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So... Is this working for you guys? You want more?
Edit: I'll post some more of these when I get some more feedback as to how well they're going over. Are you amused? Disturbed? Is it "too soon"? Or is it needed right now?
And hey! If you've got some of your own, feel free to post them! (Just try and keep them worksafe. I know there were bits in here that were borderline. I hope they were ok though!) -
Quote:Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Sure, an American company made up of 80+ members, that has provided a profitable product that has repeatedly received awards within the industry despite its age, despite (or because of?) its approaches that do not follow the standards of the industry, that has sustained a stable and loyal customer-base that have been highly satisfied and eager for more, that has created one of the friendliest online game communities for the past 8 years... Being dumped by the billion-dollar Korean company, most likely because the small profits, that come from this smaller American business, are no longer of that billion-dollar company's interest, so they laid everyone off and planned to run it into the ground instead of selling it...
Sure, that's not newsworthy, because no one is concerned with small American business. It's not that NCSoft are villains here. It's that we're drawing attention to the fact that small businesses (if you can call this small) are still viable, profitable, and damn-well desired, both by employees and customers.
The real problem could be... Are there any American (or other) businesses out there willing/capable of buying and producing/backing this talented studio? Anyone with enough money... but not too much money (so that these profits are not good enough) in America to care about quality products, created by talented artists that satisfies niche customers?
There should be a place for such things. Is there?
And... can an online community and grassroots movement help to point out specific examples of these occurrences? And can they help to get the right people aware and into the situation so that they can all benefit? If the right investors are out there, but didn't realize the situation... maybe attention to it will help everyone (NCSoft included).
This is not crack babies foolishly grabbing for a fix. And anyone, especially within this community, that offers those descriptions really is not worthy of any of this reply... but anyone else that may not understand... maybe some of these words may help to believe that this isn't just some stupid case of selfish desires.
It is situations exactly like this, all over the place, that are how things work... but are we happy with that? Are they part of much bigger problems?
The little things, all over, throughout our lives, communities and societies are what make up the whole.
Take action on any level and let everyone decide what importance it is to them and it will unfold how it will unfold. Maybe people haven't been drawing enough attention to the "little, unimportant things". That's no reason to continue that trend.
And when there is passion, there is action.
That's what's going on here (plus, a bonded, diverse, yet tight-knit community with a shared goal).
Paragon Studios well deserves the right to carry on with the great product they've been providing. This community well deserves to continue. If it can happen, all of these actions and attempts at getting the word out might help it to happen.
If anyone doesn't think any of that is news worthy... change the channel.
I wish I could think of anything to add other than wild applause! Well said!! -
More Random Stuff:
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Halloween Kahn TF
[Team] Terrence Knight: Reichsman! Trick or Treat!
[Team] Purrfect Archer: We demand candy!
[Team] Gehirngeist: i see no candy, Egg HIM!
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while saving portal corp goons from DE
[NPC] Portal Corporation scientist: Peaches! Sourdough! Agate! Marine!
[Team] Star Ranger 4.0: Sabre? are we SURE these are the right people?
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The three girl wave of death that is Justice Sabre and the Dusk sisters.
[Team] Justice Sabre: Good grief.
[Team] Justice Sabre: Did we just kill a purple boss in about ten seconds?
[Team] Dusksmiter: yep
[Team] Duskstriker: No.
[Team] Duskstriker: We just proved the efficiency of kinetic impact therapy. in 10 seconds.
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[Ghost] I shall use you to slake my thirst... for vengeance!
[Ssgt. Shortimer] How about a nice Hawaiian punch instead?
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Overheard on the Pocket D broadcast channel as Eva zoned in this afternoon:
Thorn Roseblood: ((There was this one guy. He wanted to be your friend, but then he died due to mysterious circumstances involving a knife, two baby unicorns and the great unclean one))
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Posted on the forums by popular channel request. Going Rogue launch night, while standing in a remarkably crowded tutorial zone:
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Holy Tutorial Zone 2!
[The Legendary]Acyl: Our tutorial who art on server, instanced be thy name.
[The Legendary]Acyl: Thy XP come, thy kills be done, on server as it was in beta.
[The Legendary]Acyl: Give us this launch, our daily play, forgive us our faceplants as we forgive those who PvP against us.
[The Legendary]Acyl: Bring us not to deletion, but deliver us from altitis.
[The Legendary]Acyl: For thine is the expansion, the players and the community, now and forever. Amen.
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: I don't know whether to appreciate the skill... or decry the desecration... (tilts hands back and forth*
[The Legendary]Acyl: *smirks*
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Overheard in Nova Praetoria on Virtue:
[Local] XP2950: Well-rounded group looking for equally well-rounded individuals to stab/bash/shoot things. Bonus points if you like puppies and moustaches.
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(While on a Loyalist Responsibility mission in Praetoria with a TPN Reporter in tow)
SASSINAK: *Thinking* Lovely - I have an "embedded reporter" on my mission with me. And he's annoying enough I'd like to tell him where he can "embed" his microphone... *
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[Team] Star Ranger 4.0: so, now I think I shall park in a portal corp building and weep uppon my squishyness.
[Team] Star Ranger 4.0: how the heck does DS manage??
[Team] Gehirnrustung: Terr trained him.
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Out of character last night, upon Princess Evangelia receiving the "Rift Traveler" badge at level 30 without yet having traveled the Rift:
[The Legendary] Terrence Knight: Bob's broken Praetoria.
