Another_Fan

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down View Post
    Why do people think you're hating?

    Terminology used by you in two quick examples in this thread alone:
    • "CoH is like a rotten tooth that NCsoft has pulled for me."
    • "What I value most in any business is honesty and reliability CoH never had either."

    Both, at best, are pejorative statements meant to evoke an emotional response. While you may attempt to present yourself in a "neutral" manner, the wording you've used in those two examples alone shows a fairly high level of disdain for the developers and how they managed the game. ( That even extends to several forum posters that you have disagreed with on various levels. )

    By using such language it shows that deep down, you're not really using a "form of basic observations and enumeration of incidents involving the developers and their behavior." You're just trying to hide behind a false wall of "neutrality".
    Well I won't dispute that I have disdain for how this game was managed. It isn't like I made a secret of the fact. I also really hated seeing people lead on by their hopes. I have always felt that was a very horrible form of manipulation.

    But I liked playing the game. It was a recreation I could share with my wife and something we could still do that both of us enjoyed. We had even divided what we did with our toons. It reminded us of when we were first starting out so many years ago.

    What killed me, was simply put the game got to be like eating ice cream when you had a rotting tooth. You might love the ice cream but you never knew when a spoonful was going to leave you writhing in agony.

    The "FIX" for blasters was a perfect recent example. After 8 fricking years finally blasters were getting improved. IMPROVED MY Fing aunt Fanny. No No moving blaster's stats up a little so they are in line with all the other ATs is too simple. The devs have to show how brilliant they are and DESTROY EVERYONE'S concept for their blaster.

    Hats off.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter View Post
    You can do that for free though.
    You can ?

    How did that work with the loyalty program badges or the badges you could only get by being incarnate ?

    Edit: The Really hard way, always looked like a scheme to see if they could leach more out of people that were paying. That looked like it needed every storebought insp you could carry, and amplifiers and anything else you could use.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    Yup! Nothing like hoping more people get put out of work! \o/
    Or more people deprived of a past time they enjoy.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter View Post
    I'll bet
    It's the internet.

    You don't find porn, porn finds you.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    They went with the comicbook hour glass figure. And max slider made to look normal? Last I saw of a max waist slider, the character looked like they were a little overweight (unless you're calling that the normal). Sooo, being skinny isn't normal?

    Though women "only getting" was never true. Yes, they didn't get certain coats and vests (which WAS suckie) but only the gunslinger pack was kinda meh. Witch set had non revealing option, the fact that people always focused on it having a revealing option made me realize the devs couldn't win either way. Players were going to ***** to *****.

    CoH's walk is much better than CO's.

    Interrestingly enough, for all the complaints onthe forums about not getting certain costume options, when made available, I hardly saw anyone use them, while people still used the ones people complained about on the forums.

    Maybe the devs knew the player base better than the forum users, after all.
    The irony of people complaining about other games objectifying women or hypersexualizing the medium is at best hypocritical.


    Not like CoH didn't do its bit. The truly strange thing is every time people complain about the sex in blade and soul, it just makes me more curious about a game I wouldn't have given a second look.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ogi View Post
    So are the Titan Crew a part of the Bilderbergs or *dramatic pause* are the Bilderbergs just a part of the Titan Crew?
    Neither and I never started beating my wife.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    Excuse
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Excuse
    For 8 years these people have been shutting down any dissent on the forums. Now they can't. Surprise the people that liked the game but really didn't like how it had evolved are having their say.

    I am sure they will go back to their campaign of getting other people's games shut down, all the while complaining anyone who disagrees with them is a hater.

  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by blackjak View Post
    Another_Fan:
    What I 'm confused about is,since you are obviously not happy with the game, why continue to spend time here hating it? I get being over it and all, but I would think you would have moved on by now. You are hyper critical of Titan and the efforts to save the game. I almost understand that, but it sounds like a personal vendetta in the posts you have made.
    BTW, I am actually glad you LOL'd there. I was startimg to worry about you popping a vein..
    I don't know why people think I am hating.

