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Please quote exactly what was hostile in my response to your post. I merely asked you to provide evidence to back up your statement, and gave you the same advice you gave me about speaking for other people.

If you think that is being hostile then I suggest you need to take a break, go outside, and relax for a while.

Prove it. Post links to a reputable neutral third party that can provide documented proof that the number of customers who said they'd be willing to pay for extra stuff is a small fraction of the CoH customer base.

In other words, Don't speak for everyone, please.

Just out of curiosity, Don't you think it's a little premature for people to get upset and threaten to quit over the number of skins in the pack when we have no idea what the price will be until after the free give away is over?

If you look on the market, individual weapon skins are selling for 60 points each so unless we see this pack marked at more than 240 points they aren't money grabbing. Heck they may even sell the pack slightly cheaper than it would cost to buy the weapon skins individually.

If they do charge more than 240 I'll support the argument that they're overpriced.

Edit: corrected spelling.

No their complaining that the devs are selling us stuff that we told them we'd gladly pay extra for if they'd just put it on the market.

Damn those dirty devs for listening to their customers and fulfilling their requests and suggestions!

This decision makes perfect sense to me. Make the weapons pack free and the F2P/Prems that grab it for the cool skins will now want to buy the power set so they can use them.

Personally I like Street Justice more, and the animations for Titan Weapon attacks look stupid for some of the weapons.

It's the Internet Sam. Rage and vent is what people do here. I just finished beta testing another MMO in a galaxy far far away and there are people nerd raging on their forums about the length of time future server maintenance will take in a game that hasn't even launched yet and has no regular server maintenance schedule posted.

I don't know what game you've been playing but this game has been charging us for extra costume pieces for years. Not only are we already used to paying extra for these things, we've been telling the devs we'd pay cash for these things if they'd put them in the store ever since they sold the first booster pack years ago.

That precedent was set years ago when they started selling costume boosters to the game. Weapon skins are no different than the other costume skins they sell.

Selling the players exactly what they've been asking them to sell isn't money grabbing by any definition of the word.

Buh-bye. The doors out is on the left, don't let it hit you in the butt as you leave. Oh and in case you forgot you can play for free now so threats to cancel subs have no meaning. Everyone knows the rage quitters will keep playing and buying stuff on the market.

What you mean players providing a community service like the Taxibots or Search and Rescue? That's crazy talk man. So crazy it just might work.

To make it work they'd have to be undercover or the RMTer's will learn to spot them and wait for them to leave before spamming, or move just out of the Local AoE and spam there.

So no SG membership they can learn to recognize, no common uniforms, no Anti-RMT character names. Players would have to avoid establishing patterns. If the same level 50's keep showing up, they'll be spotted and recognized. Then the RMTers will either move and spam in another instance/location or wait for them to leave. (I've seen this happen in STO and CO when GM's show up to nail RMT)

The group could use Global Channels to organize since RMTers can't tell what channels players are members of, and global channels can restrict membership to invite only.

The powerset comes with it's own weapon skins. The weapons pack is an additional set of skins they are offering for free for 2 weeks.

Oh and selling additional weapon skins is no more money grabbing than selling regular costume pieces which is a long established practice in MMO stores.


Edit: Another thing, Players have been suggesting the devs sell weapon skins booster for years in this game (another I recall is a base decorative item booster). So this is more along the lines of the devs giving us what we asked for than being greedy.

Or you could just move your mouse over to your chat box and toggle off the chat tab that displays the local and help channels when you go to the market.

Tonight that insp was selling for 500 thousand.

Sorry to disappoint you but that wasn't a suggestion that was explaining why what your ranting about isn't feasible.

Would never work for obvious reasons.

1. The company can't afford to hire people to stand around waiting for RMTers to show up.

2. Since Local chat has an area of effect RMTers will simply move out of range and keep spamming, thus requiring either even more employees to be
hired to camp the new locations or following to those new locations and leaving the old spot unwatched for RMTers to pop in and spam while the GM's are gone.

But if you are offering to pay the salaries of those patrolling GM's out of your own pocket, maybe the company will consider the issue.

Your inability to grasp the difference between avoiding a question in a discussion and ignoring traffic while crossing a road explains a lot about your posts.

And if that's not happening the problem is on our end not the GM's. It's not the GM's or the devs fault if the players refuse to use the features that will get the RMTer's squelched and flagged.


Edit: Oh and the getting chat squelched from multiple /ignorespammer reports does work. There's a guy up in Player Questions complaining about how he's been silenced after using the Help channel to look for someone to farm/PL him.

That's also part of it.

If vehicles fell under any origin it would be technology or science for the more outlandish means of travel. They aren't something a character is born with or the result of intense training.

The other part of their argument was that only humans could be Natural Origins.

Ignoring the question is avoiding it.

If anyone can see them then you should have no trouble quoting and bolding them. All I see is you stating you don't think the GM's are banning RMT accounts fast enough between all the other issues they are working on.

GM employees are limited and they have a hard enough time keeping up with regular petitions/bug reports etc. and even if there was a dedicated RMT patrol they couldn't be everywhere at once

Don't forget the old "We need vehicles for travel powers because Natural Origin characters don't have wings, or blah, blah, blah."

As if a woman giving birth pops out a motorcycle or car as well as a baby.