SwellGuy

This is the thing right there.

Unfortunately any thoughts I have to make Tankers more fun to play (for me) make them into brutes or scrappers just as any thoughts I have to make defenders more fun to play (for me) turn them into blasters or corruptors.

To me both are anachronisms of an increasingly irrelevant concept of the trinity and with power set proliferation I just don't have any reason to play either of these ATs.

I would bet on new booster packs and not being in the existing boosters for two reasons which are selling new boosters would be the primary one and to avoid the potential problems of adding them into the current boosters.

Where the real speculation lies is on whether these would, when they come to live, be convertible from the existing ones or not as out of set conversions.

I forget who the forum poster was who dumped his luck charms so we all threw ours out there and how low the price dipped. Was it 9k?

Dang, that is logical.

It was a puzzler to me too.

We have time travel. Bring out dinosaurs and Romans!

Well it's a one-shot range weapon...

I don't know that your characterization of "sitting on it" is 100% correct though I know many probably see it that way. To delay it for the obvious anniversary ploy would cement the view.

And that would actually move me from disapointed/annoyed to angry. I wouldn't want to assume anyone else's reaction but it would seem probable that others would also migrate further along the dissatisfaction path.

Generally it is not thought to be a good idea to intentionally provoke people.

To me it doesn't even matter what they would tie to selling in conjunction with celebrating the anniversary (unless it is a sale on all items concept).

For example if today were the day and it was "Come celebrate a lion of an achievement, our 8th Anniversary, by buying your very own lion pet today!" I would think they were off their rockers.

Exicted and agitated are not exactly the same emotions.

Or if it would just attack NPCs. No more civilians are going to be pushing me out of their way.

To me it would seem odd to celebrate the 8th anniversary by selling a powerset in coordination with it. So unless they are going to give out staff fighting to all VIPs on the anniversary, withholding it until then seems odd to me.

"It's out anniversary and to celebrate you get to buy stuff!" just seems a bit lame of a theme.

Things we must buy to get we don't actually get unless we buy them so while the studio has released many things since Freedom, ones I have no interest in and have nor purchased really won't matter to me.

So it's not entirely counter-intuitive as Freedom has brought another layer of the process to our thinking.

Agreed.

For me? I really want staff fighting so each week it is not released I am disappointed. I am not angry, just disappointed.

That they cannot market items coming up ahead of time with a caveat of "barring unforseen circumstances" is baffling. People will complain no matter what but to me it seems better to announce "Coming to the Market next week: X*" *barring unforseen circumstances

Each week they release something I don't want only keeps me from spending my points until they do give me what I want.

I am completely baffled by the vanity pets. I took vet one about 3 times before the current system when I lazily click the Claim All and just choose one never to use it. But apparently enough people must like them to validate the efforts to create and sell them.

But it makes the decision pretty easy for me when they get priced like this. They could sucker me in if the vanity pets were like 100pp each but when they price them so high that I just laugh and walk away I think it is better for me.

Enhancement unslotter is special salvage which allows you to pull an enhancement out of your build and put it in your tray.

If you have none in your character's personal inventory it will offer to take you to the Paragon Market.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Enhancement_Unslotter

There are also boosters:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Enhancement_Booster

And a large variety of other items you may want to review at Paragon wiki before claiming.

See, this is how you build interest/suspense/excitement. Tell the marketing people no news at all just annoys. They need to learn to tease.

QFT and annoyance when living in some towns where you can have different aged children in different districts. So glad not to be living in one of those now.

I don't know why I blanked on the X-Men. I also eventually remembered the Teen Titans.

Based upon experiences in a couple other MMOs, I also don't get the sense that many developers know how to do open world stuff or that it takes more effort than to create the closed instances.

Of course the way the games are let me often repeat the line from "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" "Let's be independent together."

I think this is due more to the genre than anything else. I would expect that most people think of super heroes as solo operatives who team up against greater threats due to our experiences from reading the comic books.

The only team coming to my mind right now that is a group first is the Fantastic Four but when I think of the other groups of heroes they are all soloists who teamed up: JLA, Avengers, etc.

While MMOs started principally from being online versions of DnD where people are grouped and hopefully balanced groups so we wanted our tanker, buffer/debuffer, damage dealer and healer .

That is how I at least see how the games came about and what people expected from them.