docbuzzard

OK, I tried again last night. I cranked my graphics down to medium across the board. I made it through a run each of Lambda, BAF, and Keyes without any glitches.

I didn't have much time for trials yesterday, but I was 0 for two in success getting them to work. I had basically the same experience as the OP. I would get in, done some stuff, and poof crashed. My attempt at Keyes made it past the first reactor till we started on the second. My BAF of the day didn't last past the first time I get into combat. I was unable to rejoin the Keyes, and didn't have time to try to rejoin the BAF.

I will likely try to adjust settings tonight to see if I can get the crashing to stop.

When, pray tell was this run? I suppose maybe in the 40s he might have been their main character, but not since the Silver Age.

I'm not really sure how relevant that is, or even how you'd do it.

A flagship character will be featured in more books. That's simple common sense.

Yeah, since the Silver Age began, Spider Man has been the flagship Marvel character. You can see it just in the number of books published. Captain America has had one title to his name, while Spidey has had multiple titles. Captain America didn't even appear till a few years into the Silver Age, when they found him frozen.

On the DC side Superman has had multiple titles for a very long time. Their only other character with such treatment is Batman.

I don't believe he was referring to Lethal Weapon 1. Black had writing credit on Lethal Weapon 4. That one was atrocious.

Transformers is coming out that weekend. I assume they didn't want to butt heads.

Though I will say, this looks plenty better than the new Transformers movie (actually, any of the Transformers movies really).

Yeah, I knew that. I just didn't know Hawkeye would be a starter, and had thought maybe Wasp and Ant Man would be in.

You forgot to apply the natural logarithm and then run it through a Bessel function.

Poor example how about we try:

You leased a BMW 330. You stopped paying your lease. You no longer get the BMW 330. (what a shock) Mind you, you never actually bought the car. If you had the manufacturer apply upgrades, that was nice while you drove it.

However the company offers as a marketing ploy some BMW 1 series cars for free. They are nowhere near as nice as your 330. They aren't as fast, nor as roomy. They also have an ad on the side. To be nice to prior lease holders, they have decided to include some of the options you had on your old lease model.

You leased COH. You never bought it. The minute you stopped paying your lease in the past, it went away immediately. It didn't matter if you bought every single bonus pack, expansion, and available slot on every server. If you stopped paying your subscription, it went poof.

Your inability to grasp the fact that nothing changed in the context of last week to this week other than a gift being offered is pure whining.

When did I start speaking for the rednames?

Though what I stated above is fact. Are you going to claim that had COH:Freedom never happened, you would have had a right to play any characters of any AT on any server at all without paying a subscription fee?

That's pretty clearly a fact. There's no opinion involved there. I only have to go back a week or so to prove this. The history is pretty damned clear.

They have been quite clear that any characters you have made in the past will still be there, even if accessible. You aren't losing them. You are now constrained by a new set of rules predicated on your lack of paying any money. If you bought extra slots, those are being thrown in because they were explicitly paid for. The basic boxes sets are not in the same boat as they wish to define things. Considering it is a free offer, whining about what is included is undignified.

Though I'll say right now, catering to people who complain about how much free stuff they will get in the future is not a way to build a business plan.

No, you are whining about how much is available to you. It has been explained.

Go read the boxes you bought. Read what they say about what you get for it. I guarantee all of them say that everything you get is predicated upon paying a subscription fee. Period. You paid money for the use of those things only in the context of a monthly subscription.

Them offering you anything for free is a gift.

Let me ask you this, since you've already given the background:

As of last week you knew you would be cancelling your subscription. You knew you would have ZERO access to the game or anything you had already paid for. Were you complaining then? Did you feel you were being denied something you had paid for?

I content that if you can answer that question honestly, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

This is at best sorta true. The VIP model should be viewed as the default model of play. Everything else is a restricted account which only offers what the company decides to offer to be nice. In the absence of said offer your access would be nada. Anything they offer you above the level of nada is a kindness, as nada is all you are truly entitled to.

You bought access to the game while you paid to play it. Anything else is a gift they are providing to be nice. In other words, you bought what you already consumed. The fact that they are willing to extent anything to you on the basis of what has been bought before is quite generous as they have no responsibility to do so.

It's fun to read because it happens to be true.

If that were all, you would have stopped there. You didn't.

Yes, you bought the right to play the game as is. If the COH:Freedom announcement had never happened, would you be complaining that when your subscription lapsed, you would be cut off? (hint, any answer but 'no' would be a lie).

Complete and utter hogwash. I mean this involved some pretty damned dirty hogs at that.

You paid for all those aforementioned things with a clear understanding of what you would get.

Those boxes coupled with a monthly subscription guaranteed you the game and the add-ons.

Now that they offer a new option where you get stuff for free, you have to understand that anything they decide to give you is a freebie. They have no onus to satisfy more desire for free stuff. You got exactly what you paid for at the time, and nobody deceived you in the least about what you were buying. To claim you will be paying twice for something is a complete fabrication.

You already got what you paid for just as much as someone who quit before COH:Freedom got what they paid for and stopped getting access when they stopped subscribing. Your inability to comprehend the idea that the game existed on a subscription model (and still will), and purchases in that context are relevant only to that model means you are showing entitlement mentality.

Anything the company is giving you for free is a gift. It is a kindness on their part (or a marketing trick if you want to see it that way). Looking askance on free stuff is plain whiny.

It takes an entitlement mentality to complain about free stuff.

Again-
"Here's your free BMW."
"But it's a one series, and says your company's name on on the side. I want a three series, this sucks!"

Complaining about free stuff requires an entitlement mentality.

Oh how about we use some quotes of yours to demonstrate?

The above all clearly indicate an entitlement mentality. You are taking your own view of what is owed to you and applying it to a free offer.

Funny, then why did you go into the segue about how you have the right to express dislike? I never implied you didn't. Defensive are we?

How about we look at it this way, they want more free stuff than is being offered. That's is the fact, cut and dry.

Your first paragraph is utter bunk. If they continue paying for the game, as they currently do, they don't lose anything they paid for. Everything remains the same, but more stuff is available.

They are complaining that the free stuff they are being offered is insufficient. That is whiny and irritating.

Let me repeat this simple fact- NOT A DAMN THING IS BEING TAKEN AWAY. People are not losing anything. They are not being cut off. Their quality of game play is not being diminished in any way. They are merely being offered FOR FREE a new option. If they cannot accept that gift horse without grumbling, you're damned right I won't be respectful because it is a position not deserving of respect.

On the flip side, anything you do post is subject to comment by others who also subscribe. Go figure. Your entitlement mentality (yes, asking for more on a free account is an entitlement mentality) annoys me, so I will persist in commenting.

If you can't get the simple fact that you are complaining about something which is brand new and free, then you are whiny. You complain that the free stuff you are being offered isn't sufficient. That is a whine.

I could see this as valid, though I still admit that any consumer in today's world that believes they are getting something for free without any strings attached deserves not a lick of sympathy.

What the company is going to be giving out for free is pretty damned amazing, IMO. People whining about it actually rile me.

"Here's your free BMW."

"But it has the name of your company on the side, and it's only a 1 series!!, you bastards!!"

You never assumed you'd have to pay for something again? You mean like that subscription fee, without which you would not be currently playing at all?

So you were hoping to use your free points to score new free stuff rather than unlocking access on a free account to stuff that never was free in the past.

My utter and complete lack of sympathy cannot be expressed in words.

Yes, you are whining that you are not getting sufficient FREE stuff.

You deserve all of zero sympathy or consideration.

Yeah I waited through the credits till an ad come up. I didn't see a second scene.