Tinier Bolt

You, sir*, win an internet.

*Or ma'am.

Sorry. I'm going to pull the "I have a life" card. I have other games I can play, I have things to make, chores to do. I can easily fill those 30 hours with just as rewarding things as playing the game. I didn't even notice one of those downtimes, because the game is not the only thing I spend my time on, and I'm not even employed at the moment. And also, most of the downtimes have been in 12+ hour blocks of time, no? So you mean to tell me in those 12+ hours you would have played every single hour? Because otherwise your arguments for how long each downtime took are pretty silly. Most people play an hour or two, and then get off. So that "30+ hours" turns into "I was inconvenienced for about 2-4 hours of my time, if that but I demand FULL compensation for how long the entire downtime was, even if I didn't use the time". Please tell me you can understand why that sounds silly.

This is a company, not a magical fairy land where nothing goes wrong. It's just like every other company. I'm not going to storm a grocery store I pay a membership fee to and demand money back for being closed 6-8 hours every night (or more) because it's not available for me to shop in, thus 'wasting' my membership money. I either wait, or shop elsewhere. And yes, it is applicable. Brick and mortar stores close to restock and revamp. Employees need time off. They are doing the online equivalent. This is the single most ridiculous reason for wanting a compensation I have ever heard of, and I've worked in customer service for over 10 years, so that's a whole lot of dumb reasons I can remember.

It's a dollar because that's what two days are worth. That's the end of the story. If it's $15 dollars a month, and months average out to about 30 days, that's .50 a day. So yes, your time in game is worth a dollar. So yes, the 'proper compensation' for your 'troubles'* is a dollar. Just because you're paid more at your job doesn't make your free time worth anything.

*Oh first world troubles, will you ever get old?

I'm actually curious, if they're this upset over a dollar, what do they do when something that's actually bad happens? And don't forget, if they buy more then a month at a time, or use certain time cards, it's even less then a dollar.

It does, as Crazy1Van also pointed out.

And in addition to physically moving servers, they dropped us an Issue and are releasing an all new system within a system (F2P and Premium accounts) which are HUGE and came out strangely smoothly, despite the downtime.

Also? Two days. Really. The OP is arguing about two days? And that's a giant inconvenience? Holy ...wow. The world does not work like perfectly maintained and oiled clockwork. There's a reason Murphy's Law exists. Because unexpected things happen all the time.

You want them to refund you two days worth of service when you at most pay only $15 a month per account? What's that, a dollar?

Like this? Given most of the only active threads are people forming TFs at the moment, that seems a low blow to the people currently active in this server's forum.

Per actual issue of thread--it's relevant, seeing as people are still rejoining to check out the new content and may be upset that 'their' name is taken on another server. It is within the rules, and personally, I like the rules. Roll new toons, try out different ideas. I've had the chance a couple times to see what people have done with 'my' names of alts I've released, and honestly, it's really cool.

Anyone griefing in game will be banned for griefing, making the worry of Belle pointless. The person couldn't 'become' Belle on the forums unless Belle's account got hacked, which wasn't the case. Belle's reputation wouldn't be harmed no matter what.

By that logic, to be fair, you're "wasting" 7.50 a month paying for a sub for this game, since that money goes both red and blue side. You're technically "wasting" even more if you like playing grey side content. While you can avoid these arcs and that's not a problem, that's a silly argument to be making. If you're going to play these arcs multiple times, it doesn't matter whether or not it gives you access on one side or another, you're still using the money you spent.

I admit, I ran through it on a tank in the 20's range to see what the fuss was about. My tank, she's not built for optimization, and it hurt. A lot. It would have been much better gameplay if I had waited til I outleveled the content (til 24 or SOs--I only IO at high levels, and sometimes not then), then exemped down. Having run through it, I wouldn't pay for it if it became pay-only. It's not that the effects aren't nice, and the story is ok, but it could be better. The setting gave more of an 'epic' feel then the storyline did. I simply wasn't convinced why this random Lost dude was suddenly interested in talking to me, nor was I convinced I should be helping him until the final mission, and even then, it was...sudden. I feel like there should be another mission in there that gives more depth, or rewrite the content so it has a bigger 'feel' then it does. Maybe a mission where you help on a Lost raid grabbing the contact? Or a mission arc before this one introducing the idea the Freedom Phalanx is in trouble, but that one is free to everyone, so it kind of explains what the heck is going on here, and gives incentive to explore this arc.

I know, how inconsiderate!

I understand there are other games that cost more, and I also understand from what others are saying that the con costumes perhaps contributed to this pricing. But seriously? No.

