CriticalKat

You did not participate in my last event. No rules got changed at the last moment. There were participants that suggested some changes to make the event shorter. They were all then given the opportunity to vote on whether they wanted to makes changes or not. Of course you don't know what the **** you are talking about because you did not even participate.

If you don't like how I run my events do not participate. Ever. Seriously.

YOu would be the finger that partially pl'd my MM for my test team. :-)

Which is actually a sweet memory to me. I still giggle when I remember what you told me when we started the first farm map. "Stay at the door, I am not dealing with your ******* pets aggro'n ****".

Even when needing to desperately get that toon leveled for an upcoming match standing at the door and not playing was like pulling my fingernails out one by one.

I gather you assume I pl'd all of those 50's? Nope. I have 2 lvl 50's that were "partially" pl'd for my test pvp teams because I had no choice and needed them quick for a match. The other 21 lvl 50's were played through content, badges, the whole nine yards. I work from home and used to play CoX about 12-15 hours a day while working. Did that for about the first 3 years of my gameplay and yeah 50's accumlate quickly with no effort at trying to level them quickly, especially being I love large teams on invincible. NOt for the xp but for a challenge. I can also count the number of times I have been on a farm on one hand. In fact I can count speed run tf's I have done on about 2 hands. I don't like farming for rep, loot, badges, or anything else. I like to play the game. Not everyone with a load of 50's has them from pl'n. I love content and will take that over quick xp any day of the week.

No sets I am interested in. I have every lvl 50 I find remotely interesting. Exactly why can I not EXPECT new content for lvl 50's? If lvl 50's were not meant to be played then why would there be the content that already exists or the fact that to earn a purple recipe you have to be fighting lvl 50 baddies. Personally I think it is fair for me to EXPECT new content whether it be for a lvl 50 or any other level. Also they didn't just hand a crapload of new features for a new creation, giving existing powers and allowing them to just be used for different AT's doesn't change the fact that they already existed and I have already played them. IE. Rad blast on a blaster is the same as it was on a defender, same animations, same attacks, just more damage.

Anyways my post wasn't meant to be a ***** post, was just basically saying give lvl 50's some love please.

Lies. Lies. Lies.

I am willing to wait for this I17 extravaganza you speak of though if you can entertain me for this next year so I am not bored? :-)

I have done every one of my contacts, not like they keep giving you more once the arc is over. I have done the scanner missions a gazillion times. Boring. I have done all the Tfs a gazillion times, also most of those qualify under the "exemption" part that I am not wanting to always do which is why I asked for more +50 content.

After 23 level 50's and the ONLY new content for 50's that was added in the last 4 years being ITF, STF, LGTF, RWZ missions and paper missions.....yeah my pot of stuff to do that is interesting is empty. Sadly I15 allows me to turn all my powers pink now so I will spend all of an hour doing all of my toons and yeah well then what? (BTW I am totally disappointed that the power customization that I am totally not excited about didn't have any bright colors like the hot pink)

I still love the game. However I pretty much have every lvl 50 I am interested in having. So give me something to play? :-)

Yeah well first they would have to add some new content because hard taskforces in this game do not exist.

Exactly, and well said.

I think some of the changes they made are very necessary. As an OPTION. In a new pvp'r zone. PVP didn't have to be trainwrecked across the board. Offer it as an option for the beginner. Just like they have a tutorial zone for pve, they should have made the same thing for pvp.

They didn't convince themselves, the Dev's convinced them. It wasn't like a normal beta experience where people are randomly invited such as yourself. The teams were approached by the Dev's specifically to help them. Special invites for the purpose of helping them. I thought I made that clear in my post, apparently not, so hope its clear now.

I really can't say much about that because personally I think a good percentage of the eletist pvpr's do come across as ******** so I can understand your bitterness.

Personally I have no ego in this. I was not one of the pvpr's that did the testing. Nor do I consider myself a fabulous pvp'r. Actually I suck. Luckily though I found a few teams willing to work with me. I am a one hit wonder, empath is the only thing I am any good at pvp'n, admittingly. I will even agree with your point that a lot of the people that quit were just being emo about it. I will even say that I13 pvp isn't broken. Just like I12 pvp wasn't broken. A few changes would make it a lot better. When you compare the two though, I13 pvp is 200% better than this button smashing that we have now. Why? Because every AT had a purpose. Whether it was empath, sonic, therm, rad.....whatever it was had a purpose. Now, no purpose. There is no challenge. The whole reason to compete is to have a challenge. Once you take away the challenge factor you might as well go do something like that is not designed to be competitive.

