Nethergoat

You'd still complain about tank damage output?

I KID, I KID! =P

Alternate death animations would be cool.


/signed

he's a delight, and thanks to Angry Birds also a massive gaming fan already, much to his mother's chagrin.


He unexpectedly passed out on our way back from town & is napping as I type, which gave me an opening for a few exp.

Logged in Scab Factory, who it turns out my son had somehow irrevocably lodged into an overhead walkway in Mercy. /stuck got me nowhere, jump pack didn't help. After a good while of futile wrangling, on the verge of begging someone for a TP in broadcast, I remembered the handy dandy Self Destruct power from the cyborg pack.

BOOOOM!
Out of the frying pan and off to the hospital.

He's somewhat at loose ends, having finished the first bit of Graves' arc and not having anything else new to run, so I headed to AE to check out the latest Dev's Choice arc, Grim Riddles by Mantid.


Good, fun arc. Inventive use of mission mechanisms, and the riddles were more amusing than irritating, which is good because I'm more of a fan of bashing things than cogitating over them. Clever, varied maps, a custom enemy group that was interesting without being overwhelming, and an enjoyable final showdown with a posse of assault rifle wielding PPD backing me up.

Got me close to level 10, so I did a little street sweeping on my way to the trainer, leveled and logged out.

I'm liking this character quite a bit. Mace is fun, which I wasn't expecting given its 'underperforming' rap over the years. Too early to have much of a feel for Stone, but it hasn't bugged me yet.

Logged in Crafticus, my Crazy 88's Field Crafter to pick up some salvage so he'll be ready for the weekend spike in generic sales. In spite of the grandiosity of our base I couldn't find any storage bins- could be that I just got lost and missed them.

Time to wake up the lad, lest he stay up til midnight bedeviling me.

Yes, because an 8 year anniversary celebration clearly indicates the game is in terrible shape.

I recall you riding this same hobbyhorse before my hiatus- keep it up, eventually you'll be right.

the business aphorism "price to sell, not to keep" applies here.

I list all my salvage for 1 inf. Some of it sells for hundreds of thousands or a few million, some sells for 5...It doesn't matter, because the value of my slots far surpasses whatever minuscule profit I'd eek out by pricing stuff what it's "worth" and tying up said slot for a period of time.

Hard to believe we still have to explain these fundamental realities of supply and demand to some people at this late stage of the game.

I dropped $30 during the month I played "for free".

The business model works, that's why it's taking over the industry.

Freemium gameplay does its job admirably- provide the possibility of extensive exploration of the game world while still holding back some game systems to act as incentives.


The game is much more populated than when I dropped out a year back, and if Freedom is responsible for the avalanche of content we've gotten then more of that sort of disappointment, please!

I'd say it accomplished its purpose admirably!

it'd be awesome if everything in the world was free!

I wouldn't argue against it, certainly.

How about you go make that happen, then get back to me.

In the meantime, I'll keep making my purchasing decisions based on sticker prices and I urge you to do the same.

When your audience is already engaged you don't need to push the sizzle, you need to tell them what the steak tastes like.
In this case a paragraph of hyperbole would accomplish what?
Players are either going to like the power or not, you're not convincing anyone of anything with a few lines of marketing speak.

I've always liked the tip missions, and it sounds like they added some new ones since the last time I played.

And the villain morality mish is terrific.

You blew it at "must".

There is no "must" here, it's all fluff and nonsense.
Do you think the fluff is too expensive?
Then don't buy it.


I picked up Beast Run and it's super fun.
Is it "overpriced" because I already have Ninja Run and I'm basically paying for a new animation?
Nope!

You're completely full of it.

Not only did I spend a month playing free, I can read the help channel like anyone else.

Premium has its discontents, as it must else why would anyone ever subscribe?

But the basic gameplay is there, and plenty of it.

'close' doesn't count.

Or shouldn't, anyway, but of course the runaway paranoia & legal bullying that defines 'copywrite law' in our culture pretends otherwise and would like everyone to follow its lead.


In any event it presents no actual threat to the game. Marvel puffed up its chest and made a more threatening display than NC could afford to match so they settled. Some people will still use it as an excuse to play butt-inski and inform on their fellow players, but that's on their karmic account.

I live and let live and leave IP enforcement to the paid enforcers.

Having made the jump to VIP after a month of Premium, it's worth it to me just for base access, all my server slots & ungated forum posting.
The stipend of market points is also nice.

But I'm a bit odd in that I never liked any of the 'epic' ATs, didn't really enjoy the incarnate system & have always liked leveling an assortment of characters simultaneously rather than playing one at the cap.


They really were quite generous in their allotting of game access to long time vets- it was a much appreciated "thank you!" for my years of prior subscribing.

what's to pitch?

you either like the idea of turning into a sneaky panther or you don't- the basic effect is pretty clear cut.

specifying what the power isn't is simple due diligence on the ALL SALES FINAL Marketplace.

Y'know, that hadn't occurred to me.

I'd be able to stealth missions on all my characters without having to mess about!

Tempting...