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Quote:And what's come of it? Sod all.Originally Posted by Winterminal
As of 8/31/12, they had made up their mind about shutting down the game. Which means CoH being removed from their website, shutting down the game's presence, and firing the studio were all justified and logical business moves.
Truly think about what you are asking: For NCSoft to come forward and say "We hear you, but have not yet decided how to respond." Would that answer give you any satisfaction? Probably not, since it leaves us in the same state we are now.
I agree with you, the complete silence on their end, combined with not knowing either way, is incredibly frustrating. But one of us exploding at them won't cause them any chagrin, and most of us exploding at them will just annoy them, possibly enough for them to just give us the finger and be done with it.
However, for all of us to bite our tongues, present ourselves as a community as a whole that really just wants their game to continue, one way or the other, makes us look like a group of people with whom they can work, and makes finding a solution all the more possible. -
Quote:Then someone should step forwards from NCSoft and tell us that they acknowledge we are even here. Right now it seems the company doesn't care and as far as all evidence points, they have made their mind up and are shutting the game down.Originally Posted by Positivity
Calm down.
Many of us believe that there is an actual reason for NCsoft's continued silence. They might not be able to give any specifics because they are currently in ongoing negotiations with a third party regarding the ultimate fate of CoX.
The studio is gone, COH has been struck from the site, they are actively shutting down the game's presence and not one rep from NCSoft has shown their face. Not one! We appreciate the efforts of Zwill and Tony but they aren't the ones that should be facing our wrath, it should be the incompetent morons from the company that dares to leave us in the cold like this.
So come on NCSoft, show us your ******* face already because there is only so much time before this affair explodes into a right mess if you keep ignoring us!
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Actually, want to see something you can't unsee given how much of a pet hate it was to COH players....
The one on the right has clipping issues on her trousers.
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Quote:Errr just looks like two weird kids to me. I don't see this "bare midriff" you are talking about, you do realise the front of her shirt is also white?Originally Posted by Steele_Magnolia
The adult art looks good and I *might* have tried the game based on that, but this
Little kid, bare midriff with top barely covering the absolute minimum and cute little animal ears?
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Quote:You don't realise how apt that is given the argument in the Blade and Soul thread.Originally Posted by Flying_Carcass
I'm reminded of a line from the Watchmen comic... to roughly paraphrase:
"They will look to NCSoft and shout 'Save Us!' and NCSoft will only whisper 'No'... and then unleash scantily clad underage Cthulu."
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They didn't exactly start on the right foot. First they take our money for GW2 then spoil it by pulling this bait and switch BS on us, wait until we have bought their shiny new toy then pull our community out from under our feet.
They feed us some half-***** excuse of realigning the company, then we have two weeks of silence. Leaving us to speculate the reasons as one by one, the game starts being dismantled. They take our subs then pull the rug leaving us in the dark with no idea of what we will get in recompense for unpaid time and unused market points. They pull the game from the site and treat it as if it never existed. They have clearly shown they aren't interested in doing anything but stick their heads up their own arses and hope we disappear, which in three months we will.
They underestimate us, they think we will all crawl away as our characters and community die from apathy. They were wrong, the community has stood up and stood up politely thanks to the fantastic and highly appreciated efforts of Tony and his team. I check the forum each day for news, hoping to see not just progress, but some hint someone in their shiny Korean money pit is listening to us from an ocean away.
So what do we get for being nice? Silence. Players loyal for almost a decade shunned. New players with keen eyes waiting to see their universe get ignored. Players who made the mistake of believing a gaming company out there could actually not be as evil and greedy as the hacks at EA and Activision find themselves once again betrayed. The entire community destroyed in an act of mismanagement and incompetence as someone decides to screw around with the company and ends up trashing us like it will be some sort of band-aid.
Well, if they want to ignore us then let them choke on the fumes of their own arses. The suits at NCSoft deserve every amount of distrust, every stinging word in every jibe and every embarrassment of every photoshop we can create and thrust in their faces. If two weeks of being nice gets us ignored, why the hell should we care. Just let them sit there and piss about like we don't exist? These last two weeks should have been used to salvage something from this crisis, to regain our trust as customers. Guess what, they don't give two bollocks.
"But we must be nice! We must be mature and reasonable and throw flowers and ponies at them so they give us something back." Two whole weeks, an entire storm whipped up in the gaming press and not a single word? If they gave a toss they would have said something by now.
So go on NCSOFT, say something. Give us a word. Give us some idea that you actually are listening and being polite to you is doing something because right now, it sure as hell doesn't look like it is working.
Eight years loyalty and a genuine belief that you'd do the right thing trashed and thrown in the bin. You betrayed Paragon Studio, you betrayed the playerbase and you betrayed everyone who has ever touched your game. You even have the cheek to (inadvertantly and quite poetically) shove BS in our face with your shiny new Blade and Soul toy.
Well I hope you choke on it, you aren't worth defending and you sure as toss don't care about one single player who logged into COH or the people who created it. So take a hike NCSoft and take your entire portfolio with you, you know just where you can put it.
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Quote:Cities in Motion editor might be an idea.Originally Posted by jfp2004
It'd probably be a challenge to try and recreate Paragon City in SimCity 4...hmm.
