Dr_MechanoEU

In that case today has been a bad day, I haz been wrong twice!

Also I misunderstood Posi's joke.

I'm sorry Posi, forgive me!

Well colour me surprised.

I retract my previous statement, I honestly thought EQ and EQ2 had less subscribers than they actually do (like 50k sub numbers).

Well in that case there is some hope for SOE yet.

EQ WAS a big hitter, I wouldn't say it is now unfortunately.

Mind you that's partially because the goalposts have changed with regards a 'big hitter MMO' when the beast was unleashed by Blizzard.

For example I while CoH isn't a big hitter in the MMO market, it's a big hitter in the Superhero sub-genre due to the other two suffering from their own, much larger, problems and coming up against an MMO with seven years worth of content.

Yup...that'll basically kill Planetside, DCUO and whatever other online subscriber based MMOs they have, the whole idea of an MMO is to get people hooked and logging in every day to play, forcing people to go 'cold turkey' for over a month will usually mean that they will drop the product fairly sharpish.

While it will have a big impact on the regular Sony side, the biggest impact is going to be on SOE side to the point where I reckon the actual service/section of the company itself will be shut down by Sony come towards the end of the year.

Lets be honest, they've never had big hitters and what little they had left will likely be closed down.

Shame really as I enjoyed their superhero MMO but the endgame content SUCKED something fierce.

Sounds like they've basically killed SOE as a company then.

I imagine that for all their MMOs they'll lose a huge number of subscribers, a couple of days outage I imagine is tolerable but over two weeks, that will be beyond tolerable for probably a huge chunk of players.

As mentioned their subscriber based MMOs were already bleeding subscribers at a high rate or suffered from already low numbers about the only ones they're going to have left is the free to play ones and even then they're more aimed at children, so two weeks of outage more than likely means that they're going to move elsewhere.

I will also point out that working in games retail I've seen a massive upshot in the sale of Xbox 360s (infact 3 customers were all friends buying one so they could play the big name FPS game online with each other).

Since playing online is now a big part of gaming, the lacking of the online component for the PS3 for what appears to be atleast a month, if not longer, will likely cause a lot of people to drop the console itself.

I will point out something interesting revealed by Positron during the Meet and Greet.

You only actually ever get 8 Acid Grenades despite there being 10 crates.

Yup, it's designed so that there is always 2 doors that you need to bust the weapons crates out by Marauder for.

Sneaky dastards.

Also I hate to say it but Union seems to have very little problems with regards the trials but then fewer numbers, no LFG made trials (all premade) means you get a selection of dedicated 'raiders' as it were.

ah my version of this was 'a Skull's Girlfriend'.

She got fed up of the boys getting all the fun and got her own mystical mojo (Dark/Dark/Ghost Widow (didn't have access to Dark APP back then)).

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And most of all, don't feed them.

Ah, I see we aren't there yet.

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Is that before or after Midnight?

I can never remember with Americans, is it our Midnight or theirs?

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As the US servers go down, the eyes of America turn to the EU forums...

HAI!!!!!

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Remember, smile, wave, be polite and speak slowly, bless'em it sometimes takes a while for things to sink in.

*waves at the Americans*

and so is your double posting FFM.

Now I think you're doing it on purpose.

*quickly backstabs the rest of the European forums*

I never really was on your side

*straightens tie*

((yes playing both sides against the other))

been confirmed, power customisation is per costume slot and per power.

So you can mix and match both the kicks and the punches on one costume slot, go for all kicks on another and almost all punches on the third (Dragons Tail still remains a kick as it lacks an alternate punch based animation)

Loving the new SS animations.

Punch and Smashing Haymaker can now look like how they're named and not completely different moves!

Or better yet, combine both.

My invuln/SS tanker in PvE has smashing/lethal resistances at 90%, the others in their 30%s and obviously nothing to Psi but combine also having typed defense (not Positional which is what sets like SR and Shields are) has softcapped defenses to all but psi with one foe in Invincibility range.

So it makes an already pretty tough set (Invulnerability) into a very very tough set.

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*runs around*

Is it in the store yet?

*hides*
*pops back*
There yet?

*screaming*
There yet?

Cant wait for the free-costume-change-size-thingie.

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Pretty much how I'm feeling at the moment, why, curses, why, is it a pack I'm positively drooling over, does it take so long...Avatea...any word yet...come on...a time frame, a month from now, a week from now, anything, pleeeasse!

Gah just hurry up and release it already!

Issue 15 was very 'meh' in my opinion (done the new SF on the US servers, definitely a 'do it once and never again' style SF for me, the new costumes and faces are ok but not astounding and not really affected by the Dominator changes) was only really looking forward to the new science booster...

Reckon it'll be next week when it's released personally but the waiting is killing me...

*prods Avatea*

So...is it soon yet?

Wants that pack (on EU and US accounts) Nowz!

Alright...everyone...place your bets!

IF the Science Booster pack does come out today...how long do you reckon for the store keels over and dies...I say..20 minutes for 10 Internet points!

I think most people did just call it the Khan TF, Just like Eden trial is still called "Eden" or remains "Eden Trial".

Just throwing out the options though.

Well abbreviations US side are BSF (Barracuda SF) and KhTF (KaHn TF) from what I can remember...

and now my EU version of the update just decided to random crash and not work...yay...

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Nothing to see here, please moo-ve along to the next thread.

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Have to say this thread has become aMOOsing to me.

Still no word on either side of the pond is a little...ahem...crappy...to say the least.

Edit: Heh really odd, the US version of the updater connected and downloaded fine...seems the EU version of the updater wont even connect for me...

yup downloaded and applying a patch as we speak.

Alright everyone it's Issue 15, try to act excited (I know it's hard but atleast try...)!

Unless they're also releasing the Science booster today as well..in which case act excited if it's got something you want in it...if it hasn't...then still try to act excited.

Hmm it's interesting, both US AND EU sides have gone down at the same time...

Either it's AE maintenance OR Issue 15 is on the way...

Or it's some other thing...