rsclark

You can. Wait 3 years-the credit time they give you.

It isn't. Nothing is taken away from you. There are now more options and a different system to get it. There is even another new currency. You lose nothing and get a very significant jump start on the new stuff. They have to wait 3 years and you don't.

Your complaint sounds suspiciously like the people who complained about CoV becoming included in the base game after they had to pay for it.

No one is saying that everyone who has been paying for 3 years jumps to tier 9. What they are saying is that anyone who starts paying today will be at tier 9 in 3 years. The people who have been subscribing longer get a jump start on that 3 years depending on how long they have been subscribed.

But the jumpstart is LESS than the actual time you have been subscribed. If you've been here for 5 years, maybe they knock 2 years off that 3 year requirement. and you only have to wait 1 year to get to tier 9.

The time you have been subscribed in the past is worth less than the time you are subscribed once the new system goes live. But the good thing is you don't have to pick one or the other. Your future (full credit) subscription time will simply add onto your past (partial credit) time.

But it does mean that new players will be able to get to t9 while being subscribed for less total time than someone who has been here all along. That's the whole point. They don't want to put the highest rewards out of reach of new people. Doing that is a disincentive to start the game at all if you know you are coming in at an insurmountable disadvantage compared to everyone already in the game. They made that advantage surmountable - you can effectively "catch up".

It is an easy experiment to do. Tell a member of the opposite sex at a party how many hours per week you spend playing. If they don't wince and move away as quickly as possible, then you are casual. Bonus casual points if you need to deal in larger periods of time that "per week".

Well, that is your choice. You may enjoy replaying content, but I don't. I simply object to the assumption that we have all been grinding all along when that is not actually a true statement.

Having a larger business is only beneficial if you make more money by doing it.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating. I have no t4 incarnate abilities besides alpha. I have unlocked all 5 slots for only 1 character, and have more than 1 slot on only 3 characters. I started playing in Beta, and have over 60 months subscribed time.

Even saying all of that, I have run Lambda and BAF more times than any other content in this game - by a very wide margin. I haven't been grinding anything for years, because it has never been required before.

Presumably he assumed people would have basic knowledge about the game.

I've seen FA brutes burn down everything coming out of a door during that stage and be ready for every group that pops, but I have not seen blasters ready to do that with every spawn. Maybe a fire/reactive could have RoF ready for every one, but that would still just put them equal to what brutes and scrappers are able to also do.

That post above was made about damage being everything once you have enough survivability, but the BAF prisoner phase demonstrates quite well a situation where you also hit sufficient damage easily enough and more doesn't do anything.

Blasters may excel in their ability to kill runners that get away from multiple doors, but there is no reason to herd doors since they all pop out standing right where you expect them to. I don't even know why you mention herding when you don't need it at all for any AT during the stage. Maybe blasters excel when the league is doing choke points, but I see so few leagues doing choke points compared to doors, that it seems a moot point.

Come on now. At least once every 10 or 12 missions there's that one pesky glowey that you need to turn on the sound briefly to find.

Of course, the other 99.9% of the game it's better to play without the constant 300 decibel ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZPTTTPTTTPTTTZZZZZZZARRRAAAAAA AAZZZPTTPTTTPTTZZZZZZ, but you can't ignore those tiny moments where the sound serves some useful purpose.

That leaves a huge, gaping hole for no good reason. Either forced solo or forced dozen people. There is no reason you could not have what you are suggesting, but allow it for small groups.

Some people believe the lack of forced grouping was a strong point of the game and by changing that they narrow the appeal. The question is which change involves the larger number of people. Also, and I think more important than straight numbers, is the question of competition. If you try to appeal to the non-raiding crowd, then you're pretty much unchallenged. If you are just another raid game, then you have an elephant in the room to contend with.

Lastly, the fact that there is more raid content is a separate question to whether or not the raid content they do have is made the only path to advancement. Unless there is a huge contingent of people who not only want raid content, but also want other people forced into that raid content, then having other options doesn't exclude those people at all. And if they do feel that way, they are jerks.

And we pay them to play, so we get to complain about the choices we do not agree with.

I wouldn't want to run ITF 30 times on any character either.

Absolutely. Blasters make a wonderful 10th member of your 8-man team.

So? How does that invalidate anything he said? Playing from level 30 to 50 does not invalidate the 1-30 game, but if you suddenly needed 20 people to advance past 30, there would be outrage.

He addressed exactly what you said in this post, but you ignored it.

Where would a noob even see the words "training room". It does not appear on the server list unless you are feeding the launcher special command line parameters. It's like complaining there were no warning signs posted in a dangerous area after you climbed a fence and picked a lock to get in.

I don't know about "far fetched", but it's certainly less likely than the alternative.