Electric-Knight

Caption Champ 4/23/10
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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by RogerWilco View Post
    I have the same problem. I just got Good vs. Evil Combined Edition from Amazon.co.uk today, and it says that "This serial code has expired."

    It was a new game nicely shrinkwrapped, with a fresh "Game activation card", I had to scratch the black paint to reveal the code.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kosmos View Post
    Ugh. I don't like the sound of these. It seems as if NCSoft has put a stop to the use of all CoX codes (which makes some sense given their refund policy).

    If you guys would open support tickets and report back that would be a big help to others hoping to restore VIP status.
    Ugh, indeed. Sorry I responded in the other thread before reading these recent updates (of utter lousiness).
    What a tricky mess they have on their hands now too... any and all boxes out there for sale are timebombs of disappointed costumers due a refund.

    Hrm... that really stinks. Let's see what happens with customer service...
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Profit View Post
    Oh... thought this thread was about me. Nevermind, carry on.
    /like
  3. Well, I love the ideas for The World.
    Love the home town idea. It's almost like a personal housing, but its a sims city of NPC town locals that evolve according to your actions and such. Very fun, endearing concept there.

    Of course I love the concept of the different area types and of three (or more) of the Big Cities.

    All of that gets my thumbs up of approval, so no worries about my mega-million winnings countering your efforts there!


    I see you made a typo and left out Blaster Secondaries in your Powers section though.......
    <.<
    >.>

    Re: The Name... World Of Heroes.
    This has been my choice for a sequel as well. I like it fine.
    If you had to chose another name, perhaps Home Of Heroes, due to the fantastic element of starter area home towns, obviously.

    Lastly...
    Bow before Zodgilla!

    And can we have a mutant pig Legions powerset?
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by RogerWilco View Post
    ...I have since spent the equivalent of nearly 50 dollars to get a boxed game shipped to my country. It arrived today in the mail but it seems the boxed codes no longer work.
    ...
    UGGHH!!!!
    I thought box codes still worked. It could be that the box you got was already used :/

    Hrm...
    Come on... let's round up some unused codes for people.
  5. I'd definitely head out to the party, no matter where it was. Even if I wasn't invited!
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    To elaborate: The leadership here at Paragon is, and always has been, top notch.

    I can assure you that there is no lack of drive or passion from our leadership.
    And we are here to cheer them on and do whatever we can to help in any way.
  7. Electric-Knight

    Good news all..

    Yeah, I really don't understand why people constantly assume that positive and exuberant efforts mean delusion.

    I've really not seen such ridiculous assumptions coming from anyone I've dealt with in our efforts to make this as publicly known as possible, to show our support to the people of Paragon Studios and to do what we can to prove this business venture's worth to interested and potential investors and to bolster any and all momentum towards a selling and a buyout.
    There are many different ways it can all shake out and everyone I've interacted with understands that.

    I understand that a lot of people feel the need (and it may be right for them) to counterbalance against the potential disappointments of being overly optimistic... but I think most of the people putting in the efforts are a bit more like me in that... I can't live like that. I believe in what I want to make happen and I go for it. I'll deal with the fallout afterward, but I'm not going to waste the moment by guarding myself against getting enthused and being positive.

    I'm absolutely not knocking anyone for how they feel. I'm simply trying to explain my own stance on such things. And I only ask that people try not to be wet blankets, is all.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Another_Fan View Post
    Always fun to see which side truly believes in free speech and tolerance
    I hate to contribute to the degeneration of this thread, but, just for the sake of speaking some objective logic...
    Isn't that what happens when one "side" believes that the "other side" should not even exist and certainly doesn't deserve equal rights?
  9. Was just thinking it'd be hilarious if we go through this, win back City Of Heroes... right in time for the universe to end!
    Woohoo, haha!
    Ah well... I'll take it.
  10. Yeah, you both have covered many aspects that I agree with - the aspects of teaming, the feel and excitement and variation of each powerset, the support abilities, the costumes and the expansive content all rate right up there for me...

    The biggest things, for me, that I can add to this are:

    The customization goes well beyond the amazing costume and character creator. Each AT and each and every powerset within them not only customize your looks, but allow for a great difference in your possible approaches and playstyles. Plus the mix and match of the Primaries and Secondaries... and Pool Powers and accolades and temporary powers and Ancillary/Patron Powers, of course.

