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I suppose we should worship the creators of Ultima online as gods then? Also let's call up the writers of Harry Potter and Twilight so we can worship them as the greatest writers of all time.

The business model for CoX is ridiculous, that's just well known. The -only- reason this game has done so well is because it's the first ever super hero themed MMO. Plain and simple. People got attached, and now that people expect the same vast world from a brand new MMO as they do a 5 year plus MMO it's pretty easy to keep a well established player base. If a new super hero MMO came out tomorrow, that offered better gameplay and a larger world, this game would be dead in a month. Sure you can say "Well why isn't it dead after DCUO?" that can easily be answered with one word, Sony. They flopped two HUGE MMO names in one year, most likely because most developer teams are bass-ackwards. In fact the MMO industry is, a lot of higher ups are complete morons who did nothing to deserve their job other than know the right people. They're kind of like that one fellow off of step-brothers who thought being a doctor was a family business. The point here is CoX is one of those "Right place at the right time." MMO's, they released a game that literally had -no- direct competition.

Back to the real point of this thread, they've already lied multiple times about various freedom aspects. It's getting rather out of hand, clearly they don't have a clear idea on how they actually want things to work and are basically playing it by ear. For starters -all- the best free to play games are based around pvp, you can try and argue that as much as you want but it's true. Giving Vip players limited points so they are -forced- to buy extra. I guess they also forgot that basically all successful f2p's allow players access to everything without subscription, they also allow players the ability to buy things that would normally cost money with in game currency. So unless they have the worst free to play business model ever, I would assume they either think they deserve more than $15 a month or need more than $15 a month. Either way very little about this makes sense. Maybe they are gathering funds for the next CoH, or maybe they are just a money hungry corporation that fails to see the bigger picture.

That analogy is so poor it's quality can only be compared to the writers intelligence level. Buying a game and not liking one set of powers out of the enormous amount offered is drastically different than buying a specific powerset with limited points given on a monthly basis.

My guess is the dev team got tired of releasing sets on par or better than previously existing ones, then having to nerf the new set a few months later only to hear the shrieks of horror.

Fantastic news. I appreciate the help! I was extremely confused if you cannot tell by my previous post..Thanks again.

Huge sigh of relief there, does ViP cost more though?

Edit: It appears whoever responded pulled their post.

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All pvp'rs are gone despite changes, they could overhaul this game twice over and still not have a game worth playing at this point in time. Especially after everyone gets their hands on their incarnates, that's when one build will truly beat everything *cough* elec/regen *cough*.

The best part of pre i13 pvp was the amount of people. Unfortunately all those people have left and will -never- come back.

Here's what I see happening if anything, a revert. That means all the builds we have worked ever so hard on to build for this ridiculous design of pvp will be ruined, great job dev team? You officially wasted 3+ years of the pvp communities time and your reputation with any new game will now be tarnished from this incident, and already is trust me.

The only thing that could possibly turn the remaining pvp community around is if you guys actually spent real time and effort on creating something new and shiny for us. Quite literally an entire issue scaling close to power customization. I highly doubt that'll ever happen, in fact everyone here highly doubts -anything- will happen. Can't really blame us either, like alpha said we tried fixing the developers mistakes and they did nothing but sit there embarrassed. So now maybe give us open world pvp and people -might- consider talking about this without being overwhelmed by the ignorance shown by the people running this game. Until we see something tangible and you quit asking us for information that has been previously presented, expect this sort of attitude.

I think that right there is a joke. I know first hand that an SR can beat a widow in a 1v1 duel, maybe not a fort, but definitely a widow. Unless you throw mass amounts of purple/pvp IO's in it, but if you do that to just about anything it becomes extremely difficult to beat.

The problem is T9's are so loaded the rest often lacks. If elude took a slight nerf and the toggles for widows/sr's were given a boost it would result in a more balanced set.

The rez is an auto hit debuff with like -1000% regen, that's more than enough to drop the hp recover to 0. Not to mention the -to hit and -dmg. The Dark Servant gives you two heals that will hit 95% of the time since regen has 0 defense. Put taunt on auto, they won't be able to kill your pets or you. Auto win.