Electric-Knight

Nice! I saw this same phone call last week and had copied and pasted it for a SGmate who wanted to know what he said, hehe. I meant to post it on the forums, but... I completely forgot to!
I did say hi in game though... hi out of game, Ascendant!!

Also, Ascendant...
When you were doing this phone call and they hung up on you in the middle of that great speech... It really gutted me. Don't worry, that's a great thing.
And it wasn't uninspiring or anything... it was just the reality that, yeah, they hung up on the Ascendant, despite all the good and truth in what he was saying and the hope and promise he has and we all share with him.

It still hits me when I read it again.
Awesome job!
Thank you!
We're all in this together!
We're being heard and we have A LOT more fight in us!

Hmm... I am trying to figure out... Would it be their Paragon City, their lives and the people they protect? Or would it just be a video game and they'd be separate from that?

*Brain needs clarification!!*

As for the ownership of characters and all of that, I very much have similar thoughts as Oedipus Tex (you really only approach trouble if you use obvious, specific art assets from the game. If it is generic costume bits, don't worry... but if the character has the exact Critix helmet or something... you're using someone else's art assets. Also, other than extreme cases or blatant ripoffs, like I mentioned previously, it's really not about going after people who have outside success with characters created in their game. It's more about protecting their rights to use those characters from with their game [such as, in picture add for something for their game, or on their website, etc.]).

As for the laws/rules themselves, a really simple way to look at it is like this: When you work for a studio (let's say Disney)... part of the contract is basically - "everything that you create, draw, design while you are working for us... it ours... not yours to keep... it is the property of Disney".
They provide the assets and the means to create the thing... and they claim legal rights to it.

I honestly don't think it is anything to worry about. I don't even think that the courts would likely side with them in most cases (never mind that they probably would never pursue such things).

Still... best not to replicate blatantly original art assets of the games that you play when manifesting your own creations elsewhere.

As far as money and points... I'm not in this boat, but I just think about all the many people that must have spent money on points in order to obtain Reward Tokens in order to unlock the Tier 9 VIP costumes and such.
As someone that refused to dump that kind of money just for points (I haven't even spent all of the points I earned via being VIP, so I certainly had no need for that many additional points), I'm not sure what I think is right in those regards.
You spent the money at that time... how long is long enough to give a person time to spend those points? How long is not long enough? I'm not sure at all. I'm glad I don't have to figure that out for either side, to be honest.

I do know that I feel that there is no way that this product should be ending, but that's a different story.


Anyway, I will be supremely surprised if all remaining subscription is not paid back. Beyond that... I don't expect anything back for people. I could be wrong on all accounts, of course.

Regardless, they're taking some time before relaying these details. I'm in no rush to hear these final details though... as I am more concerned with preventing this game (and all that creates and surrounds it) from coming to an end.
Afterwards, the chips can fall where they may. And then I'll judge the fairness in that! No point in judging details that have not been released or conveyed yet.

Okay... here goes...


I never wear pants.

Especially when reading your posts.

Indeed. This game has remained profitable. This community has remained loyal, happy to spend money and stayed a consistent size (which, again, has remained profitable).
The game, itself, has constantly advanced and been respected as an innovator and one of the few successes that is not following the industry's stale formula.
Tons of additions are already in the pipelines and many more have been in the works.

None of that should come to an end right now.
We may be considered a smaller, niche customer-base, but that doesn't mean that we don't matter and it doesn't mean that this product cannot continue to make the profits it has (or even increase... super heroes continue to get a larger audience... Look at the Avengers movie).

Now is an absurd time to end this successful product and great community.


Those are my 2 cents, at least... plus tax.

Paragon is a prosperous city! It is an innovator and it is enjoyed by many tens of thousands of people! It is rich with history and full of future promise!!! It deserves to go nowhere but forward!!!!

13! 13 Atlas Parks!!

11 Atlas Parks at 3:22PM Eastern Time.

Yes, Nigel... ours goes to eleven!

I shoulda worn bright colors today...

Back in!

Going through the same here...

Yep, it's crashed!
Ah well, not our goal, for sure.

Did anyone else crash? Did we crash the server?

*love*
I'm in AP2 right now. So far I'm seeing 7 Atlas Parks... most were full but 7.

Anyway, awesome job with the image... And DR, that sounds like a great idea!!

Simply put, I wish this game had an offline mode. Everything there and accessible, just run from my own computer and no internet connection.
I'd buy that, and play it regularly, zero question.

I didn't expect to read this just now, but I ended up doing so! I've been contemplating a "book" of my own about my experiences here, but it'd probably only be half as long!

First, I just want to thank you for your contributions to the community. It is very much appreciated!!

And, it is funny... for the most part, your playstyle and mine couldn't be much more farther apart. The delving deep into the numbers for maximum optimization and such, as well as the completionist/near-ocd aspect that you mentioned yourself are pretty much opposite my extremely casual, numbers-mostly-be-damned, not really think much about anything other than immersion, joy, role-playing and character concepts/background/development... Aha! As I continued to read, there was more similarity, after all.
Plus, I also grew up playing old game systems together with my friends. My brother and our nextdoor neighbor basically all lived playing together (Apple iie, Atari 800, Atari 2600 and on...).
I wish we all had continued to play together, as you have with your friend... perhaps we may still reconnect some day and do as such.
Regardless, I can relate to how much of a lifelong impact that has had between you and with this game, specifically.
That is no small thing, at all.

Another thing I can really relate to from your post is the forum experience. I'll not go on and on any more (I'll save that for my own "book", haha), but interacting with this community has been a great resource for more than just the game information and culture. Learning more and more about communicating and interacting with others in this form has been a great aspect of these forums for myself.

Anyway, I think we may have interacted once or twice, possibly while you were first stepping into the broader ranges of discussion around here. Of course, we'd probably be on some opposing points of views about design and such... but I share your utter dislike of incorrect "facts" and subjective opinions stated as facts. And I certainly came to find yourself to be a reasonable poster and member of this community.

My hastily typed out response here aside... Thanks for sharing and I hope the unknown is filled with a lot of pleasant replacements (for lack of a better term). I too am glad for my time here and know that all of my characters will continue on (possibly in writing).

Excelsior!

Haha!