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Originally Posted by Zwillinger

Just as an FYI to our Community,

Paragon Studios was not affected by the reorganization and both Paragon Studios and NCsoft remain committed to the development of City of Heroes Freedom.

Thanks!

-Z

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon

'Cause patronizing your technical people when you don't understand the problems they're up against trying to fulfill your clueless edicts is clearly the best strategy for leveraging your development assets. They teach that in all the best business administration programs.

Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser

Finally got my token today.

I think I figured out how they are calculating it, so I'm anticipating it being around the 25th of the month for me from now on.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Seriously what game have you been playing because it hasn't been City of Heroes.

Here's just a few things VIP's got in the past month since switching to the new hybrid business model.

Going Rogue free for VIP's that haven't bought it as long as the account id active
1 additional server
Increased the number of slots per server from 36 to 48
New Zone - First Ward
New tutorial
Underground Incarnate Trial
Death from Below Trial
Time manipulation Power Set
IDF Costume Set
Defense Power Set
Updated Character Creator Interface
Atlas Park Revamped
New mission content added to AP and Mercy
New powers added to Leaping, Flight, Speed, Transportation
Power Set Proliferation - 17 power sets proliferated to other AT's
Ancillary and Patron Power Pools now unlock at 35
Tailors added to Mercy and Atlas Park
Trainers also alter costumes
Ouroboros now accessed at level 14
Travel Powers unlocked at level 4
Total Revamp of the Vet Reward System
Free server transfer each month (stackable)
400-550 free points to spend in the store each month (stackable)

New items in the store that can be bought for free with the free points we get each month.

Account bound Invention Origin Enhancements
Capes can be unlocked at level 1 (global)
Auras can be unlocked at level 1 (global)
10 additional costume slots (global)
20 additional enhancement slots (global)
30 additional Auction House Slots (global)
100 additional Recipe Slots (global)
100 additional Salvage slots (global)
30 additional Vault inventory slots (global)
XP boosters
Influence boosters
CoT costume Set
Barbarian costume set
Beam Rifle Power Set
Street Justice Power Set
Halloween Costume set
Dual Inspirations
Team Inspirations
Enhancement Boosters
Enhancement Unslotters
Prestige Boosters
Revival Temp Powers
Restore Temp Powers
Rocket Board Power
School Backpack
Fireman's Helmet

Now compare that to what we got 1 month after the game launched back in 2004.

Go ahead we'll wait.


What's the matter. You want to try to compare the amount of content we got over a period of seven and a half YEARS to what we've gotten during the past month since Freedom launched? Pardon our howls of derisive laughter at that idea.


Edit Or are you actually arguing that we should pay less because we get more for free? That's even more hilarious.

Originally Posted by Emberly

Man, if I got butthurt like a whiney little baby when someone had a more powerful character than me, I wouldn't have time for anything else. Who cares if Jimmy Fatbux has all the shinies, and who cares how he got them?

Originally Posted by Brillig

You totally miss the point. CoH, last time I checked, is a game, and games are generally supposed to provide a level playing field where cash doesn't provide an advantage (F1 and the Yankees notwithstanding.)

Just because money provides an advantage in real life doesn't mean that it should in games.

Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen

Since this seems to be a common response in this thread, I would like to ask the people who are taking that position this:

If a brand new player who started playing yesterday purchasing the rarest and 'best' gear for real money is perfectly acceptable, as long as it can also be earned through normal play, no matter how much time and effort it may take the regular player, where do you draw the line on what is acceptable?

Is anything acceptable for real money purchase as long as it can also be earned through regular play?

If a player spends years working on earning 1200+ badges, is it acceptable that the hypothetical brand new player with more $$ than sense, be able to buy every badge in the game for real money through the market?

Is it acceptable to buy XP for cash? How about levels? Level 0-50 instantly for PP? How about accolades like TF Commander or Portal Jockey? All these things provide tangible, in-game benefits to the player.

If, to you, it is perfectly acceptable for a someone to pay cash to buy all the rarest enhancements that it may have taken another player months of effort to earn, then it follows that all of my above examples should be fine as well.

If XP, levels, badges, etc. for cash is not acceptable to you, but enhancements are, I'm genuinely curious as to why..

ETA: What about Incarnate slots and powers? I really hate grinding those trials over & over to get all those tier 4 powers. Why not spend some cash and bypass all that?



Fine. If you want to play semantics and get tunnel vision over the wording that I used, let's call it "Pay for performance" instead of "pay to win". Is that a more acceptable term?





I'm glad some people seem to get the point of this thread..

