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What? No 'can I have your stuff' comment? No 'Well, bye' .gif?

Yep. Totally right. The opinions of previous long term customers matter not at all. No reason anyone should care about that. I have totally waited months, nurturing all my pent up nerdrage this entire time, just waiting for the proper opportunity to let it all out!

Or it could be, I just actually was interested in checking out the game that I played and enjoyed for a long time and seeing what has changed.

Nice to see the CoH community has also fallen quite far since I last played as well..

Exactly my point. Thank you. Between power creep, class homogenization, pay-for-performace, etc. CoH has been dumbed down to the point there is no need to do anything beyond faceroll the keyboard.

Wonder how long 'til achievement badges can be bought in the store..

So does basically the entire MMO playerbase, outside of an extremely vocal minority that consistently ignores the basic concept of multiplayer gaming. The market for MMORPG's (and every other multiplayer game out there) is players that like playing with other people. It's not that hard to grasp really, folks.. Spin it however you like. Rationalize every which way possible. It doesn't change the basic core concept of the multiplayer gaming genre.

That's your answer right there.

Bloody Bay is level 15-25. The contact won't give you missions if you above the level of the zone.

Yep! You can go to Siren's Call, which is level 20-30.

Which is an arguable advantage, since most players dropping billions on builds are kitting out level 50 characters, and a level 50 PvP IO is just as good as a level 10 in that case.

He's right though. And it's not irrelevant. Just take a look around the PvP zones on a few servers and see all the PvP IO farmers now running with 7 or 8 free accounts. PvP IO production has doubled or tripled, at least, since Freedom went live.

Well, looking at the last five, a player can get the Shield Wall on the market for 1.8 and the Panacea for around 1.6. Glad Armor is still holding steady at the max though.

Well, there's several new games out, so it looks like a good weekend to put CoH on the shelf until they can get this mess patched..

Considering you can see the new SBE purples and PvP IO's in-game already if you know where to look, I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing them on the market soon enough.

Their being able to buy the badges that you've spent ages earning doesn't actually affect your game at ALL, so why should it annoy you?

Their being able to buy the levels that you've spent ages earning doesn't actually affect your game at ALL, so why should it annoy you?

Since this seems to be a common response in this thread, I would like to ask the people who are taking that position this:

If a brand new player who started playing yesterday purchasing the rarest and 'best' gear for real money is perfectly acceptable, as long as it can also be earned through normal play, no matter how much time and effort it may take the regular player, where do you draw the line on what is acceptable?

Is anything acceptable for real money purchase as long as it can also be earned through regular play?

If a player spends years working on earning 1200+ badges, is it acceptable that the hypothetical brand new player with more $$ than sense, be able to buy every badge in the game for real money through the market?

Is it acceptable to buy XP for cash? How about levels? Level 0-50 instantly for PP? How about accolades like TF Commander or Portal Jockey? All these things provide tangible, in-game benefits to the player.

If, to you, it is perfectly acceptable for a someone to pay cash to buy all the rarest enhancements that it may have taken another player months of effort to earn, then it follows that all of my above examples should be fine as well.

If XP, levels, badges, etc. for cash is not acceptable to you, but enhancements are, I'm genuinely curious as to why..

ETA: What about Incarnate slots and powers? I really hate grinding those trials over & over to get all those tier 4 powers. Why not spend some cash and bypass all that?

Fine. If you want to play semantics and get tunnel vision over the wording that I used, let's call it "Pay for performance" instead of "pay to win". Is that a more acceptable term?

I'm glad some people seem to get the point of this thread..

Well, if it wasn't for this requirement, it would be Crab Spiders. 3 Spiderlings, 2 Disruptors & the Arachnobot Blaster from Mace Mastery. With enough recharge they can be effectively perma-pets, but they do need to be resummoned each time when they expire.

Here ya go.. Keep in mind, that I don't believe that these showing up the way they currently do is intentional and that these could very easily change before becoming available for purchase.

You can view them all by searching for them at the auction house.

They're viewable on the auction house in-game. There are separate versions of all rare, purple and PvP IO enhancements marked as both Attuned and Account Bound. They have new graphics as well to further differentiate them from the existing ones.

Yes, they are temporary auto powers, similar to the ones from the Safeguard or Mayhem missions, such as the endurance increase.

I'm not entirely sure exactly what you're referring to here. The only TF's that give enhancements as a reward type that I know of are the STF & LRSF that give you a choice of a random Hamidon Origin enhancement.

Perhaps you're referring to the Death From Below trial? That gives players a choice of temporary powers at completion, not enhancements.

Regardless of what it is, it's been going on for over a year now. It is way overdue for a fix.