Too commercialized

I have been with COH for a long time and I am becoming more and more frustrated at the commercialization of COH. Now, only the wealthy and insanely rich can enjoy the game fully. If you are on a limited income you can only use basics and not look as nice or fight with as much style as a rich person. IT sucks and is about to drive me from the game. I am sure most of you do not care but I had to say my piece.

Sorry you feel this way.. I'm not exactly "rich" either but enjoy the just $15 a month sub with an occasional treat here n there with points. But I'm not what people call an "altaholic" and making 40 toons and trying to deck each one out with stuff bought from the market. I enjoy my 4 main toons for doing task forces n stuff with friends and with my villain group. You don't nessicarily have to have a sub just to talk to friends If you have the capability to at least send tells n stuff.

BL and SD...you guys arent wealthy or insanely rich enough to post all up on this thread.
Step off and begone peasants.

Well maybe if you were more than a halfthief you would have more money. Maybe it's time to step up to fullthievery.

P.S. If you can afford a sub, you can afford (assuming infinite inf since this is a real money conversation) all the nice stuff. If you can't afford a sub, well, before F2P you wouldn't have been able to play. At all. No, not even with SOs. No, not even with a generic white costume. The best you could do is load up the game and gaze longingly at the login screen, and maybe if you were feeling really crazy you would type in your login and password and click Login, just to get a message telling you that you're too poor to play the game at all. With the rush of excitement gone from that brief hope that your account had re-enabled itself by mistake, you close the game screen and go outside to enjoy a warm beautiful day, or maybe cuddle up with a loved one underneath the covers on a frigid winter evening. Or maybe you would finally start that novel you always wanted to write. The point was, you had options. But now, you have no options. Now you are forced to play a game for free (I don't wish to be crude but I nearly threw up just typing that) because you can't afford to pay for it. There is no summer, there is no winter, there are no loved ones and no Great American Novels. There is only you with your free costume pieces and Single Origin enhancements and lack of Incarnate powers.

Can I have your stuff?

Well I am most certainly not rich,I have been off work sick for the past 10 months my income is about $410 a month I pay my sub but spend nothing else on the game but still enjoy myself and do not feel like a second class player.Why you think you have to be rich to play unless of course you want to buy every little thing they put on the market.I feel that your post verges on a rage quit post.Learn to adapt to the circumstances and carry on :>)

If you can afford a VIP subscription, you can afford 400 Points worth of extra bling per month (550 if you hit Tier 9). Just don't spend it all at once. And anything that can be earned in-game... earn it.

I'm insanely wealthy!!? Fantastic, gonna quit my job right away.

While it is obvious that such a thread would bring on derision, hehe, I don't think the OP's position/opinion should be mocked (not saying anyone should follow my opinion on this... do what ya do!).

I knew that this business model would bring on such feelings for some people. It's pretty much unavoidable, whether or not the feelings are based on anything factual.

The only aspects that *I* can see that this might be true for are for the ultra rare finds in the Super Packs: Black Wolf and Corsair (uh...) Flying Disc Thingy...

Now, it's not true that anyone needs to be insanely rich to afford those things (and some could even get super lucky, of course), but... from a fiscally limited and/or fiscally responsible and/or pragmatic perspective, chasing after such rewards by dumping the cash in may require a boat load of funds before one would even consider it a viable option.

What do we have that'd cause problems of the OP's sort? Enhancement Slot additions? Other storage improvements? Super Pack goodies? Buying the Store IOs??
If you're subscribed, the points can add up... especially if you stayed subscribed for the period before Freedom launched (those bonus points really helped).

If you're not Tier 9 VIP, then the Tier 9 rewards could be seen as another major expense.

In the end, all of these things can come down to patience. Depending on how far away you are from a veteran status or how many things you want beyond your 400 points/month... All things are attainable without spending anything further.

Still... if those things from the Super Packs (even if you just want the costumes... it's not guaranteed that $15 will get you what seems to be of a $5 value) and/or the costumes from Tier 9 VIP are currently out of your reach and the things that you wish you could play with right now... I can understand how you might feel this way and I cannot entirely disagree with your disappointment.

It'd be nice if everything was offered up within the same price ranges and reach for the user.
Want this awesome costume set? Spend this normal amount of money and/or this normal amount of points and you have it right now.

Instead, there are absolutely gaps between players these days. The gaps contain fancier and flashier rewards under the Freedom business model.


All that being said... It's not quite all that bad.

Personally, I think that with the wide number of free costume options, "looking nice" comes down more to how good you are at making things look good. But by all means blame your lack of money for how crappy your guys look. It's easier than dealing with the real source.

I had the awesome priviledge of playing with a really rich player with a build chock full of expensive and rare set IOs. He was on my Apex team. Unfortunately, even with his super-duper build, he faceplanted many times while we fought Battle Maiden. Sadly, money doesn't buy everything.

In no way am I rich - cept in my choice of friends and the good luck I have with family members - I'm a pensioner trying hard to live within my hubby's means. But for the last 8 years I've found the werewithal to sub CoH. Now it is FtP if there comes a time we can't afford the subs I can still happily play the game with what I have paid for up until now. Rich? No! Happy? Yes!

I am on a very limited income, but find that $15.00 a month to play is a fair investment for the hours of fun it provides me. This is less than it costs to go to a first run movie these days.