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World of Wookies.

Not saying it's not well-made, but it's...WoW with starships and light sabers. Enjoy it if you can, but...meh.

^This, with rainbows and chocolate sauce. I know what it's like to be blindsided by a job- I came home one day and the phone was ringing: a contact in the press wanting my reaction to a lockout I didn't know had occurred, or was even in the cards.

I can assure you I did NOT handle it as well as you are, Zwill,

Ran into this as well. I did finally manage to finish the mish. You might try this:

1) Turn GFX, especially particles and physics way down.

2) DON'T charge into the middle of the mob- use the eyebeams to pull, then deal with smaller groups. You can use the AOEs in small doses that way.

3)In between groups, turn away, spam /sync

It seems as if serverside is just NOT keeping up with the dataflow in this mish for some reason. I also completed it on a Sunday morning, when server loading was low overall.

I've had it happen on 3 different chars in the last week, each time when zoning shortly after levelling. Have a bug report in, have heard no followup. Have you /bugged it in-game? Be nice if they knew I wasn't just crazy.

1) I just cancelled my sub there (for the second time) after being there ...well, basically since Beta. Nice try.

2) My error, I bought the package- which is why I have so many stume slots on ALL my chars, and did not have to sell my house to do it. Still substantially cheaper than 10 bucks/slot/char(?) (unclear if it's per char or per account for Freedom)

3) You can nitpick with my wording all you like, Arcana, but CoX is, in fact, now trying to offer as part of its revamp things that have been in CO for a while, in many cases. This is not necessarily a bad thing- unless the prices are way out of line with both perceived value and what the competition offers (assuming an otherwise level playing field between games, which is not nec. the case.) Which you did not, truthfully, address.

Take an absurdist example of this one price:

5 new character slots= $20

each of which, as you point out, allow you 5 sots total.

You could, if you chose, and felt you REALLLLY needed that many stumes for a single charconcept buy the slots, roll 5 versions of the char with modified name, and unlock 25 stumeslots for $20.

As opposed to rolling one char, and buying another 5 slots, for a maximum of 10- for $50.

More time involved in the first method, yes. And I'm not for a moment suggesting anyone might actually want to DO this- just that one *could*. And save a large chunk of change.

This is not sensible pricing, to my mind. Especially given that we can now save and load stumes, and Inf is reasonably easy to come by, this price (which, yes I know 'may be changed') lifts this from the realm of 'impulsegottagetNOW'. To 'maybe when my VIP points stack up' or even 'never.'

In other words, rather than having a subscriber (speaking personally) spending yet more money in small amounts, they may very well end up with a subscriber who never pays another penny beyond the monthly sub- rather self defeating, given the energy they're putting into the whole cash store project. Will they make it up on purchases from Premium players etc? Maybe. Unless those players, as well, look at the prices and call BS.

As always, YMMV.

Quite right, my bad. I've been revisiting that other game and trying to figure out if I love it more than hate it.

And yes, we are, in dribs and drabs, getting some of what we've asked for. Can't argue with that- only with the method of delivery.

Not totally correct. Praetoria, the engine upgrades, and the ENTIRE endgame system require an addon purchase. Don't buy GR, wave byebye to the Incarnate system and all the pretty shinies. Now, this is not unusual in MMOs, but let's not dive off the apologia high board.

I'm not QUITE as PO'd as Noble Fox about this, but, consider: We have a huge thread dedicated to 'like to sees' for costumes. Apparently we're doing the creative work for the art people, and then having it sold back to us. New back pieces? Asked for for years. Dresses? Asked for for years (and IIRC, it was originally said that, like full robes, would never happen due to clipping issues, as if those don't already exist.)

Given that sex and body changes are still only available via the Science booster, I'm not holding my breath that, if enough folks buy this one, the new facial upgrades won't be locked in the same way.

I then consider some of the apallingly boneheaded design choices made in the Animal and Mutant pack- female fur and Bioarmor boots ONLY with heels? Sure, that's natural looking. (at least they DID finally fix the fur one after endless playerbase screaming). I see no reason to believe there won't be similar issues with this booster. So, you're paying for stuff that looks cool that you then doscover that, due to a lack of thought, doesn't really work as you intended. Or, in some cases, for a single power, such as Beast run.

Add in still incomplete or shabby pre-existing sets (metal, anyone?), which will in all likelihood NEVER be upgraded or fixed.

It really is starting to feel like Cryptic want it both ways- a pay-to-play model PLUS an F2P megashop for anything but the bare bones. For those who don't mind that, cool, enjoy it in good health; for a long time I felt the same, and was guilty of feeding the milking machine. Now, it's starting to grate.

Have we gotten new stuff for free, in terms of systems and powers? Yes. But I fear for the future of the game with all the endless MTs.