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The game with hobbits (my these forum restrictions are dumb) did exactly that, where their European operations were entirely separate and run by a different company.

The problem they ran into was they recently merged the operations back, which was a pretty huge and ugly mess.

Well, the 'first time' reward is per character, so you'll run the complete set once per character, which is not inconsiderable in a game as alt heavy as ours. And from that perspective it's not that different from any other piece of content. There are very few things (outside TFs and trials) that get repeated on an individual character.

Only certain sets are being offered through the store. Almost all the 'high value' sets are *not* in the store, so there wouldn't be much impact.

This totally cracks me up.

So, without the OOC chat they're only getting 1/4 of the 'SG experience'? Then it sounds to me an awful lot like you should be using SG chat for OOC and another channel for RP, then they can get 3/4 of the 'SG experience'.

If the assertion is true, then the problem is with the user, not the system.

This is to prevent RMT spam. Which has been stated repeatedly on every page of this thread. RMT spam is far more annoying to the existing players, so stop trying to paint this as subscriber elitism.

No, that's not true - any VIP/subscriber automatically has full chat/email/channel access.

No, it's experience talking.

And it's not 5 minutes a day to unsilence people that's the problem, it's having to silence people who cause problems that's a problem. That's continuous ongoing enforcement. MMO companies can't afford the cost to moderate their channels - asking volunteers to shoulder the burden is ridiculous.

Fact: it's proven that *any* monetary barrier to entry is extremely effective in stopping RMT spam.

I see, so the problem is that channel moderators aren't owning up to their reponsibilities. Got it. Refresh my memory and tell me how you're contributing to the community?

DEAD WRONG. RMT is a business that has grown every year. If you don't realize that it's a clear and present danger, then you just don't understand anything about MMOs.

Yes

That attitude will result in there being only two types of channels. The spam-filled and the dead.

People who moderate the globals take some of their play time to try to provide a better environment for the rest of us. Unless you're willing to do the same, your appropriate responses are either gratitude or silence.

WW1 is seven syllables.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Everyone should read Zwill's statement.

Paragon Reward Tokens are awarded according to played time (just like the old veteran's rewards system, this date is not necessarily synched with your billing date.

Paragon Points are awarded on your billing date, unless that falls between the 1st and the 11th, in which case points should be awarded on the 11th in October, and be 'walked back' over the ensuing months until it's back in sync with your billing date.

Since you wouldn't have earned any through Veteran rewards, unless you purchased more, two appears to be the correct number.

This attitude is the excuse all MMO devs use for refusing to give out any information at all.

You can either choose to have no information ahead of time, or to have information and deal with the fact that occasionally things will go wrong. I prefer the latter, thank you.

As for needing to know that they feel badly about it, what the heck do you want? Should Zwill rub gravel through his hair on the next UStream?

Quoting the official freaking post:

Even in the UK, I believe you have to return whatever you purchased to get a refund.

Imagine, for a moment, that NCSoft has no way to delete permissions at this level. The only way to 'return' the item in that case would be to lock the account.

Hey, hidden benefits!

It went live 9/20. 2 weeks and a day, basically.

If you 'knew' this, you were wrong. Huge chunks of content and powersets have been sold outside of the subscription, most recently in Going Rogue.

The difference now is that instead of waiting months/years for an expansion, we get pay-to-play content delivered to us weekly or monthly, and on an a la carte basis.

That seems unlikely. They seem to be trying to get more standardized rather than less. However, a high level of sales does probably mean a longer amount of time before it goes on sale.