Black Pebble

The flood of questions is, unfortunately, overwhelming me.

A lot of great questions, and some good ideas I'll look into.

However, you guys have a lot of questions I simply cannot answer. Not because I don't like you, but because it's not something I know enough about. Unfortunately, I wasn't on this side of the War Wall in 2004. It's not what you want to hear, but I don't want to lie to you or give you false hopes.

I don't mean to ignore questions but.....I can either tell you "I don't know, ask someone else" or answer the questions you know I can help with.

So I'm going with #2.

I do think TV ads are neat.

But I would be curious as to how much it cost to get Mr. T out there, and how many customers he brought in.

I do know that Mohawk grenade drove me nuts.

There are things we can do, and things that would be pretty challenging to do. We'll do whatever makes sense, but that's where you guys come in. The more you tell us what you're thinking (in well-thought out details), the better we can work with you.

Oh wow. I just realized...a redname just posted in my thread!!

Hello everybody,

I am the silent Black Pebble, otherwise known as the new North Americanbrand manager for City of Heroes.

I’ve been playing City of Heroes since 2004. I remember when my Fire/Rad controller had 12 fire imps. I remember how cool it was to get the chance to meet Positron on the test server, so I could finally whine about how much I hated Electric Manipulation on my Energy Blaster. One of my favorite memories was the first time I got to see the CoT temple map, which was the most breath-taking instance I had ever seen.

Sometimes, I would log in just to fly all the way to the top of the invisible skyline, then drop, and try to turn on fly before I splatted. I’ve played a lot of other MMO’s, but none of them have ever given me the same thrill that flying in CoH has. And nothing is better at making you feel overpowered than clicking Nova and seeing 20 mobs lying at your feet. No other game has managed to capture that feeling of freedom, power or uniqueness.

It’s been almost six years, and the game still inspires the same sense of excitement in me.

There is still one adventure left for me and it would be to face my most fearsome nemesis – all of you.

Some of you may already have painted an image of me in your minds. I can reassure you that I do not have a cat (I am allergic to them), I do not wear suits to work, and although I could lose a few pounds, I am in pretty good shape.


My hope is that by getting a red name on the board, I can show you that I am a fan and I will listen to you. Perhaps we can even have some interesting, new discussions.

I cannot promise you my undivided attention sadly, as I have many diabolical marketing schemes to inflict on the teeming masses. However, I will do my best to listen to all of you, and answer what questions I can. And although you may not see my direct hand in things, you will soon see the fruits of my devious plans very, very soon.

As a heads up, if you ask me questions about powers, art, distribution, retail, stories, billing, Latin, sales, bugs, dairy products, accounting, singing, costumes, anything that happened from 2004-2009, conventions, PvP, design, or algebra, not only will I not be able to answer them, but I’ll feel pretty bad about myself. I can only answer questions that directly involve my job.

So what do I do? Long story short, I try my best to make sure that everyone knows what a great game City of Heroes/Villains is and that we never forget that our most important part of our game is you – the players. I don’t program, I don’t draw and I don’t write great stories. You already know all of those people. I kind of do everything else. The one thing I can promise you is that I will do my best to earn your respect.

That is all I have for now.

See you again soon,

- Guy without a cool signature, avatar or costume.