Anything new in the market this Tuesday?

That would totally destroy the game. Who'd go off and be a superhero or supervillain if they had common sense? What's needed is a love of flashy outfits, explosions, unnecessarily complicated plans, and the firm belief that violence can solve all problems.

/This and the post with missing the sweet point

To add in something else:
F2P or Pay4Gain is something where you have to be careful to not f... up with your customers (sry for my bad english in advance).
I am paying for 2 and sometimes 3 VIP accounts, bought much much from the P-Store. And I am fine with it. It is my hobby.
After a break from CoH (where my mainaccount was still charged) i played Hellgate Global, the F2P version. Even there I payed for things from the store, until the point, where the only communication we got from the devs were the weekly storechanges, but bugs were not treated as it should. So, seeing that the devs have given up that game, i only felt like a cash cow that had to be milked.
Ok, I lost interest- and at that point CoH Freedom was released, i came back to CoH and was seeing that a Cashshop was implemented. Ok I thought, let's see how their shop is made, and i was fully happy, as I had the feeling that it is mostly fair, CoH was in a much better shape than ever (looking back to EU Beta), the devs seemed to react on wishes.
Really thanks for it. Well, of course, paragon is not a charity-institution, but a company that works for money. ANd of course that is ok. If it's not for money the devs wouldn't sit in their offices for hours and hours.
But, you as a company have to give the customer a good feeling. That is what the customer is after. Cash for good feeling. I totally lose that good feeling when i am treated as a cash cow. Or better said: when I get the feeling that i am treated as a cash cow. And that was the problem with Staff fighting. I see their side of the medal, but hey, i see mine.
No, I won't ragequit or somehting like that, but my good feeling is fading away when i see that a carotte was hung in front of my nose, only to be able to eat that carotte after I ate many tomatoes because of marketing strategies.

Visualize following: A man goes to a certain establishment to get a good feeling, he knows it is a lie, the other side doens't want him to actually feel good, they want him to pay. And they know that he will only pay again when he got a good feeling.

Here the devs made a poor job. They gave us too much insight to their selling strategy.
For me personally, i will not buy the set when it comes out, because i have 10 other projects on chars before of that, i simply lost my interest, and am little disappointed by the selling strategy.
At all, i wish the devs learn from that, because i simply love that game, and don't want that customers leave because of such customer-unfriendly decisions.

Again, sry for my bad english.
Btw... Zwillinger has twins... Zwilling is german for twin. Is that releated? ;P

Odds are they will need to have a patch update for the new powerset to be available next Tuesday. I wouldn't recommend staying up late for it.

Previous powerset releases have gone up at midnight (which, yes, implies they were patched in at an earlier date). Unless there are some suddenly critical last-minute changes to Staff, I would indeed expect it to up at midnight.

This week's patch didn't feel like 140 MBs worth of stuff, my guess is it's there, the power help certainly is, try typing [guarded spin] in the live game.

Here's your token counterexample. I play almost every day (even if it's just a quick OuroHeather for a component). When I22 came out, I wanted to roll a staff stalker. Staff wasn't out yet, no worries. I'd rather they get it right than rush it out. Then I read about the glory of Street Justice on stalkers so I made one of those instead. Cue a slow wane in interest about Staff Fighting; I made the character I had intended to use Staff Fighting with, so meh to Staff Fighting.

Then I find out that staff has apparently been in marketing limbo rather than technical limbo and to celebrate its impending arrival they effectively hose me out of 1600 Paragon Points. (I bought 20 slots when they were on sale at 25% off since "who knows when they'll go on sale again?") So my already-waning interest in staff has now been lowered to near zero and I'm feeling iffy about buying exactly the sale items they want me to buy since anything I buy at a "mere" 25% off might be on sale for 50% off 2 weeks later.

I won't be buying Staff Fighting on day of release. I won't say never, but it'll be months. Oh, and that toon I was thinking about buying Titan Weapons to make? Also shelved indefinitely. There's my 1600 Paragon Points recovered, and all it cost was my trust and a decent chunk of my interest in the game.

Basically same story here. Wanted to wait for staff to test the new stalker changes, cursed myself for holding out past DXP, made a claws/wp stalker, don't have much urge to get staff fighting. I may get it, but it's not going to be a must buy anymore.

TL;DR: Paragon you waited too long and releasing it after DXP was just insult to injury. (Masterminds didn't get a revamp I was aware of so BM could have waited to get staff stalkers going.)

I found this part of your post most interesting given some of the less than stellar reasons given about their release and marketing strategies. In particular is the fact that the slots sales spaced a mere few weeks apart has people feeling that hosed feeling they said was an issue with powersets. We all know that is bollocks.

In the meantime the stuff that I said they would never put on sale, has never been on sale, and will never go on sale is guess what....not on sale again. A few of those items are personal storage, personal enhancement trays and personal salvage space etc...

Outstanding and still waiting to be proven wrong the one time this year they will actually put that valuable stuff up on sale.

Mostly same here only difference is now I won't be buying anything from paragon market since it is obvious that they don't want my money anymore and things lost their shine.

Nah I find them pretty neato. Just saying some people call them junk.

that'd just be good business sense, otherwise people start looking at your discounts with a wary eye- "oh it's 25% off now, but where will it be next week?"

Although it's a proximity thing- if it's a month between the two sales, that's one thing. But dropping it the very next week is poor form.

You say that no but if you're anything like me...

Not really.

You bought them at 25% off. You could of not bought them at 25% off and waited.

It's like buying a car at discount and then the next day seeing they went on sale.

You have the choice to wait, or you have the choice to buy now.

That said, I still think the day before DXP they should of had Staff Fighting up for sale at twice the cost as a special one day sale untill official release.

That would of had many people buying at twice the cost (at least a few for sure) and thusly more money!

People could of waited for the official release and others could of BUY NOW!

Of course, some might have seen that as a money grab, but so what, business to make money, and it would of given it to those who wanted it.

Never quite understood the "money grab" excuse either. They're a business. Of course they're going to try and get money.

Damn those guys at NCsoft, trying to make a living!