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My (former) Praetorian Sassinak did that mission recently where you wind up in an office building getting into the middle of a fight between Fir Bolg and Tuatha. After gunning down many alternating waves of Shaggy Monster and Pumpkinhead ambushes... the tide ebbs. And, still breathing hard, looking around for anything else spoiling for a fight, she sees nothing around her but broken, bleeding, moaning forms formerly trying to destroy each other - and then her. But no more seem to be interested in fighting.
Sassinak: "Anybody ELSE want to negotiate!?"
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This one requires it's own separate post.
So I had this moment of insanity. And I made a Fire/Fire Scrapper named Burning Sensation.
We join our team in the middle of a Task Force. And... Acyl as "Catchphrase" was on a ROLL that night!
[Team] Burning Sensation.: OW OW OW OW
[Team] Catchphrase: Someone's in pain from a burning sensation.
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Things go better with Burning Sensation]
...
[The Legendary]Atlantea: WOOO!!! Burning Sensation now has STAMINA!!!! (Speaking of burning around the track going "POWEEEEER!!"" ^_^))
[The Legendary]Acyl: So the burning sensation now lasts longer.
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: POWWWWER!!!!
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: OH it's so wrong! *snrk*
[The Legendary]Sweno: [she is now the burning sensation that doesn't let up?]
[The Legendary]Ebony: POOOOOWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
...
(Burning Sensation is a /fire scrapper, with Super Speed as a travel power. Valles put thermal shields on her.)
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((Man, With all her effects going, Burning is almsot like a lightcycle. ^_^
[Team] Catchphrase: (It's very easy to tell when you have a burning sensation.)
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((Especially easy to tell when a Burning Sensation is passing through.))
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Snrk]
[Team] Catchphrase: (If there's bits of red mixed in with your yellow when you go to make long streaks, and there's a burning sensation...)
[Team] Gamma Emission: [ooh, that's bad]
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((oooow....))
[Team] Amethysta of the Axe: (OMW))
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [It's hard enough to go without a Burning Sensation!]
[Team] Catchphrase: (No, if there's a burning sensation -when- hard, then there's a problem.)
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((FALLS OVER...))
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Burning Sensatin! IT's the real thing, baby!
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((You REALIZE... don't you, that you're going to make it impossible for me to fight, I'm laughing so hard... :P
[Team] Catchphrase: (There's nothing funny about a burning sensation. =( )
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Burning Sensation! It's the Right one, baby! Unh-hunh!]
[Team] Catchphrase: (Or are you saying you can't fight because there's a burning sensation? =P )
[Team] Catchphrase: (Please ask your physician if combat is right for you. =( )
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((---- Is utterly broken now....))
[Team] Catchphrase: (Honestly, you need to realise...)
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((I think it's going to be required... :P))
[Team] Catchphrase: (Atlant's toon is Burning Sensation. With a period.)
[Team] Catchphrase: (So it's a very bad time to have a burning sensation. =( )
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Burnung Sensation. It's everywhere you want to be.]
[Team] Catchphrase: (Well, that and, y'know, the fact it's 'Burning Sensation.'...
[Team] Catchphrase: (Means that more than one person on Virtue has a burning sensation.)
[Team] Themaria Dist: [...ohgod ACYL YOU UTTER ******* *******! ^_^]
[Team] Themaria Dist: [AAAGH.]
[Team] Burning Sensation.: (( O_O... Honestly... I had NO idea that joke would go so very far...))
[Team] Themaria Dist: [*. joke just penetrated*]
[Team] Themaria Dist: [...]
[Team] Themaria Dist: [...er.]
[Team] Themaria Dist: [NOT LIKE THAT.]
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((SHATTERS))
[Team] Catchphrase: (o/`)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [LOL]
...
(Burning Sensation died, then ding-rezzed)
[Team] Gamma Emission: [badly split]
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((WAit for it. I'm about to level anyway.))
[Team] Themaria Dist: [Without the UBERSTUN, yeah.]
[Team] Catchphrase: (So the burning sensation killed us all?)
[Team] Amethysta of the Axe: Woohoo! Comeon you clanks!
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Burning Sensation: The choice of a new generation]
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((Well the Burning Sensation has been killed...))
[Team] Catchphrase: ('s only temporary relief.)
[Team] Catchphrase: (See? =( )
[Team] Catchphrase: (The burning sensation is back.)
[Team] Gamma Emission: [and it's back, stronger than before]
[Team] Gamma Emission: [that's what you get for not completing your antibotics regimine
]
[Team] Catchphrase: (Nah, the exposure just made it stronger.)
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(Boss Fight: Long Tom)
[Team] Amethysta of the Axe: Boss
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((PLEASE tell me someone is getting this chat for posterity. Err.....))
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: Oh! American Slang! Dope! Def! Keen!
[Team] Catchphrase: So the Clockwork King's 'long tom' now has a burning sensation.
[Team] Catchphrase: *nods soberly*
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((Er.. DAMN YOU ACYL... Now I can't even say posterity without laughing...))
[Team] Amethysta of the Axe: Think that up all by yourself, Catch?
[Team] Catchphrase: I have a very talented writing staff.
[Team] Amethysta of the Axe: You're paying them too much.
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(Fox likes classic advertising slogans)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Oh man, I'm having too mcu hfun repurposing OTHER ads atm]
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Burning Sensation. I'm lovin' it]
[Team] Catchphrase: (Burning Sensation, it's finger lickin' good.)
[Team] Catchphrase: (And if we're still on fast food... Burning Sensation: Have it your way!)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: ["Have gun will travel" reads teh card of a man?]
