Agonus

Most vampire groups I've run across seem to prefer just flat out ignoring any superheroes or supervillains or anything outside of their vampirey circle. Seems a little silly to me. *shrug*

See, I've been on the other end of this, and it bothers -me- when I give new members several options to interact with us like forums, prime activity times, and even OOC channels. And then the new player doesn't take advantage of any other RP opportunities I've offered them. And then they show up once every other week or so and complain that they feel left out because no one's interacting with them or they don't know what's going on.

I'll be honest, I do not get your mentality. Being in a RP group is a 2-way relationship. It's hard for us to RP with you if you don't put that much effort into RPing with us.

They are? Hmmm... I'll have to re-adjust my bets then.

ERPvP?! Oh god... there goes my blissful obliviousness on the existence of that.

Reminds me of a stand-up routine though. The comedian was talking about wearing a cross as a sign of your faith in regards to Jesus and all that. Just imagine Jesus actually coming -back- and he sees all these people walking around with a reminder of the thing he was nailed to and died on. Be like giving a sniper rifle pendant to Jackie Kennedy.

Heh. Hey, I'll be there! And for what it's worth, that was actually the main convention I was thinking of.

-Any- ads would help, current players can only provide so much word-of-mouth for the game.

And getting game review sites to update the information they have sounds good too. How CoH and CoV have been combined, Power Customization, AE, all the Boosters, etc, etc.

Getting a prime time network ad might be out of the question, but there's also G4, Cartoon Network, Boomerang!, Syfy, and Spike, among others. And I don't even watch much TV. Given the option, I'd rather be playing a video game.

Sure Marvel and DC are the Big Two for superheroes with their own impending MMOs, but they carry ads for the competition all the time. There's also Image, Dark Horse, IDW, and BOOM! too, among others.

And with things like the Natural/Ninja Booster, and the impending Kinetic Melee, why not put an ad focusing on that in anime and manga sites/magazines?

I'd also be game for a street team. Provide some sort of promo material that could be handed out at smaller conventions.

And for the in-game billboards, I think it's a grand idea. Hasn't been implemented so well to this point though. Showing ads for high-end sneakers to MMO players? Really?! What about food, electronics, movies, and music, that sort of stuff? And getting stylized ads in CoV with graphitti or Arachnos propaganda plastered in the corner would be even cooler, but aren't some companies picky about how their product gets shown? Granted a Burger King hamburger is a bit different from the cars that various companies don't want to be shown as damaged in racing games, but still, big companies can be silly.

Marvel has a claim on -their- version of Thor as depicted in Marvel comics, especially in his long blonde haired classic and current costumes. Marvel can't do jack about anyone else using Thor in another manner. I couldn't tell you NCSoft's position on the matter though other than it's probably closer to "better safe than sorry."

The people who are -still- trying to exploit AE to get any possible rewards it could give nerfed into oblivion have gotten a -lot- quieter. During the Rikti Comm Farm explosion, people were spamming anything and everything in broadcast. Now, not so much. The biggest clue any more, Redside at least, are the level 30 plus characters "lft" in Cap.

Basically, Avatar:TLA ties elemental control into various martial arts, and the practice is called bending. As has been mentioned on the forums here, Kinetic Melee looks a lot like the air bending technique.

And now all the Aang clones can keep the Naruto ninjas company. *shrug*

Jury's still out, but zounds, those animation times are long. Maybe they're going back to the "slower and stronger" attack concept?

Count me in for that as well.

Also-
Will we ever get any new Strike Forces for the villains?

And on that note, during co-op TFs will villains and heroes ever be able to trade items like inspirations?

That's another thing. Back when I was playing SWG pre-NGE, the biggest complaint about CoH, (other than the repetitive grind) was that it was a casual MMO, and not as immersive as other games. Granted a lot of options have been added since, but I've been here pretty solidly for the last 2 years so I'm out of the loop. Does the MMO community still brush off CHV as a casual, easy MMO? There was the AE backlash post the Rikti Comm Farms nerf, but what's the current opinion of the game from those that don't play?

I'm not "defending" the game. I want to see it prosper and last. What I'm doing is applying the known fact of superhero comic sales on the global market to the game. I think it's a fair comparison.

EVE really has that many players?! This is the "spreadsheets online" game, right?

I look at it this way.
A lot of people play video games, but only some video game players play MMOs. (Niche 1)
A lot of people play MMOs, but only some MMO players will try a superhero MMO. (More specialized niche 2)
Of the players who will try a superhero MMO, only some of them will try a completely unknown property like City of Heroes. (Even more specialized niche 3)

And for that matter, superhero comics, the stuff all this material is based off of, only sell moderately well in the US. Sure Warner Bros plans on using DC superhero movies to take the place of Harry Potter, and Marvel has all their Avengers movies in the works, but there are still a lot of folks who expect the general public to turn against the movies, like any minute now. Especially once/if all the B, C, and D list character movies start hitting theatres.

Don't get me wrong, I for one would love to see high quality superhero movies become a staple of American pop culture, but I'm not holding my breathe on that.