SwellGuy

I feel like I am going to pass out. Not joking.

I think your son has excellent taste. (I love mayhem missions too.)

Or even simply an option on each power. (Simply stated that is. I am not saying anything about implementation.)

There's really only 3 options for us:
1. roll with it
2. unsub
3. not buy any more SBEs

Which one we choose depends on how we view what they did. For me they created a complete lack of trust in them that they will stand behind their product. They messed this up royally. The only good customer service model would be to at least refund a customer's Paragon Points and remove the SBEs from the customer's inventory.

Not only do they not do that, they put out another set of SBEs which people were saying were overpowered.

I guess my point is that you and Uber are arguing over the first time as if this were a one time thing and that's not really what is going on. That they refused to refund your points and they turned around and did it again shows me they lack the character to stand behind their product.

It really doesn't matter what they can or cannot do as much as what they did and continue to do.

It is very annoying and very noticeable even moreso when I have just quit to character selection.

None of mine. I save the Reward Tokens for things I cannot get any other way.

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Thank you for this. I would have been looking all weekend.

My Fortunata is meh to me like my peacebringer. I am not saying either of those are bad, they just don't do it for me.

I like my crab but I don't see him as a tankmage. I am working on my bane (I don't do the dual build thing) and am withholding judgement until I get it to 50.

I do not like them selling any of the dropped inventions set enhancements on the Paragon Market even in the account locked state they do. In my opinion it is already easy enough for anyone to play some number of hours, earn Reward Merits and/or hero/villain merits and simply buy every one of them except for PvP and Purple IOs.

However to compare people being able to convert their real money into an account bound Purple to people being able to convert real money into ingame money which is not account bound is a flawed view. As would be comparing being able to buy XP boosts to buying a powerleveling service. This is like saying selling matches means they may as well sell us nuclear reactors since both generate energy.

True. What is especially crummy about this is that they have done this, again.

In my opinion anyone who buys an SBE is throwing away Paragon Points which would be better spent on just about anything else in the Paragon Market.

What next? It's too overpowered to have the SBEs that level up with your character so we're changing them to being fixed at the lowest level they exist.

All I can do is never buy additional Paragon Points. I'll use my stipend from my subscription but Paragon's not seeing one additional penny from me after my subscription.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

Generally I agree but I've been saying since they added the PvP zones, and I am not a PvPer, if you go into the PvP zone to get something that something is not a PvE reward it is a PvP reward. To my recollection the devs "fixed" all of them except the one villain accolade which requires time spent in Sirens. That is wrong and a mistake if it is still in place. But so to is the mindset of players who feel a Shivan or a PvP zone exploration badge is a PvE reward they should be able to get without the risk of PvP.

Anyone who wants those temp stealth/invis/phase powers, the shivan pet, nukes, badges, etc. are getting a PvP reward not a PvE reward whether they actually have to fight or not and whether they can use it in PvE or not. The possibility of getting PvPed is part of the risk I take when I go get a Shivan, etc. If I hated that risk as much as some I would not go get those rewards but they are PvP rewards by virtue of requiring the risk of getting PvPed.

It's possible no answer would satisfy the asker but the simplest answer is we get our points each month so even at 400/month a person could buy 6 powersets per year with them without paying extra money to buy more points.

Some people don't want the new powersets, for example I did not buy Street Justice or Titan Weapons, but I did buy Beast Mastery and Staff Fighting. That leaves my other points from subscribing to buy other things on the Paragon Market.

Sometimes they give out new costume pieces and sometimes we need to buy them like before Freedom. Now you can save those points to buy them whereas before you had to pay above the subscription to get them.

Before Freedom we did have to buy some powersets or the release like Going Rogue which they were part of so not everything was "free" to subscribers even before Freedom.

So really, technically under Freedom if a subscriber is willing to wait they can have the stuff for "free" using points awarded as a subscriber.

Even right after CoV launched and people were slugging it out in Sirens it was fun.

I wonder would it be any worse if they simply nuked special PvP rules and gave up on trying to balance things?

Ah, so you're the Clockwork King.

That's the issue right there. They almost immediately realized there was a problem and instead of pulling it from the market or posting a warning they kept right on selling it.

While it was pretty obvious that it was going to get nerfed/changed, their lame response to the issue, that is none at the time to warn buyers, has given me pause to ever buy another SBE. Scratch that. It has given me pause to buy anything I might pre-purchase for future use on a character.

I think a similar analogy might be when they upgraded store bought inspirations to last 5 minutes. They put them on sale. A player runs out and buys a bunch. A couple months later they decide whoops, that is way too long. They downshift them to 2.5 minutes. Still 5x as long as a dropped inspiration in game but half what was being sold.

It's crappy customer service. They need to be smarter and more careful with what they sell on the Paragon Market under the Freedom model not sloppy we'll nerf it later if we mess up. I see no indication they have a concerned or concientious attitude about their sales. They are still acting like we are under the old "all is subscriber and we can nerf it if we want to and when we want to".

That's fine but this customer who has been quite spend happy in the Paragon Market has become a person who pays his sub and uses those points to buy in their market but I am not spending another penny on buying points to get things.

tl;dr I am moving from a subscribed and spending another $10/month on average for Paragon Market goodies customer to a subscribed and use the stipend points only customer.