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Originally Posted by Cyber_naut

I hope the people who run this game will reexamine this strategy of stringing out releases.

The idea that releasing two sets at the same time would piss off customers seems pretty ironic in this case. I'd say you'd have a lot less upset customers if they had a choice between two powersets at the same time, rather than making a large chunk of your paying customers wait on a set you've dangled in front of them for weeks while trying to get them to spend points on ligers and blessing of the zephyr io's. And if said customer had a desire to buy them both, they'd buy them both regardless of when they were released.


The reason I complain is because I like this game, and I want the people who run it, to run it intelligently so it sticks around for a while longer. So hopefully, the way this situation was handled was just a singular mistake, and not something that becomes commonplace.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Huh? It is? This is something that is completely alien to me. Why would anyone lose interest in something they are interested in over the course of a month or so? About the only way this makes sense to me is if the people in question are not playing CoH at all, and they end up being away for so long that they get engrossed in something else instead and never come back.

I honestly, truly cannot grasp that concept.

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

This is a YMMV situation for sure. As a person who has never been invited to a closed beta, it certainly felt like an entitlement mentality to me when some closed beta testers took to the "normal" boards to tell the rest of us not to bother commenting because it was already discussed in closed beta and a decision was made. There are some players whose opinion I generally respect, but "entitlement" is definitely the word that comes to mind when I have to characterize my interactions with several closed beta testers that I, the paid customer who didn't get to voice an opinion, was forced to deal with. While I obviously don't expect the developers to listen or even read what feedback I have, I can't really say I'm sad the same small group of people are no longer dominating the direction of feedback.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

Seriously what the hell logic is this. You dont tell us how to spend our money. You have it totally backwards as usual for what the customer actually thinks and sees. I could give a crap about all those enhancements you guys are releasing especially since they are so easy to get in game now. Your marketing department has always been epic phail and why this game will never reach its true potential. Everyone one of them needs to be replaced if they think this is how to get customers.

Originally Posted by Mighty Eightball

I love reading the outrage associated with each "Featured Items" announcement. I don't really care for the market, and hardly ever buy anything from it. But I enjoy the opinions, rants, and diatribes these "featured items" stir every week.

Originally Posted by Plasma

That's not necessarily the case for the Hecatomb proc, where they have waffled.

Originally Posted by stevie_james

Didn't you get the memo? We complain about Psychic Melee's release now.

Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion

Meh, no one/nothing is fool-proof. You've been wrong before

Originally Posted by TheDevian

What makes this power far more of a sore spot is that it is being held back for reasons that don't matter to anyone other than their marketing dpt. It has been ready for months

Originally Posted by Grouchybeast

Why, yes. Yes, it is.

Originally Posted by Tutelary

Just waiting for storage sales now.

Originally Posted by Moonlighter

~ There is a sweet spot between being exposed to a set on test and slowly losing interest in it as time goes on. I think the time to release staff exceeded that time for me. I was *really* excited for it, but now my enthusiasm has waned. That's probably something you'll want to get metrics on. Everyone probably has a different time scale before interest wanes, but my instinct tells me that the time to release staff after the players were exposed to it probably hurt excitement over the set.

Originally Posted by Android_5Point9

Eh. Not particularly feeling interested in Staff now. Maybe I set myself up with way too big an expectation, but given what I've know about the set and how long I've known about it, combined with how long it's taken to show up just depresses me and leaves a sour taste in my mouth about the entire process. It won't impact overall sales in any manner I'm sure, but I'm not exactly interested in paying for it now. Oh well.

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Dude, last week they gave us a Liger vanity pet.

It really doesn't get more "meh" than that, if you ask me.

Originally Posted by DreadShinobi

On my staff/da brute doing a pylon test it felt like watching paint dry. I never actually wrote down the dps because of how slow it was. And this was on a min/maxed build with all purples/procs and stuff you could potentially have as well as having t4 alpha, interface, and destiny. The chain I was using was PS>SR>PS>SS. I also tried a build with a procced out mercurial blow, but that didn't really help. I even tried adding EotS to the attack chain on a couple runs (which actually wasn't that bad compared to the PS>SR>PS>SS chain), I think that chain I used was PS>SR>SS>EotS using EotS for the -res. Respectable to me is 300+ dps, which is probably higher than most other people consider to be respectable.
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Originally Posted by SmegHead

Ok, so your aren't in any way frustrated with the "lack of dev communication" you just talked about.

You just complain about it.

Got it.

Originally Posted by Grouchybeast

So blame those people.

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

I know but they still release a production patch note usually around noon Eastern time after patches. That's all I meant.

Originally Posted by Codewalker

Marketing feeds on your tears.

Delaying staff for a month to release Beast Mastery will provide enough to sustain them for many years.