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[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((STAMINA! FULLY SLOTTED!!! YES!!!)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Burning Sensation. IT keeps going and going and going...]
[Team] Gamma Emission: [the burning sensation will last forever]
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((Damn your eyes, I'm getting high on the oxygen debt...))
[Team] Themaria Dist: [A burning sensation in your chest?]
[Team] Amethysta of the Axe: ((Could be in worse places))
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Burning sensation! From Wham-o!]
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[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: hows the TF going?
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Swimmingly
[The Legendary]valles: It's a sensation! We're ON FIRE!
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: how long ago did you start?
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: At school crossings...
[The Legendary]valles: Who cares? BURRRRN!
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Please go slow...
[The Legendary]Acyl: Well, we have a thermal controller on our team, so yes, we are on fire.
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: let the little Shavers grow!
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Burning Sensation.
[The Legendary]valles: NYAHAHAHAHAHAHA! BURNBURNBURN!
[The Legendary]Acyl: We all have a burning sensation.
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: ......
[The Legendary]Acyl: So don't go too fast, if you please. It might get worse.
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Yes athe 1952 Burning Sensation! It's LONG and LOW and LOVELY!
[The Legendary]valles: Remember to watch your dietary fiber intake.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: LOL
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: If I had my druthers, I'd rather have a Burning Sensation!
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: ........
[The Legendary]valles: ^_^
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: This is almost like a Liquidator Episode of Darkwing Duck
[The Legendary]Atlantea: ((Oh that's not EVEN as bad as it's been all evening. I had NO IDEA that joke would go so far. ^_^ :P ))
[The Legendary]valles: Potty humor. You really should've.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Point.
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: wait... you've been makeing even worse jokes 0.0?
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Amazingly - yes.
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Even better, we've been using old advertising slogans and making some REALLLY weird results
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: ....... i can't belive that
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Burning Sensation. "It's the real thing!"
[The Legendary]valles: Burning sensations make holes in teeth?
[The Legendary]valles: Oh god.
[The Legendary]valles: Burning sensation: Obey your thirst.
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: ......
[The Legendary]Atlantea: LOL
[Team] Amethysta of the Axe: Ow.
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: WTF? O.O
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Soft Drink slogans here in the states
[The Legendary]Acyl: Burning Sensation: Tastes Great! Less filling!
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Burning Sensation: So round, so firm, so fully packed! So EASY on the SDRAW!
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: *twich* i thinks it's a good idae i didn't go on this TF, my mind would of broke
[The Legendary]valles: ...You win, fox. My brain, it is afire.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Mine certainly is...
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: I know more old jingles. And in some cases even what the jingle was FOR!
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: Fox, he iz in your brans, breaking thems
[The Legendary]Acyl: Fox gives you head, and then a burning sensation.
[The Legendary]valles: He uses burning bombs wisely.
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Ceiling Fox watches you cogitate.
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: .... Acyl..... did you think before writeing that
[The Legendary]Acyl: I used my head.
[The Legendary]valles: Do you really want to know the answer to that, DS?
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: He's got ME laughing now
[The Legendary]valles: *is only smiling*
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: my brain, it is broke
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: See, I can take the ribbing here. I know folks don;t mean much harm
[The Legendary]valles: Bleach?
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: I'll take a leek spin Orihime, thanks
[The Legendary]Acyl: No, bleach won't stop the burning sensation. =(
[The Legendary]Atlantea: LOL
[The Legendary]Acyl: Seek proper medical treatment.
[The Legendary]valles: Well, bleach is a base, which should cancel out the acidic burning.
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: yeah, i doubt i could of survived the TF uncathed
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: *unscathed
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Yeshua, son of Joseph ri--- Yeshua, son of Joseph... at peace.
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[The Legendary]Atlantea: Ah. So we are Task Force Cyclone.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: The Cyclone has a Burning Sensation within it.
[The Legendary]valles: As opposed to Task Force Volcano?
[The Legendary]Acyl: Tonight! A hurricane! TOUCH ME a hurricane! Fill me a hurricane! Give me burning sensa---oh wait no.
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: *head desk*
[The Legendary]Atlantea: *Starts humming a particular Johnny Cash tune*
[The Legendary]valles: Task Foce La Brea?
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(Terrence returns from AFK)
[Team] Terrence Knight: (Back BTW)
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((Yay!)
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((Did he miss all the jokes BTW?))
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Me thinks so]
[Team] Catchphrase: ('s ok we can spread the burning sensation.)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Burining Sensation: A little Dab will do ya]
[Team] Terrence Knight: (..I've read the chat log some)
[Team] Terrence Knight: (My brain is currently being clensed in A Vat of Acid)
[Team] Terrence Knight: (Melt away the Burning sensation)
[Team] Themaria Dist: [Oh, that'll produce a -real- intense burning sensation.]
[Team] Terrence Knight: (And with anyluck My brain will shrivel and die so I can get a new one)
[Team] Terrence Knight: (or at least become Desensitized to burning sensations)
[Team] Gamma Emission: [you can do that?]
[Team] Catchphrase: (If you ignore the burning sensation long enough, it'll probably fall off. =( )
[Team] Terrence Knight: (well..its only my brain. I'm not useing it)
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[Team] Terrence Knight: (I'm back and I haz Empowerment buffs to reinforce meh..! lol)
[Team] Catchphrase: (Are Themaria's thermal shields not enough for you?)
