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Again, no, that's not true. Until COH and COV merged, you either had one or paid to get both. Until Freedom hits, only people who bought GR have the new powersets, the Incarnate system and the Alignment system for A-merits.

Even then, the players with the most time or access to resources (influence, people to run activities with, etc) have an advantage over those who don't. I hate to say it, but there's no thing as a fair fight. All the powersets being available do not provide equal footing.

As one player to another, I thank you for providing your feedback, though, and I really do hope the devs do address your concerns. Certainly, there's a lot of ways for them to act on this issue, so our collective feedback is very important for not only current players but the future ones. With as big a change as we'reseeing coming down the pipe, we absolutely need as many different viewpoints as possible, especially ones that disagree!

I was just thinking, between the normal account theft MMOs have and the recent lulzSec nonsense, what could be done to make MMOs a bit more secure? As such, what's out there from the game companies themselves? Not on their back end, but tools and options available to us players? What should be available to us players? Good ideas you've not seen anywhere yet?

NCSoft allows you to have a master account that has a different login/password than your individual games, which is good. My COH, Aion and Guild Wars accounts all have different logins and passwords.

Blizzard has their famous authenticators for WOW and now Battle.Net (I think).

There was one game that had a captcha in the game itself (Atlantica? Dynasty Warriors?).

I recall hearing another game having a virtual keypad where you had to click in a PIN (an attempt to thwart keyloggers, I suppose).

I think Nexon or one of the other game companies will evaluate your password (one of those strength-meter things).

Is there more out there? Reasonable stuff, mind you... a few Korean games install some stuff that tries to protect the game from hacking, keyloggers, etc, but I don't necessarily think that sort of thing really works.

I realize this is no substitute to being smart about things on your end; not constantly reusing logins/passwords, running scans for malware, etc., but I figure its worth asking and discussing. I expect Freedom to rather successful, and as such would like to see at least one more option come around simply because success attracts parasites from the RMT "industry."

So far I'm on page 4 trying to catch up (lets see if my brain handles it!) - some interesting stuff, to be sure, although I can't really say I know where I personally stand on this. I have to admit I'm curious as to what plans, ideas, brainstorms and responses the devs might have but can't talk about.

I've always wondered how people come up with what they think a good price is. In this case I'd pay more simply because not all COH players have an iPhone, not all COH players with iPhones use character builders, etc. All in all its really a niche product.

Now, one for a much bigger game with, say, a few million players (and there are a few of those)? $10 is more than I'd go for. Free with ads to $3 sounds okay-ish to me.

I could see that, Skystreak. Be nice!

And, just to say? Travel powers at level 6 should not be made available in the store. I firmly believe that needs to be a QOL change for the game come i21. Its been a big improvement in my characters since I got that VR, but like Fitness I think it needs to be revisited for the player as a whole.

Chad, if they can make normal level enhancements that vendor for 0 or 1inf, age like normal enhancements (TO, DO, SO), but could be used by any origin? That would work for me. Doesn't really undermine the game systems or economy (I think, could be wrong), useful, not buy to win, etc, making it a decent consumable item for players and the devs.

I wonder what would happen if the Devouring Earth (Primal or Praetorian) tried absorbing a Shivan. Or vise-versa. Hmmm...

Thanks for posting this!

Sweet! Got a WP7 phone so I can't make use of it, but the more there is to benefit COH, the better!

Hmmm... If I keep going annual, and buy 3 boosters worth of points? It'll be like I'm paying $14.45/month, and I'll get 7,200 points minimum. Hmmm...

I thought DX10/11 required Vista or Windows 7. Seems no different than my experiences with OSX, honestly. "Sorry, we're moving up the OSX requirements for everything, including iTunes, so you have to upgrade your OS and/or hardware."

Hell, they're dropping Rosetta in Lion, so no Lion unless you're running all Universal Binaries or x86 native applications. Home owners might not care, but that sucks for several businesses I deal with. Of course, this is normal for software companies, period, so....