Sermon

This pack is part of a trend of limited time offerings. The convenience, which is largely what they are selling, is a limited time offer.

You are right. I didn't mean to imply that it is perhaps a marketing strategy which is bad for the game (and the game's bottom line). It may not be a bad strategy per se, but I am suggesting that it could be in this instance.

The playerbase represents the general population in an undetermined and unquantified way. I would love to see some studies to show just how much

Anyways, it is just as nonscientific to claim that the forumgoers don't represent the playerbase as to claim that they definitely do.

I disagree that it would be stupid not to. Survival of an MMO is dependent on player satisfaction and the willingness of players to recruit friends etc. Hurting or eroding your image through bad marketing is a bad idea.

Indeed, that is true. Sorry if my post obscured that issue.

Hmmm... I am not sure I see the point you are making.

I, as a player and customer and fan, am continually annoyed that they play marketing games (exclusivity, limited-time offer, and pay-for-randomness) with things I would (otherwise) pay for happily without the gimmicks. I appreciate the attempt to offer convenience, but why limited time?

I apologize if I am a bit off topic, as I am not responding directly to the issue of inclusion of Roman weapons. My complaint focuses on the bow, and how it is bundled arbitrarily with the roman stuff, and its availability is limited-time (but maybe I should think of it as a limited-time valentines item instead ... as I am used to limited time holiday items, but they still annoy me).

The issue, for me, is that there were almost no changes to the packs for the largely costume-minded player. The problem with involving so many things into the super pack is that you are pressing all of our buttons at once. Making ATIOs easier to get w/o packs doesn't really interest me, as all I want is the costumes. That's the risk you run when you bundle things together.

Anyways, I just want to give my visceral response to the packs which persists since they were announced. I feel like I am being told that I am not paying enough. Since freedom I have never let my sub lapse and I have bought every costume set (minus a few one-offs pieces) and every powerset made available. Still, the store is trying to twist my arm to pay more to get another set not unlike the ones I have gotten for less. That is a disappointment. I don't look forward to explaining the super packs to my supergroup, who have even less disposable income than I do (but who, likewise, have bought practically every powerset and costume made available).

Pricing changes have been glacial. They have made some pleasing concessions elsewhere, but progress for the store has been excruciating.

That sounds about right. The only one I ever remember getting was the Going Rogue announcement, but that was delivered through a different company, if I remember correctly.

This. I never receive anything.

edit: I just confirmed that my check box is marked to received newsletter updates in my account profile. People have complained about this problem for forever-and-a-half now.

This times forever!

The damned zombie obsession of late has really cut down on the number of animated skeletons in my gaming.

I think they should just price the pieces individually. It will basically double the cost anyways, and then people can mix and match methods of obtaining the costume pieces.

I didn't even know it was time-limited. I have at least one friend who missed out then

I think this is intentional. Since there are only two tones, they have to make those cover the hair. It can be limiting, but currently there is no point of reference for hair color while wearing a hat. Instead of fixing the hair color (to, say, blond) they make the hair color a mix of the two hat colors. It is somewhat limiting, but I would say less so then giving us a hat with the hair color already chosen. Alternatively, they could have made the secondary color affect the hair only, and have the belt portion of the hat uncolorable (say, black). I would probably have preferred that option.

edit: I wonder if they could every have a secondary option which lets you switch between, option 1, a blended hair with colorable hat-belt, or, option 2, preset hat-belt with secondary color hair.

I do think it's surprising. Going forward, however, hopefully thinks won't be as problematic.

Wow. This is great to hear.

Yeah, maybe I just don't use a lot of the newer pieces.

I just can't think of a lot of pieces which can't be tinted at all (or have large sections which can't be tinted). Perhaps my own failing.

I understand, but I don't think the OP is asking that.

I haven't seen gunslinger yet.

I thought the original question was about whether we can colorize the pieces at all. What makes you think they are asking about pretint?