SolarSentai

I guess it depends on your view of the game overall. I mean, when you think about it, there's quite a bit to do in City of Heroes.

The one major thing about the game is that it's alt-friendly and alt-encouraged. So, even if you level a character from 1 - 50, you can do it again and again and take different routes to get there.

For argument's sake, let's say you have 1 character that you particularly like and want to "advance" further. Well - you have the Incarnate System - 10 additional "levels" so to speak with different methods of achieving them (only the first 5 "slots" are available). Trials/grinding may not be your thing... so what else is there to do?

Well... there's the Market (Mini-Game). Some folks enjoy buying/selling/crafting (not necessarily in that order) and making themselves ebily rich.

Not your thing? Okay, you have the AE to make your own stories/missions. Or you could play through other users' stories.

Still no good? There are various zone events throughout Paragon, Praetoria and the Isles. You can be any level (more or less) for those.

Then there's Hamidon raids, Mothership raids, and things of that nature. Those can be fun.

Badges badges and more badges. Between all the various badges and the methods to achieve them you can definitely keep yourself busy trying to get them all.

And I'm sure there's more stuff to do that I'm forgetting (Oh, RP - if you're into that kind of stuff) but you get the idea.

So while the path to 50 these days seems like a much shorter road as compared to days of yore, there's still plenty of stuff to do in game if you're willing to take advantage of it.

I was thinking they would charge us per character, per pool and per color.

But yea, I would not be surprised if this wound up in the store at one point or another.

Maybe they're saving it for a rainy day when sales are down? Who knows...

I totally LOL'ed at that.

BttF <3

Didn't they already "raise" prices when they broke up the booster packs? Even with the bundles, the prices are still higher.

And in regard to the "free" points VIPs get monthly, if I have to spend them on things that I feel I should be getting with my subscription anyway, it's not really free.

(Yes, I know, what I "feel" I'm entitled to is highly subjective and doesn't mean squat but I can still use past issues as a baseline comparison)

Yea, I just noticed that too.

I hope it's 4 hours and not 10.

Fair enough, but my question is more so as of Freedom's launch yesterday(this morning) how many points should we have banked in our account?

800?

Fair enough

I wouldn't put it past them to charge for something like that though.

Microtransactions ftw! /sarcasm

Worked nicely.

Thanks for the tip!

I can't say I'm surprised by that. As I recall, most Issue releases run into some type of problem, so this isn't all that shocking.

I was contemplating leaving work early, but now... not so much.

Yea, if a bunch of people were reporting that they -had- points in their account, and I didn't, I'd be slightly concerned if that were still the case after the servers were up.

If the points granted are tied to the in-game store, and it's not up yet, I can see why we wouldn't have them.

I think that's a perfect way of putting it. When I make purchases, I tend to look for bargains, deals, promotions, whathaveyou... so I may very well only purchase something because of the bonus it's coming with. I think that's being a smart consumer.

It really bothers me that they came to the realization that it wouldn't work 1 day before i21 launches. You would think that it would've been something that was realized much sooner.