kusanagi

Last I heard they were working on remaking the entire thing in HTML5.

Now imagine that you're one of the roughly 90% of the players of this game who never frequents the forums or the test server and has no idea this change is going to occur until one day you log in and see you're being forced to respec every character you have before you're allowed to play them.

Thing is, currently everything else in the store that gives a definitive edge to your characters' combat capabilities isn't anything that you couldn't also get in the regular game simply by playing it more.
XP boosters let you level up faster -- but everyone gets to level 50 eventually.

Buying entire purple IO sets in the paragon store is more convenient than hoping for drops, grinding for merits or gaming the auction house to accrue a billion inf -- but with enough work, you can get them without paying real money.

You can't buy the extra salvage/enhancement/recipe/auction storage expansions, but that just means you have to spend a little more time cleaning them out and deciding what you do or don't want to hold on to, it doesn't really change your combat effectiveness any more than a bigger bladder capacity would.

Ninja Run and Beast Run are 20% cooler than boring ol' sprint, and in a particularly tight build can even let you skip spending a power pick on a travel power if you really want, but craftable jetpack temp powers are ten inf a dozen.

Enhancement Boosters and Catalysts both drop as regular drops. Very occasionally, but they do drop.

This, on the other hand, would add a definite combat edge and wouldn't be available any other way.

And ESPECIALLY if the person that had it isn't here anymore.

Can you imagine the kind of acrimony they'd get into if Emmert saw a 'skills' system being put in here and decided that it looked sufficiently like "his" idea that he'd have some kind of claim on it?

The day this game even moves in the direction of open-world PVP is the day I'll cancel my VIP subscription.

The fact that players can and will cheerfully spend an entire evening just fiddling with purely cosmetic aspects of their characters says a whole lot about the quality of the costume creator.

Combining magic and science quite often is the reason said mad science subsequently goes wrong.

Especially when the Freakshow is somehow involved.

The reasons he isn't are myriad but mainly have to do with his extremely dodgy approach to science and his habit of threatening to sue anyone who questions his status as the unsung and oppressed greatest medical hero of this generation.

... That probably sounded better in your head.


But yeah, his defense method would be some kind of improvised-from-moment-to-moment madcap dash and scramble to make Benny Hill green with envy, barely batting aside one strike, a panicked duck taking him just out of reach of the follow up, rolling off the side of one of those platforms for a split second's cover to avoid the blast, dodging a spider arm strike that leaves the appendage embedded in the ground just long enough to gain a precious two seconds' worth of breathing room to yell at the rest of the team to hurry up and disable those things before-YIKE! and back to the dance...

Translation: "Everyone who is against my super awesome idea obviously doesn't understand what I'm talking about, so I'll just reiterate my points for the ignorant."

Do yourself a favor, and never EVER try to start a defense of a proposal with that sentence again. And by all that's holy, don't turn the defense into an attack on the most vocal critics.

We understand what you have in mind just fine. We just honestly think it's a horrible idea. A well intentioned idea, certainly, but still a horribly bad one.

It doesn't matter how often you insist that this isn't politics. Human nature dictates that it will devolve into politics roughly five seconds after the first "board" is seated and someone who felt entitled to a seat realizes they didn't get one.

... And this is a problem why exactly?