The Gravity Driver (alternate) Ultimate Power was introduced via the new Ravenswood Lockbox. However, it wasn't the 1st time we received new Powers. Which of the 3 following options would you prefer? This is an anonymous, unofficial poll.
How would you prefer to receive new combat Powers? 47 votes
New Powers should be purchased via the Zen Store (like Travel Powers)
New Powers should be earned leveling a new AT to 40 (like the Automaton AT)
New Powers should be dropped via Lockboxes (as they are currently)
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Perhaps you could put that in the options in the OP.
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How about simply having new powers available for FF slots? You know, for people who actually spent their real life money for subscriptions/LTS/FF slots to play with new powers?
And I eventually miiight get behind purchasing entire new powersets, but not individual powers.
If it's a whole new Power Set. Put it in the C-store. I'll buy it.
No ATs.
No Lock Boxes.
Earn thru Mission? Sure. As long as the mission isn't: 1st mission to kill 999 Baddies. 2nd gather 65 Evidence Pieces. 3rd wait the "Event" to begin.
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As long as said boss isn't part of a temporary event.
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But for the sake of the "We're trying new things to get more money to embiggen this game," I'd say a full powerset in the C-Store along with accompanying Archetype would be sweet. This way new powers can be used by all players, not just Gold.
If done right, paid content packs with exclusive rewards could be pretty cool. Say you got a storyline with four minor villains and one big boss dude, and each one has a new, signature move, each from a different powerset, along with maybe a few costume parts unique to these characters. These bosses could drop tokens used to acquire the powers and costumes.
I didn't mind the Archetype approach at all, but some people were really touchy about its powerset so they'd have to build them a bit better. I liked that it made me play different than any build I'd made before, so it definitely had a big fun factor for me. You only get money out of Silver players this way though.
You know, I never heard the word embiggen till I started reading these forums..
Aww, I was hoping you'd tell me that "embiggen" is a perfectly cromulent word!
Travel powers are fluff items. They are simply skins of already freely existing travel modes.
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able to be used with a reasonable selection of other powers.
with no eye watering graphics.
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I cancelled my monthly sub. Mostly because I can see exactly where this is going. If it ends up like STO subbing won't really make any sense as new shineys are going to come in lockboxes. The only upside is that those new things will also be available on the AH.
For now I'm content with the 9 AT's I have. We'll wait and see how it pans out.
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When people buy certain power sets they can use those numbers to find out which sets are more popular and add new powers to those sets that are granted retroactively. If they want people to buy more power sets they can make new ones to get players to buy those.
If you are subscribed you shouldn't need to buy powers since you are already buying them every month!
They can still do this system. Keep freeform slots as able to use all powers forever unless they can come up with a plan to change the slots to this new system and refund the zen so players can buy power sets. Keep the character slots as a thank you for buying into the overpriced slots from before.
Mega Man can do it, why not us?
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I think new power frameworks would have been the right course--pay for Silvers, like an AT, and free for Gold.
Another possibility, for making just one power at a time, like this, is for the power to cost equal to or less than one month of stipend in the C-Store, so it is "essentially free" to Gold/LTS.
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Mega Man actually takes the programming and components of Robot Masters and incorporates it into his being, aka, he isn't draining anything, he's adding new parts piecemeal to himself.
As far as my view, if anything in the Zen store, though people that are subbed should probably get these powers for free. Then again, I also believe that a limited freeform should have been implemented not the terrible AT system we have now.
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The animated series, from the 90s, had him absorbing the powers of the other robots.
Lets forget about that cartoon >_>"
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They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
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THIS!
I'm fully of the opinion that single powers should be done for free to Gold members or as part of the corresponding AT. Especially since Cryptic's already copped out (for the second or third time on this game) and said no new power sets. If anything, I would be okay receiving an ultimate ability as a card bonus for opening different types of boxes, but under no circumstances is it acceptable for cryptic to lock them behind a random (and terrible) drop rate from a lotto box.
Entirely unacceptable.
More so, since people voiced out against it and Cryptic pretty much didn't care... like always. This was a bad move, and it's only going to get worse.
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We already have human sacrifice and the VB stuff, so grimdark is already here.
Imagine, if they create a whole new Adventure Pack (as big as Resistance) and your rewards for Completing it and finding extra Secrets is Powers
The Mechanon Questline was pathetic, and definatly didn't worth the Hype
the Automaton project was a big Failure, 3 powers on a badly build AT didn't worth the trouble
Lockboxes are NOT New Content
or just...
