Discussion: Featured Items at the Paragon Market - 2/28/12

I did follow it on beta but, I stopped following it, when two things happened, A) she said the /w skin option had to have a gold trim (for some unknown, illogical reason), and then B) when it came out, it had a gold trim (and that ruins the piece), For no reason other than the fact that you guys thought it was a good idea, I guess. Even though you guys know that we pretty much universally hate pre-tinted pieces, at best we try to ignore it, at worst we raise cain here. (you guys need to just break down and add a tertiary [3rd] color, dc has it, but it would work better here the way you guys do the costumes). And unless you plan to make another addition to what is on beta already, then no, you do not plan to fix it. Those pieces on beta seem to still have that gold tinted trim, and you guys seem not to be working on another 2 toned version, or that is what we were told on beta, unless that changed.
Also I am not really looking on live, only beta, since I won't spend the points on it when so few of those many pieces are usable to me even on the beta-version of the set, but looked enough to know that many pieces were still missing. Maybe I will buy them IF they ever get finished (beyond what is on beta right now), but in the meantime I will save my points for the 2 classes coming out.

I also just noticed that the splash screen for this, the logo, the title, whatever you want to call it, has a spear on it (Imperial <spear> Dynasty), I also find this in poor tastes since we asked you for a spear, you shouldn't have needed to be asked about it, considering you were putting out the staff set just before it (on beta, just after it on live), including a staff in this set should have just been a given. Taking all that into consideration, using a spear in the graphic was mildly offensive. Even more offensive than that sword not being avbl in TW. When a new costume set fits a new power set that you just put out, they really ought to work together, it would really encourage people to get them both. Not doing so smacks of either not thinking things through, or teams not working together. Either way it makes you guys look bad, and annoys us, the paying consumers.

And I wish you guys would use a dictionary, there is a reason PRIMARY is usually the main color on a piece. using the 2nd for the main color of a piece is bad, and not representative of the words Primary and Secondary, and throws off the color sets we are using for our outfits. (my other dictionary issues are for other topics, like the "flying" disk, long hair, and so on, so I will leave that out, but please double check to make sure the words you are using mean what you think they mean, Inconceivable!).

And I for one would have rather waited till the set was done before it goes live, but then I have a work ethic and like my work to be completed before it gets an official release. I'm funny that way. Showing off early is what Beta is for after all. This whole deal just stinks of being rushed, and therefor poorly done.

Oh well, I am done talking to the brick wall, I just wanted to make sure it didn't think I was talking only about live, and I had to mention the spear, that's just offensive to those of us who wanted to use it for the new staff class. That armor just screams Pole Arm! I just can't believe that you guys didn't think of that. It's a given.

...But I guess we didn't make enough puns to be heard. too bad staff wasn't out yet, even thought it does seem ready, then I could have been the failed guy, Paul Arm. Is that bad enough? How about Impaled Dynasty? or Chop Sticks?
Ah if only it had been an option when I made Stix n Stonz, could have been a stone brute... not that doms aren't fun too.

Sorry yes, that is what was confusing me.
The offer on the bottom-right of the email is portrayed as if it is a limited-time offer, whereas the reality of it is the points are always 20% off as a bulk offer.

Its just the presentation that is designed to make you think you are likely to get more points over any other time if you take advantage of and click on the promotional email.

I can't.

Honestly, this is silly. It feels like they're taking shortcuts, if that's how they're going to release things from now on, I'm walking away. It's not how they used to be - then again, they also "used to" not have a Paragon Market.

(What brought me here, really, was the ridiculous setup of the female ID top. Looks like it's a "with skin" piece... but isn't... but "is," with the skin color preset, so it looks ridiculous on anything not "pasty white-ish skinned." Not something you can tell from the screenshots. Boooo. Yes, I hope this is one of the things getting fixed - but I'm very disappointed. That's worse than "pretinting" like we have on Celestial. Guys - *stop rushing things.*)

I guess I just don't see this as "taking shortcuts" the same way you do.

The Devs decided to apply some updates to the costume set, but instead of adding those updates to the old Issue 21 build they decided to add them to the upcoming Issue 22 build. Seems like a straightforward software engineering decision to me, especially considering that Issue 22 will be live a mere 4 days from now. The fact that a new Issue was launching right now made this a fairly unique situation.

I'm sorry if this is upsetting to you, but frankly I think we'll all get through this time of crisis well enough. *shrugs*

Rather than this:
Why? It is because I got a sure thing with what I bought.

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I'm sure you think there's some logic to your reasoning there, but I'm not seeing it.

We'll release a product we've already done improvements on without those improvements, all because releasing an unimproved product a week early will guarantee us more $$$! Yea that works.

There's only one reason why it's released now, and the updates later: a fixed release schedule. Nothing more nefarious than that.