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Unfortunately for your example the devs already have the hard numbers on the success of both the vanity pet sales and the super pack sales, and the company made half a million on super packs while the amount made on the vanity wolf sales was so insignificant it wasn't worth mentioning.

They have no reason to believe that the Black Wolf would make any more money than the regular wolf did if it was sold seperately.

Yeah. Basically all nonsubscribers are "free" accounts. So you either a VIP or Free as far as the account page is concerned.

Glad you got everything cleared up so you have no worries.

They don't cycle thru them that fast. The Tier 9 costumes are available for at least 6 months before rotate off the reward table, and you only need three tokens to get a full set.

No it's okay not to be a fan of Linda Carter as WW. But us old fart WW fans didn't have much of a selection to choose from. It was Linda or Cathy Lee Crosby.




Even if you weren't a Linda Carter fan you at least recognized who she was supposed to be.

All too often the "general attitude" from the text didn't match up with what the voice acting said. Had I known what the voice acting was going to say I would have made a different choice.

After this much time I can't remember any specific examples but it happened often enough to be annoying to me.

But those were just irritations. What stopped me from subbing was their lousy customer service. The first time I had an issue it took me two weeks just to get thru. Their automated service kept hanging up on me. Then once thru I waited on hold for 4 freaking hours before a human being answered.

The second time I needed to call CS I said the hell with it and uninstalled the game.

Says the VIP who doesn't have to spend a dime on any Super Packs because he can get them for free with the Paragon Rewards he gets each month.

Please disregard my previous statements. From the OP's statements in another thread IronBlade is correct that the OP does not understand how our naming system works.

I only hope the OP reads the responses he has been given in his other thread so he can learn how our naming system works.

Other problems.

1. It was so easy to level when I played that game that I was able to go up 20 levels from simply travelling to different planets and exploring the maps to remove the "fog of war". No missions. No streetsweeping. Just walking around the zones.

2. The voice acting didn't match up with the written text. You'd get three written options of what you could say, then once selected the voice frequently said something completely different.

How frickin hard is it to have the written text match what the damn voice actor is saying?

3. The morality choices look like they were made by a demented 6 year old.

In one mission you were accused of being a tattletale for reporting soldiers that were running civilians thru an obstacle course in a minefield and taking bets on their survival.

Another you were the "bad guy" if you retrieved stolen medical supplies that wre needed to treat patients that were going to die without the medicine, because the person that stole the supplies was going to give them to people that were sick but in no immediate danger of dying.

4. The lack of a decent costume creator. In a game where you should have been able to make thousands of custome "alien" avatars, you were instead forced to choose between:

Human
Blind Human
Human with Cybernetic eyes
Red Human
Blue Human
Green Human
Albino Human
Human with horns
Twi'lek

5. After the starter zone, every single player was forced to run the exact same linear missions/story-arc. The only difference was faction. See Praetoria for example.

So once you made a character for each faction and hit the level cap you experienced all the content the game had to offer.

No it isn't since the people that respec frequently have already gone thru all the trials, and burned thru all their vetspecs. (on certain characters)

That was the whole reason the devs started selling respecs in the first place, and then later added respec recipes, and most recently Enhancement Unslotters.

Even the 2nd and 3rd builds could be used to fix/change a build without having to burn a respec.



Personally I don't understand this compulsion to frequently respec. I have 8 year old characters that still have their vetspecs and haven't gone thru a single respec trial.

The IO's I use are basic ones and the number of alts I have (out of nearly 200) that are completely IO'd out are in the single digits.

But people enjoy different aspects of the game.

Some enjoy PvP
Some enjoy farming
Some enjoy the market
Some enjoy RP
and some enjoy the challenge of constantly tweaking builds to make the most powerful characters.

It's not my proposed idea. I'm just pointing out one of the worst case financial flaws of the OP's suggestion.



I feel the same way you both do about it. In fact I've suggested several times it would be easier for the devs to simply make the badges global so the badgers wouldn't lose any of their unique badges they're afraid of losing.