[Team] Catchphrase: (You want something more than the burning sensation? =( )
[Team] Terrence Knight: (Yes...I want endurance drain resistance)
[Team] Terrence Knight: (and increased recharge rate. And increased Runspeed and smashing resist)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [And a PONY!]
[Team] Catchphrase: (There you go.
[Team] Catchphrase: (Unfortunately, Kinetics does not have Pony Boost yet.)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [D'awwww!]
[Team] Gamma Emission: *snerk*
[Team] Catchphrase: (But for everything else, there's burning sensa----wait.)
[Team] Gamma Emission: [is that part of Demon summoning?]
[Team] Gamma Emission: [summon. pony] hehe
[Team] Terrence Knight: (Rofl!)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Summon demon.pony]
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [oni.pony]
[Team] Catchphrase: (Well, there is a nemesis warhorse unused model.
[Team] Catchphrase: (legend has it one of the devs summoned it on the test server when asked for a pony.)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [wHy does it remain unused? They stunk at animating it?]
[Team] Catchphrase: (Dunno...it has no legs, it hovers on four jets of fire.)
[Team] Catchphrase: (I have a screencap...somewhere.)
[Team] Themaria Dist: [Waiting for Just The Right Moment.]
[Team] Catchphrase: (It's a Nemesis Pony.)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Coming Storm TF would rock for it, no?]
[Team] Gamma Emission: [nemesis pony: a trap]
[Team] Terrence Knight: (Trojan Horse?)
[Team] Themaria Dist: [It's all a Nemesis Plot.]
[Team] Catchphrase: (a horse is a horse, of course, of course.)
[Team] Catchphrase: (and nobody's heard of a steampunk horse.)
[Team] Themaria Dist: [And no one can talk to a horse, of course]
[Team] Catchphrase: (of course.)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Unless it's a burning sensation!]
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(Team prepares for Babbage spawn)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Bah AFk momentarily]
[Team] Catchphrase: (Atlant's still AFK, I see.)
[Team] Themaria Dist: [Potentially problematic.]
[Team] Catchphrase: (hope the burning sensation doesn't get him.)
[Team] Terrence Knight: (He's all Burnt out)
(Boss Fight: Babbage)
[Team] Burning Sensation.: WOW! Who's draining Babbage?
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Elec BLaster!]
[Local] Amethysta of the Axe: Thanks, Signy
[Local] Burning Sensation.: Wow! Good drains on him!
[Local] Catchphrase: Thanks, you two.
[Local] Gamma Emission: Woo, thanks for the help everyone
[Local] Sould Blade: Nice work!
[Local] Themaria Dist: The laxative powers of a BURNING SENSATION!
[Local] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: Thank you for your efforts, champions of the proletariat!
[Local] Catchphrase: Much appreciated, Blade, Signy.
[Local] Amethysta of the Axe: And you Blade.
[Local] Burning Sensation.: ((FALLS OVER))
[Team] Themaria Dist: [...should I have put that in Team?]
[Team] Themaria Dist: [^_^]
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((Oi...))
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[The Legendary]Hexane: Wow, I wouldn't have thought we'd have been able to drain his end like that.
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Elec Blaster
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: Nom?
[The Legendary]Acyl: He felt a burning sensation.
...
[The Legendary]Isawa Koi: Blarg.
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Allo
[The Legendary]Sweno: Hey Isa
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Koi! Wouldja like to take a surbvey sponsored by Burning Sensation.?
[The Legendary]Acyl: I'm sure he can spare a few minutes of his time for burning sensation.
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Do you like beans?
[The Legendary]Isawa Koi: *considers the question*
[The Legendary]Isawa Koi: ...
[The Legendary]Isawa Koi: *runs screaming into the night*
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Do you like George Wendt?
[The Legendary]valles: Who?
[The Legendary]Isawa Koi: Norm, from Cheers.
[Team] Terrence Knight: Where is he? didn't see him
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Norm on "Cheers"
[The Legendary]Atlantea: I wonder where Gunther Wendt?
[The Legendary]valles: Ah.
[The Legendary]Z. Fox: Do you like beans AND George Wendt?
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(Boss Fight: Clockwork King)
[Team] Terrence Knight: ....
[Team] Gamma Emission: [we're just that good]
[Team] Catchphrase: The burning sensation was too much for him.
[Team] Burning Sensation.: Wow
[Team] Terrence Knight: (i'm sorry...But what the hell was holding him the entire time?)
[Team] Gamma Emission: [temp power you get for this mission]
[Team] Amethysta of the Axe: Woo.
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((Awesome))
[Team] Terrence Knight: (whats the point of Fighting an av that can't do anything? lol)
[Team] Amethysta of the Axe: ((He drops fast when there's a radiation fender in the group.))
[Team] Catchphrase: (and this is why you do not have the true tao of the farmer)
[Team] Themaria Dist: [The point? THe long green.]
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Especially one knows what they're doing[
[Team] Terrence Knight: (was kinda hopein for a bit more of an epic fight..or to at least take -some- damage?)
...
[Team] Terrence Knight: (Sorry it just bugs me The clock king dropped without being able to do -anything- because of that hold from the temp lol)
[Team] CAPTAIN ALTITIS: [Burning Sensation! Apply DIRECTLY to the FOREHEAD!]
[Team] Burning Sensation.: ((LOLOL))
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[The Legendary]Z. Fox: 3:444
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: TF over?
[The Legendary]Sweno: yup
[The Legendary]DarkSeraphim: yay
[The Legendary]Acyl: We could have been faster, but we had to go slowly due to the burning sensation. -
Look, it's all well and good to be driven to save the game. I am too.
