Obsidius
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Who said I was any better? Except perhaps in the critical thinking, grammar, and proper English departments, but that's just my opinion.
It's really not a popularity contest, I've just been reading his posts for years, that's all. Also, just my opinion. -
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I totally plan to participate in this contest
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What was originally posted...
Quote:... and what I read...Originally Posted by 15bribri15
<-- Extremely PO'd player. Where have they all gone? And before you all go "LOLGOPLAYTHEGAMENOOB" I pay my money for VIP, I choose HOW I want to play. My question is why is there a lack of farming? Maybe it's because there is now 501234123314 AP's? Why was that done again? Really? -
Quote:I can see Severe's college education is finally paying off in posts that completely make sense and non-nonsensical rants.*Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I understand. It's quite simple: Moving from one accounting system to another has led to people getting points before their time in September. But no one threw a hissy fit over that and threatened to quit.Quote:Originally Posted by Severe
honestly this is just ncsoft trying to get all they can..this is the reason its not on the day you pay.( which btw it should be on the day you pay!)
the confusion is based on selfishness more then helpfulness...you could have just as easily pulled the points and merits off at the start of the billing cycle.instead you decided to half*** it for your own benefit.
and you wonder why people dont understand...
oh and while your at it...i see yet another patch for the hami badge that i told you was broke and was told it wasnt.....you owe me an apology.next time believe the players when they tell you the stuff it borked!
Then, in order to catch up, some people will get their October points two weeks late until their billing cycle can synch. At which point, this became the worst thing in the world to ever happen... EVER!!!!!!1!!!!
Oh, I understand exactly what's going down.
Oh wait...
* Forgive my double negative, it's a freshman mistake. -
I would never use SJ as an attack set. It makes a fine travel power though
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Quote:Please check your sarcasm meter for accuracy before postingOriginally Posted by all_hell
Are our points and tokens etc free now? Cause if so, then I got scammed cuz I paid money this year that is ostensibly being applied to my account to gain the stuff. But if the stuff is free, why are they keeping my money? Or are you mistaken about our subscription benefits being "free"?
And I am still waiting on delivery. While waiting I cannot access the benefits of paying that money. However, if I had not paid them that money and had held on to it until now, I could enjoy the benefits of paying that money at the moment AND over the next several months. Instead I will spend the next several months waiting for the rest of what I purchased months ago to arrive. Thus when the point do finally arrive over the next several months I will acquire less playtime with the items I purchase.
Oh wait, you're actually serious. I'm sorry for you. -
A reason to exist? Like using the Presence Pool Fears with any other set besides Street Justice?
Even if you personally think the pool underperforms, let's not remove options. -
Quote:Let's compare CoX to another product: a car. I have to pay the loan (or heavens forbid, I'm leasing the sodding thing). And yet I still have to pay a subscription for satellite radio and satnav updates, I still have to pay for spare tires and oil changes, belts, and gasoline. AND I have to pay for insurance. Why aren't all of these things included in the initial price? In comparison, why do I have to pay for premium account access but not get extras like Street Justice powers? It's like buying tires for my crappy car, it's so unfair.Originally Posted by powerpuf
i guess people are misunderstanding my point. let's compare CoX to another product, cereal. i used to like fruity pebbles. it started out with 3 flavors. then they added more flavors. did the price of fruity pebbles go up? no. u got a cereal with more flavors to savor and an appeal to get new customers to buy it. it's simple marketing. i tell everybody how great it was before and now i tell everybody it's even better. same way CoX should be. i pay for a superpower game. they add new superpowers. my price should not go up to get those superpowers (as a vip).
Let's compare CoX to another product: a toaster. I can make toast. I can even toast bagels and waffles. But it can't warm up my pancakes. Holy [pancakes], this is a serious design flaw. Instead, I have to buy a micrwave or an electric skillet. There again, COX was missing the Mastermind primaries when it was released, and I had to buy City of Villains to add it to the game. Why was I forced to buy something that should have been included with the game in the first place?
Let's compare CoX to another product: a banana. Both are tasty. Hmm... not much to run with there.
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Quote:I think good customer service would be to tell the customers about the problem and offer an intermediate solution (there may be a week or two of delay getting your points each month until the DB catches up to the rewarding mechanism).Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
This isn't an issue of patience, but one of customer service. It's further compounded by potentially missing out on sales for months to come. Again, it's a significant problem that there's no timetable or deadline for resolution.
That's definitely what we need.
