casual player'- I didn't give a fig for efficiency, I picked powers that sounded cool and ran whatever missions came my way.

And I was running it with PUGs of people who were generally in worse shape than myself, characters with multiple travel powers, or who emphasized pool powers over primary and secondary. On Triumph you had to take what you could get, there was no huge population to pick and choose from.

The level of challenge wasn't appropriate given the desperate need many of my teammates had for the final reward. And aiming the hardest challenge in the game at the sort of characters least likely to be able to overcome it is just really bad design.

Me, I just parked my guy, played alts and waited it out.

Jack generally gets less blame than his actions deserve.


Aside from the providing the imputus to get the game launched (which certainly absolves some of his sins) I'm hard pressed to think of a single positive contribution he made.

Right- I was exaggerating for effect.


But his reasoning on respec's always struck me as emblematic of his overall problem as a dev.

The refusal to give specific information about powers for philosophical reasons, forcing us to build characters based on vague, often confusing and sometimes flatly misleading power descriptions, and then making the mechanism to correct the inevitable mistakes a genuine PITA to use.

Remember what the Terra Volta trial was like at launch?

I had one character I REALLY wanted a respec for- not for structural reasons, just because I'd taken Teleport for his travel power and found out I HATED it.

I was really excited when the respec trial was added to the game....until about the 5th time we failed it after a long, hard slog (which I suppose fits Jack's definition of fun, based on the famous Gameboy anecdote). Rather than keep beating my head against the wall I parked that character and moved on to another one.

GG, Jack!

The popularity of a given feature is irrelevant when considering whether or not it qualifies as "content" (and based on the volume of 'MA is killing the game because everybody is in MA and ignoring the real game' rants we've seen in the past few months, MA's popularity seems greater than you credit).

How many people use the market?
We don't know, but it's content.

How many people run the STF?
We don't know, but it's content.

How many people camp out at the tailor and spend hours tweaking their character's appearance?
We don't know, but it's content.

How many people run around collecting exploration badges?
We don't know, but it's content.

etc etc etc.

MA presents vast vistas of content, by any reasonable definition.
An argument predicated on ignoring that reality is crippled at birth and unfit to survive in the wild.