But you know what? I just realized I have this MASSIVE "tension bar" across my shoulders and upper back. It's starting to actually -hurt-.
I bet a lot of you are as well. Or having tension headaches or even ulcers if you're stressed too much.
SO...
I'm taking a few minutes out from doing screenshots of the game, saving my characters, surfing the web trying to find new articles or waiting to hear ANYTHING from NCSoft.
Just stop a minute. Roll the shoulders. And look into our supergroup's "quote" pages for the laughs.
See - My Supergroup - the Legendary, like many out there, has forums of it's own. And - being a casual/light RP group, we sometimes slip in and out of character. Or do full-on "omake" (gag-scenes) in text while we're doing task forces and such.
I run with a crew that regularly CRACKS ME UP so much I sometimes LITERALLY die from laughter because I am whooping for laughter too much to BLOODY SEE!!!
So, as part of my service to the community to help you all loosen the hell up a little. Here are some of the best, most broken, brain-bleach inducing and all-around WRONG moments captured from the /copychat command by me or members of the Legendary.
Think of it like "AnimeHELL" only it's superheroes. And in text.
I present - The Legendary's QUOTE WALL
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"Think of it as a morale booster," Evangelia said as she tightened down the final screw on the bracket she was attaching to the wall. The soft background hiss of the air conditioners and the far-off faint beeping of the Command Center were the only response. She tossed a glance back over her shoulder.
Mag Flashlight stood there, holding the giant message board intended to fit in said bracket across one shoulder. "Oh, it'll be that, boss lady," he finally replied.
"So what's the problem?"
Mag blinked. "I'm trying to decide what to put up here -first-," he said. "I mean, the board's only so big...."
"... I hadn't thought of that."
They settled the board into place and stepped back. The banner at the top read QUOTES OF THE LEGENDARY, and a little box with pens, pads, and tacks hung below.
Eva scribbled briefly on a slip, tore it off and stuck it on the board, and turned to Mag with a satisfied expression. "There! Now we just wait."
* * *
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"This park -sucks-!"
-- Sammy (aka Purrfect Scrapper), after the end of a long, painful dash from the ampitheatre to a mish door in Perez Park
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"Even the most STUBBORN of coals will light at TEN THOUSAND DEGREES! Mag Flashlight! If you would be so kind? The LIQUID OXYGEN!!!!"
-- Cyberman 8, providing the "Mythbusters moment" at the end of a successful Legendary BBQ picnic.
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"So, who here wants to get into Terrence's pants?"
"Statement: This unit has sufficient lower-body coverage, and does not anticipate a wardrobe sharing agreement with Command Unit designate Terrence at this time."
-Steph and Vengy riffing on poor belabored Terrence during Moonfire TF
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"Caution: Falling Rocks"
- Gen, speaking of Emet's(stone tanker) method of quickly getting back to the contact during the last Shard TF. (Fall to the bottom of the map, get TP'ed right to him)
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"These Mushroom Men taste.. Preeettttttyyyy......."
"You ever LOOK at your claws? I mean, really LOOK at them?"
"Duuuuudddeeee"
-Gen, on the Eden Trial
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Silicon Sabre: Mass produced killer robots with particle beams....I'm feeling nostalgic all of a sudden.
Brightsky: Why's that?
Silicon Sabre: Well, if this were any -more- like my home, there'd be a satellite based cannon bearing down on us.
Numero Catorce: Your home scares me a little bit, Senorita Silicon.
- Discussion while facing down Siege in the Maria Jenkins arc (Sabre is a refugee from the Bubblegum Crisis universe)
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"The stabbings will continue until lethality improves." --OpMegs, in a moment of transcendental insight
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Wait a minute, you have to get a *license* to create life?
Man, this town sucks.
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Terrence Knight: ..It was My imagination..I could have sworn I had heard creaking from my underwear, but Impervium doesn't creak right?
Typhoon Sabre: I'm an engineer, let me check.
--Terr and Matrix Dragon, on the (Almost all female) Legendary Swimsuit Edition Team
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On the subject of the duo team of Cyberman 8(MA/SR Scrapper) and Terrence Knight(INV/SS Tanker) just MOWING through Carnies and Malta on a Safeguard Mission:
"This is what happens when an Unstoppable Force and an Immovable Object... COOPERATE!!"
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"I have yet to meet a man that won't stop focusing on me after I stuff a squirrel into his pants." --Superball
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Panzer reveals some personal history, Ace is tactless, Jen shills for Crey.
Panzersoldat: Ach, I vatched that vith mein daughter.
Panzersoldat: Then she got killed.
Panzersoldat: Ah vell. Life in ze big vorld.
Acetone: Do not fret, her flames of villainy may not be extinguished yet. There is always Mad Science!
Panzersoldat: Vat?
Panzersoldat: Ach, this vas...years ago.
Acetone: Darkest sorcery?
Panzersoldat: ...nein, danke.
Panzersoldat: I am not much uv 'sorcery' fellow, ja?
Jen Etroica: subcontract.
Panzersoldat: Ehn. I vill live, danke.
Panzersoldat: Besides, I mean. Nazi science vas pretty gud for time.
Jen Etroica: probably safer.
Panzersoldat: Und cyborging tends to be the result uv reanimation, ja?
Panzersoldat: Und I am pretty sure she vould protest coming back vith ze metal parts.
Panzersoldat: Und, I mean, it vould be -really- avkvard to explain to mein granddaughter.