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Am I reading the thread title wrong, then? I read it as saying that Premiums will somehow cut in on the VIPs' "turf" thereby making the VIP option less appealing and making just going Premium a better bet. If this really is about Incarnates, then how are Premium players even relevant if they can't even buy access to the Incarnate system unless they go VIP?



That's not punishment, it's diminishing returns, and it's been in the game in one form or another since ED. Well, unless you want to argue that ED "punishes" you for slotting too many enhancements of the same type. If the development team was ACTUALLY punishing you, they'd wait until you've actually done the Trial then take away your rewards and temp-ban you. Instead, they are telling you up-front: This will not give you a very good reward. If you choose to run the content despite the warning, then you have implicitly accepted it.

Originally Posted by Mr_Remarkable

None of the mobs in the Halloween Trial leave corpses when they die, despite the fact that that's basically all they are. Warshades can't heal, summon pets, or make explosions if there aren't any corpses. It's annoying to be locked out of three of your powers for the whole trial.

Originally Posted by Ogi

Oooh, is it that you'll actually answer something and not just deflect the questions by trying to appear witty?



Can you predict which ones are affected? If not, you have to either chance burning a weekly hero merit or burn two days and be sure to get the SSA merit, per character. And speaking assumptions, you're assuming it was the three that were bugged and not the ten.

Originally Posted by Lothic

The text for Tricked Out just says while killing the Abmoniation, but it probably wouldn't hurt to wear one for the whole trial just in case.

Originally Posted by Clouded

I asked for clarification once ya know. You stated this wasn't a bug.

If you want to be helpful, then be helpful. I grow tired of crypitc games.

Originally Posted by Kinrad

This hasn't been 100% my experience, and hence a big part of my confusion.
I ran the SSA yesterday with 13 different characters, and 10 of them got Alignment Merits.

The 3 that did not were:
A level 20 Scrapper (makes sense given the new confirm alignment patch, since she has never even done a tip)
A level 50 Defender with the alignment power
A level 50 Corruptor with the alignment power

I ran 5 tip missions and an alignment mission with my Defender and got 50 Merits (instead of an alignment merit), then reran the SSA and got an alignment merit.

It really seems all over the map here.

Originally Posted by Clouded

You assume which makes you wrong.

The characters in quesiton are heroes/villains and they have been through the Alignment system to be a hero or villain. Now, I have to redo that process across those characters in order to obtain the same reward I was getting before this fix.

It's a big inconvenience for people with limited play time man.

Originally Posted by Clouded

Ya, I know that. I have to run at least 121 missions to get just 11 of my characters back to the way they were PRIOR to this 'fix.' That is, able to earn Hero/Villain Merits from the SSA.




Oh boy. 2 x 4 Merits! Joy!

No. I want to not be inconvenience by the developers and be forced to run 11 missions per character in order to receive a reward that I was able to receive prior to their exploit fix.

I'm not delusional to think I'll get any type of response from a redname, let alone any fix. But I'm going to complain about being inconvenienced yet again.

Originally Posted by Ogi

Again. One 11 mission cycle (2+ days) per character at level 20+ to unlock the ability *AGAIN*.

If you had to unlock all your incarnate slots, again, would you be saying it's just grinding the trials again (assuming you don't just burn your stockpiles for iXP)?

Originally Posted by Clouded

I have a hard time expressing how deeply annoyed I am at this, exploit or no. I don't typically run Tip missions on my characters but I do run the SSAs. Now I am required to spend all of my ingame time to run these tip missions.

Very frustrating.

Why again are we bashing on Shubbie? Seems like this is a legitimate gripe.

Originally Posted by Clouded

Sweet.

I hope this bug is a high priority.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

LEMKIN! Yes, thank you.

So does he turn into just some random lady waving her arms around?

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

The people that do this don't care about what they skip. They are only concerned about endgame. They can't understand that this game isn't all about the endgame. In their minds they can't enjoy a game unless they are all powerful.

I say let them have at it. The sooner they realize this isn't the type of game they like the sooner they'll leave. Don't force them to be miserable. Then they'll only hang around complaining and scaring away players that would like the game.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Wait a gosh-dang minute! Why can't I use eye auras with the fish bowl Think Tank? Seriously, what's cooler than an empty tank with glowing eyes inside it? Please?

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

I didn't get any "early" tokens:

By my calculations I've been given the following Reward Tokens

• 26 Token = Veteran Reward Conversion as of August 2011 (78 month Veteran Status as of August 12, 2011)
• 06 Token = 6 Years subscription
• 01 Token = Free token for everyone, including F2P players
• 01 Token = Retail Code Applied to the account.

No token since September 13th.