Demobot

If the joke goes over your head, it doesn't mean it wasn't funny.

Because the year after that they'll release the Super Platinum Unlimited Edition that includes a fully-functional 1:1 scale Helicarrier.

1st comic: conspiracy theorists are so sadly, hopelessly deluded that you cannot actually 'win' an argument with them; much like internet trolls, you 'win' by ignoring them and doing just about anything else.

2nd comic: Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker in Berlin as the Soviet Army was assaulting the city, towards the very end of WWII, in 1945. Usually, when people suggest traveling back in time to kill Hitler, they mean traveling back to some point prior to his launching WWII so that the horrors of war might be averted and millions of lives would be saved. This assumes that there is only a single timeline and that changing the past changes the entire timeline after that point, a la Back to the Future. Obviously, traveling back in time to kill Hitler shortly before he would have committed suicide would be completely, utterly pointless.

EDIT: Bah, scooped.

Additional enhancement storage costs as much as it does because it is unlocked for every character you have made or ever will make on your account.

I offer a rebuttal:



http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kill_hitler.png

My guess is it has to do with microtransactions. The only NCSoft games currently on Steam are the Guild Wars games, which to my knowledge don't have in-game item shops. Aion was on Steam, but it disappeared when it went F2P.

Have you read Valve's privacy policy? You should.

Most of those were implemented because players were earning rewards at exponentially greater rates than what was deemed acceptable by the developers. While IO set bonuses to give players a great deal of power, there are mechanical limitations (aggro caps and AoE target caps were both implemented at the same time as the GDN) that simply cannot be circumvented, and MARTy ensures that genuinely exploitative behavior gets red-flagged while simultaneously shutting off rewards for the exploiter.

Yes, there are other measurements of player power besides xp/inf earning rate, but when it comes to balance considerations it seems to be the one metric the developers have paid the closest attention to.

Clearly you've never heard the old adage about gift horses and their mouths.

I've been having problems launching CoH through Steam (that is, as a shortcut on my list of Steam games). However, when running CoH using the NCSoft launcher, even with Steam running in the background, I haven't had any issues.

There is, sort of. There's sub-option for the hook hand that has two smaller hooks.

A majority of a tiny minority is a tiny minority. If displeasure over Super Packs was as widespread as you seem to believe it is, other options would have been presented.

The CPU can also be a bottleneck.

If you're running Windows 7, next time you run a trial, run the Resource Monitor in the background (Start->Search programs and files->type 'resource monitor'). It'll display what's eating up the most memory and CPU cycles. It won't show what your graphics card is up to, unfortunately, but there's a freeware desktop gadget that makes up the difference.

It's unique. But I haven't given up hope that we'll see future IOs with a similar effect.

I know, right? They used to charge $15 for server access to keep out the riffraff, now ANYONE can just waltz in.