gameboy1234

Yes, LFG or Freedom would be great.

Another thing I'd like to see is the number of people waiting in the queue. I think some feedback is critical. "Average" wait time is no good if there's only three people waiting, your effective wait time is infinity if that happens.

JUST announced by Z on the U Stream chat not 30 seconds ago, known issue. It's going to be a fun patch. Z also said earlier that there's some issues and they may go over the 6 hour time.

Also the servers are "up" for testing but you can't log in. Hold your horses, you won't be able to log in until at least 1 pm Pacific Time at least.

I was going to say "mastermind" too, if the goal is to be able to walk away from a keyboard, although I'd suggest Bots/Dark Miasma. Run the Nightfall aura, target your Assault bot, and put Twilight Grasp on auto, and voila! instant auto death machine.

(Actually I haven't tried targeting through my pets. It works on NPCs so I assume it'll work through a pet.)

Yup. You get what you pay for. There's plenty of options for returning customers listed up thread in addition to paying a minimal $2 monthly fee. I don't feel the need to reiterate them here.



Seriously, I don't think "crack dealers do it" is a good business model for anyone. The idea of getting players to return is to get them to pay something. If they won't, at all, or make any kind of compromise, then I really truly don't think they're going to be paying for anything in the future.

The goal is to NOT give away the store. Dot-bombs didn't get that. We've learned our lessons, so we're not doing that any more.

This is correct.

It costs $2 per month to play with IOs under the current Freedom billing model. If that isn't the deal of the century, I don't know what is.

Except for possibly playing completely for free for 50 levels and getting all the legacy content too, just the way we all used to play up through Issue 8.

Quoting for emphasis. Those new global channels are where it's at. They have a max capacity of like 2500 folk, so it's like being in guild with 2500 members. There's almost always something going on, regardless of the server.

Get to your server forum (on these forums here), and ask about the global channels. If you have problems finding folk, ask on the forums when is the best time to play or find folk. You may have to switch servers depending on what times you play, but there's almost always a way to find folks. But you do have to ask for the advice.

I play my characters in the Ouroboros missions with out enhancements to get badges. It sucks but it's doable. You don't *have* to immediately respec. Odds are most returnees won't notice right away.



And if they won't at least shell out $2 per month, who cares? If they're not going to make any effort at all, then they probably aren't going to stick around regardless.

Players who want to play will find a way to make it work. Maybe they couldn't justify $15 per month but $2 is within their budget. Maybe they'll take the time to respec into SOs. Those are the people you want as customers because they'll stick around and because they want to be here. The entitlement oriented folks who expect everything they had for free, I doubt they'd ever be a customer.

I've added Help to my default list of channels, and I answer questions when I'm able.

I do think one more server wide channel that everyone, even Free players, have access to by default would be a good idea. It would at least leave Help for those actually needing help, and LFG and general chatter could go on the new channel. Some folks have proposed calling this new channel "Freedom".

But regardless, yes, there are going to be folks chatting with the newbies, myself included.

I tried it on beta. You get messages relating the queue, but that's it. If you tried to join all trials at a level less that 50, for example, it tells you there are some queues you don't qualify for.

But it seems to be system only. No player messages.

I think it is, or should be, a tertiary goal just to get more folks playing. There more people are online, the more fun it is for everyone. The primary goal I'm sure is to get more VIP sign-ups. The secondary goal is to get those who don't want to be VIPs to buy stuff in the store.

Towards that end I support some changes that might make it easier for new folks to sign up and enjoy themselves. Global friend tells, for example, and a Freedom channel. Also I'm thinking that gifting items from the story, including the points/status you would have got from the purchase. That way, your friend can sign up, and you can send him 400 points so he won't be on a noob account anymore. That I think would be a huge deal for getting new blood in.

Where I draw the line is nerd rage like "free play screws me over" or nonsensical hyperbole like "my infant baby will have no formula to eat." That stuff is just beyond the pale.

Yet you're spending ~$14 per month right now. I can tell because you require a subscription to post your screeds here.

Nevertheless, if you can't afford $2, then fine, but don't complain that you don't get any IOs. Just make do, ok?

Much too strong.

I can't. $2 per month isn't going scare anyone off.

"Earn" is not pay-for. The devs have said we could keep anything we paid for. They didn't say we'd keep everything we earned in game. For example: If I stop paying, all my incarnate powers go away, even though I "earned" those by grinding quite a lot of trials.

I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for $2 per month, or if you're unable to afford that, then there's plenty of reasonable alternatives:

1. Use your second build.
2. Play a new toon so you don't loose any already slotted IOs.
3. Hang out in AP and role play instead.
4. Play with friends who can buff you and don't mind your IO-less status.

Especially #2 above. Leveling new toons is half the fun in this game, why not just do that? You won't loose any IOs and you can enjoy all the new lower level content to boot.

Which is also a measly $2 per month.

They won't loose anything if they're smart and I dunno do something else with their FREE ACCESS instead. And you can call me a communistic, ignorant, shallow, uncompassionate, judgemental, tactless bore if you like but if you have every slot filled and every build filled with tricked out IOs and can't afford $2 per month then yes: I have absolutely no sympathy for you or your screwed-up priorities. Get a job.

Which Paragon Studios is doing by not giving you everything you want for free. Which you seem to expect them to. Yet you accuse US of being communists or something because we point out that you should expect to pay for the server farms, development time and bandwidth you consume and not get it all for free along with your gov't cheese.

Man if that isn't the height of hypocrisy and confusion, I don't know what is.

Which would be extra work for the devs, to benefit customers who by definition aren't going to pay.

Whereas now you're completely screwed over if you can't pay because you can't play at all.

I'm still having trouble seeing how folks feel getting to play for FREE is screwing someone over. If your top toon(s) have all of their builds filled with pricey IOs that you don't want to rip out and replace with SOs, play some other character that still has an extra build to spare.

Sheesh, this isn't hard, unless you're trying really hard to make it hard. You can also buy some of the Premium IOs that don't require a license. Or pay the measly two bucks a month for the IO license. I spent more than two bucks on a friggin' single serving of frozen yogurt just today. Jeebos Christos on a stick folks. I'd be a lot more sympathetic to your arguments if you could come up with something besides "playing for free is screwing me over."

Yes, that totally sucks that your friend can play for free. *facepalm*

There ya go. Just like the old days. BUT IT TOTALLY SUCKS THAT HE GETS TO PLAY FOR FREE!!!

Not in terms of rewards, there isn't. I guess being a Praetorian is its own reward.