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Originally Posted by JKedan

I pretty sure the SaveCoX movement are pretty much the last group that needs to be pointing fingers.

After all, I know a guy that knows a guy, and he talked to a guy that offered five bucks, and that's way more than zero so they couldn't have possibly exhausted all reasonable offers! Five bucks! And NCSoft told him no way, and they were going to close down the boards on Sept 1st and wouldn't possibly sell for less than EIGHTY MILLION (maybe bajillion) DOLLARS, and the guy who gave that number (I know his name, and he totally hates us, but I'm not going to tell you), he won this time, but we'll get him! And if they close the game on Nov 30th, oh man, the gloves are so off. We are going to spambomb everything on the entire internet forever that has the letters N, C, or Soft, and harass them to death. Because THAT'S WHAT HEROES DO!

On second thought, I'm with you. That all sounds totally legit to me, and I'd definitely be proud of my groups objectivity and credibility if that's the sort of things some of my folks had been saying since Aug 31st. And I know it seems petty, but I think I'd better go edit wikipedia a few times now to let everyone know that NCSoft kills MMOs and stuff...

OK, WHO BEAT ME TO IT?!

Edit: Oh yeah. I know SaveCoX is totally welcoming and not at all exclusive and hostile, and accepts all reasonable (as long as you don' have any concerns about SaveCoX) viewpoints and things, but I saw a guy, I think he's a Unicorn and I know you hate those $#!. You should make sure he's harrassed. And squee about it.

Originally Posted by crayhal

I'm reluctant to invest time in any MMO now. CoH fed my cosplay fetish and saved me hours of sewing and making costumes. In 30 mins, I can crank out a cat boy or pirate chef and go to town terrorizing citizens. Even though I can preserve their memory in a screencap, it's not the same when I'm not controlling them.
CO comes close in terms of costumes, but I can't stand their game mechanics. To me, a Champion is much much weaker than a CoH villain. Heck, a lvl 20 Champion can get killed by a lvl 15 mob. And as someone else mentioned before CO can go away whenever business goes bad.
I plan to keep in touch with the community, until I can find something that folks can play together but still retain access to their creations.

Originally Posted by Turjan

In an attempt to be even handed and balanced, I googled Hyung-Tae Kim's work to see what the big deal is, because the gaming press seems to keep banging on about his "distinctive style".

What I saw was pretty much what I'd see if I typed "Korean MMO" into Google's image search. Which I did btw, just to check
The only major difference was that Kim's work seems to have a higher than average boob size compared to most Korean games. And boob constriction. All his females (adult females, not the creepy kid ones) seem to be in perpetual satin bondage.

I've seen numerous nicknames in this thread for Blade and Soul and similar Korean MMOs so I'll add mine here - ever since I saw screenies from Lineage2, I've mentally grouped such things under the blanket name "Swords and Panties".

Someone said earlier that visual style alone isn't a reason to damn a game outright - and that's a valid point.
To a point.
I have several ancient PC game titles on my shelf that I keep playing, despite the fact some are a decade or more old, so obviously they must have something going for them besides the graphics. But I also have titles I've bought and never played more than 5 minutes because their visual style simply overwhelmed the gameplay.

Blade and Soul falls into that category for me - the visual style suffocates the game. I had to laugh when I read the text of the press release concerning the launch of Blade and Soul for the west. It said the designers were working to "aggressively tailor" the game for the western market. NCSoft's track record in the west says clearly they have absolutely no idea what works in the western market (pushing Aion while killing Tabula Rasa and City of Heroes), so I await the results of this "aggressive tailoring" with amusement.

Perhaps they'll replace one of the creepy kiddie races with a "Gun Bimbo" race that retains the huge constricted boobs, but fights using an M16 instead - that sounds quite western doesn't it?

Originally Posted by Emberly

He's getting old, can't run with the big dogs any more, so the rest of the gang let him handle the BCUs so he can still feel badass and they can focus on the AVs.