    Most of what I post is in the form of basic observations and enumeration of incidents involving the developers and their behavior.

    Admittedly the titan identifying folk seem to live off of misconstruing things.

    Case in point,I provide examples of the most hateful person ever on earth was not uniform or consistent in his hatred, so you can hardly expect less hateful people to show greater consistency or hatred, becomes "So you are calling the titans Nazis"
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post

    2) Ban Another_Fan before the game even launches.
    And to think, I don't care about you at all.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    A_F hates anyone who likes the game because the devs didn't change it in the way he/she wanted in particular. I seriously hate using this term, but the only way I can describe it is "butthurt."

    The Titan community on the other hand is practically a cheerleading squad for the game. (Not that that's necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, but they can be pretty extreme from time to time.)

    Therefore, A_F hates the Titan community--and especially Golden Girl--more than anything. Heck, A_F and GG are pretty much antitheses of one another: unapologetically negative and unrealistically positive.
    LOL.

    There are only a few guiding principles that I saw being violated that I felt were bad for the game.

    1. You can't treat your customers badly because this is a game.
    2. You have to respect the fact that people put enormous amounts of effort into their characters. If you violate that they will be very mad.
    3. You have to respect any part of the game that people put enormous amounts of effort into.
    4. You can't fundamentally change a game and expect people to stay around.
    5. If you don't address your customers needs they will find someone who will.

    Now, if you had a build dependent on hami-Os, Blessing of the zephyr pieces, were an energy melee user, a soloist looking forward to the incarnate system, a pvper, a base builder, a build meister that worked for exemplar friendly builds, someone who bought IOs from the cash store, a badger who got the AE badges, A badger that was permanently cut off from completion, a badger that was on a smaller population server, etc etc etc, you manage to be on the wrong side of those principles being violated.

    As to hate ? Really I am feeling pretty good. The wife has a new game and CoH is like a rotten tooth that NCsoft has pulled for me.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU View Post
    Lets put it this way, even if the SaveCOH people *do* get their wish, one or two of them have said that they will never stop attacking NCsoft.

    If this does happen, then in my mind, anything that the Titan Network and SaveCOH touches will forever be tainted with the touch of angry vindictive people, who even if they win will still spit on people who shared a different point of view in the past.

    Just my own opinion, but hey, if some of their members are not willing to let things go even if they do win the end... then i would like nothing better for the whole titan network to be taken down and destroyed, and anything affiliated with it.

    Funny the angry vindictive part is what I like about them. Why the hell should you be nice to people you feel have shat upon you ? At the very least it should be a real nice stress relief for them. I can't say how pleasant it has been to vent more strongly here than I have in the past. Really these boards long needed an enema, and most of the posters needed to write a "Reality Check".

    I don't even want them to fail, it would be nice to see them beat the odds. I just feel they have stacked the deck against themselves before they even start, and for the most part are living in fantasy instead of just visiting the way we all did.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down View Post
    While this game was far from perfect, I still enjoyed playing this game, more then other games that were/are out there. If you've found a new game that you enjoy, have at it. If I'd been as "unhappy" as you seem to have been with this game, and it's developers, I would have moved on along time ago. I play/played this game for the entertainment value, and for the friends I made along the way.

    As the saying goes, the one thing in life that's constant is change. While I'm sad to see it go and will miss playing it, the closing of the game is just another change.
    It was never the game that was "Great"

    It was the in game community most of which was not represented here.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down View Post
    Well, I hope your as miserable as you were here..er, I mean, "as happy" as you were here, wherever you go.
    I don't know about happy but so far I am pleasantly pleased.

    You might not want to read on because while this is nothing but bare facts they might upset.

    Recently a game I am playing released a new issue. This is their 4th they do content updates once a month. There were bugs in the PvP instead of just letting them sit, there were devs looking at the problem and implementing fixes that went in the next day.

    When those fixes weren't quite right they took steps to further minimize the problems.

    The similar situation here was wait awhile and tell the players how important PvP was to the developers.

    It was quite pleasing to see the contrast.
  14. Good chat system.

