ScottyB

This was done on the beta server, so I don't know if they also did that for the live hardware. There are two different things going on:

1. New instances spawn even if the zone isn't full; the lower threshold is probably something more like "66% full instead of 80% full".
2. "Most zones" suggests they can set up each zone for a different cap.

The reason this is important for Atlas Park is the new phasing missions keep more players in the zone and doing more than just running around.

I, on the other hand, just want more costumes to look sexy while farming AE missions and clicking bombs.

Halos. That would be pretty funny to see. An angel playing ring-toss with the pope. XD

You don't need to use the subscription model to consistently get money out of a player, and even a VIP banking their points for going Premium can't replace their subscription unless they have very narrow interests - and even then, they're going to run out of points eventually. Even if they don't re-sub when that happens, they will have spent money on the game at some time and contributed to the player base.

I think the store could sell 30-day licenses to access each trial. A player could buy a Keyes license to see what it's like; or a former subscriber might come back and drop $2 to see a new trial that just came out, and they're not yet sure there's enough new stuff to warrant subscribing. Premiums could be limited to only using Incarnate powers during trials, so they get much less utility out of them than subscribers - but they still get to play with them, like a video game console in a department store, the ultimate goal being "Mommy will you buy this for me?" (Except most of us probably have the ability to buy stuff for ourselves, of course!)

Although that doesn't address the issue that Incarnates are beyond the sight of Premiums without getting them to pay first, but that can be addressed without negating the value of a subscription, too: a Free or Premium account could get a voucher on their first 50 that grants them a 30-day BAF+Lambda license. An Incarnate Trial trial, if you will. What would be wrong with that?

Edit: And now after posting I see you've made another reply about license-based Incarnates. Curses!

You've overlooked an important detail: any version of the prepurchase page from before March 26th can't mention Incarnates, because PAX East hadn't happened yet. It wasn't until the last week of March that the Incarnate sneak peek was revealed. At the very least this means anyone who prepurchased prior to PAX couldn't have done so believing they'd get Incarnates.

However, even the April version of the prepurchase page does not mention Incarnates (nothing on the site - even official PAX reporting - mentioned Incarnates). If they never updated the site designed to promote Going Rogue, then the odds are very much against the NCSoft store page being updated. If the promotional site didn't get an update, then my mind would be blown that the publishers updated a product page.

Do all available contacts do that? If so, that would explain why I clicked away a billion pop-ups when I logged in some of my older characters. My new characters still haven't passed level 10, so I don't think they've received many introductions. When an introduction happens in the middle of a mission you're kind of too busy to take note of who it is, anyways.

I prefer passive systems to active systems, too. Both the coins and the pop-ups should have the option to be disabled.

If it's not your argument then you didn't need to be the first member of the forum populace to bring it up, proliferating its message to this thread. The question wasn't "Why do we have floating coins?" but simply "Can we turn them off?"

There's a difference between finding contacts you've been introduced to, and spotting the coin over an NPC you never talked to before because you'd never been instructed to go speak with them.

Using the wiki, asking other players, browsing the contact list, that's all an active search for a different contact. Saying you've never heard someone complain about difficulty finding contacts is like saying you've never heard someone complain about difficulty finding Green River soda - if people aren't aware they're missing out on something then they don't know they have a problem. Now contacts advertise their existence without bringing up extra windows - I can run past them and go, "Oh! I don't remember talking to them before! I wonder what they've got?"

Now you're gonna be wondering what Green River is, and where you can find it. Pity those stores don't have coins floating over the door.

I understand that some players desire "immersion". I don't understand why it's assumed that I'm in some way deficient just because I don't mind if my game looks like a game. I rather like that there's a clear visual cue that an NPC is a contact, even if they haven't been set as my map pin by another NPC. I hope that they'll clue me in to contacts that I never spoke to before and thus never knew were contacts.

Options are key to satisfying a broad range of customers. I agree that an option should exist to turn them off, but you don't have to make claims about the mental health of other players to make your point.