Converters only through Reward Merits in last patch (Mar 20)

I do get the frustration of folks who have a large bank of Astral or Empyrean merits and can't yet spend them on this, but as long as it comes along in the next few weeks, I have hard time being angry about it.

I'm fairly cynical, but I am not sure it follows that this is a ploy to get people to buy Super Packs for merits to fuel these conversions with. Could it be? Yeah. But if you don't want to do that, just wait. Why wait?

(1) If you wanted to do this to make in-game Inf on the market, so does everyone and their dog's fleas. You probably won't make what you were hoping to, because prices are diving.
(2) If you wanted to do this because you wanted access to things that were wildly expensive by your standards, prices are diving. Try to buy them outright and skip converting for now.

Prices will likely rise after the initial glut caused by tons of people doing the same thing at the same time. Over time, this crescendo of conversions will become a background hum. The bargain prices will rise to some higher level (still lower than before) and it will become less attractive to buy and more attractive to sell than it will for the next week or so.

I apologize if it was not abundantly clear from my wording, but I was saying "the people who have points and want to spend them to obtain converters".

So, obtaining them with other kinds of merits (and, for that matter, with RMs from things other than super packs) would be for the people who want converters, but don't want to spend points to obtain them.

This is a known issue (we'll be updating the known issue list shortly with this and a few other things) and is currently slated to be addressed in the next patch.

Thanks!

Thanks for the heads-up, Zwil. Freaky bug, but good to have word that it wasn't intentional (for nefarious reasons or not ).

Just an added update: I just got 3 of these as drops in a lvl 50 missions with lvl 52 mobs, set at 2/8. Obviously, not something to base it all on, but a small starting point.

The assumptions people were making were EXTREMELY well founded when they are based directly on the devs communication to us. Look at this post from Positron on this issue. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...35#post4022035

He is not indicating in ANYWAY that there would be some piecemeal releasing of the methods used to obtain these things. He is also going out of his way to say it will be balanced and NOT unfair to certain groups which was the entire purpose of his thread since they put their foot in it the first time around.

The way he presents it is like an entire feature to have them available for purchase via various methods. They should NOT have released them for purchase only for RM's which like it or not favors the people that bought Supergamble packs and/or have a strategy of hoarding RM's leaving people that hoard AM's, EM's and HM's "for the same purpose" in the cold.

And before someone points out the subject to change part please don't. The reality is if they had planned on releasing them piecemeal as a strategy that changed that would in fact be defeating the ENTIRE flow of what he was addressing in the post in the first place which was equality of ways to purchase them.