Acetone: Ah, there is always the quality of un-life issue.
Jen Etroica: Crey has an excellent line of biomimetic augmentation and replacements.
Panzersoldat: 'Sveetheart, your mama came back to life because granpapa vas sad.'
Panzersoldat: It has a certain. Erm. -Qvality- to it.
Acetone: There is of course dwelling too much in the past. That too may dim the flames of Villainy, though they are never quenched.
Panzersoldat: Uv course, mein granddaughter has kids uv her own now, so it vouldn't be qvite in those terms.
Ysrafel: Evil mastermind's beautiful daughter ALWAYS falls for the squarejawed hero
Panzersoldat: Ach, vat mastermind?
Panzersoldat: I am not mastermind. Und I -liked- her husband!
Panzersoldat: He vas accountant!
Panzersoldat: Pleasant man, safed me much time on taxes!
Panzersoldat: Und stop touchinkg me!
Panzersoldat: Play dead!
Acetone: Get your elbow out of my face and I'll consider it
Panzersoldat: I'm -playink dead-, you vapid nutbak.
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Auto Maximus: (Oh God. An entire SG of Fusionettes? D: ) Belmonette: (*grins* yep)
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Syndesis: The internet is for prawn! The internet is for prawn! o/`
Syndesis: Lobster dip and crab fish sticks for prawn prawn prawn!
Syndesis: Ask your local kheldian prawn star if tentacle grape is for you.
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Quote:Oh god...Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
My greatest accomplishment was not only breaking a year and a half long streak of writers block, but developing a whole new source of creative expression via my videos.
My regret? All the videos that I will now never be able to make.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
"The Most Interesting Man in Praetoria (parody with Leandro as the voice of TMIMIP)"
I actually auditioned for that one!
But I didn't care if it was me or someone else, I was so looking forward to that. It would've been RIOTOUSLY funny!
DAMNIT.
Can we at least get a script? -
Quote:**Brain goes all wobbly trying to think of a way to fit a Nick Cage joke in with a devouring earth monster horde that's actually any funnier than the above comment.**Originally Posted by Stunrunner
And there's my puny 19 MM in the front throwing bees at a monster. "NOT THE BEES!!"
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I got nothing.
Damnit. -
Quote:/em fancybowOriginally Posted by Llydia
*snickers*
*giggles*
*laughs to tears*
Oh, thank you, Atlantea! Your timing was perfect.
I, like so many, have been on razor's edge between efforts to keep the game alive and scrambling to save as many memories as possible in case it doesn't. Reading this tonight was exactly what I needed as a pressure-release.
Onward with a smile, a laugh, and forever-bright (even when fatalistic) hope!
I'm here all week! Don't forget to tip your dev! And try the veal!
All part of the service.
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Where do you get these? I need to get back on VIP status myself ASAP!
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Quote:*Checks*Originally Posted by Matthew_Orlock
You all realize that the reccomend button and share button aren't what we need to get this on CNN's big radar right? We all need to click the button "This belongs on CNN." We need roughly what?.. 4000 people to click that before we get to the big leagues.
Start pushing that down all your friends and family's throats. If we can get that many signatures to save the game in a few hours we shouldhave already been on CNN's tv broadcast by now!
Yes, that's the button I pushed. I'll see if I can get more. -
Quote:Originally Posted by jwbullfrog
Once we have saved our game, then you can go right back to doing what you do. In fact, we'll kind of miss you if you don't. But you'll be able to look around and think "It's all DOOOMED... but not today."
Just a thought.
Garibaldi: "No boom?"
Sinclair: "No boom."
Ivanova: "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
[Sinclair and Garibaldi look at her oddly]
Ivanova: "What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom, sooner or later...Boom!"
(I'm sorry. I had to.)
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Shhhh... Don't tell them! ^_^
OUTSTANDING article! Voted already! -
Quote:After reading through your journal, I have a suggestion:Originally Posted by BasilAcid
Been hesitant to mention this here due to some people's extreme dislike of Champions Online, but I thought it was worth a shot. I've been keeping a blog about my time in CO as a long term COH player that has found himself suddenly without a game to call home. Champions is the first visit, and I plan on investigating other titles like The Secret World down the road.
For those who are also searching and on the fence about Cryptic's 2nd super hero game, this might sway you one way or the other.
http://paragonrefugee.blogspot.com/
Keep posting in your journal just as you are doing. In addition, I think you should re-post/cross-post these Journal bits as posts in a thread at the Champions Forums.
There are several "Welcome Paragon refugees to Champions" style threads. There's one currently stickied at the top of the forum. You could repost your journal findings as individual posts in an already existing thread or create your own. (the only problem is that the new forums do not allow you to imbed images as you are doing in your journal. But hey! Incentive for people to actually visit the site and comment there!)
And leave a link back here in this thread each time you update.
This is good information. And I think any player making the transition could get some good ideas and perspective from what you are doing. The only reason I don't suggest posting it HERE in full format like I suggest you do over at the Champions forums is that I think it would be wise to keep these forums focused on saving City of Heroes.
Otherwise, good work! And if you have any questions, feel free to PM me. -
Quote:I see.Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
If you bought the game as a digital download you cannot return it/get a refund.
If you bought a physical copy of the game, then you can.
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Quote:Originally Posted by MisterD
Since the bad news, I have been running the game on MAX (MAX, too teh max) settings for screenies. While in AP, I noticed the shadow of a chopped flying over me..yet..nothing was in the sky. Now have I EVER seen a chopper in the air.
