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Quote:Really, the whole thing's starting to sound like a bad sitcom based on the premise that they won't ask the OBVIOUS question that any sane person would.
RemianenI reminds me of something:
Frosticus, you and people who hold the same opinion are making some very strong assumptions about the so-called "new player" (in fact, those assumptions are similar to the ones made about the mythical "casual player"). You're assuming that new players to this game have never played another MMO in their lives. You're assuming that new players to this game have done no research or reading about this game. You're also assuming that new players to this game WANT to be surrounded by a bunch of people they don't know, all up in their faces with their often inane and banal chattering, while they're trying to learn the basics of how to play this game.
I've turned many people on to MMOs, people who are new to the genre overall (who had never played one in their lives). Not a single one of them fits into your 'new player box'. No one in my WoW or EQ guilds that I've told about CoX has been like that either. The new players I know of tend to read up on a game to see if they like it before committing to playing it. Their playtime is precious to them so they're not going to jump into a game, sight unseen, and run the risk of wasting said playtime. They prefer to try to learn basic gameplay before they shackle themselves to other people (often before they even tell me they're playing). You seem to portray new players as whimsical idiots who act on their first impulse. Perhaps the new players you know or have known have colored your view in that manner, I don't know. -
Quote:Oh, we wouldn't be surprised. People say stupid and ill-informed things about CoX all the time.
Slashman fears rumor:
So you might be surprised to hear someone comment on an article on Bluesnews that Virtue is the only server worth joining if you are going to play COX and don't want to play in a ghost town.
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Quote:Since the higher level characters are quite a bit faster and accumulate more tools to work with, it'd make more sense to reverse that. Let the lowbies get the reduced time and leave the two hour mark for the higher levels. That said, I wouldn't want to see them do that at all.
Mister_Chicken is backwards:
It might also make sense to make the power more accessible based on player's veteran status or even the level or your character; 20 minutes lopped off for every ten levels of the character's progress. -
**comment muffled by my own integrity**
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I'd ask "jranger, is that you?" except that your "no" makes no sense in that context. No what?
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Quote:Well, on that part, we might as well be brothers.
James_Donner has it, too:
Nah, I just like to argue...
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Quote:Yeah, that's enough for me, too. James can have the last rebuttal, but it's likely he'll just lay on more hyperbole.
Sardan has a point:
I know it's fun talking about DCUO and how Posi is worse than Hitler, but can you move those discussions to a different part of the forum? This thread is meant to be for discussion the removal of the Alpha slot.
The topics you're discussing can go on endlessly and they'll obscure posts that are on topic. -
Quote:It's not here, either. There's hardly been a consistent inability to meet a deadline. There's been a handful of isolated incidents, no more or less than other games.
James_Donner has his own views:
Demonstrating a consistent inability to meet a deadline is not SOP in any industry.
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Quote:How nice for you. You fall far short of being "the entire playerbase", though. The people primarily upset were exploit farmers and some people that got their arcs altered because of efforts to combat them.
James_Donner has his snoot in the air:
Yeah I think basically calling a huge % of your player base a bunch of cheaters because you didn't like what they did to your new shiny toy to be morally offensive. I know I get offended when someone calls me a cheat at any game I am playing within its rules.
Probably zero, and I highly doubt he was "demoted". It's far more likely he chose to actually work on something else instead of running the whole shebang but neither one of really know or ever will, will we?Quote:And somebody at NCSoft sure thought that he deserved a demotion. But that may just be because of the number of people who quit after reading his little note to the players. I wonder how much money he personally cost them that fiscal year? -
I'd say the game was less "designed around" the triad, but rather "made to incorporate" it, since the game works just fine if you completely ignore the triad.
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Quote:It's a repetitive thing in the entire industry. It's not in the least unusual for a game to pull a feature that doesn't work right for further work. I love how people seem to think that creating video games is like waving some magic wand and everything is perfect. It simply doesn't work like that. You make it, then you test it and find out where it's messed up because just about EVERYTHING is first time around. And sometimes they're a little more broken than is fixable right away.