    None of that, however, would really have won me over quite as much if I didn't truly love playing the actual combat game.
    If I try and pin down exactly why I like it (I'm not positive that I am 100% correct, but it's what I've come up with), besides possibly the relatively quick recharge system and the multiple options generally available (even at low levels) and the interesting results of using different powers and their side effects, I sometimes think that it is the animations that really make a hugely positive difference compared to most other mmorpgs. It's not that the attacks and such are overly flashy or pronounced... they just seem to be right on the money, for my tastes. And not just the style of the animations, but the general fluidity of it without being too ridiculously involved and complicated that it might feel more like hitting a button and watching my character animate something... Instead, it just feels more like I can mash buttons in order to control my super-powered character in live action.
    Perhaps the biggest aspect of the animations, and my enjoyment of them, is the ragdoll physics animations. When I thwack someone over the head with a Havoc Punch and they get knocked down and/or over a railing on a second floor... and they hang off of it before climbing back to their feet... Heck, even when I get sent flying from a knockback... I just love it.

    So many other games generally have animations and interactive animations in combat that bore me. The random aspect of the ragdoll physics really seemed to help break up that monotony somewhat.
    Along with that, not having a standard auto attack as our key attack all the time is great. We actually use our better powers and abilities with great regularity.

    One last thing that I only just realized recently...
    I've fallen in love with two mmorpgs... and generally disliked all the others that I have played.
    And I realized... a large part of that is the game's world. I hadn;t fully realized this, possibly because my one gripe about CoH might be that it wasn't quite expansive enough for my exploration enjoyment (It really didn't prevent me from loving the game, but I miss that aspect... especially coming from my previous mmorpg, SWG, which had enormous exploring capabilities).
    However, it's just the fact (and many people have commented on it over the years) that this game world allows for just about every concept you can possibly imagine, whether it be golden age, silver age, modern age comicbook types, or more realistic, gritty action types, military types, future, past, space, fantasy, each and every aspect and subgenre within those facets and anything and everything beyond... Not only can you create and encounter such a vast expanse of diversity in origins and genres... but it totally fits.
    The other game world I loved? The Star Wars universe. Pretty similar deal, as far as the variety and combinations go.
    And that says a lot, in my opinion.

    So, yeah... mish-mash world of anything and everything goes... and it makes sense. I love that. And I realized that no other game that I have seen is out there that accomplishes that. Maybe CO and, to a lesser extent, DCUO, but they feel more based within a certain realm than CoH does to me (that may just be my lack of familiarity with what CO includes though).

    Oh, I know I said that was the last thing, but...
    Maybe the biggest of all is that I can feel comfortable to play how I want to play and I can change that up when I feel like it and I never really felt forced at any point in level or content to do otherwise.
    I think that somewhat ties into the expansive amount of content. Honestly, I almost always stuck with radio and paper missions... but being able to add in any and all of the rest of the content, whenever I wished, was just huge. And true of using radio/paper missions the other way around - just as fillers now and then in-between story arcs or task forces or whatever.
    Gaming a la carte, really. The way, in my opinion, it should be.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
    Well wasn't Galaxy closed because SOE was bringing in the new Wars MMO? That's completely different than what's happening here (And please correct me if I'm wrong, I honestly don't know the whole story with Galaxy shutting down)
    Every situation is completely different, of course.
    I honestly don't know the full reasons why it was shut down (I mean, as popular as it may have been to those who continued playing it, a larger portion of the former playerbase left with great negativity years before... but who knows). I have heard, after the fact, that it was Lucasarts cancelling it due to their new mmorp title, but I have no idea if that is true or not (I can't dispute or confirm it. I've never even looked into it at all). The new title is not through SOE though.

    Regardless, my only point was that a respectful shutdown would have consideration for the playerbase and afford them the time and the chance to take care of business.
    Obviously some ex-players would have liked to come back and revisit. Did anyone here believe, on August 30th, that the game was in need of immediate shut down? Did anyone think that was going to happen? Then all possibilities of re-upping were shut off before they announced the end.
    Remove the reference to SWG and my previous comments still stand. This is no "sunsetting" and "thanks" to the community for their time and money here.
  12. Electric-Knight

    Good news all..

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JayboH View Post
    All the 'Dance of Joy' and Perfect Strangers references..

    I can't believe none of you mentioned this site: http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/

    If you haven't seen it, I seriously suggest you click it.
    LOL...
    Well, with just my first run, I gained a 56% chance of "saving city of heroes" for us!
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
    The problem there is that it does them no good, you'd be giving them money that they'd they turn around and give back to you. I understand why they're not letting people 'resub', because it doesn't earn them anything except a hassle.

    The only way I could see NCSoft giving people time to resub is if they announced a pending shutdown unless X was met. Cuz y'know, they shut down the game for lack of revenue. If those people were already subbed to begin with that would've been less of an issue.
    Well, really, what this comes back to is handling a shut down respectfully and successfully or not.
    This is also why their statements of respect and appreciation are clearly a bad joke.
    Again, I've been fully subscribed, nonstop, so I have no personal axe to grind with this particular issue...
    However, a properly run shutdown of a game and community of this significance should absolutely started with an announcement that included time for fans and customers to coordinate better before any aspects were shut down.

