Doctor_Gemini

It may be there policy to give NCSoft credits but I didn't pay for an NCSoft game, I paid for CoH. I'll happily take them to small claims court if they want to try to pull that on me.

I couldn't make the afternoon rally, but I was in Atlas Park (no number) about 9:30 AM PST. There were already 3 other full instances at the time.

I have less problem with enemies refilling when you die than I have with enemies refilling when you lose aggro. There is no hit and run if you come up against a tough enemy (and the game goes so far as to hit you in the face with that with most super-villain fights by locking you in a room with them).

Dang, I think you may actually have me beat for number of characters....

I don't see this "false hope" you're going on about. I think we're all savvy enough to know that there is little chance that 3 months from now the game will not be over. However, there are some people here with the skills, ability, or contacts to try. I doubt that anyone is unaware that it's a longshot, but despite that it's one I'd be trying for, too, if I had any skills to do so.

I have a lifetime sub to CO bought during beta that I've still not gotten its value in playtime from yet. Tried playing CO over my weekend (I tried to play CoH but it was just too depressing) and found that it's even worse than it used to be. You can pretty much mow down small groups of bad guys, but then you hit the Super Villain in the mission arc and get stomped into the ground. Actually, he does more than stomp you into the ground but I can't say it in a family friendly forum. At least that's what it feels like when you realize there is no possibility whatsoever of winning the fight.

Maybe CoH spoiled me, since in all my years here I only ever once ran into something that one of my characters could not solo even with Shivans and chiclets. I guess maybe I'll finally watch some of the DVDs I keep buying and haven't watched yet.

I started playing in early 2005, and although there was much about this game that I loved there was much that made it, for me, unfun. After 6 months I quit altogether. 2 years later memories of the things I liked so much made me try the game again. By this time many things had evolved with you as lead designer. I found everything I had loved either still here or made even better. All the things that ruined the game for me back in '05 were gone.

Since then, it's only gotten better and better. It has been almost like you all were making a game for me, and no other game, especially no other MMO, has even come close. In fact, playing this game has ruined me for any other MMO. You've lead the only game I've ever played for years, and the only game I will miss when it's gone.

Add your something awful to the list anyway, Zwill, don't just tease us with it!

For the same reasons others here have said, I won't be buying another NCSoft published game. If this game were losing money, then I'd still be angry but I'd understand it. The fact is I spent several hundred dollars this last year to support my favorite game, only to find out that the parent company couldn't care less about the financial health of the game, they'll shut it down even when it makes money.

NCSoft betrayed my trust, and I am very angry about that, but more importantly they proved that they neither care about the health of the game nor their paying customers when it comes to their decisions. It would be stupid for me to ever give them money again.

Congratulations Bob! You're the winner of Survivor: Breakroom!

"Snake Plissken... I've heard of you..."

"What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

"Did you speak the exact words?"

"I haven't lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed... and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't...."

My earliest comics (before I started buying back issues) were dated 1970, so I'd have been 7. Don't have any memory of what I first read. The first comic book memory I have is in 1971 or '72, reading a Batman 100-page Super Spectacular. I think it had a reprint of the introduction of the 1950's Batmobile, which is still the coolest Batmobile ever designed.

Looks like I won't be making these meets for quite awhile longer. I'm hoping I can adjust my sleep schedule a bit so I can be functional to join you all, but at least for the next couple months I'll still be out.

I've been missing it, I really enjoy teaming with you all.

Thanks for including my arc, Welcome to M.A.G.I., however, it is for levels 1-10. The last mission is level 5, but if you start the first one right out of the character creator, you'll be 5th level by the time you start the last one, or at worst after defeating the first mob in it.

I'm a west coaster, too, but I work nights. How much earlier would be possible for you to attend, BF? Maybe we can find a good medium for everyone's schedules.

I'm not going to make it again this Sunday. We need to be meeting earlier! (I'm sure I'm the only one thinking that, alas)

What destroys every other MMO for me, and was more pronounced in the laser swords game, is the open world missions. In CoH, I'm told I'm the only one who can take care of this problem and I never get there and find 10 other super-heroes obviously already dealing with the problem. In other games, even if I can manage to salvage some small feeling of immersion by trying to ignore other players while simultaneously competing with them for goals, that immersion is completely shattered when I have to wait in line for a particular spawn.

The sad thing is, the laser sword game is one that (at least in the areas I got to before I quit playing), could have allowed the player to maintain immersion while having other player characters running around the same mission areas. If they hadn't written those missions, as every other MMO also does, as if it were a single player game. The opening areas for each class worked very well with other players running around them, even if they were apparently doing the same thing you were. They lost that once you left those places.

The only thing in CoH that breaks immersion for me is the way the devs chose to implement the auction house and the AE. Both could have been done using more super-hero appropriate themes.

The other major thing that causes me to get quickly bored with other MMOs is the wide range of powers available in CoH. In other games, there is not a huge difference between various paths and skills a class can take. That may not be true at the highest levels of the game, but, the lack of any noticeable difference has kept me from getting to those levels. In CoH, I can have a number of characters with the same Primary powerset play completely differently from each other if they have different Secondaries. That's not true of all powersets, but it does seem true, at least to me, of the majority of them. That effectively gives CoH 10 or 20 times the number of classes that any other game has.