<Somebody whispers into my ear at this point>
Oh, it's already been done? Cool. The mission is complete. Let's go eat sushi or something. -
One such thread here.
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Quote:That's also my understanding, which is why I think this duplicate thread is much ado about nothing.Originally Posted by Emberly
It's my understanding that these points/tokens will still be awarded in the correct month, just not on the the correct day. Is that wrong somehow?
I'm fine with things if I get my points a week late or a week early. Same with tokens. I'm not fine if I don't get my points/tokens for a given month at all, or if I get none for two months then suddenly get three months worth all at once. -
Another week? Call the FBI!
Edit: not sure why this couldn't be posted in the original thread created by Zwill that is referenced in this thread...
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Yeah... no...
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Sudden news. Although the public has known about his battles with cancer, I'm still shocked. Never liked the Apple brand, but Jobs helped push the tech boundary to new limits. RIP sir.
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Sudden news. Although the public has known about his battles with cancer, I'm still shocked. Never liked the Apple brand, but Jobs helped push the tech boundary to new limits. RIP sir.
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I'd just create a crap FB account if I didn't already have an actual account, just to get to promotion. The only real piece of info you need to make a FB account (AFAIR) is an actual email address. Everything else could be fictitious.
Either way, it would be worth time (jumping through some hoops on a 3rd party site) or money (PM Points). -
Quote:I know, just like those evil tokens at Chuck-E-Cheese, Dave & Busters, or those pesky '80s arcadesOriginally Posted by Spiked_Menace
Indeed. This is the reason why I will never buy Paragon Points or any other type of 'pretend money' like this. <shakes fist>
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Quote:In this case, I think Standard Code Rant is applicable. Do the devs have the ability to code so that players can only reply to previous tells, without giving access to the /tell feature wholesale? Who's to say.Originally Posted by Megajoule
Maestro:
Besides the potential profit motive, we don't know how hard it would be to change the tell code to allow replies from free players. We can only guess.
(This is a form of the Standard Code Rant.) -
I know Doppelganger tech typically only clones based off of your first costume slot. If they use this tech for Decoys as it is now, decoys may NOT look like you in your current outfit.
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Quote:Sure you don't mean VIP and Premium account? An account that has spent nothing on the game is Free, and should not be able to use email at all. Most accounts created before I21 launched were converted to Premium accounts, not Free.Originally Posted by General_CoH
I just tried it and had no problem sending inf by e-mail from a Premium account to a Free account and claiming it on the Free account.
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Crunch Von PunchMeister
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Remember - in order to properly apply them to your game account, you'll have to be logged off (ie: not logged into CoH while you're trying to apply the code)! My friend ran into this issue last night.
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Quote:Laughed so hard.Originally Posted by Santorican
We landed on the moon!
"Yeah, what if he shot me in the head?"
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Quote:I can't blame them on charging 800 pts for it. I paid that much for a costume slot before the price was adjusted down. I guess they figure that if people will buy it at 800 pts (which they are), they can make some extra coin off of it, and then drop the price after a few weeks or whatever.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
With CoV, I paid $30, and got a bunch of stuff other than powersets, but when you break it down, even if all I payed for was powersets, they ran $2 each, as opposed to $10 for these new sets. And with things like proliferation and the roll-in of CoV to the rest of the game, these sets were effectively free (after all, even if I didn't buy anything, my Controller didn't need to pay extra to get Thermal Radiation in the first round of proliferation).
I'll be buying Street Justice anyway, because I have the points set aside for it, but people might not complain as much if things were more reasonably priced.
IMPO, it's a better business model than a box set, as they have more direct control over the price in regards to initial price and discounting it whenever they want. People will pay a premium price to have it right out of the door, and others will wait until the price drops and pick it up later. Some players will pay the gouge to have the new shiny NAO.
If you want to blame anybody for the price at launch, look no further than your fellow players who facilitate this strategy
Edit: will I personally be picking this up? Not yet, I don't have a concept for it. But I'd probably pay 800 pts for Titan Weapons, devs, hint hint
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Quote:I remember when I had for a crapload of whole new power sets. It was called City of Villains.Originally Posted by ArwenDarkblade
Quite. I won't have enough points to buy this with my free points until the end of November. Not that I care much, as I think I'm the only player out there who wasn't foaming at the mouth for Street Justice. I just think it's a crappy business model.
So how is this a crappy business model? Pay $50 for an entire expansion or a few bucks just for a power set.