James_Donner points fingers:
The point isn't that it wasn't right. The Point is that they committed to GETTING IT RIGHT by now and failed.
That this is a repetitive theme for this dev team. They just aren't good enough at creating real the lvl 50 content in a timely manner. It only been 6 years. Maybe its time to clean house? -
Quote:I hope the "morally offending his entire playerbase" isn't a reference to AE, because if it is, that's a huge pantload.
James_Donner shovels:
I've just gotta express my frustration with yet another failure by the dev team to bring something to fruition on time and in a manner that works with the game. First was PVP and then Posi's AE fiasco. This looks to be strike three for him. This time instead of ruining pvp or morally offending his entire playerbase is a failure to meet an already extended deadline for some kind of real level 50 content. -
Quote:Of course. Power doesn't waste time beating the same dead horse. He's out in the field looking for the next equine corpse!
Forbin_Project lifts an eyebrow:
Power hasn't been back to this thread since the fourth. The person beating the dead horse is the one who won't let it drop off the front page and just had to post in it again after it was silent for almost 10 days.
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Quote:The Rikti Ship Raid is technically a zone event, which refutes all but iii there, so there are other ways. I, like you, hope it's not something like the above, though. I'm also hope for a little love for the soloers.
Neuronia needs a reminder:
I sincerely hope that the Developers occasionally log into the live servers, as sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men...
Problems with zone events in general:
i)Need outside triggers, like Lady Grey for zone raids or salvage redemption for Zombie Apocalypse;
ii)Low-pop servers might only draw 15-20 people in zone;
iii)Zone content focused only on level 50s doesn't exactly jibe well with the Super Sidekick system or the pick-up nature of the game;
iv)People get bored of zone events after about 5-10 minutes. Expecting people to exit more profitable missions (Influence, experience gains, merits, drops) to go fight "the big threat" is...naive, to be nice about it. -
Not talk to GG? I've had some of my most fun arguments with her!
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Quote:This. Just that it's blind inviting at all tells me all I ever need to know about it.
Forbin_Project has it right:
Don't accept blind SG invites. An SG that sends out blind invites to anyone isn't concerned about it's members their just looking for fodder to fill the ranks. -
Power_NA, Master of Dead Horse Beating.
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X = knife to the eye?
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Quote:You really need to stop saying "GR" when you mean "the initial release of GR". You're going to confuse a bunch of people.
Golden Girl takes no heed:
Plus, these zone events - if they do take place in Paretoria - aren't planned for GR - they're part of I19. -
Ooo, that reminds me of my main two!
Ape Giant Monster
Lizard Giant Monster
"With a purposeful grimace,
And a terrible sound,
He pulls those spitting
High-tension wires down!" -
Quote:NuclearToast + math =
NuclearToast doesn't figure:
First there was "Tank + Healer + DPS", and now this thread.
STOP WITH THE MATH IN THREAD TITLES! I don't want to do math all the time!
Thank you.
--NT
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Quote:"There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'."
Defenestrator gets one I use in my clown's bad joke binds:
There's no "I" in TEAM.
But there is an "I" in PIE, such as MEAT PIE.
And MEAT is an anagram for TEAM.
EDIT: David Brent, btw. -
Quote:Only on a fistful or six of high-end stuff. Most of the people who talk about the market seem to see only that stuff. The rest of the stuff is eminently reasonable and much of it is quite useful.
je_saist makes it sound way worse than it is:
The big problem is that the prices on the market have basically spiraled way out of reach of the average player. -
I figure it wasn't, since it would "inidicate" a 3.1 gig "download" instead of less than a gig.
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Quote:Speak for yourself. There's tons of people that would rather have nothing (for now) then have some crap that doesn't work right.
Lucky666 talks out his rectum:
Well it would satisfy us more then nothing that's 100% given.