Evil_Legacy

OK then, the last weekend, 6 more days, less than a week, 144 hours give or take a few hours or so and its back to pre-2004.

The day that COV came into being, it was lovely. All the pvp zones on Victorywas filled with people from hero and red side battling it out, testing thier builds aganst their friends builds and or a random person's build even though the level cap for villains was 40 and hero's were 50, the fight stiil went either way and seemed like most was having a good time besides the victims of the stray griefer. Unfortunately, it seemed soon after PvP became the domain of make anyone that enter life living hell. Fun was no longer allowed and thus many people started to leave.

Victory server became smaller in population, people's friend's liost became greyed out when a few months ago it was always lit up. Then the move to balance PvP came but it came too late. The people who wanted to learn either swore off PvP or left the game altogether. PvPers cried foul and many left. Although the lack of policing themselves brought it upon them. The ones that remained made sure to take it out on casual and or new PvPers and run them off too. It worked. They had the entire PvP to themselves but I guess it's no fun with no one to grief so they left too leaving a dead PvP system. Good concept, but it boloed along the way. But that is in the past.


PvE with free issue after issue after issue, with things that were soundly called impossible by the forumites being possible, new features, the game of today ties is not even the same game of pre-i13 and for better or worse, it should have been lovely.

Yet, servers remained relatively empty, and when it was made easier to transfer, there were two servers that had relatively good population while the others had the old guard that remained behind with their tight group of friends left over. A new person didnt stand a chance outside Virtue and Freedom if they were looking for group activity. Either way, COX should of been the king of the hill./ It should have been on the level of WoW if not more. There was no competition, it existed before WoW and thus hada head start, devs that stayed in touch and seemed to be intune with the community, an excellent product overall, the ingredients of a great game were there but it did not get to that level. Instead it's a game that is facing shutdown, for the second time, except this time with no saving in sight, and managed to gather only a relative small population.

With DCUO, CO, and possible other super hero MMOs here now and or on the horizon, could COX stand up to that competition when none of those games existed, it only managed a population of about 180,000? It was a small game playing with big tools. But yet throug hall of this it seemed to manage to pull in profits good profits at first then the slide down from there.

What would it had take to save this game and make it grow? I dont know. A look around at forums of this game and other games and what players claim to want, this game had it. Yet, didnt even reach half of a million players. One would think that players would come out the wood work to play this game if what this game offered was true.

But the most fickle consumers are gamers. They say they want one thing and go and flock to a game that offers the total opposite. They lobby for a feature then leave when that feature hits live. They fight an idea tooth and nail but jump on board when it becomes reality. To say that some MMO makers have no idea what gamers want outside where the numbers tell may be true but that is expected when the gamers dont even know exactly what they want. The game makers are just shooting in the dark.

Of course after Nov 30th, all of this will be irrelevant but only thing we can take from it is the lesson. If we truely love a game, cherish it. If there is no advertising, go out and do some for them. Tell everyone, write articles for the online magazines, remind people that the great game exists, do not go on long absences without keeping up the subscription, buy stuff, and buy more stuff, then buy more stuff again, . I've seen what can be done and the organization that it takes over the downfall of the game that should of been the level of it to keep it alive. It should of started since the beginning toensure it stayed healthy. Now it like smoking for 8 years and then trying to quick smoking after the doctor tell you you only have 6 days to live when smoking should of have been quit years ago. At that point, quitting is not futile, a token gesture it is, but when the end comes, al lthat is left is the lesson. Unlike life, there are other chances, and hoepfully people are a bit more wiser now and pay more attention to the signs that are there, even subtle. 90% of cancers are not in your face coughing up blood obvious, but just like cancer, downplay and or ignore the signs, it just gets worse until it's too late.

But this is just my thoughts, not tryign to convince anyone of anything. Each have their own way of dealing with thse last days and this is mine.

brutes and tanks.

I dont know this combat system feels kind of slow and clunky especially when compared to CO.

Fight wait for powers to recharge fight a little more, hit, miss miss miss hit miss miss (all while having supposedly 95% chance to hit), wait for end, fight some more, miss miss miss, hit hit, miss, hit, miss, miss, miss, recharge or (rest at low levels). Repeat. I thought it was decent fight system until actually trying out other games and CO and then trying to come back and realize it's "old fashioned" and slow. It's more like playing slot machine than actual fighting.

Alot. Might even get Atlas 33 again the real way, a level of population that should of been going on day to day and not only when it's too late.


Then again, been seeing "too emotional to log in" posts and can imagine even more so on the last day.

nothing. I have nothing against them. Probably just thank him for the good time and walk away into the sunset until we meet again.