@Brian!

Why should we give them a break?

They said "Limited TIME offer" not "Limited Quantites offer"

They said the offer would be available until Sept. 1. It wasn't. So they lied.
END OF STORY.

I was already on edge after how bad the beta ran, how unfriendly, unintuitive, chaotic & just plain unworking / broken the teaming system is. Almost impossible to get the same quest as the rest of your team as sharing almost never works. (which also makes sidekicking COMPLETELY pointless)

Also the framerate is horrible even on a good rig. The bloom effect makes the game look like a Barbra Walters interview. The color selection is lacking (sure they want to keep it 4 color comic looking but the palate hurts the eyes after a while).

The instances are too small. 100 people for the MAIN zone, Millennium City? Nowhere near enough. + The instances themselves are annoying & take you out of the immersion.

Bugs out the Wazoo. a brief list off the top of my head

- when trying to get into a zone near cap, even if your team is in it you get "Game server connect fail" and DCed.

- If you go to a dif instance, like say the powerhouse, and the zone your team is in approaches cap; you cant get back to your team. You have to either sit there and wait for people to exit. or ask your whole team to switch to another instance. In which case they're transported away from the quest and everybody has to start all over again.

- Mouse sensitivity is out of wack w/ look speed. No adjustment for it in options.

- Cant move powers to right side of tray, for aesthetic seperation or simply to avoid hitting the wrong key. All are auto moved to the leftmost open spot.

- energy building to test powers is almost non-existant in the powerhouse.

- UI scaling system is completely broken. You make it bigger (say you play on a HDTV) and things like for ex the Bank, the UI goes off the screen & you cant move it around. Half the UI boxes are unmoveable.

- little bits that show the game is not finished & debugged. Even Chief Surnhoff (in the tutorial zone) tells you the interact button is F (like it was long ago in closed beta); BUT it is Z now!

- hitting z to interact is too sensitive & they need to make a timer on it cause sometimes u hit z and it goes through the whole interaction screen and u cant go back to see what it was.

- search window is useless, instances arent even numbered. now way to search by a persons stat focus so it's all a crapshoot. They learned nothing from CoH's excellent search. (also the search columns arent resizeable and the UI problem comes into effect again w/ everything being cut off/unreadable)

- team members names are like a dark powder purple/blue. really hard to see. but other peoples names of ppl who are in other teams but not yours are in bright neon green? that makes no sense.
etc...

I should have listened to the little voice in my head when I head that most of the people who ran Cryptic stayed at NC, while Jack left w/ the company name.

Because of this I'm canceling my pre-order. I'm not spending $60 to beta test an unfinished & unfun game for 6 months. And I'm not spending $50 on a game which will be $30 next year. At which time I will be playing TOR anyway & dedicating my MMO time to that.

CoH gets to keep my money for another year. Cryptic / Atari, good luck w/ your disaster of a game.