I know there is a blimp in ap, flyers in mercy etc..but this was a full on attack chopper shadow, I could see the blades and the shape, like an Apache.
Then just now, I saw the same shadow along the ground in Bricks..again..nothing above me.
Is this just some magic thing that cant be seen?
I can tell you that I (and many others) DO In fact see choppers in the sky. They are fully rendered and look like Apaches. They fly just above the top of the "Sky box" where characters are limited to. So no you can't bump into them.
Your system may simply be incapable of rendering objects that are that far away. But it will render the shadow.
If you want to see the choppers, and you have a character with flight, fly up to about the level of the blimp or higher. See if you can see them.
You could also check your rendering detail distance in the options. I always like to run at the max of 200% because I've got a good machine that will keep the framerates up even with that. Whatever you have it set at will render objects at certain distances beyond that point with less detail or even remove them entirely. -
If you pre-purchased GW2 - can you send it back and ask for a refund?
Not asking anyone who has already bought the game to do so. That's your decision.
This is a purely technical question. Can you? Or is that not allowed?
I can tell you right now, that if I were in that position? No matter how pretty the game was, or how many of my friends were playing it and begging me to join them. I KNOW that I would be looking at this option. And if it were possible to do so, I WOULD ask for a refund and I would tell NCSoft exactly why they had lost my business.
However, if they have your money already and you CAN'T get it back, then yeah. No use NOT getting your money's worth.
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I've got your back, Leandro.
Back in 15 Minutes.
EDIT: Ran it through the costume creator and have sent the file your way. Let me know how it looks, okay? -
I'm in the same boat. Just haven't been away as long. Only about a month and a half before I heard the news.
But I have been and a I will be playing HELL out of this game until the servers shut down! (If they do. God willing we can change that.) -
Ok. The people in the CO costuming community came through.
Here's some preliminary templates for use in the CO costuming screen.
These are specifically designed to get as close as the CO engine will allow to the classic COH character proportions in the COH creator.
In other words - as the basic COH templates appear before sliders are applied.
Save these images into your CO screenshot folder and then when you go in-game, load them in the costume creator and see if this makes things better ok?
Let me know if you like it better, please? If you have any comments or questions, ask me, ok?
Quote:If for any reason the above links are broken. Check out the original thread here:Originally Posted by bluhman
Males
Slim -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646095.jpg
Average -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646192.jpg
Athletic -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646296.jpg
Heavy -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646393.jpg
Females
Slim -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646962.jpg
Average -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400647066.jpg
Athletic -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400647155.jpg
Heavy -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400647252.jpg
(This is one physique that Champions just can't do unfortunately.)
Huges
Slim -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646548.jpg
Average -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646637.jpg
Athletic -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646710.jpg
Heavy -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646813.jpg
A few comparisons/observations made between CoX and CO characters (as explained from the perspective of CoX):
CO characters have comparatively much longer arms compared to CoX. Whereas a CO character's closed fist will likely reach about halfway down the thigh, CoX only reaches around the top of the leg/lower groin area.
CO Characters also have very large hands and feet. Especially with feet, which have to be driven entirely down the slider to resemble anything from CoX.
Related to that, CoX legs are more evenly sized as they go down the leg. In comparison, CO legs are much more curved. The same probably applies for arms, but if it does, it's not nearly as noticeable.
The one thing that is completely unchangeable between the two games: The neck area of CO characters is much more curved. CoX characters (particularly males) have a much flatter shoulder line in comparison. There pretty much is nothing I can do about that.
http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/sho...81#post2414381 -
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Quote:*SNORK*Originally Posted by Texas Justice
I knew it wouldn't last.
Mention a phone number and people listening in to other people's conversations and Ascendent is bound to show up.
Yes. That will happen.
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Done!
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Which instance are you shooting in?
EDIT: WAIT - NEVERMIND - Just keep rotating through ALL OF THEM! We're filling it up now! -
Some more help for you guys in the costume department.
I have put out a call on their costume thread for help in making proportional templates that more closely match the classic COH basic figures ( Male / Female / Huge ).
I've got some responses saying they'll be working on it. But in the meantime, someone reposted some already made templates that were made a few months ago.
OK, before we continue, I need to explain something about how the CO CC saves costumes.
It does not save it as a text file like COH does. Instead, it saves it as an actual PICTURE in Jpeg format with the costume info "baked" into the code. And then this image is saved in the screenshot folder where your regular screenshots go to.
In order to use the templates, you need to download the picture in the link, then go to:
(Wherever your Champions Online folder is - Mine is in the Steam folder)
-----Champions Online
----------live
---------------screenshots
And dump the picture into that folder.
Then start your game. Go to the costume creator, and at the bottom, you'll see a button marked "LOAD" and one marked "SAVE" (similar to ours).
Click "LOAD" and look for the name of the template in the menu. Click on it and bring it into the main viewer.
Voila! Now you have a pre-made proportional template that you can modify!
Here's the links in question:
Templates
Quote:Young Adult/Average - For the hero with a less-than-stellar physique. Good for agile heroes, young heroes, and citizen forms.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403546.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403672.jpg
Child - Adapted from Smackwell's child templates from like 2 years back. Slight tweaks included, such as more realistic waist-hip ratios and whatnot.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403771.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403808.jpg
Fatty - For the hero with a much less-than-stellar physique. Note that the female version of this one is highly experimental and I don't find it satisfactory.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400404350.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400404600.jpg
Paragon - Tall, well-muscled, but still of a fairly balanced proportion. Good for the archtypical hero with super strength.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403879.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403998.jpg
Androgynous - Female skeleton, more masculine proportions. Use it to create... Something.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400404136.jpg
Strongman - Kind of like the paragon, but with arms like hams.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._381105434.jpg
Dwarf - If you want to play a comparatively short person from a fantasy realm, this should provide a worthy starting spot.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400405565.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400405785.jpg
Keep in mind, these initial templates were not made with the classic COX look in mind. But there are people working on them now!
