Darth_Khasei

Originally Posted by Organica

Sooooo... this boils down to:

1. They released stuff with bugs! = They're going too fast!
2. They haven't fixed it yet! = They're not going fast enough!

Yeah.

Originally Posted by Reppu

WHY DID SOMEONE SAY MY NAME IN A BEAST MASTERY THREAD AHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Yeah you know the drill. I want to love this set, I can't mechanically.

Originally Posted by Judas_Ace

I realize this forum is a hive of fanboys, apologists and butt-kissers, but at least try to make some logical sense while doing it.

Originally Posted by Surgepoint

I kept telling myself that you guys were going through a transition and that you still cared about us as people. I can only delude myself for so long.
I'm not angry. I'm sad.

Originally Posted by Hopeling

They can. If you perhaps you mean to ask "why DON'T they?", well, I think that's been covered extensively already.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Now behave or I'll have you sent to Siberia.

Originally Posted by End Sinister

And Darth, I find it sad that people seem to embrace the capitalistic idea of a consumer. I may be a typical consumer in Paragon's eyes, but as with anything I buy, I try to see the real value for what I'm buying. I find it disturbing that some posters in this forum are willing to pay as much they do on virtual items with no real world worth.

Originally Posted by End Sinister

Not exactly. What you're omitting is the fact that there was a bona fide you-know-what storm when that email was leaked to the public and within a month, revenue for that game plummeted by 20%. Paragon Studios, if it continues its current trend, could very likely see a player backlash of the same sort.

I am not one of those players described by that company head, by the way, and I suspect that a good proportion of the player base doesn't "say one thing and do another" either, otherwise there would be no need for the super packs and an R.N.G. gambling system (in other words, a money sink).

I've been hanging around to see where this game has been going, but the pricing schemes and lack of substantial content is making it really hard to stay invested in City Of Heroes. This is a great game, but I fear it's been leaving an overall bad taste in my mouth these past months. Dark Astoria's great, but gating that behind a V.I.P. subscription was a very dubious move indeed.

Insofar, we've been seeing price hikes on certain items, notably vanity pets, and now we're seeing a buff pet being sold on the market at an exorbitant price. Again, I do not like where this trend has been going these past few months. Do any of you even remember what $10 used to get us before Freedom? We used to get a hell of a whole lot more stuff for that money, not just a travel power or a vanity pet. Marketing really is squeezing every last dime out of the dwindling player base to cash in before these servers go dark. This is an 8 year old game well past its heyday, how much longer do any of you think content can be churned out at its current rate before the game goes into maintenance mode?

Originally Posted by Party_Kake

(we can talk about games that no longer exist right?)

Originally Posted by EarthWyrm

As long as people are buying them at this price point, you're probably right.

I'm not, and I never will. There are too many things that are more entertaining for me to spend my points on. If they cut the price in half on the enhancement trays, I might consider it.

Because there are things I'd spend 800 points on. There aren't many that would get me to exceed my monthly "allowance," but they're out there. The leprechaun ain't one of 'em, though.

I've given up trying to understand the pricing model, and guess my points will continue accruing until there are sales on some of the more recent costume sets, or they release a new round of super packs.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

When the beta forums overwhelmingly like something, its probably good. When they overwhelmingly hate something, its probably better, but it'll take a while for people to realize it.

I'm a bit conflicted about BM, since on the one hand I think it has some issues but on the other hand the fact that so many people hate it compels me to reevaluate that opinion just on the basis of statistics alone.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

It seems like they picked up a last minute bug with them, and decided to pull them rather than delay I22.

Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater

If I may be so bold as to speak for the man: During last night's impromptu Ustream, Zwil said that the converters would be going live as part of the first big post-I22 patch, which is tentatively still a couple of weeks away.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

100% incorrect. It has nothing to do with budget or resources. As I stated, it has to do with methodology and process.

I've worked with smaller teams that used the more rapid development process. The point I am making is that there are pros and cons to different methods of iteration/development process. The pros of our process is that the overall availability of the game is increased, the cons are that things sometimes take a bit longer to fix, so long as they're not making the servers go boom.

Originally Posted by Rigel_Kent

It appears to be a new invisible and undocumented self-debuff that was added to Inner Inspiration but not given a patch note.

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

Without knowing how much resources is given to each by their parent companies for each dev team, QA team, etc, yes, you very well can say it IS POSSIBLY about resources.

Unless you have some magic way of seeing the budgets of both enterprises, AND KNOW FOR A FACT that both teams have the same exact budgetary resources?

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

You never know. They tend to have awesome sales during their anniversary month (April 28-May 31).

But I do believe you're right in that they're never going to discount global storage bonuses outside of special event sales (anniversary, Black Friday, holiday season, etc.).