Obsidius

Personally, it's been a few years since I've seen either DVD box at Big Lots. Last time I went looking, my locations barely carried any PC games at all. Plus, not everyone has access to the Big Lots store chain.

IMPO, as a guy who got the DVDs years ago, I think still having these as exclusive unlocks, when it's hard for many people to find the DVD codes new, is unnecessarily punitive with the advent of the Paragon Market.

You can throw the Gunslinger set into that pile too

Touché good sir

Correct. For some reason, someone in NCSoft or Paragon Studios wants to keep the DVD Collector Edition stuff from CoH and COV exclusive to the DVD. Even though, in the case of the CoH DVD, it's been out of print for years, and purchasing a new copy from Amazon.com will cost you $85. And you thought the cost for the German Shepherd was outrageous

Stop browsing porn sites and picking up nasties from strange computers

Because you didn't get that problem from here.

Ironically, Batman would need something akin to a mob doctor, with his own private medical facilities, to help mask his numerous injuries from the public. Still, if Bruce Wayne were to be injured while traveling, for example, a doctor who wasn't under his thumb might find some very interesting things which would be detrimental if released to the public, lest some sort of compensation or persuasion were in order.

QFT. It's bad enough that we're limited to only two colors for many costume pieces (hats w/ hair comes to mind), so why limit us even further by having only one color selection?

You know, it's always a good idea to ask "Is this happening to anyone else?" before doing the Chicken Little.

That being the case, is anyone else seeing the OP's issue? Can't log in myself, but not sure if I have anything on the market anyhow.

Although I was merely using hyperbole to counter hyperbole, I think that your response has done far more than I ever could to point out over-entitlement.

The status quo changes constantly in an MMO. I think you were around for ED, yes? Now there was a change that "punished" "loyal" players for playing the game how they liked. I think likening a simple toggle change to that, for example, is laughable.

The game wants to attract more players, and in doing so, they have to make some changes to help optimize server load based on the number of rendered entities, polygons, physics, other player characters, NPCs, etc., etc. I'm sure pets may not seem like such a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but if an Atlas Park full of players were to suddenly generate a dozen other models per player, consisting of hundreds or thousands of ploygons per model, I think it would be more than just the "precious freebies" getting lagged out as their GPUs choked to death on a gluttony of polygons.

However, I'll argue that, if the "loyal" playerbase was enough to support the game, why move to F2P in the first place? Certainly, this is a tangent argument, but without the freebies that you apparently loathe, how much longer would the game have survived on the pittance afforded by a loyal, but small, fanbase? Those F2P and premium players are keeping your precious game alive.

But if you want to get into a pissing contest about how much you've spent on a game only for them to make Change X after however many years you've been playing, I may have you beat, perhaps not in subscription time, but probably in the departments expenditures (between the subscription, box purchases, comic books, M&Gs, hotel costs, travel expenditures,etc., etc.). So to come full circle on this fallacy of entitlement, I'll say that, because I've spent more on the game than you, my opinion matters more And I say: lock down the pets before we introduce more, before we get to a point where it becomes a problem.

Yes, put lots of turrets near the entry. Fun times

I laughed harder than I should have.

<Dumb server admin clicks "OK">
<Sparks start flying out of the server>

Ally summons != pets. You can summon as many allies as you like since they have a limited summon duration. The summon change to pets is WAI, since pets have an unlimited summon duration (until you zone) and there will probably be many opportunities in the future to collect or purchase pets from the Paragon Market. The devs apparently don't want to let each player have a dozen possible pets summoned at a time.

If you consider the devs looking out for performance of a player's client system and reducing lag caused by an excessive number of vanity pets (in the probably future) to be punishment, you have a bad case of selfish entitlement. Being a vet doesn't mean you have the authority to lag someone to death at will. Otherwise we might as well just recreate the Doombox and put it as a Tier 9 reward.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=277957

Flipping. Tuesday.

Enjoy a bug-filled weekend folks. Think I'll be using my time for more enjoyable ventures, like studying for Calculus.

Edit: Also confirmed here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...98#post3984098

Mayhap I retired too soon in regards to this matter.