The Wings

Okay, guys, I'm back.

And I'm really mad.

I suppose mad isn't the right word. More like disappointed.

I really want one of the Tier 9 VIP reward costume set pieces. Namely, the Phoenix Wings. They would fit so many of my characters, and open up a world of new possibilities. Now, I'm not here begging for a dev to hand me a set. Nor am I asking for them to be given out. All I want is an option to buy them. I don't care how much they charge.

I don't like being unable to ever get something. The whole rest of the game is purchasable. I have looked at the calender, and I determined that I won't reach tier 9 fast enough to select the wings before they are cycled out.

All I am asking for is a way to buy them. A way so that people who have spent two years (almost three, come this June) can get some of the best looking pieces in the game. I have done the math. At $15 a month, for two years and 11 months, I have spent $525 on this game alone, not including the purchase of every single pack that came out during that time frame. I just want a way to finish my costumes, and watching the time run out on this set is killing me.

So, please, devs and forum mods, try to make it possible for us to buy the sets being cycled out. If it is 400 PP for the Phoenix wings alone, I will spend my month's worth of PP on them. I don't like not being able to get something, and this will make it a lot less depressing every time I see someone with the wings.

Thank you for reading this.

Fire and Ice is staying for now alongside Mecha in i23.

Celestial will be available 'via other means' once it's rotated out so the Fire and Ice pieces will no doubt follow the same model.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

From what I understand, they're merely "Disney Vaulting" the Celestial set.

Well, you get a token every month now, instead of a vet badge every 3, so it should be faster than 4-5 years, but unfortunately still probably too slow to reach t9 before Fire & Ice is rotated out.

Celestial will supposedly be available via another method at some point after it's cycled out. If Fire & Ice follows suit, the Phoenix wings will eventually be obtainable without being a t9 VIP. We don't yet know what that method is, though. The point is, the exclusivity won't last forever.

34 tokens are required to unlock the VIP Tier 9.

>$400 doesn't sound right. Even if all of your 2y11mo was pre-Freedom, and you've never bought points, you should still have, um... 15 reward tokens? 1 to start, 11 vet badges, 2 yearly badges, 1 retail code. So 19 more tokens to reach t9, plus let's count the 1 token to get the wings, 20 x $15 each = $300. Slightly less if you buy points in larger bundles/buy multiple months at a time.

Granted, that's not a big improvement over $400...

Yes, I did do the math improperly there. However, my point was not the money, as I do not wish to buy any months. The point was that, for those of us who just pay VIP, we will need to wait a huge amount of time to be eligible to get the amazing rewards, but they won't be available when we do so. Honestly, I am fine waiting, but it won't help if the rewards are being cycled out.

I remember years ago, I SOOOO wanted the Boxing outfit available via Vet Rewards. Sadly, I was still about 1.5 years away until I reached that vet reward status. It was a long wait, but I was really happy when I finally got them.

Be thankful you can buy your way up to T9 now.

Removed for excessive stupidity on my part.

I've never liked the exclusivity concept. I didn't like it when I was a couple months behind the people who had been around since beta, and I don't like it now when I'm showing a friend a costume and they can't use the pieces themselves because they haven't been around long enough.

I've since bought my way to tier 9 because I wanted to use a couple of the celestial pieces, and I'm not complaining about that; it was my decision. I don't care about the money involved for me. But it sucked when I couldn't do anything about getting a cool new vet thing like being able to use travel powers early, because I'd never heard of the game or the company until months after it was released.

It bothers me that the work's been done to develop the costume set, and here's a subscriber that wants to use it, but it would cost him three hundred dollars to get it.