rian_frostdrake

boob joke.

why would a reptile have breasts?

the sad thing is, now i'm wondering how close you can approximate that look ingame. not even as an alt, but when i see different outfits, i feel compelled to see how close i can come to them ingame. not sure about the top, and the skirt wouldnt have the buttons and pockets, but the shoulders look familiar.

Well, that is nice. one thing i am wondering, re:the tails. i remember a while ago, babs twittered about seperating tails from belts, would that be coming as one of th qol improvements? also, given the old rule about the number of animated objects, will tails preclude wings? finally, can we finally get tails with robes?

I will go out on a limb, and say i think there may be something that isnt a powerset but additional advancement options for the continuing after 50 stuff. not sure what, but i just have a feeling that there might be more to thatt han we can reallyd escribe under the current power setup.

dude, its 15 bucks(at max valuation, i haven't paid that much for a month in years) that is about how much i earn on break in a day. perceived value is what it is, I can play two powersets months before the expansion comes out, if that is worth the "15 dollar " difference, then there you go, if not, then you can wait and get the boxed set. It isnt greedy, and it isnt squeezing anyone, it is offering a unique option ahead of time, period.

You know, im weird, this long and i never played a mastermind past level 10, no reason, they seem fun, but i just never did, but i have leveled numerous dominators, i love them .

well, yeah, we knew that you would be upset about it, i doubt anyone is surprised there, but i mean the rest of us. We cant make the buy yet, and have no reason to conclude that between now and that date that no new information will be released, in fact one would have to have a major chip on one's shoulder to make such a inference. that said, its an expansion, and given the number of "vested" players that this game has, a sale is kind of a foregone conclusion if you are a 5 year or so vet, copious net-complaining or not, if you have been here that long, you are likely going to go with the flow, because otherwise you will be playing the game with a portion of content missing relative to the other players.

now as for the cash grab, perdition to felines notwitstanding, curiosity compels me, what does that mean to you? Paragon studios is a company, so producing products for money is kind of their reason for being, the seeming bone of contention is a cost that varies between 10-15 dollars, depending on your subscription plan, which one can forfiet for the right to play a new power set months before anyone else can, and really before any of us could have expected to, prior to the announcement. so what is the grab here? anyone who wants can wait and get the pack later and get the extra month(outside of the real issue with non-us players for whom i do hope somethign is worked out), but outside of expecting a transaction of money for goods, what is the cash grab, i'm just not seeing it. Im seeing a slightly convoluted but standard method of sales here, with an added bonus for people willing to put down the cash early, something fairly common in mmos.

this is why im bringing a robotics mastermind over, no ambiguity.

ok, having gotten some sleep, this method is a little confusing to some, but I think some people are getting hung up on the free month being 15 dollars, lets remember that that only is if you are on a monthly billing structure, the value for people on longer set-ups will be less, and I suspect that people who are invested enough in the game to prepurchase months ahead of the actual relwease, well , i suspect that a healthy portion of those players already are on the longer billing cycles, in fact i suspect that a good number are just now running down their holdiay deals, and may have, like myself, already signed on for the deal offered last summer, so for a lot of us, the free month would be 10 dollars or slightly above. It is still money, and if the ultimate pack costs more than 10 bucks i will be raising heck up in harlem, but it looks less dumb than it did last night, it still appears to be confusing to a number of people though..

ok, honestly, this is convoluted beyond necessity. It also , for lack of a better word, kind of stupid. I REALLY hope that they dont charge above 9.99 for the pack, that would be initial vibora bay announcement level bad. beyond that, it isnt ideal, but i am getting it, I will pre-purchase and if the pack is more than 10 buck, then i will complain loudly, but will still get it.

I will give them credit with the earlya ccess powerset thing. essentially that turns players into ingame billboards for other players. Player a prepurchases and teams with player b, who was vacillating between purchase of the expansion and doesnt muck about with the test server. player a has the new shineys and player b gets essentially a gr commercial throughout his teaming experience. player b buys the expansion, and paragon didnt really need to do anything, not unclever(unlike the method of delivery)

I think the pvp situation is more about the population than mechanics. there will always be a dedicated group, but in general The population was built on pve, and the larger population never really will care, no matter what happens. I doubt side switching will help that. Hopefully, however, the ability to play both sides will help the population redside though.

So far none of my defenders have fitness, and i attack a lot. so that is a emp/elec/elec level 50, a rad/rad at level 41, and i have 2 coming up, a dark/dark and cold/sonic, but they a e only at early 20s so i cant speak on that, the dark might not make it, toggles tend to make me more likely to take fitness. oddly i find controllers a to harder to go stamina-less, my ice/storm demanded fitness.

plus, has there been other news? we discussed what has been put out, its nice, but there will be more, and we can react then.