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Originally Posted by Sideline

Real Answer: Yes, yes it does.

Sarcastic Answer: Nope, they have to go Charlie testing through Zed testing yet. Beta is just the begining.

Five hours and thirteen minutes.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

What?

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

This "open" beta is still only available to VIPs. You don't think they're going to have at least a couple weeks of Premium/Free beta, to make sure everything works for those players as well?

Originally Posted by Ironblade

Responsibility is irrelevant.
It is a COMMON, DESIRED and HELPFUL feature. That's all that matters. By the current standards of e-commerce, lacking that feature makes a site deficient.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

I see it as giving us the tools to exercise OUR responsibility. Seeing that they ARE putting in the store, and to my knowledge they are NOT giving us a receipt, it is THEIR responsibility to help us keep track of our purchases.

Besides, being greyed out doesn't tell me WHEN it was purchased, only that it WAS purchased.

Originally Posted by Arctic Man

I hope it will still be possible to manage our accounts (and to buy Paragon Points) outside of the game. Reason being that in-game browsers sometimes have problems with opening the pop-up window needed for "Verified by Visa" cards. It's the case in another game I sometimes play, so I have to buy points and such externally there.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

For those on a budget or limited income, yes, it is needed. I, like many others, have to be careful about what we spend money on. I go over my budget every month to make changes as to what I can afford to spend the next month.

Then there is the "What did I buy already?" question that isn't answered, at least with the crud system we currently have.


Go ahead, tell me what the highlighted codes are... You can't. I can only because I've kept my receipts. I shouldn't have to keep the receipts or have to ask support which items I've bought and applied to my accounts.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

Because most e-commerce sites provide you with a history in addition to a receipt. In addition, they are missing a golden opportunity to have specialized directed sales and notices based on your purchase history.

Say a player mainly buys costume parts, but only rarely buy the boosts. They could get a special sale notice on a costume pack they don't have yet.

Additionally, like I said, this could be a really useful tool for players to find out what they (or their children) have spent in the last month. This would be a useful tool for budgeting.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

Well, I managed to get a couple questions in.

One to put a rumor to rest: most the tier 9 Paragon Reward consumables are able to be bought on the market (except the Summon Signature).

In response to someone else's question:

I asked that to give me something to point to where they actually said it, rather than implied it.

They didn't fully answer one of my questions:

I suspect that we'll be getting weekly emails (at least) once Issue 21 goes live.

The other is one they didn't seem prepared for: The market purchase history...

Seriously they should have realised that was going to be a potential problem with the market after years of complaints that players can't tell what "Perk" is which on our accounts. Additionally they should have thought about it because parents would like to see a record of where their money went when their kids went wild buying stuff.


Most e-commerce sites, will keep track of a person's purchase history. It is something I, as a web developer, consider a mandatory requirement for an e-commerce site.

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The players going on about the Paragon Rewards program and the one person asking repeated questions about when Paragon Studios was going to have a lifetime subscription (ie NEVER), yes those were low points in this.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Wow. Again, saddened by the playerbase.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

It's attitudes like these that cause Devs to shy away from a playerbase and not interact with them at all.

'Pester'? Not accepting 'soon' as an answer especially when the 'soon' we got was a 'definitely in the pipeline' soon?

Petulant.

Originally Posted by mousedroid

I know I'm a week late commenting, but the answer quoted above is a bunch of baloney.

If you wanted to release a Towel Cape or Panhandle helmet, or whatever other costume pieces you can think up, you could just throw them in one of the issues and release them. I don't think anyone playing the game would complain if we got a bunch of random new costume pieces in an issue without a "theme" tying them together.

You're saying this because, as many predicted two years ago, you've moved further and further away from providing new costume pieces for free and in order to charge us for them, you have to "package" them.

So let's all be honest here - the last sentence of the above quote should read, "...Paragon would not have to create an accompanying thematic power to 'justify' [charging our customers for] a Towel Cape or Panhadle helmet."

Originally Posted by Jeuraud

Freedom of speech here in the US is protection from the government only, and even then there are cases were the majority has caused a government policy against freedom of speech under certain circumstances (Sexism/Racism in the workplace.)

In this game NCsoft/Paragon has stated that sexism/racism are not acceptable forms of expression, and they are well within their rights to do so. It's up to the lucky moderators to decide what is sexism/racism, and to enforce this rule.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Sexism and racism are not acceptable forms of free expression.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Political correctness is about equality and respect - it's only the primitive knuckle-draggers who are against it, as it forces them to step up to the level or normal human beings.

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

There are some people who can solo a level 54 Archvillain without breaking a sweat thanks to the benefits of IO builds. They're few and far between, but they're out there.

Then again, there are also people who have trouble soloing a +0/x1 mission with no AVs on an IO build (though that's largely due to the AT/powersets chosen).

But I'd rather not see this thread devolve into another discussion about why they should allow soloing in content intended for teams, etc.