Again, how can people who never pvp know more about pvp than someone who pvp's all the time? Its a pretty simple thing really, not sure why you don't get the point. Let me try it in a different terminology. Does a nurse know how to perform open heart surgery better than the Dr? Does the Mcdonalds fry slinger know how to prepare a gourmet meal better than the veteran chef? Does the little league coach know how to play better than Culpepper? People are successes for a reason. Why in the world would someone with less experience and education ask for advice from an expert and then not use any of it?

The fact that you are serious is the scary part. I believe they thought they were making the right choices. In fact I think in some ways they did make the right choices. However if they knew so much, if this new pvp is such a success then you explain to me where all the pvprs are? This is a business, all about money. If they ignored the current pvpr's for the sake of getting even more pvpr's, thus more paid subscriptions then I would say it was a success. That may have been their intentions but by no means is that what happened. Across 11 servers, the zones do not have a 1/4 as many people as they used to. The arena doesn't have 1/4th as many people, and the test crew is 75% gone. Soooooo they didn't get more pvpr's, are not getting more subscriptions and LOST a LOT of paid subscribers in the process. So while their intentions may have been good the end result was phail.

I will agree with you on that. Some people had very high expectations. Some people got their hopes up. Had there not been personal invites to help do that datamining and lies told that it was going to be a team effort to make the changes then I suppose those people wouldn't be bitter. Sorry its bad business to use your paying customers and essentially lie to them. Again I am not one of them, so I am speaking from opinion not experience.

I wasn't lied to or used. In fact eventhough I don't like the new pvp I have put forth a huge effort to support it and help it grow. However all these months later I can sit up and see that the pvp crowd didnt come back, there are very few new pvprs, very little pvp, and being this is a business that wants to promote pvp that its a bad business decision to not just admit the changes are wrong. If the goal was to get more pvprs, and the changes failed to do that then time to go back to the drawing board. You say its the pvprs with the ego issues, personally I think the same rings true for the devs. Rather than admit the plan phailed, they just keep letting pvp die even more.

Please tell me you are kidding????

Let me take a crack at this.

The Dev's don't pvp. Admittingly. Not to say they don't do an occassional, casual match by any means, but they are not by any means hardcore pvpr's. Hell I wouldn't even say they are pvpr's because IMHO unless you actually practice at pvp, pvp with some regularity and design your toons with atleast a semblance of a pvp build then you are just a pve'r that occassionally trys pvp.

How in the world can the 17 year old kid that has never done anything more than microwave a hot pocket tell a goumet chef how to cook?

Now I will agree some changes needed to be made to pvp. FOTM's were a problem. Only to a point though, because there was a counter to EVERY FOTM that ever hit the stage. Thing was too many people were not smart enough to know what that counter was. Anyways, yes changes needed to be made. Here is where the problem comes in that most are not aware of unless they were a test pvp'r.

The Dev's included us in the closed beta. Specifically invited the test pvp crowd to closed beta to help them iron out what changes needed to be made. We went to closed beta with an open mind that there would be changes we wouldn't like but appreciative of the fact that they were willing to partner with us to get these changes done right. A lot of very good pvp'rs spent days/weeks testing all this stuff. On test all the time, testing. Providing feedback. An occassional non-pvp'r Dev was seen standing in the arena, not in a match mind you, but just in the building itself. Pvp'rs tested. Tested some more. Gave feedback. Gave thoughts and ideas. In fact I believe it was Mac that came up with a proposal of changes and gave it to the Dev's that would solve every single problem that they were trying to solve without actually wrecking pvp. **Just found out it was NOT Mac, apparently I got my names mixed up.

I13 came out with not so much as one single suggested change by the pvp crew. Not one.

So basically the people that don't pvp made pvp changes and ignored those that do pvp, and you think that is ok?

I normally don't whine about the changes because it is what it is. It is their game to change how they want to. However had to post this being your statement is just wrong. Very wrong. Of course people who actually pvp would know more about how to design or change pvp compared to people who don't pvp.

