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More specifically, Ruladak was dancing before there were legs. (Then it became mainstream.)

^ This. Although I'll still buy recipes if it's decently cheaper, but I will overpay by quite a bit when buying to use vs buying to profit.

I definitely remember MoG being regarded as a suicide button that was basically something you only used against Malta.

But I also remember when IH was a toggle... and iirc, it was so strong you could hardcap regen with like 4-5 SOs in it. Then again, they weren't even the most abusive, because a fire/fire tank could melt huge groups of +6s with burn no problem.

Grats, and great job on the game lately. I've been really impressed with GR and the post-GR issues.

And thanks for /ah

Yeah. I remember posting back in the I9/10/11 days, and I'd mention I was making 100m a day on 20 minutes worth of work, and I'd get a bunch of amazed pms asking how. I think if that was what I was managing on the market today (and I don't do marketeering at the moment, I just craft and sell my drops, at the moment... well, and buy stuff), if I got pms, they'd be to make suggestions so I wouldn't be doing so badly

People used to post screenshots of a billion infl as it were an amazing achievement... and now, from reading the Market forum, it seems like there's a set of people that would call that a "slow day".

That's Q1-Q4 quarterly sales. Looks like ~no loss of subscribers. Going Rogue added a lot of revenue to Q3, and probably shifted a small amount of revenue from Q4 to Q3 because it added a month. (People on longer subscriptions would have renewed a month later, meaning Q304 effectively "borrowed" some subscription revenue from later quarters; that effective will technically last for the entire next year; someone who was annual and set to renew in March won't renew until April, for example.)

So for Q4, 3,329 mm S Korean Won = $2,876,554 in USD, or about $958k/month. Subscription plans can range anywhere from $10.28/month (12+2, which I think I've used the last 2 years on both accounts) to $14.99 for monthly. That's anywhere from 64k - 93k subs, discounting the effects of the add-on packs.

I'd bet ~70-80k subs, and I'd bet that people who are on discounted subs (3/6/12/12+2) are more likely to buy add-on packs. I would have bet the "combo" packs that had things like costume change emotes + powers + costume options + emotes all bundled were better sellers than something that was purely cosmetic, although the Origins pack was (imo) pretty badass for a cosmetic pack.

That's not bad for a 7-year-old game; but then again, the metric is really as much about the direction of the arrow as the sub numbers. When CoH launched, EVE had <50k subscribers; now it has >300k. I think the interesting thing is: will CoH be able to build on it's subscriber base? I never actually unsubbed, but I largely stopped playing, but the awesome stuff from the past few issues (GR stuff, but also things like tintable powers and Incarnate fun) has had me wanting to get back into the game (which I finally did). I had another friend (who actually had unsubbed) who returned around Architect time. Hopefully the quality wins people over/back.

Yeah. I logged onto an alt the other day and discovered I had 7 low (<20) res/def ios in his market slots. I thought about listing them and then figured - eh, I'll use them, later if not sooner.

It would be pretty wild getting >200 merits as a reward in one shot.

The only reason it isn't possible in RL is because so many people are manipulating the market it becomes efficient. (And, people don't have quite the same attitude of entitlement/instant gratification in real life, although it's close.)

Because of those damn flippers, cornering the market on SOs.

Yeah. They're magic globals.

So globals are like set bonuses, and are active as long as the IO is available - ie, if you put a L25 LotG in your L49 power, it works even if you are exemplared to 22 and that power is disabled. (If you were examplared to 6, it would shut off, because L25 IOs can't be slotted by L6 characters.)

Procs are like the opposite - they work as long as the power works. So a L50 Numina slotted into health will always work (since health is a L2 inherent). The level of the IO doesn't matter. But if you put a L30 Miracle into, say, Physical Perfection, and then exemplar to 30, it will shut off, because Physical Perfection isn't available at 35. (+5 rule for power deactivation now)

The global-type PvP IOs are the 3rd case; they act exactly like the other globals, as a set bonus, except that bonus does not take the level of the IO into account at all. (So a L50 proc in a L49 power is still active exemplared to L2.)

This. I mean, I don't really expect them to change it, but the purpose temp powers serve right now is:

"Oh crap, my recipes are full. Oh, sweet, 7 temp powers, I can just delete those and hold off hitting the market/vendor a bit longer."

This thread took a totally awesome turn with this gem.

Glad the OP posted, though, because I would have gone the other way.

Back when purples were released, before the improved diff slider, I farmed quite hardcore for maybe 50 hours and would 5-box the demon mission. During that time I probably had 15-20 purples drop. I was subbed but more or less "away" for a lot of issues (pre-MA all the way until just before GR, basically), and upon returning, I've found purples just aren't dropping for me. I've had 1, maybe 2, both of which were junky (like, Sleep/Confuse recipes)... and yet I've probably full-cleared the entire Sam Naples map (minus the objective pack behind the building) at least 50 times, because I was powerleveling my own ill/rad. (Fun sets, always wanted one, but I just don't have any interest in playing it pre-Phantasm.) In all that time, zero purple drops. And I've cleared it a few times as I gathered tips (I'd 3 box set to 5/+0, to get all 3 accounts tips, so I could pick and choose the tips I enjoyed more). (Edited to note: yeah, once got 3 purples in 2 map clears.)

So, yeah, a ton of killing, plus I've run maybe ~6-7 L50 task forces. (Which in the grant scheme of things matters little, since that's drops being split 8 ways, and when I farm I get it all. )

Heck, back in the day, I got 2 purples just from the times I'd be killing time clearing the top of the Fortress with my warshade in Cimerora.

So I would have said, if anything, the drop rate was lower/much lower. Glad someone is scoring.

Same message showing up on the US side. Took 2 tries to get it on first account. Up to 3 tries on 2nd account, still failing.