Answering some Freedom Questions

This can't be emphasized enough.

CoH Freedom isn't some random branch off where the developers are changing their priorities and moving towards a different direction. The path isn't changing its destination... it's just having a few more lanes opened so traffic can flow better.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

So as A VIP I will never have to deal with the vet tier stuff at all? If thats so then fantastic. If I have to touch it even for a sec I'm not interested. As I understand everything I have read on this we ALL will have to have vet rewards wiped out and rerolled through this system, and that is what I object too. I was more then happy with what I had and want NOTHING more then what I EARNED as a long time subscriber to this proven system. That was the purpose of my statement. But I'll admit No one knows for sure till they actually do it. I concede that. I pay a yearly subscription and I will not have to renew till sometime in December. So for me I just do not want to have to deal with a bunch of nasty rerolling when I should not have too. I paid for every booster no matter how lame, and every expansion they offered. If all the sudden all that is just credited and have to be rerolled on the account instead of automatically accounted for and applied for those that have done what THEY asked of us all a long in supporting them, well then thats a DISSERVICE to us. That is my opinion. We will see come next month when this rolls out. I truly hope I am 100% wrong and can log in and everything will continue to be as it always has been after this whatever transition it will be.

That's a shame, because you're going to have to at some point.


Not exactly. They aren't revoking previously claimed rewards.


Its an opinion about a hypothetical that no one is suggesting will happen.

Incarnate powers have fixed recharge. You can't speed them up with recharge buffs.

Good thing you have absolutely no way of knowing if it's true.

Currently, no content is gated behind Paragon Points, since they don't exist.
Currently, by paying your subscription (and we'll assume you shelled out for going rogue), you get most of the content that Paragon Studios puts out, at no extra cost, beyond the money you pay for your subscription. (I say 'most' because of the existence of the booster packs.)

When CoH:F goes live, some of the new content that's produced from then on will be locked behind Paragon Points. As a VIP player, you get 400 PP per month. You don't know how much content is going to be released, or how much of it will be unlocked by PP.

But the fact of the matter is that they could price it such that, on a regular basis, you'd have to pay more money to unlock regular game content that previously might have come with your regular subscription instead.

Paragon Studios has the option to make immediate access to 100% of its new content more expensive, even to VIP players. Currently for such access you need to: pay a subscription, buy every booster as it comes out, and buy every expansion. What if they release the same amount of new content as before, and price it at, say, 10,000 paragon points every two months?

Don't be fooled into thinking it's a gift, because right now, it's too early to tell.

Incidentally, I'm sure they're very grateful for your tireless defense of them on the forums. Personally, I like to be paid if I'm doing marketing work and damage control for a company...



On another note, why can't I pay for Incarnate content the same way a Premium player would pay to unlock MMs or Controllers?
What if a player doesn't have any particular interest in masterminds or controllers, or any of the other stuff that comes with a VIP subscription, save for Incarnate content?
Oh right, they have to shell out the full subscription cost of $15/mo just to access that incredibly narrow part of the game. Pay2win, indeed.