    And there would be no need, nor right, for any refunds during such a period. If a former subscriber hears the news and wants to give $15 to have the chance to experience the game properly one last time, they should have been given that opportunity. Just as such time would have allowed for subscribers to buy more points if they wanted to in order to experience some of the things that they hadn't yet... but were suddenly left with little time for the future of the game (not enough points to buy Beast mastery, but you planned to try it eventually? Go ahead, buy them if you really want to).

    It all comes back to the way they have handled this from its start. A true "sunsetting" as they've taken to calling this would have the grace worthy of such a name. This was a flip of the switch as they walked out the exit.

    While I was no fan of what Star Wars Galaxies became... they sent out their closure announcements well in advance. It gave the community the time to properly handle the situation. I didn't choose to, but I could have returned to revisit my old characters and their stuff and that world before it ended.
    When SOE does it better than you, you're doing it wrong, hehe.
  14. Electric-Knight

    Twitch

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Captain-Electric View Post
    All great reasons not to have a coffee talk.
    I once had a coffee that sounded like my mother-in-law... there's another great reason to not have a coffee talk.
  15. Yes, indeed, please send your wonderful emails to the new address.
    Whether you believe they will read them or not, they have basically given us a place to send our thoughts.
    If it goes in the trash, no harm to us. If it gets read... /gain.



    COHSunset@ncsoft.com
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by eryq2 View Post
    IF everyone that is crying about Free VIP until the end had been VIP from the beginning then we may still have a game to play. No sense in wanting everything free now for a month. Whats the point? Ive been VIP since 2004, and a 2nd account VIP since about 2006. After paying for the whole time, i really don't think anyone deserves a "free pass". It don't make sense to me. Maybe i'm wrong but it's my opinion.
    I'm certainly not going to argue against your opinion about that, but the one factual thing I want to point out is that some longtime VIP subscribers fell out of their VIP status either through accident or mishap.

    I know one person was on vacation and simply missed a few days of being a VIP. I can't blame them for not having their payment on auto-renew or for even intentionally delaying resubscribing until they returned from vacation. Nothing wrong with that.
    So, I understand your main point (although, in my opinion, NCSOft should have made the announcement and given people time to come back and pay for VIP if they wanted it before closing down the billing services... that is the true error), but -as with most things - it's not always that simple.
  17. Electric-Knight

    Make headlines!

    I've just been furrowing my brow.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by jwbullfrog View Post
    starting the game for the purposes of demo playback?
    Fortunately you can use the executable to do that and don't need the launcher.
  19. It just has to be a retail box you've not applied before.
    If I somehow got cut off from VIP before this (which totally sucks for you guys, btw) I'd have no way back in, because I'm pretty sure I've applied all of the different ones.
    CoH, CoV, GvE, CoH CE, CoV CE, Architect Edition, GR CE
    And I'm sure I'm not the only one.

    I was wondering if someone from Paragon Studios might have some codes... Probably not though. That probably always involved legal, any time they'd award free time.

    Anyway, I'm safely VIP, but I do hope others who are not eventually do get to be.

    If not... please come back when the game is rescued!
  20. ARRRR!! Where did all ye landlubber scurvy dogs chase off to?
  21. Yep, great to see his continued focus.
    And I fully agree that breaking up such a great, talented team (and wonderful people) is just such a shame and a loss to the industry.
    I'm sure, no matter what happens, we'll get a lot of great stuff from these people's work, but I always believed Paragon Studios as a team could continue to bring truly amazing stuff and in such a great, loving, enthusiastic and heart-felt manner.
    To lose this game would be a loss, indeed, but to lose Paragon Studios really is a shame that should not be.

    ... All in my opinion.
  22. Electric-Knight

    Don't give up.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Knightward View Post
    Not the best fitting link, but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7uqCZCgRKU
    Not bad!

    If you ever feel like packing it in...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trgSd34NfTE
  23. Electric-Knight

    Loregasm

    Pshaw... I'd take 5 years of nothing but Fusionette doppleganger/clones.
    Just gimme the years!
  24. Electric-Knight

    Plan "W"

    Yeah, I understand what you're saying (and you clearly state that it is premature right now too, so no worries) and I agree with your whole notion.

    This community can carry this momentum into the game's resurgence and beyond.
    We've managed to push our way into some media spotlights and we can do it to continue to help promote the game.
    I agree.
    Not sure what to say or do right this instance, but it is definitely something that I did think about as well and something just simply worth mentioning and nodding in agreement about.
    And, certainly, ideas and possible plans and things to keep in mind are all very good.