Here's the URL for the forum thread in question:
http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/sho...41#post2413041
EDIT: Fixed Broken Links
FURTHER EDIT: To add the Thread Link -
TonyV: I already have done something like what you say. Just not for the poll.
Here's the thread in question: http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/sho...d.php?t=171571
I started it as just a "news post" of our rally on Saturday.
But late in the thread, I got a nice post (one of several actually, though there was one notable troll) that I was responding to when I all of a sudden had the seed of the idea that I'm asking about here.
Here's what I said:
(Posted verbatim)
Quote:So far the response has been positive.Quote:Originally Posted by sidreus View Post
To OP:
You did an awesome job guys. Maybe some can think it is about your investment in a game, a fictional thing which bears little meaning on real life, against real life problems. However City of Heroes is about friends and friendship more than anything, at least for me. I, for one, couldn't be there even I was in game. You know being not able to reach Virtue or Freedom as I don't have any slots there. After going Free I assigned all my slots to Defiant and Union. I guess there are players like me, who were in game but can't be in the right place when it matters most.
Let me be honest for a moment. As much as I appriciate what you are doing and hoping, praying for the best out come for City of Heroes/Villians players all around the world, my expectations are all negative. NCSoft showed how much they care for their costumers, paying and working for that game (working as in providing a welcoming ground, enjoyable atmosphere for new players to make them want to stick with that game), when they announced Freedom. This is where I've parted my way with NCSoft and never spared a dime on that game anymore. Trying to sell power sets, backbone of a superhero game to their already paying costumers was screaming "Greed!". Alas NCSoft wasn't the thing made that game what it is, current dev team, Paragon Studios achieved something amazing. Introduced many things what all other devs said impossible. Gave players what they always wanted.
Everything happens for a reason. I like to think this crisis will lead all players and devs of CoH to better things.
@Knightly
Thanks for your kind words.
I am not expecting a miracle either. But it can't hurt to try every option available.
We City of Heroes players very much thank you all for the warm welcome we've received here on your forums and on the servers. (With a few NOTABLE Exceptions to the rule - See above)
But I hope you'll understand and not take offense when I say we want to delay that welcome as long as possible. You have a good game here. But we are still fighting to save ours.
And we could use all the help we can get.
To that end, I'd like to ask Champions players to help out as well.
Sign the petitions and send the heads of NCSoft emails and actual physical snail mail letters if you can!
Explain to them that even though you play a completely different game, that you think that shutting City of Heroes down is a grave mistake. Be polite. Don't harangue them.
But tell them things like "I don't play City of Heroes, I play Champions, but having City of Heroes up and running is better for the gaming industry and MMOs as a whole because it increases the diversity of games. Even within the same genre. Champions and CoH have competed in the niche of superhero MMOs, but far from being a detriment, the competition has enriched both games. It would be a shame to lose City of Heroes."
Explain to them that their sudden closure of City of Heroes does not give you the confidence that you need in order to invest your time and money into products like Guild Wars 2. Because you cannot be sure they will not do the exact same thing to that game.
For further guidelines for writing such letters and emails, check this post at Titan Network.
Once you've composed your letter, send two copies to the following addresses:
Mr. Taek Jin Kim, Chief Executive Officer
NCsoft Corporation
1501 4th Avenue, Suite 2050
Seattle, WA 98101
UNITED STATES
In Korea:
Mr. Taek Jin Kim, Chief Executive Officer
NCsoft Corporation
157-37 Samsung-dong
Kangnamu-gu, Seoul 135-090
KOREA
(if you can afford registered mail, so much the better.)
You might ask yourselves - why should we fight to help save City of Heroes?
The simplest answer is "enlightened self-interest".
Change the way that companies like NCSoft and PWE view their customer base and you may just make Champions Online's future that much more secure as well.
Think about that. Imagine if Mr. Taek Jin Kim got letters and emails not just from City of Heroes players, but from players of CHAMPIONS as well? Or perhaps from players of DCUO? Or even some from Star Trek Online?
Think how amazingly HUGE that would be! What an impact it would have!
Think of the positive media attention that you would receive for such efforts!
In City of Heroes and Champions both - we are inspired by heroes.
Be a Hero.
Furthermore, their community manager also is seemingly being very lenient about posts discussing City of Heroes and has even approved (and participated in) many of their threads where they are welcoming us and trying to explain how their game works and help us.
He's moved some posts to more appropriate forums, but he hasn't deleted any of them.
EDIT: One of the nicer posts went as follows:
Quote:Actually I dont care one way or another how the game goes. After I made the jump to CO from CoX I never really looked back. Yes I would still log onto CoX for the new updates have a play hang with my buddies there. But now all my buddies are in CO .
What it is about for me is this if City of Heroes is saved the Paragon crew can get their jobs back they are some of the nicest devs around they deserve better.
A silly super hero mmo of any name heck a silly mmo of any name matters not , what matters is the people behind it.
Its showing support and solidarity to those guys that matter.
Its what The Statesman would do.