Arson_NA

Actually, Resilience has been nerfed. They lowered the Mag resist on all powers.

Hope I'm not too late..

Here is my toon getting flashy with Repel.

http://www.pitchblack.me.uk/img2/coh/coh_repel.jpg

Ooops, forgot the server name and that. Kin Star on Victory.

Are you avoiding my question as to why this decision was taken in the first place?

All this stuff about "oooh we have Euro events just for you Euros" is all well and good if we can't use the damn things :?

So, whats the deal then with with this business decision has been taken? Why has it been taken? Thats what everyone wants to knwo and is what I've been hanging on for the past weekend with gritted teeth waiting for the answer in the hope it's something that could be in our favour. I am assuming publisher problems since I read you are letting others distribute it for you. Thats the big question all everyones lips.

Even then, they could at least let the existing players start from scratch again on the Euro servers for free. You may need to download the Europe localised client for the game, but the account details held by NCSoft can be shared accross the pond and allow them to be used in the Euro servers. You could have a button in the Upgrade link for an account saying "Switch to Europe" and this transfers the account from North American Access to European Access and lets you download it again. If the player has dial-up, they could order a CD to be sent to them for a fiver maybe with the updated Euro client. Still have to pay but it beats rip off Britains thirty or forty quid for a new game! At the end of the day it ius perfectly possible to circumvent a software compatability problem like this, especially if the publisher for CoH will still be NCSoft in Europe and there is no reason why they can't let European players swap accounts, even to a regional version of the game.

Perhaps our new Community Co-Ordinator can give us some feedback on the reasons for whats going on here? I for one will keep pressing and do what I can to help negotiate a better deal for Euro players, only no-one can help come up with ideas for how to fix it as no-one has given us any information yet on what the problem is. You have a large fanbase and community here who can and will help (it's not like the Steam forums where the devs get flamed/abused/death threats against them/so on, but a community thats very tight and has respect for the people working on the software and staff who run the game and red tape in the background. Please just give us some more information and the community can help in deciding what to do, even if you think it will do bugger all.

Showing the Nazi Swastika is meant to be illegal in Germany, so if there are any on the 5th Coloumn the German players will need to have a simple texture change to make it a different symbol or something. happens with WW1/2 games too. Although something as simple as that is hardly going to give reason for seperating the two communities.

I agree. I am responsible for two accounts in CoH (myself and my brother) and this would require us to buy the game TWO TIMES to get to European servers. That would make a total of FOUR CD-Keys bought, about £120 in total if not more! Let me pose to you a few questions on this.

1) WHY? What need is there for you to charge European customers more? Little do you realise, it's the European players who are already playing spreading the word about CoH around Europe. So why are they being punished for giving you their support like this just to play on home ground?

2) Is there any plans to scrap this idea? I hope so as, even if it results in a delay, theability to transfer characters accross from the US servers for free would give a massive boost not only to performance due to lower latency (if I was on a London-based server, I'd expect to go from 200-300ms to a mere 30-70ms making it far smoother), but boost popularity with the Euro servers making the game more successful as you already have a knowledgeable fanbase playing to help new people.

3) Even if we have to lose our characters, although not ideal, it would still be better than having to pay again.

4) Will the issues be released from 1 upwards again or straight into issue 2 (or 3 if need be). Or will it be a sign of Europe getting screwed like usual?

So far, Cryptic have madea good job of CoH, but this will be a massive mess up if this plan goes ahead. Please don't go through with it and tarnish the otherwise good reputation CoH is bringing you.