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If only I could do that where I work, too much safeguarding red tape.
What are they doing in the game though aside from playing COH? -
Hmmm hopefully they will give us priority into a closed beta. Why hopefully?
Call a plumber.
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I chased it, that chopper is fast. Unfortunately it beat me to the war wall and flew off.
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They can't really be banning for this can they?
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/foru...ed-for-nothing
Auto-attack caltrops or the turret killing stuff on it's own a permanently bannable offence???
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Quote:I think you need to take a trip to nullsec. I went there briefly and ran (flew?) in the other direction. xDOriginally Posted by Ironik
You can't have PvP *and* wilderness in the same place; they're antithetical. The very definition of wilderness is that there's almost no one there.
It's blank, it's empty, it retains an air of "Oh f....!" at any moment. We took a massive fleet into this wilderness and still had to send scouts through jump gates to make sure we wouldn't get ambushed. And this was the unclaimable area of nullsec, the places with territory wars and politics between player factions are supposed to be even worse. But I didn't get that far as I was too terrified to go near it. -
Does anyone know how to make a female character doesn't look like a snob that has been corset trained to an inch?
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There's more then you think.
- EVE has most of it's server given over to "wilderness" and null sec space systems are known as some of the roughest and most dangerous PvP areas in gaming history. They also introduced wormhole space which was a lawless area that you conquered, built in and exploited for commercial gain.
- STO has unexplored sectors in space with various random worlds and missions and no map to tell you where they are. Nowhere near as dangerous or lengthly as EVE though!
- The biggie, Minecraft! The entire game is based around dumping you in the middle of a wilderness and telling you to get on with it. Visit a PC server with a mapping mod attached and you will see just how huge Minecraft worlds are!
- Terraria does the same as Minecraft but 2D and a lot smaller. -
Quote:I still chuckle at Fist of Justice getting censored in-game.Originally Posted by Satanic_Hamster
During the CuppaJo era, I was responsible for the majority of the words being added to the swear filter. Back then, she had to add them one at a time and couldn't use wild cards. One third through my use of the words, two thirds through me reporting words to her.
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Quote:I thought you were bald. :<Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I only wear hats because I'm too lazy to style my hair.
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Class action lawsuits are useless and only encouraged by lawyers to generate money for themselves. Now everyone has this idea that "Oh a game publisher sneezed in a video, I must launch a class action lawsuit because I might have caught pixel flu!"
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OK, this account has only COH attached to it. The account is VIP and was running on a three-monthly sub albeit not logged in, so I never entered the market and have amassed over 7000 points through stipends and legacy points awards.
When I started GW2, I tried logging into the website with my COH account but couldn't, so I had to make an ArenaNet account seperate to my COH one. I have no other NCSoft titles.
So my questions are as follows:
1) Can the 7000 points be transferred?
2) Can those 7000 points be transferred to GW2 even though my accounts aren't linked? -
Later in the thread...
Quote:I wish everyone on the Paragon team the best in a speedy hiring. I can assure you the first thing I did when I heard, was to forward the link to our recruiter. I hope we can snag a few of the talented team, and hope the rest get picked up quickly elsewhere. -
My STO thread got posted, got moved, got merged, got confirmation that it is complete and utter tosh and that confirmation is here: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/sh...1&postcount=93
No need to boycott PWE or Cryptic people! If anything they are looking to give the devs a new home. -
The Television told me to.
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The Television told them to do it.
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Quote:People go back and forth between games. I've drifted from the game myself and come back multiple times. If you play one game too long, you burn out and need something different. Happened with WoW, happened with CoH, hell it's even happening at the moment with BF3 for me.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Says another freeloader.
Of course, I tended to forget to cancel subscriptions but being able to go back to a game and spend time in it again can be an incredibly refreshing change from most of the new garbage that is out there.
I wouldn't go so far as to call anyone a freeloader anyway. Those "freeloaders" are the people you are teaming with for TF's and making your community better. Give them a good enough experience and they become paying members or encourage their friends to join. With the current climate of crap games, a positive word-of-mouth recommendation has more weight then an advert. -
Sent mine.
Quote:I've never contacted you before, never thought I would, you probably get a million pointless E-Mails every day.
But if you read one E-Mail, please make it not this E-Mail because this E-Mail is boring. Rather the E-Mail pleading for someone to save the MMO City of Heroes from certain magnetically wiped doom (unless they use SSD's, in which case electrically wiped doom. Or quantum computing so it's err, something sci-fi-ishlly wiped doom. But I digress).
An entire online community is sitting on it's deathbed and needs someone to save it. It's a long shot but we know Valve have a pretty good track record when it comes to not being inclined to carry out evil deeds in the office and shut down entire communities without warning. This is a record that NCSoft decided to reinforce on Friday with their venerable super-powered MMO.
So if you can find the E-Mail in your inbox about saving City of Heroes could you please be a good chap and give it a read. Even if some desks move into a small super-powered cluster in the corner for only a few days, it'd be good to know someone out there has heard the distress call emanating from Paragon City.
Thank you!
[REDACTED FROM FORUM POST].
AKA Arson Wulf, Victory Server.
AHH Hell I made an error in my jibe at NCSoft
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Depends what API they have. Also I forgot this channel exists, time to break IceChat out again.