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Originally Posted by DarkGob

To be honest, I'd be pretty satisfied with those badges just going away. It's the same problem as the old Veteran Badges -- a theoretically infinite series of badges, which means unless you've been subbed since Day 1 you'll always be behind. Imagine if the damage/mez/influence/etc Achievement badges worked like this. Oh, so you finally earned 1 billion influence? Congrats! Now try for 2 billion. Done with that one? Give 5 billion a shot. How about 10 billion after that? 20? 50?

Originally Posted by Warkupo

Other than to keep up with everyone elses' constantly inflating wallets? There isn't. But that's the nature of the free market. If you want socialism you need to go play in the paragon market.

Actually, that's the primary reason I would *encourage* pieces to be put on the paragon market as it creates a benchmark or how much an item is going to cost, rather than just inflating forever into the stratosphere. I'm not going to pay 2 billion influence for Kinetic Combats when I know I can just buy them from the store for like, 2 dollars, or 200 merits, or 2 alignment merits (or whatever it actually is.) It sort of keeps things balanced.

Originally Posted by Warkupo

It's a two-way street, though. I can just as easily acquire that low tier salvage and sell it for 500k. The value of money goes down as we have more of it. Things aren't really more expensive, and you aren't really getting any richer. Gotta ride that wave~

Originally Posted by Sarha

Unless you don't want to have to wait for someone to post the common salvage that isn't worth anything but has been artificially 500,000 influence. I mean if you wait sure you won't be ripped off and you'll eventually get it for the price you want, but that is also boring. Although in the grand scheme of getting influence, 500k ain't that much - just frustrating to pay that much for something that is common.

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

Spoken as if you have no idea how markets work, especially the consignment system CoX uses.

It is nearly impossible to be ripped off in CoX unless you deliberately set up the transaction that way yourself instead of using the consignment house. Software glitches or typing errors aside it is literally impossible to be ripped off when using the consignment house. And even then a typing error is you ripping yourself off.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

I'm going to say something which some of you may find unpopular, but there are times where it is my responsibility to stand up and be an advocate for our team. I apologize if my words cause you to be upset, but it is the right thing to say.

When you say we do not listen to feedback, it is disingenuous. You can accuse us of many things, but accusing this team, the team now, the developers who have been working on this game for over a year, of not taking player concerns into account it is something that is, quite frankly, hurtful.

For example, let's look at the Super Packs. Based on feedback we have implemented the following:

• ATO's available through in game means
• Enhancement Catalysts in game drops
• Price points for the packs set based on early feedback
• Offering discounts when purchasing in bulk based on early feedback both on the forums and at the Player Summit.
• Improvements made to the Inspirations found in the packs, over doubling their duration in some cases and making them persist through death (this change was done based on feedback that these items weren't originally very desirable, especially when found in Super Packs).
• Increased the rate at which costume pieces are discovered in packs
• Usability improvements based on feedback on the beta user start to finish experience.
• We're not launching with an alternate option to acquiring the costume pieces, but it is still something we're open to later on down the road.

What you say is important to us. We listen to it, we consider it. Sometimes we don't always agree with it, and sometimes you're not going to agree with what we decide, and that's just how it works out sometimes. I can point at all sorts of examples where we have made adjustments or changed our initial design based on Community feedback (costumes, Incarnate Trials, Powers designs, etc, etc...) and I know you can point to all sorts of instances where we haven't heeded or listened to expressed feedback. It's a give and take and there will always be compromise.

I love you guys. I will walk through the fire for my Community and I will always, no matter what, represent your interests, regardless of my personal opinion. I have worked with developers who completely disregard player feedback, and I promise you, the Paragon Studios development team is not among them.

-Z

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Am I only the only person who ever bought trading cards?

This "gambling" argument is just sad.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I know which ones you mean

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

A place where freeloaders can't cram up discussions with requests for more free stuff that they don't have to pay for. The beta program in general was repurposed as a sort of thank-you for paying subscribers.

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

Yeah, go figure, in a thread titled "Have we figured out who the Letter writer is?"... What, did you expect the answer to be a resounding no?