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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

THIS is the only "urgent, must see" thing so far in this thread.

If you haven't already seen (or aren't planning in the VERY near future to see) The Avengers, then you're a terrible person and you should feel bad about yourself and the choices you've made in life.

Originally Posted by Megajoule

You have just described several recent installments of the Metal Gear and Final Fantasy series.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

Oh, so the devs have completely lost their minds now. Gotcha.

Originally Posted by Rubberlad

Me personally, I'd rather see open-environments for all three worlds (Paragon City, Praetoria and the Rogue Isles) with tons of unique, side exclusive enemy groups for the player to engage -- but with certain caveats:

1) Blue side is for PvE/Team XP bonuses with blue side-exclusive drops/craftable items
2) Red side is for PvE/Team Inf bonuses with red side-exclusive drops/craftable items
3) Gold side becomes an open-world PvPvE realm with Team merit/prestige bonuses and gold side-exclusive drops/craftable items

These realms should complement each other and provide an exclusive gameplay experience rather than overlap each other and provide the same or lesser gameplay experience as they do now (which is another reason why most folks always play/stay on blue side; there is absolutely no incentive to go play in those other worlds for achievements and rewards that you can't already get on blue side).



But I digress... Red side rules!

Originally Posted by Rubberlad

You say that and then I point to chain mail, leather armor and post apocalyptic costume sets that are coming inbound. People love those games and they want to play them and have those amoral experiences HERE.

The other thing to keep in mind is that morality plays work the same in any genre. And Darth Vader should be a singing testament that mainstream audiences can and do love the bad guys.

At this point, I don't think Jack Emmert and Zeb Cook were thinking outside the box when they helped conceptualize the Rogue Isles. There's still time and ways to improve the design for cheap and attract more players (both current and new) to red side. But it does require thinking outside the box...

I don't say that as an insult to the devs who used to work on CoV from conception but as a challenge to War Witch and the current team of Devs to be innovative and flip red side in such a way that this old hideout looks new again.

Originally Posted by Indiramourning

Be socialable--unless you are RPing someone who is not

I always say hello and like making silly comments about situations during missions and the like. Teasing people who almost die or for doing something crazy. We're a team of friends, working together toward a common goal. I love the band of brothers feeling of a great team.

Originally Posted by Rubberlad

That's so not true. Games like Skyrim, Fallout and more reward the player that's willing to explore their virtual dark side - IF there's good incentive to do so. Red side will definitely draw more players if the reward mechanics become exclusive/more enriching.

Originally Posted by Rubberlad

Red side rocks.

Playing a villain now is way better than it was when CoV launched. My SG mates prefer blue side but they'll explore red side if I'm around. That said, red side is still a hard sell sometimes for a few reasons:

1) The zones are depressing to look at.
2) All the Arachnos contacts and their missions are uninspired (TV is a rare exception).
3) Red side rewards are same as blue side (where they're easier/faster to get)
4) Strike forces outside of the WST and mayhem missions are very difficult.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Part of me is just waiting for her response - though some of it I know is stuff she's said elsewhere, as I think she's made this very comment in various threads.

Part of me knows I'll skip it and find something easy like an in-depth discussion of 'brane theory and multiverses to read instead.

Originally Posted by dugfromthearth

What would make defenders and corruptors really different (and probably make defenders overpowered) would be to to make their single target buffs also affect them.

an empathy getting their own fortitude would totally change the set
likewise a storm getting 02 Boost
FF getting their own bubbles

Originally Posted by _eeek_

I understand containment. However, past the mid-20's, any decent troller should have ample tools from which to select that a) set up containment, and b) actually do something useful.

Originally Posted by TheDeepBlue

I'm not saying it's wrong to roll Heroes. I'm saying that rolling one because 'nobody plays villains'/'red is dead' compounds the issue behind the complaint itself and is therefore a ridiculous action to take using that reasoning.

Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven

Woah woah woah! I never said they should lie. However, galavanting around proclaiming they are moving to blue doesn't fix anything though, which is what I was saying they shouldn't do.

Also, if everyone who ever left redside due to population stayed... it wouldn't be as big of an issue either. Which is sorta the point of the thread.

Originally Posted by Zybron1

And thus, you've determined, as many of us have, the reason why this game has always been a niche game and not more mainstream.

Other than some videos I've seen posted on the website in the past, I don't recall any advertisements for this game. I'm sure there have been, but for some reason, there's never been much of an ad budget, it seems.

Originally Posted by Android_5Point9

If you have a Grey alignment, you summon a pack of wolves who you can ride on to your mission.


In factual news, Street Justice is 600 points now too.

Originally Posted by terrible_deli

Account.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

The QoL impact that'll have on me is worth the price. Some part of me cringes at that price, but I'm buying it anyway.

Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei

Not sure what you mean with the anti-client deal. What I am getting at is the ability to earned everything in the game that is offered in the market. Just like the new ATO's the devs could in fact provide alternate in game ways to earn these items. It is a quite simple concept that they already use and should now be extended to those outliers as they are not needed to sweeten the Supergamble Packs to stimulate sales.

People are going to still buy the packs and allowing alternate means for earning the outliers is not going to hurt those massive sales.

Originally Posted by onefrigidwitch

this. Reward tokens are kind of precious. You never know what might show up. Points stuff; well, you can always buy points or just use free points.

Edit: I made 1.7 bil off merits/converters i got from my packs. I am happy. :d

interestingly, i have hoarded my inf... First bil in 8 years of playing.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

Maybe the word "revolutionize" would be a bit hyperbolic but this should do some interesting things on certain speed TFs. This power would be a bargain at twice the price.

Originally Posted by Vitality

Couldn't agree more...especially with the fact that we can shut off xp gain.

I mean...if you think you're leveling too fast...shut it off...and let others have fun with the regular leveling speed.

Don't try to get something changed just because you don't use the tools at your disposal.

I will never understand the "want" for less options in this game.

Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven

Yeah, I don't really even think these should exist... let alone buy one. To me, it seems like a way to get out of doing 2XP Weekends... why give them away if you can milk the costumer base for the same thing?