Stardrive

This was the scene at City Hall a half hour ago, a protest by a a few dozen of some of the games longest running players.

Why?

Nexus Ar'gos, a 5 yer old character with a 5 year old costume, was generic'ed by the GMs. SO griefer reported that the character was a Captain Mar'vell ripoff and that's all it took

I know the player, and the toon. The costume was somewhat similar, only somewhat. I personally might give this one a pass too if that's all that happened. HOWEVER

AFTER that happened, now the GMs are demanding that the toon be deleted outright OR the player's 5 tear running account will be banned. This is, to be blunt, crap. We as customers deserve a better review porcess in cases like that AND we should certainly never be subject to the follow up bullying and harrassment being dealt out here.

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WRONG!

I did use a respec when my widow completed her patron arc, so I got my 3 million (not 5) in SO money back.

I spent somewhere between EIGHT and TEN HOURS saturday night sitting in Cap waiting. After selling a few goodies along the way, I blew all 8 million & was still short the funds to slot level 40 IOs in 2 powers. I scrounged up another million selling stuff & SO'ed them

THe market is screwed right now. Set IO recipes that months ago were going for 50K to 100K are now over a million. Pangean Soil USED to be down to 500K ish. it's 5 freaking million on the black market now!

Gee, so if I spend 6 hours running 3 ITFs all day I MIGHT be able to afford 1 component of 1 recipe.

I'm impressed also. It's extremely nice to, for once, see a guide that not just says something can be done, but REAL details on how to do it. The opposite has been a real problem with the handful of other guides I've read

Outstanding job

Does it work? Yes.

The results are the same thing that happened to gas prices last year however. Huge run ups in prices due to "speculators" buying low & selling high, and removing inventory from the market.

Right now my 38 Night Widow is running on SOs because even with 5 mill in the bank, I can't afford generic IOs anymore.

I gotta agree with the people against paying for this costume pack. It's $10 for fluff essentially. Granted the costumes aren't bad considering they are wedding outfits & thus not very useful IMO.

Aside from the arguements I've already skimmed thru (& maybe this point has already been made by someone else), consider this: EQ2 offered 2 expansion mini-packs for $10 each, Bloodline Chronicles & 1 other one I don't remember (it's been a while, lol). Those packs for the same price had several new pieces of equipment, a reasonable large new area to explore, a long quest series & new collection items as well. THAT at least was worth $10. This is a total rip off.

What happened to the whole concept of the game having free expansions anyway???


Me personally, I'd pay for expansions, BUT they'd have to be SUBSTATIALLY more meaty & hopefully include a boosted level cap as well