... THIS^
I can get behind this.
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It can't be "run dry" as I and I'm sure at least some others are still subbing month to month. If I pay 10-15 bucks a month every month for night on six years now, I've gone over the value paid into the game that an LTer has by a factor of at least two and as much as three if compared to the original discounted $200 LT price tag.
The well can't be "dried out" if I and others like me still pay month after month. I'm still a bit sore that those years of my payments were used to make STO and NWO, rather than placed back in CO.
I was under the false assumption that eventually all the upgrades and additions those games got to the engine would make their way here, but alas...
We frankly do need more value added to subbing, as the monthly sub costume piece isn't cutting it. I'm about ready to go silver and I've been here sine a year before day 1.
Something amazing better be on the horizon for the anniversary or shortly thereafter.
Er, as far as the OP question goes.
I think Sub and LT subs should get them up front, they paid for it already. at least assuming this is Zen / Q store powers.
I am not against unlocking things in gameplay, but the gameplay should be compelling and fun, not a chore, and should have a faster get-around for those who want to grind it out faster..[Like the tokens for the Independence day event, that was great. 5 per day easy, plus 1 bonus for each additional run you chose to make] .
As well as a time based auto grant at the end of the event for people who are subbing or LT [Sort of like the release of the Celestial powers at the first Bloodmoon, and how people could unlock them in gameplay in the event, or wait two weeks after the event and just get them for free, although at that time, everyone playing was subbing].
I admit a token grant at the end of APs and CSs would be pretty great too, I still like to play those things.
Agreed, but only if the LTS has not been spending money on a monthly basis all along as well.
In my case I have actually stopped spending money on the game for the simple reason that Cryptic no longer adds things, that I am interested in buying, at a rate that out paces my stipend. But, for years, I spent more per month than the cost of a subscription on top of buying two LTS.
Still, my thanks to you and those like you supporting the game on a monthly basis with your sub fees.
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Judging by the new category in the AH, I'm guessing we'll be getting all / most of our new powers in boxes. Hey, devs! Since you're fiddling with that mess, how about removing the 'bag' category? It only exists to scam new players out of globals anyway.
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Future powers/powersets should be either freely usable by all gold/LTS players when added to the game, in a similar manner to Earth and Wind Power sets as well as New Telepathy and New Laser Sword (although hopefully with less existing bugs).
However, much like it has already been said by some, for the sake of trying to generate more money for Champions Online, I would not be opposed to buying new powers or power sets if they were priced reasonably and had undergone great amounts of testing and feedback and looked fantastic (much like Gravity Driver).
I can see why buying/unlocking the set in the Z-Store would be better, so that they can see what sells well and what doesn't and just make money in general. I'd like to think that this would bring in just as much cash as lockboxes, but I don't think that would be the case without them being overpriced. (Note: I have no idea how much lockboxes or Z-Store purchases make CO and even if CO fully benefits from the money it makes, but for the sake of argument let's say it does).
Basically, new combat orientated powers, be they New Ultimates or New Power Sets should be permanently available to purchase in Z-Store or some sort of Powers Store or even for completing a related piece of permanent story in Champions Online. (For example, I'd have been much happier to unlock Rocket Fist and AoTM via completion of Steel Crusade on X Difficulty, than levelling a squishy AT to lvl 40)
The only things I'd be happy to see in lockboxes are:
Vehicles, Legion Gear, Costume Sets plus the usual stuff that we normally have.
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What I think they'll do, though, is to put more new stuff in limited time lockboxes and then run the Timewarp event more frequently.... double bubble on Zen/key sales.
Look at this, we still only have 1 Questionite Costume Set, they never added another one
Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to be able to buy Reskins of existing powers from Q store (...Like all the Magical Power Armor reskins Lemuria Power armor use...) Those powers would fit BETTER for my PA armor character theme and they are pretty
If, gun to my head, I had to make some other way, I would do it via in-game farming. Some sort of new recognition currency, with some vendor, where you have to do missions... I wouldn't even make it new missions, I would make it current stuff like "go do this Open Mission" or "Go run this Comic Series" or "go kill X amount of enemy faction" or "Go run this Lair"... actually it would be all four. Every day you would get four random daily missions, one of each type I just listed, you would do them, get your tokens, and in a few days you would be able to get a new power.
Gun to my head.