Aces_High

36 months I've been subscribed.

I receive emails whenever I reup or purchase a pack or something.

Never once have I received the newsletter. Yes the box is and has always been checked. No it's not being blocked or diverted into my spam or trash bin. Yes I've mentioned/complained about this before. No nothing has ever been done about it.

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Well... a roll back to PvP circa Ish 12 would be a start.

[/ QUOTE ]The devs have already said that this isn't going to happen. Also, if you've been here for any length of time then you already know that the devs never roll back large changes like this. Ever. They've never ever ever ever ever rolled back large changes. Think back to ED and the GDN. Statesman admitted that their datamining proved those changes lost them thousands of players and they still refused to roll them back, modify them in any way, or even discuss them.

The devs are not ever going to roll back the PvP changes, and they're not ever even going to discuss that as a possibilty. I'm not trying to tell you what you should or should not do, I just want you to realize that you're wasting your time. Still it's your time to waste, so I wish you luck.

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Keep the changes to PPPs tho. (I'm not sure when they were introduced as I left between Ish 10 and Ish 11).

[/ QUOTE ]Issue 13, same time as the PvP changes.

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I do agree that something needs to be done about the rewards for PvP. That should have been the obvious choice/fix to up participation in PvP.

[/ QUOTE ]Done. PvP only IO drops appeared in Issue 14.

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Fighting someone who just respawns is a waste of time? That's pretty much every FPS out there. And I love those and have tons of fun playing those. But I'm a comic book nerd. I want superheroic craziness PvP!

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, fighting someone that just respawns and is in your face attacking you 15 seconds later is a waste of time. Many FPS' nowdays have systems in place to prevent that from happening. And that's just one of the reasons why PvP zones in a Superhero/villain MMO were a big mistake. Another is that this isn't WW2 online, while PvP zones make sense when you're playing a soldier they are nonsensical for Superheroes/villains. Arenas and instanced PvP missions with single or double elimination makes much more sense.

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That's the big letdown on the current PvP. These characters that we have invested so much time and effort into are mere shadows of themselves in the PvP environment.

[/ QUOTE ]That's just one of the reasons why many us (even those of us that really like PvP) will not PvP in this game.

Maybe those people that dislike Ventures reviews should quit reading his reviews?

Just a thought...

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RaiderRich2001 wrote:
Not every person on here has enough sycophant brownshirt followers to sink an arc either.

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Ah... isn't that cute. He just Godwined the thread and nobody noticed.

(The following is not directed at you RaiderRich2001, but at everyone who has been whining about Venture in general. Including a certain self-important someone who felt so stung by Venture's honesty that he had to go out and start three other threads to "prove" how much more mature and intelligent than Venture that he is, and accomplished exactly the opposite.)

I really really don't get the dislike a lot of people are spewing toward Venture. Those people who become upset at his review of their arcs need to remember that they volunteered to have him rip-up their story-arcs!

And it's not like Venture has been talking in Rocket-Scientist lingo and then acting like we're idiots because we don't understand him. He mentioned that his lines come from TVtropes, and he assumes that you're intelligent enough to use Google. The biggest problem that I have with a lot of Hollywood, movie reviewers, and TV shows in general is that they assume that we're all friggin stupid. I hate that! HATE!!! Whereas Venture has made the mistake of assuming that we're all reasonably intelligent. I really like that.

But it seems that a lot of you out there prefer to be talked down to by a writer/director who just assumes you're an idiot. Maybe that's why so many of you dislike Venture. Or maybe it's because he's honest, and you really do not have the writing skills that your non-competitive "everybody wins today" grade-school teacher told you that you did.

This is the problem with those non-competitive everybody wins school programs that they have nowdays, everyone believes that they're exceptional They don't learn how to handle losing, or how to take honest criticisim without freaking out. We've all heard of Sturgeon's Law, but everyone thinks that they're the exception. "Yes, I know that most fan-fic writers suck, but this is my story we're talking about." Well guess what sweetheart, you're no exception. You're no Stephen King, and chances are that your stories are of mediocre quality at best.