Tyger42

No need for name calling.

I smell a whine post about having a Goku clone generic'd within a week of this happening if it does. :/

2 of my main characters currently are brutes. Other than the wind-up time when momentum fades on my TW brute, I have never been what anyone would call "slow". Fury builds so fast it's almost constantly full. So, I don't know what the hell you people are doing wrong, but your claims are wildly different from my experience. And I'm NOT what one would call a great player. Might be a little slow building fury at very early levels ( Up to 20 at the absolute highest ), but that changes quickly. It doesn't really make a big difference at those early levels anyway.

Honestly, fury builds so fast I haven't even noticed a significant difference between starting at full fury vs none...

You're doing something horribly wrong if your brute "hits like a defender". Even at zero fury, they're not much lower damage than a scrapper. ( Don't recall the exact damage multiples at the moment, but it's not a big difference at all )

Won't happen. Can't happen. The look of the pets is too deeply rooted in the power. Tints on auras and powers they use is about the most they can manage.

That would be kinda....opposite the concept of a berserker. Berserkers don't get better at defense the more damage they take, they get better at dishing out punishment.

...which kinda describes the entire Brute AT.

That was one thing I absolutely loved in CO. The pyschic blades power set. Ooooh.

Got the measure of it there. The packs aren't "something for nothing". They're "something for something". The "something" we're getting being entertainment. And if that entertainment for some items is the thrill some people get from gambling and virtual rewards are enough to make it worth it for those people, then there's no reason Paragon shouldn't offer the chance.

Frankly, the only problem I see people have with it is "I WANTS IT ALLLLLL!" attitude

We are. And that is exactly why, from a business standpoint, these packs are a brilliant idea. The solution is simple: Don't like it, don't buy them. But, you should resign to accept the fact that there are enough people that DO like it that it's a worthwhile venture for Paragon.

Yeah, pretty much this. I've seen absolutely nothing to indicate that his ID is not public and quite a few things to indicate that it is. While it's not specifically said that his ID is public, it's safe to assume that it is given the evidence.

@#%$-slaps Mr. Smith.

WoW is pretty toxic. Not really the game itself, but the community. So many people have had such bad experiences there that there's a lot of knee-jerk hatred toward the game.

Boohoo and good riddance, frankly. Honestly, if they can't grasp the need for such a barrier, I'm glad to not have them around as there's a good chance they're part of the group that creats that need.

And this is why the badge "suggestion", tongue-in-cheek or serious, was simply absurd. Mistakes do happen, and that's a pretty powerful punishment for a mistake.

I am. None of that detracts from my point. They're making content for the people that actually pay for it. How horrible of them! Not giving away everything for free, god!

It's not VIP only because it's incarnate-oriented. It's VIP only because it's a perk for VIPs. It just happens to also be incarnate-oriented. They've already got a crapton more free content than any other F2P MMO. They've got to leave SOME things to make upgrading to VIP desirable.

Yes, how dare they give incentive to people to pay them money.

Yeah... If you're going to give not only true immunity but reflection back of certain ATs' main weapon, then every AT should have a similar weakness. Your ( hopefully tongue-in-cheek ) suggestion makes as much sense as the one you're replying to: None.

Harm is harm, even if small. It's really the only form of harm we have at our disposal to inflict on them ( legally ).

Anyway, I apologize for the derail. It was just a statement I had to respond to, then when the rebuttal was based on something completely fabricated...well, I was annoyed.

It's not so much security by obscurity, but security by not being a big enough target to be worth the hackers' time. Even disregarding the number of players, influence in this game simply isn't valuable enough in the RMT market. Our spam problems are tiny ( In comparison...or even taken on its own merits. A few spam emails a week is nothing. ), the risk of account thieves smaller skill.

Lower mission bonuses, no reduced debt in missions, no mission slider.... There just wasn't enough benefit to doing missions and faster pace street sweeping then

And the claim that I made such an assertion is nonsense. Since the premise of your whole reply is nonsense you pulled out of thin air, I'm not going to bother with the rest. If you have to make crap up and attribute it to me in order to argue with me, don't bother replying to me. I neither said nor even vaguely implied any such thing.

Fact: Paragon benefits from each person's subscription
Fact: Cancelling your subscription harms them.
Fact: Harming them in retribution is punishment
Fact: Punishing them for a player's actions which they have no control over is just plain stupid

Nowhere does that even vaguely imply that we "owe" them anything.

Seriously. Rude players have grown exponentially in MMOs over recent years. It's not a CoH thing. Not even really an MMO thing. It's the internet in general.

Kicking right before the last fight could be considered griefing. Depends on the GM you get, it's one of those gray areas. Of course, there is a lot to the story I'm sure isn't being said. Can't really say what he's describing as "just disagreeing with" the leader...

Yes, punishing the studio. I don't know where you got that idiotic "indentured servitude" nonsense, though. Yes, removing his payment to them because of a player being a jerk. Sure, it may factor into the "is it fun" thing, but, really, it's not Paragon's fault. Pretty sure what he described was a reportable incident, too. Just seems stupid to quit the game as a knee-jerk response to one person's (richard) move.