Scratches

@Mikx
The character creator was not programmed to draw that many wrinkles nor thinning hair.. ;p

Wait, I thought TSW was going to be a f2p game..?

Also, did anyone else catch the slight nuance between the Master and GrandMaster packs' offerings? More specifically, I'm referring to the offer of "30 days of game time," and a "lifetime Premium Subscription," respectively.
So, not only is there a base monthly access fee, but there are also tiers of access? Nice... lol

Needless to say: Pass.

After reading all this stuff about legends and being legendary and the stuff of legends, this is all I can think of... :/

http://youtu.be/WZzcEJQ8Hnw?t=18s

So... Rebecca Black was a Sorcerer all along..?

This explains everything!

@pid
It's free2play's ugly sister, because apparently we'll first have to drop $60 just to have the privilege of "playing the game" (*cough* I mean, "buying things from the cash shop").
Likewise, if this is the alternative, I'd rather pay a sub fee...

Anyone else find it kind of interesting how both this and the theory/design that started monoclegate were both pushed/presented by the respective companies' presidents/CEOs, and not someone from the development team proper? smh, lol

@alucard3000
So it's nothing but a cash grab, then? Interesting philosophy you're defending here.

Is the cost of driving groups of players away worth whatever money they'd gain doing RMTs in-house, though?
Word of mouth is quite powerful, and it has destroyed games before. RMTs, however, haven't -- not even Runescape or FFXI (arguably the worst infected).

@Utakata
To be fair, there's a difference between PLEX and Aurum in EVE. PLEX I don't have a problem with, but the concept behind Aurum sucks hairy chocolate donkey balls.

And with how this is starting to sound, I honestly don't like it much either -- especially if some of what they offer in the cash shop ends up mirroring the in-game items they're giving away in the collector's edition (and why wouldn't they? why only make such single-use items for that and that alone?).

Sure, it's great that they're trying to cut RMT 'businesses' out of the picture, but... it's like, okay, 6 to 12-months ago I was beyond excited for this game, but today, after hearing more and more about their desired pricing models and such, I almost couldn't care less about the game.

Instead of saying, "omg this game WILL be great," and defending it vehemently, I'm now of the mind that, "sure, it might be great," and I'm sitting back and waiting to see how much Anet are willing to screw up the good thing they had going with GW1's store.

Hell, even WoW's store is starting to look better than what this could pan out to be, imo...
/jaded

Eh. This is no different than PLEX in EVE.

In other words, this is both new, interesting, and controversial... *eyeroll*

While I do like some of the stuff they're packing into the CE, after playing the beta, I'll be passing on this. The gameplay just doesn't deserve the Diablo name, imo. *shrug*

I'm interested in the story, of course, but I can get that from watching someone stream it on Twitch...

@Wic
To be fair, they have until April 10th.

I just might have to resub for a month to check this out though -- see what the game was supposed to be like back at launch... /hmm