Ok. Now that I've got that out of my system:
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The purpose of this thread isn't actually for you to "get" anything.
Then why bother with typing all those characters on the screen? Surely you didn't just type them to see them? Usually, you want people to "get" what you're writing. Else, it's just random squiggles, right? I mean, if your intent isn't for people to understand what the hell you're trying to say, you could just randomly hit keys and hit "send" and be done with it.
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It's not a rant or bug report/gm complaint. It's a social experience that says, “I’m having a problem and I think others are as well†and that kind of acts as an ice breaker to get people to share what their experiences have been on this or other problems because really, none of us really have the power to do anything other than share what our experiences have been as players both now and in the past so as to validate our readers position (with similar experiences on this or other issues).
Hard to have a social/shared experience when you're unwilling to actually share with the rest of the society. WTH did you expect from your post(s)?
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My copying and pasting my bug report and/or bug reports of my friends isn't going to make interesting reading because it doesn't reflect the complexity of the human interaction at the keyboard.
Um... What the hell does that even mean? You came here complaining about a problem with HC and AA. It's right there in the damn title of the thread. It even sounds like your issue is a legitimate bug with the AA cap extension process. But when people have asked for more clarification, instead of providing it, you've gotten defensive. If you just wanted to say "EQ sucks!", then why not just start a thread with the title "EQ sucks", and then say that over and over. We could then give your thread precisely the amount and type of attention it deserves.
When you start a thread that appears to be about a specific problem with a specific game mechanic, you should expect people to want to discuss that specific problem with that specific game mechanic. What you seem to want to do is pull a bait and switch, starting off talking about something legitimate, but then insisting that we all drift away from that and into a broad "EQ sucks" discussion. I'm not sure how this fits into your whole "human interaction at the keyboard" bit, but where I come from, that's deceptive and dishonest.
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Really what this is about is Sony taking away game choices from people.
Really? You don't say? It wasn't really about an AA bug? Color me shocked!
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For example they've taken away the choice for silver membership . That's gone.
Huh? Don't you automatically get silver on any account that was originally subbed to gold? So before you had to pay to have a silver account, and now you just sub to gold *once*, and it'll remain silver for free forever from that point on, and that's them taking something away from you?
You're a "glass is half empty" kind of guy, aren't you?
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That is precisely the case with the EverQuest AA cap increases. If you buy this product in (a f2p or silver account) as a character specific unlock it will not work for that heroic character you have specifically bought it for; so why sell an AA cap increases to f2p and silver account holders that don’t unlock AAs?
Again though, while it does seem to be a bug, this is a case of Sony
giving you something for free. HCs start with maxed AAs. So they already far exceed the maximum you could extend the AA cap to. The issue isn't them taking something from you, but a buggy interaction between the "free" AAs they give HCs, and the way the AA cap extension process works for f2p and silver accounts.
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For anyone like myself that's unhappy about that we're entitled to complain about this or any other issue and we're entitled to do so without being trolled and without having somebody parachute in and tell us we're stupid and/or illiterate for having invested ourselves in such a discussion which doesn't meet the troll's gold standard for descriptive writing.
It's pretty unreasonable to complain about an issue but then refuse to provide details about what you're complaining about when asked. If anyone is trolling here, it's you.
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What I can say is some of my friends and I simply don't want to spend thousands of dollars *more* in subscriptions for multiple gold/all access accounts for a video game that's a decade and a half old that we will *never* be allowed to own and only ever be allowed access to. For us and I know this seems heresy to the UBER crowd, but the lower cost EQ option seems to make better sense and for the people who don't agree with that....they're free to keep paying for gold/all access all the time. Of course we're not allowed to really criticize that, are we? Because it would show we're not really serious players, how could we be playing crippled heroic characters in silver accounts.....or worse yet....free to play.
That's great. My response would be that you get what you pay for.
What I find strange though is that you're willing to pay money (SC, but if you are on silver that means you paid cash for it, right?) to extend the AA cap on a single character at a time, but are unwilling to pay for a gold sub for an entire account? This is the part that makes zero financial sense. The same "it's a game you don't own" argument applies in either case, but you get a hell of a lot more bang for your buck just paying for a gold sub than you do paying for AA cap increases.
I'm not saying that the AA cap thing isn't a bug and shouldn't be addressed. I am saying that the alternative option of paying for a gold sub is pretty reasonable and you shouldn't get upset when people suggest it.
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The only bit of speculation left is, will they refund people for the AA cap unlocks on heroic characters or will they grant the AA unlock for people who already bought them and simply remove the product from the marketplace so in the future no one else can buy it?
Strange that you refuse to discuss this very issue though. Kinda hard to speculate about the best course of action when you aren't willing to explain precisely what you think should happen in contrast to what is happening. Do you see why this seems strange to the rest of us? You claim you want to talk about this issue, but then refuse to talk about it. Hmmm...
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gbaji, I hope you'll forgive me for not giving a succinct bug report but you can't help me anyway. Bro, this is just a social forum but you're welcomed to please post again and give us your 2 cents worth. After all none of us have a crystal ball. All that we ask is that our posters keep it classy here please. (It's a social forum). Thanks for everyone who keeps posting and continuing to read.
Well, gee! Thanks for telling me what kind of forum this is. I would never have known without a veteran like yourself being so helpful and informative!
Only later on did I realize that he really wanted to argue a point(s) rather than seek information or a solution to what I (and I'm sure many) thought was his gripe.. 