For example. The dev's solution to melee not being able to compete fairly was to suppress everyone to slow them down so the tank/scrapper would be able to catch them. Same thing could have been achieved by only suppressing someone when they were attacked specifically by a melee attack. YOu get punched, you are slowed down and can't run away as fast for a few seconds so the tank/scrapper has time to get in another attack. Seems fair to me? It was suggested by the pvpr's, but instead everyone is suppressed all the time which sucks. Just one example of many.

Amen.

To sum it up I miss the people and the adrenalyn rush.

I know when I first started out on test with PCJL and we would be practicing against other teams or preppin for a match my heart would be pounding. I had to actually worry about how I played my toon. I had to worry about actually healing and buffing. As I got better and moved on to other teams and learned more it was even more of an adrenalyn rush. Now I don't have to worry about anything, nothing is a challenge. In fact on my emp the only challenge there is for me is to count heals and spread them out so heal decay doesn't get my teammates killed. Now instead of healing a teammate that is taking spike damage I have to wait until they are almost dead to heal them. WTF?

What is really missing out of the new pvp is the pre-match preparation. The adrenalyn rush of seeing what the other team was bringing and then switching builds to counteract what they were bringing. Force field bubbler meant we were switching to bring a therm in. Omg they are bringing 3 psi blasters, lets bring in an extra emp. Ok who are we caging?

Now all of that is pointless because no AT does anything spectacular anymore. We used to worry about specific players. Now the only thing to worry about is who will get lucky enough to push buttons the fastest or have the most uber build.

Sadly I joined the PVPEC to help build up pvp again, but there is really no point to me. While I can feel good when a new pvp'r trys out the new pvp and likes it I can't help but just shake my head in sadness that they will never know what its like to be one of the "great ones", because no such thing exists anymore.

Yanno, most of all I miss the people that were considered the "greats". A lot of non-pvpr's think some of those people were just pvp ******* because they may have been a little rough around the edges. In truth though, for those that pvp'd with them, they truly were great. Helpful, willing to share their knowlege and just good laughs. AJax, UW, Reaver, M3z, Brynn, Johnnie, Dusk, and so many more from the test crowd, the list is just too long.

Yeah I didnt agree with him on the market part of his post either. As someone who is patient and as someone who makes money off of those who are impatient I like the prices right where they are. :-)

Time is money. Just spend the 3 bucks to join fileplanet and the download turns to being less than 3 hours long.

Well I only played Wow a week, well not even, maybe 10 hours tops. I specifically remember when I did play it ...looting dead bodies, having a lot of country terrain, killing stuff at a farm, walking very slow and far. I remember the power trays being very similar to Aion. I remember looting different armor or weapons from kills and not being able to use them without training for them. I remember the whole Mages, warriors, scouts type of characters. I also remember not having a lot of character customization available. Unless I am not understanding how to make my character it was the similar in Aion, not as bad as WOW though. There is a lot more I could list but I will just say its similar in playstyle to me. Of course I am talking about 10 hours of Wow and comparing it to about 5 hours/5 levels of Aion so far. So I could be off with my first impressions.

I didn't like WOW at all, and I enjoyed Aion. So I wouldn't let it being similar keep you from trying it.

Just checked GP. 3 of us in this thread are from the same SG and in checking our calendar the only night without an event posted we need to attend is Thursday night unfortunately. NOt sure how that works for anyone else.

I have used Mcafee's for years with absolutely no problems. I have it on all 4 of my pc's. I don't feel strongly one way or another about it, I use it because its familiar and simple.

I have heard many people say it sucks or say its basically a virus. I think its all about what you do as an individual online. I am not a big web surfer, I have a few trusted sites such as my bank, companies I pay bills with, amazon.com etc that I use. I send/receive a lot of emails, and use messenger alot for work stuff. My work sites which are of course secure sites. So for someone like me who isn't out discovering each and every dark and scary crack and crevice of the internet daily...it works. People that are more aggressive on the internet, might need something else.

While I have never had a bad experience with Mcafees , I did have a horrible experience with Norton's. It seemingly threads itself through your entire system and was taking my computer hostage. Some people might like it, though. Personally I found it to be restrictive and too "secure", even when toning down the settings.

So basically the koolest kids club gets to decide who gets to drink their koolaid, essentially?

Blah.

I shall just take all the koolkids hostage. For every day that I do not get a new green dot I will put out a minimum of 10 of my extremely long, opinionated and anal posts that you guys adore so much.

/Me RP'n as if I really care.