buying powers?!

I'm guessing we should be saving our points for when Titan weapons land...at 800pts thats like two months of points we better have saved...or wait two more months after its launched to get it for pay--opps free! It might be nice if they could let us know some general time lines other than soon/when its ready so we can plan on saving for the new sets and or if they will be free or points needed!

In short:
The devs are producing more stuff than before.

Stuff costs money to produce.

So if you want that stuff you'll have to pay more than before.

Bonus: you can choose to pay exactly the same as before and get, more or less (probably slightly more), what you got before.

As noted in multiple threads on this topic: How fast did you receive new powersets before? What choices did you have or did you take whatever was released at a given time?

The fact that your free points don't cover them all *up front, right now* is meaningless. If the monthly stipend will allow you to get at least as much *over a full year* as you did on average before the store, then you are getting at least the same value.

The value may be even higher just considering that more sets are being produced now than previously and you can pick and choose what to spend your free points on rather than just taking what is handed out with an update. If you don't want a given powerset, don't spend your stipend of points on it. Wait for one you do like.

You never have to buy a power with real money. If you wait and save points you can get them. This is not much different than waiting for game updates/expansions under the previous system, which were months apart.

It's all a dying games last grasp for anything that might give it another day. The OP has an opinion. Mine, I can see both sides. I've bought a ton of points on more than one account. I did 'cause i truely enjoy this game and it's a way of suporting it. I still see this "Freedom" release for what it is... shaking the players for every dime they can get. It's hard to see the gold farmers from the Game Developers as of late. And I know lots of you have a negative view of Gold Farmers and people who buy infl.

Yes it's a business. And sure praise that if you want. However, it good to acknowledge the fact that if more and more players feel like they are being "taken advantage of" then the numbers WILL drop. When the player base drops and the money stops coming in... the game will go away. And the more obvious these high pressure sales are.. the more people will shy away from the game. If the whole thing could be less in our faces then I think people would have less resistance to the business model. And YES, one way to do that would be making VIPs pay monthly for the whole package.

Alot of this game's player base is very loyal. We defend the game and support it even when they make REALLY big mistakes. When they turn a blind eye to PvP, when they nerf our favorite powers, and even when they overmarket new content to us. We play their game because it's our game. Like I said, I've bought alot of points, enough to know they have a point limit per month. So for all of you who posted defending the games new marketing... Right on! Support the game. To the OP... I feel ya.