Let's just compare it to other costume sets, shall we? You get...the shoulder parrot and the aura. Awesome. Or I can go buy any other costume set for just a bit under what this nonsense is, and get all new costume pieces! The organic armor one had over ten, unless I was so asleep I counted multiples of the same thing. Guess what, I already have characters who look just as piratey (if not more so) then this dude, and I can take a stealth power, use a green glowing aura and bam, free redo of this costume, and my stealth will still be useful. Yay! So glad we worked that out. Also, I can make both male and female characters with this system, instead of being locked into only males. Ohoh, and I can do this at any time. So the idea of this being a 'limited time only' thing is a joke. The only thing limited is the parrot. Granted, it's a super-powered parrot that kills one of your powers, but it's just a parrot, guys.

And it's not like I'm some curmudgeon about dropping extra money on this game--my husband put enough money into his two accounts to get all the enhancement slots because it'll make ALL of his gameplay more enjoyable. This negates an effective power in game, for goodness sake. I spend a frightening amount of my game time tinkering with costumes (I dropped for the organic armor set and the thunderstorm aura without blinking an eye, and plan for a shopping spree after Street Justice drops), and this is beyond a waste of money. The same goes for all the NPC costume sets (I want the Freak set, but not at the current price), but this one really takes the cake for ridiculous.

Ahah, see, I haven't read you (that I know of) in other threads, so I read the scare quotes as a derisive wave of the hand on CoX's challenge system, which is 'lacking'* compared to some other system's. Context, I has it now!

*YMMV

And to Rapthorne--glad you've decided to stick around and give us a chance!

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you. I play City for FUN, not challenge. My life is not the easiest day to day, I don't log into a game for grinding out to a reward. I pal around, I set the regular missions to a difficulty that is 'challenging' but requires minimal trips to the hospital. I chat people up and play with costumes. I do occasional tfs and the like. I PUG when I can.

And the great part is since it's a MMO, not a closed system, you can have your in-game "challenges". You can grind as much as you want to get gear that 'excludes' me. And I can go play on builds that would make optimal players cry and have just as much fun. And not affect you, or your league at all. And that's awesome.

Tl;dr, your end game isn't my end game. And I've been playing this game since a couple months after launch, so I've had a long time to polish my 'end game content'. And despite what you say, the devs are still releasing content that makes my 'end game' better in addition to the high end things. Have you seen the new costume packs and mission content? It's pretty cool.

Wait, when did EEEKK and Briz quit?

I like those ideas, or I like another idea I've heard: giving us more slots for enhancements. I'm not saying having enough spots for ALL our enhancements, but maybe giving us 20 or 30 slots? You won't be able to save all your IOs in one go, but it'll make it faster/easier, and will make some marketeering much less painful.

Or give us some way of taking out enhancements. It doesn't have to be easy, but having the option would be nice.

Edit: And on topic, I like the 3rd respec, even if they're all wasted on me because I still don't have access to the characters that need them. However, that's my fault, and I'm not angry at all. Thanks dev team, and whoever was responsible for this!

Wait a minute. I'm confused--how do new animations get added to the mix get called 'limiting'? You added that just because it was 'new' it wasn't preferable to the other animations we already have. Why? Is it because they made the 'mistake' of porting the animations across as many powersets as normal, so they seem blase? Is it because you personally don't like the particular style of the animations?

I'm not trying to attack you in any way, I simply would like to hear exactly why more options=limiting. For instance, for my characters I love the new animations. The hand animations make a lot more sense for a lot of my characters, since I admittedly mostly do magic, with other origins thrown in for flavor. In addition to the majority being magic, a lot of my heroes are 'everyday heroes', and it makes a lot more sense for them to be simple and straightforward in their animations--none of that funny business with eye mojo and over-the-top gestures. While I appreciate that people will want grander gestures as well, I believe this is a good starting place for those of us who aren't usually into the showmanship of the newer sets (dual blades, dual pistols, to some extent kinetic melee).

And while in a perfect world we all would have gotten something we liked, I do remember many a quote from BABs and other animators basically saying "It's a lot harder then it looks" (paraphrased). It may SEEM like copy/pasta'ing to us, but as another poster mentioned, they have to balance and reskin and recolor and find the bugs that will pop up goodness knows where and so on and so forth. I understand you want big shinies, but I will propose that this is a good start.

Thanks Ironblade for the correction. I'm not in it (I think? At least one of my accounts isn't), so was going off a verbal recommendation. My bad!

Wow, you're on Infinity? Never seen you before. Not doubting you have many characters on here, just saying...maybe you should be more active on a server before spouting "commentary" on being rude about someone else's personal bad experiences. Who are you to say that Angelofvalor hasn't run into a lot of bad people?

Every server has bad apples. And that post just proved you may want to start looking in the mirror a bit before randomly snapping at someone who was looking for teams and actual gameplay when they couldn't find it elsewhere.

Good thing I ended up being out all day then--I would have definitely messed up the Master run! Grats to everyone who ran it.