shazan

If you actually read what I said, it said to try again, so maybe you could try not being so condescending.

Of course it would have been better if they released it with a system that worked in the first place.

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Im sure it is when your charging players two or three times for one addon pack :P

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Or blame yourself? Specialy those triggerhappy keepclicking people (friend of mine same story), i purchased the pack on 3 accounts and all done without issues. (with a timeout, just await the payment email, all set).

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Wouldnt blame people for a sh1tty system. When it comes up "Error processing - please try again" or such like, you do what it says on the tin, so whoopie doo for you but dont go criticising people when it actually is not their fault.

I must admit, I am actually enjoying it more than I thought I would. I had zero interest in it prior to launch, but I do quite like it....

but......

....the ratings system is exactly what most people foresaw. I will rate missions highly if either the baddies are well made and different, or the humour or story makes me smile or interested. I rate lowly if someone has just stuck a load of freaks or capos on a boat.

Yet, it seems lots of people are rating farming missions or friends missions highly, even the Devs choice one I tried pretty much sucked.

The other problem, is that unless you have tons of friends and an advertising campaign to rival Microsoft, your missions wont even get played as they get lost in the tide of endless stuff out there, as said b4, a lot of which is total dross.

It does need a way to filter out the rubbish and the ratings system is not it sadly.

TBH I really dont see why it is taking so long. It really is a quick simple thing to check and refund. Even at 10 minutes each, staff could do 40 odd in a work day and thats only if it takes that long.

I know they probably have tons of support tickets after yesterday, but still heard nothing about the overcharging. Considering some folk cannot afford to just have money vanish like this and it could affect other things, surely, someone should have just sat there today wading through them and refunding. Its not that hard, I used to do it.

I just wish everyone would stop using the bloody ships.

Last night I picked 4 on the trot that were all inside ships.

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It's making more money than most of thier games. Afaik only GW and Linege II make more, and then its not that much more.

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Of course it is, they charge everyone 2 or 3 times for it

I actually hated the idea of the MA, and it did not interest me at all, but I must admit, I have returned after a few week break and am enjoying it.

One thing though, I dont see why a team cant all join in a mission without having to be in RWZ if they are different. Surely, being in an MA building should be enough.

Oh, and that there are so many missions that getting your mission even played is a nightmare unless you have loads of friends ingame, what if all ur sg has left?

Well have just found that they charged me 3 times for one. Have contacted support. Hopefully they will do a refund, if not isnt that obtaining money by false pretences? otherwise known as fraud?

The site is really badly done. It is soooo slow, and there cant be that many people on it. Mind you, the new EU site has always been slower than the US one for some reason.

Just cant get into the shop.

Well, got one apparently, tried to apply code and it says it has been used, lol

Gonna check game now, hoping it means by me.

Got 2 errors giving up

They look quite cool, though it is a shame that we only seem to get new cossies by paying now.

Plus depending on how it works, I can see the fortune teller power being a pain.

You get enough idiots at Wentys/BM now, without some pillock debuffing you just before you go into Cimerora or something.

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Suuure the new kittie, bunnie, clown villains

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Not to mention pirates and ninjas. But I expect that silliness to die down rather quickly You can do serious and original things with MA, both on foozle-slaying and storytelling level, people just need the time to learn. (and no, beta wasn't enough, - manyy people couldn't or wouldn't participate.) Look at, say, the base creator, - people learned to use it in very imaginative ways nowadays, but I bet early bases weren nowhere near those superdesiugns we have now.

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The problem is though, 3, you have to be into doing stuff like that. I can be pretty creative when I want, but I really cant be bothered to do all the bits required as I like to log on and play, not do the equivalent of a 3 year college course

Even if it was the case, surely they could do their own version of something like it anyway.

I like the way the ones I use in other games take automatic pictures when you hit certain levels etc. Would be cool as have only once got a picture of one of my alts when it hit 50.

Its a shame as City Vault would have made me more interested for a while. I dont see why they cant do it, as EQ2, Vanguard etc etc all have them.

It would be great not to have to have add on programmes like Titan to track your badges etc, and just to see your characters on their own pages or something, though this should have been something they had from the start.

I know the feeling. I havent logged into the game for weeks now as I really cant be arsed due to boredom, and MA has done nothing to alleviate that.

At the same time I keep my subs going just in case something good happens to the game between now and Champions or Earthrise, but I dont hold out too much hope as there is probably going to ba ages until I15 and even then, I am not sure I believe the "great things on their way" speeches anymore.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to the webpage thingie (cant remember the name) where they would show all your characters etc? Lots of other games have them, why not this one? Something like this that showed your characters badges would be cool and a lot more interesting than the MA rubbish.

I still reckon NC will go down the Sony route to get folk playing all their games and have a fee to cover entry to them all. That would also make the NC launcher worth even bothering with.

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Remember, Its your UK statuatory redundancy rights to pinch absolutely everything thats left lying around and not nailed down....

...which isn't going to be much considering the recent decimation at Mocatta House.

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Yeah Go on GR...........do a Jaqui Smith

Thanks folks

Have taken all under advisement. Decided to watch films and the TV series boxsets I havent got round to watching as I was playing this.

Plus I have a cupboard full of older games, like NWN2 etc I may dig out.

At the moment, no matter how I try, I am going through a bored phase with CoH.

I know some great people and we do fun things like TFs etc, but I just find I am totally bored. The MA is not my thing, but as they said the MA wasnt the only thing in I14, I still held out, but its looking like they fibbed yet again.

With all the competition coming, you would have thought the devs would do more to keep people, and yet instead they seem intent on fixing things that dont need it, such as
pet buffing and leaving things like the /sync bug that happens so often we have to bind it.

Champions is looking a lot rosier lately as are the Sci Fi games like Earthrise.

Dont get me wrong, I love this game but I am just finding it tedious at the moment and was wondering how you guys vary it so you dont get bored?

Or maybe they are just on the ball and realise that lots of folk are getting bored especially in the wake of loads of "you will love the things to come" comments which appear to refer to the year 2050.

Or just play this until something new comes along.

Its simple but damn addictive, lol

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Hey muddy, looking forward to see what you've created. Might make ME stick around for I15.

I'm just afraid we'll all hang around MA, running off for occational ITFs unless we get new powersets in I15. And by new, I mean totally new mind-numbingly amazing and fun, not just more 'proliferation' stuff.

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I must admit, the MA does not float my boat either, so I am hoping that I15 has something incredible to add to the game, especially as I am going through a really bored phase at the moment.

If it doesnt then I must admit that Champions is getting more appealing with each bit of info.

I just wish NC would at least tease us with cold hard stuff instead of "things are coming" or "incredible things to come with I20"

So basically the short answer is No