Dante

*Shudder* Yeah, she was great. Terrifying and beautiful at the same time. Damn I miss those conventions.

You know, we've never spoken Forbin but I like you. Your posts have always been clearly stated and mostly full of common sense. But I feel I must state that you clearly do not know Shadowe at all and that this post was incredibly rude. In many, many debates Shadowe has been the voice of reason and is one of the most coherent and intelligent posters on these forums. So please, before you go labelling people as trolls, try and look at what he is saying and respond in the reasoned way that I know you are capable of.

However, as much as I understand what Shadowe is saying, I do not believe we will receive any communication from NCSoft other than what we already have. Let me tell you a little story.

I may be one of the few EU subscribers around who remember what happened when NCSoft Europe shut down. I even, by a bizarre co-incidence, worked in the office next door to them. The EU had separate servers, separate forums, we were a totally separate entity. One Friday, there was a very short post on our forums telling us the NCSoft Europe was shutting down. That was it. Aside from a few hurried posts from our community and moderation team, the office was closed and about a hundred people given their marching orders on the same day. For weeks and weeks, the EU forums exploded with angry people who had no idea what this meant for us. Were the EU servers being shut down? What would happen to the forums? Who was in charge? What about our billing?

We waited for weeks and nothing happened. We were completely left in the dark by NCSoft until finally some temporary moderation came through from the US. Shortly after the forums merged but I remember for that time we were abandoned with no communication whatsoever. So to see them do the same thing again to the whole game comes as no surprise to me. It's pretty much par for the course for them so I am not expecting any further communication from them whatsoever. If the servers go dark on the 30th of November without another word from NCSoft, I will not be surprised in the least.

That said, I totally endorse and support every action that is being taken to try and keep CoX alive. And I live in hope that our fat can be pulled from the fire and that we can keep going as a community. But us in the EU have already had this treatment before so this treatment is nothing new. As for us, right now we need everyone to stand together rather than descending into mudslinging. Please.

Nothing, as usual.

All I have to say on the topic is: 'Marrow'

Damn right it does. Crap.

Till All Are One indeed.

Amen to that.

And thank you for your posts about Sister Flame and her adventures. It has inspired me to introduce my daughter to gaming too although sadly, her experiences in CoX will not span the many years that Sister Flame's did.

Peace on you and your family.

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Sound design is such a thankless job normally (I know, I have been that soldier). But when you notice it, boy is it effective.

I personally love the sound of the Seed of Hamidon in First Ward. Whenever I hear that sound getting closer, I shudder. Kudos to whoever designed that.

And this thread just makes me want to buy Staff Fighting even more now...

That does help to explain the design. However, I'd say that he's trying to squeeze too many ideas into one costume and that's why it comes across as looking messy. There's simply too much going on because there's too many concepts crammed into one outfit.