    Initially very little charcter/account binding for items that was destroyed as time went on.

    Initially very nice movement that was taken out. But it still had better movement than other games.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by that_darn_lurker View Post

    EDIT: Odd that he has a website purporting to talk about his thoughts on MMO Game Design, yet there is very little of that type of discourse.
    Not really. Most of the design for this game wasn't his.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GadgetDon View Post
    Then maybe you should get the **** out of these forums and go to a game where you actually like what they do and stop trolling the forums of those who do like this game.
    That was the other thing the Titan Crew has been really good at. Getting people to leave the game over the years. Not surprising nothing changes till the end.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ogi View Post
    Perhaps you should lodge your complaints with the Titan network over at their forum, this is the CoH site.
    It isn't a complaint it is an observation. It ties in with the observation that for the past 8 years the greatest skill they have exhibited anywhere has been making excuses about why things haven't been done.

    Personally if I were to get behind or otherwise help, lookforward to or pre purchase, I would want to see people whose great skill was producing the item, not the manufacture of excuses.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SteelRat View Post
    Business as usual then?
    Another day above ground.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Abyssus View Post
    Where is everyone going for any news on...anything City of? Future projects from the devs, rumors of NCSoft selling the IP, etc?
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    The Titan Network and Facebook wil be the best places for keeping up with the situation as it develops after December 1st.
    Going to other games. Really 8 years of undelivered promises is quite enough, this time around, I think I'll try finding devs who can walk the walk as well as talk the talk.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkBlaster_NA View Post
    Can someone please tell me how we got from giving up, To ponies, To religion, to more ponies, to more religion (or lack thereof?)
    Oh that is pretty easy.

    There are a few people cough* Tim the Enchanter* cough * Anyone who identifies with the titan people* cough , who didn't like the conclusions this thread was drawing so they decided to do anything they could stop discussion of why the game died, and why the Titan efforts were a misguided pipe dream.

    They couldn't counter the points being made so they trotted out the most inflamatory stuff they could find all the while calling other people Trolls.
  21. In addition the Titan Crew have already failed the test before they even get going.

    Quote:
    Quote: Originally Posted by Golden Girl
    I don't have any official role with the Titan Klan - I just help sew their hoods.

    http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index....ic,5757.0.html

    Quote:
    Executive Committee
    •Golden Girl
    (and more names)


    Well I guess that is may not be you, the Golden Girl over there at Titan, on the Executive Committee?

    And according to Sergev, another executive committee member, this committee (quoted)
    -Our Executive Committee is formed of those who've already taken lead roles in directing our conversations, building our design and world documents, and keeping us pointed forward.-

    Sounds like a pretty important job there.
  22. Don't care

    What I value most in any business is honesty and reliability CoH never had either.
  23. Another_Fan

    An Update

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Black Pebble View Post
    Hi.
    You get to be the Titan Network's Ernst Hess

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1653547.html

    Or Emil Maurice

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Maurice

    Yes and have fun calling godwin. It hardly negates the rabid hate happening over there.
  24. Another_Fan

    An Update

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter View Post

    "...because the Titan Network hates Koreans."
    That would be because reading the Titan network board would never give you that opinion / sarcasm
  25. Another_Fan

    An Update

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Starsman View Post
    I was not commenting on the court documents or the specific case, but the point that "Losing a civil lawsuit doesn't make you guilty of fraud." (and technically you can be guilty of civil fraud without being guilty of criminal fraud, although I doubt that's the legalese speak for it.)

    I think I noted twice in that post that I don't know enough about the case. I have read in various places that they took his community letter as a form of resignation, though, and that his lawsuit was over lost money due to having to execute or sell stock at a lower price than he otherwise would.

    My list above is not a comment but taken from what is evaluated for US to consider if something is fraud and, with the bit I know of the case, see if it would have fit. If I'm wrong enough to make those things don’t fit (under US law) then feel free to correct me.
    So in other words you were trying to split hairs so people could remain comfortable slandering NCsoft.

    You know I don't like NCsoft either I just don't feel the need to lie about why