How do you insert quarters into your computer?

As to the idea itself. I can only see the devs doing it if they sold it in bundles and instantly added the time to the account and activated it upon purchase.

$7.50 for two weeks sold and used in a bundle of 2.

$3.75 per week sold and used in a bundle of 4.

$.50 cents per day sold and used in a bundle of 30.

It never hurts to post the product description from the store. I can recall two times I've seen threads made by people that bought the Starter Kit who didn't bother to read it before buying and were pissed off they couldn't use it on their "old" account. They just heard about the sale on the forums and bought it without reading further.

I still have the screen shots from the Nov sale that I posted in the one guys thread when he claimed the Starter Kit product information didn't explain that it could only be used on a new account.

If you are referring to the VIP Starter Kit, that can only be used on Freemium accounts that have never been VIP before. So someone that had an active account before Freedom launched can't use the Kit on that account. Thay have to start a new account to use it.

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And I believe they've had the kit on sale three times since Freedom launched. Last August, Christmas, and again just a few months ago.

Right and we've never seen angry threads made where people were complaining about how they have to strip their purpled out builds and start over from scratch because of a change made to a few powers in a set or the introduction of a brand new power set.


There's more than a few players that are obsessed with mini-maxing their builds with uber enhancements and many aren't 8 year vets sitting on a stack of unused vetspecs.

Or have you guys forgotten the nerdrage that went on just a few months back when the devs didn't give out a freespec with the last issue that went live?

Far to many players have burned thru all of their other respecs and rely on the freespecs because they can't afford or are unwilling to buy respecs from the store.

Okay that's a reasonable request. I'll /sign that.

Pfft. Who cares about that. Turn off the volume and stare at the yummy girls in skintight outfits.

Or the hawt guys if your preferences lean in that direction.

That's my point Dark.

When they added the Roman costume pieces, I couldn't get the toga, sandals, and victory laural I needed for the basic costume until the following February.

That's why I waited a year to create the character.

Let's assume the devs were actually willing to add this feature. They're not, but let's assume they are just to demonstrate why this is a horrible idea.

Did you stop to consider what will happen to all the IO's, ATO's, and Attuned IO's?

The average level 50 character has 100+ enhancements slotted on a single build.

A single respec costs $9.99 and only allows 10 enhancements to be pulled from a build.

So that means it's going to cost a level 50 character over $100 dollars to salvage his hard earned enhancements if he changes power sets.

Over $200 bucks if he's using dual builds.

Over $300 bucks if he's using the third build he got for unlocking Incarnate content.

Players can increase the number of enhancements that can be pulled off of a build during a respec by purchasing up to 4 extra trays at a price of $20 bucks per build.

That means after spending $80 bucks he can strip a single build for only an aditional $30 bucks.

$60 bucks to strip 2 builds.

$90 bucks to strip 3 builds.

Then theres the fact Positron stated during one of the previous Ustreams that giving players the ability to change power sets would be so much work that he had no idea what they'd have to charge for that option to make it worthwhile to even begin to start on such a project.

So your idea that a token would cost 1000 points is at best wishful thinking. If you were lucky it would cost $50 to $100 bucks.

Not trying to be mean, just pointing out the financial cost. I'm sorry but I don't see anyone but the richest or dumbest of players ever choosing to change power sets instead of the much more inexpensive method of creating a new character.

If that was what happened then we disappointed the OP because the thread didn't dissolve into a flame war. Everyone has been polite and well behaved so far.

It's also possible that the OP knew this would be a hot topic and this thread was nothing more than entertainment for the OP seeing as how it was posted on a Saturday when the Mods are away and the OP hasn't made any other comments after his second post.

I've waited a year to create a character so I could start with a toga because I wasn't willing to level up to 35+ and run an ITF before getting appropriate costume pieces.


Sure if the player base was stagnant then yes super packs would get old. However that isn't the case. We are constantly getting new players who have never seen any of the packs before. We will always have players that view the packs as new shinies.

Just pointing that out.