Work In Progress What's Next For DCUO: New Plans For Future Episodes.

Hi Mepps,

If the optional stat clamped lower instances are still intended (not heard much about this lately), will these reward mov as if you are at that tier bracket?

Honestly? Probably replay sales. The more people forced into running the same content over and over in order to progress, the more likely they reset because the option to run other content to progress no longer exists.

I don't see why there has to be a hard cutoff anywhere TBH. The marks I get from running older content should just be reduced depending on the content I run, just like prestige, but far less extreme. I should be getting at least 1 mark per instance, regardless of tier, even if that means increasing the vendor gear price to compensate.

Are you going to decrease the price of the episodes? From what I am understanding the amount of the content we will be getting in a month IS NOT worth 10 dollars.

. This is gonna be a problem. What are gonna be the costs of the episodes since they will have less content in each one than previously?. If premiums are gonna have to spend almost triple the money for the same amount of content we where getting before.... The devs & community better start treating premiums better and not like trash like they've been. If we are gonna be spending more money now..... premiums should get more perks like higher cash cap, early access to content just like legendary & not be left out of handouts given for bugs like the recent LP. If we are expected to pay more and they expect to not give more to premiums then the devs have put the final nail in the coffin for alot of players and I would expect a drastic drop off of population

The old content will still drop gear right? And I believe the the mark of victory cap should be raised, i would basically have to be maxxed out to pay rent. I dont think that would be fair.

A league mate wanted me to ask.
since We are removing marks of trumph from the game
are they still allowed to convert Marks of Valor To Marks Of victory is that a no go?

Ok, I saw that. I misunderstood your inferred meaning of "normalized", believing it solely meant to exemplify our returning to the original/normal state like we had prior to Amazon Fury: one mark system.

After re-reading, I see I missed the bullet point showing how gear costs were being standardized.

Which explains why the "Equipped CR determines reward" idea won't work, but just brings up the question: Why standardize the gear costs? Seems to me, if the cost of each tier was still inflating, queue times would stay the same and high-tier players would not be able to trivialize progression with the fractional rewards they could get from low-tier content if allowed to play with clamped stats or missing gear.

Maybe I am wrong. Maybe I underestimate exactly how many low-tier players are queuing up for low-tier content at any given time. Either way, I like most of the changes and can live with the rest. Appreciate your continued substantial efforts to grow and improve the game.

time to pony up that $120 for legendary for a full year

I'm sorry Mepps, I'm afraid I don't follow. Sorry if i have misinterpreted something. What do you mean by "the whole tier through 5"?

Does this mean new players can get into higher tier content without having the cr? I'm sorry, I really don't mean to be rude or anything, I just don't understand your response.

Could you give us a quick example of the options a fresh level 30 has to gear up fast?

Awesome, thanks!

Something to keep in mind when you're pricing these new, smaller episodes.

We've already basically had two price increases on DLC. First, features like Legends and amenities like armories were split out that previously would have been part of DLC, while the price remained $10 each. Then, we had the recent revamp of the Marketplace which effectively made those changes retroactive to all old DLC bundles, and increased the overall price for someone who wanted to stay premium, especially if they wanted to collect Legends.

Please don't go to the well for a third time and overcharge for the episodic content. If $10 worth of content was what we would have gotten, without Legends or game mechanics like armories or movement modes, then splitting it across 3 months should not suddenly make that same content worth much more than $10.

How much will synthetics mods will cost? 5 Marks of Victory? Even if they're low tier synthetics like Synthetic III?

Actually it's 4 months.

There might be a slight confusion as MoV could mean Valor or Victory.

Like the changes though.

I'm not sure why this was a problem that needed to be solved. People expect each piece of gear to cost more. It's logical. It really makes no sense that a pair of gloves always costs the same amount, no matter what level it is. It made sense that older content rewarded less, and the gear at those tiers cost less, while still keeping that content relevant. It also meant that if you missed styles while leveling up, you could go back for them and not pay exorbitant prices for them. Now, if someone doesn't get all the vendor gear at a particular tier, they're faced with a Sophie's Choice of buying new gear with their hard-earned marks, or filling in the lower styles.

Any idea how this will affect the Merit feats? I can't see anyone grinding out 25,000 Marks of Victory to get them. Maybe scale the purchase price of the Merit Badges such that one MoV gets you 'x' badges towards the feat?