I am getting fed up with the market in so many ways

Booze and ****** bots? (That would work better if my Bender avatar would display but I REFUSE to rehost it elsewhere just because this forum software can't handle a ~ in the location.)

Sadly, that highly entertaining thread is no longer accessible.

I figured it wouldn't survive monday morning and took a screenshot for posterity. =D

Dang I missed it ... now I'll die wondering.

It was just Jack or one of his minions incoherently ranting about our game and how CO is better.

People also don't throw fireballs, there isn't a giant blue overall wearing ghost stampeding around docks smashing people in the face with a sledge, very few men can throw bolts of electricity, and you can't simply walk into Mordor.

It's a fictional universe where crazy **** happens all the time, why couldn't they poof around? In the world of comic books, or whatever, anything is possible as long as the writer wants to...."Make it so."

While I really don't care one way or the other, I have to say the game doesn't really support this interpretation.

For one thing, many enhancements (IO or not) pretty clearly represent intangible things. Take a look at Natural Origin SOs for example - quite a lot of them represent training or a technique. Those aren't very tangible unless you assume that the SO is book or something, and then what would slotting it mean? What would deleting it from you mean? Beyond SOs, quite a few enhancements of all sorts are fairly abstract. How do you carry around an Armageddon? How do you attach it to your person?

Additionally, the game does have precedent for things "poofing around" over cell phones. Quite a few canon story arcs have you interact with your contact over the cell phone as if you were right in front of them. This ranges from them asking you to show them something, ti you giving them something for them to analyze, or (more recently) them actually giving you material things over the phone. Consider the hero-side arc for entering the Midnight Club, in which you are actually given salvage to create the Lost Curing Wand... over the phone. And let's not forget that your cell phone can call your contacts from such places as other dimensions (the Shadow Shard) and the distant past (Cimerora).

All this requires a decent dose of willing suspension of disbelief to overlook or explain away. While I have no particular opinion on letting us access the market from all over the place, I don't think it's out of line with the above examples. I do agree with PeterPeter that the devs probably prefer it the way it is. It's a combination of a minor time sink and a wee bit of immersive interaction, and both are probably viewed favorably.