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Well Bukobot is about half the price. A friend earlier this week showed me all the 3D printer swag/4 color glossies he got from Maker Faire New York earlier this month.
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Quote:NCSoft lost all of $6 million last quarter after at least 30+ quarters of significant profits, just one quarterly loss and not very large. What was significant was the $40+ million dollar swing from profit to loss year over year for Q2.Originally Posted by GreenFIame
NcSoft is losing too much money as it is, at this rate, I don't see them sticking around much longer. IF they end up Selling there Company, Who Knows maybe the New People in Charge of NcSoft, will bring Coh back form the Grave.
GW2 sales and B&S's debut in Korea will likely make their Q3 be positive again and all will be forgiven by the investors.
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Well he hides in the shadows, somewhat unkempt, lives in an abandoned chemical factory with his former roommate, a university chem professor, from before what happened to him. They are searching for a cure, of course. He was a young doctor who lost his family in 9/11, which led to him enlisting and then volunteering for the procedure. Of course he's been playing dead ever since surviving Afghanistan when the program was "erased", since the side effects, extreme rage, weren't controllable.
He does have a very short fuse and does kill with the ferocity of a wild animal. And of course he's sweet on the girl, who he rescued once before years ago, and she finds the whole tortured soul interesting especially once she finds that he's been playing hero over the years.
Here's one problem with the show. The big bad, the agency/pharma group that did this to him have been looking for him to clean up all the loose ends. However she and her partner tracks him, well his former, now current roommate down in a mater of days at the abandoned chemical factor. Now she goes back alone one night and finds him. So who did the bad guys get to locate him, Inspector Clouseau?
Now he's concern that since she's found him and discovered some of his transgenetic DNA hair sample, that she's on their radar and she would lead them back to him. Talk about lazy bad guys, waiting for the cops to do all investigation work, for years. Of course she keeps going back to his lair, maybe she'll end up pretend that she's dating the dumpy chem prof which will be a silly twist. -
That ties it up nicely.
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His "normal" face is very pretty on one side and mostly pretty on the other with the exception of the huge scare down that side.
He is the sole survivor of a black project down to volunteer soldiers that made them transgenic super soldiers. Think Hulk/werewolf/Buffy vampire, he gets beasty when he's angry, human with animal teeth and claws, very strong, close to instant transformation going in and out of that state but you never got a real good long look when he's beasts out. He would fit into the Grimmverse pretty well.
He's hiding not because he's hideous but because the people who did this to him have been trying to tie up loose ends. I would say that there's a chance that Beauty's mother was someone behind the development of whatever made him into what he is now.
She who shall not be named looks as good as the first year of Smallville. -
Well as one who is old enough to remember the first TV series staring Sarah Connor and Hellboy, the new one is almost nothing like that one.
The only sort of like it is the fact that Beauty's first encounter with the Beast led to her a life of fighting crime within the system. First series she becomes as DA, here she becomes a detective haunting by the death of her mother (someone watches Castle
) and her rescue from her mother's killers. And it's still set in NYC.
Beast is totally different. More tragic superhero back story than cursed at birth.
Still has way to many young pretty people in the world for my liking. The world isn't full of supermodels. You could almost always spot the bad guys in the first episode because they were the "normal" looking people present at the time. -
Nice art work.
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Quote:Same here.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Socially, very liberal. Fiscally, conservative on most things. It's so wonderful having absolutely zero representation in my government.
Now what I did discover, and I should have realized it earlier, that your daily environment can really drive people to the extremes.
I grew up, went to college and now live in a part of the country where we rarely have people proselytizing. Also with the exception of the occasional nutjob we've been free of individuals at the local or state government level or on school boards trying to rewrite the science curriculum in the public schools. I've been involved with my state's science/engineering fair for over 30 years (winners sent to ISEF). In that time I've met a number of priests, ministers and nuns, some with doctorates in the biology, astronomy, etc. who have no issue separating matters of faith and belief from the facts of science. A significant number of our 7th and 8th grade entries to the junior part of the fair are from parochial schools and I've never seen one trying to prove that the Earth is only 6000 years old, trying to disprove evolution or any other extreme anti-science take on the world.
Because of this environment I had a hard time understanding the "all religious people are evil wack jobs who think science is the Devil's work" attitude from some people like BillZ until it was pointed out to me that when exposed to a constant barrage of proselytizing and anti-science (much more than I realized) that it's only natural to develop such a reaction when someone mentions religion. I now understand where the "hate" comes from and if I was in the same environment day after day after day I too would probably develop a similar reaction over time. -
Quote:Going Rogue did stop the steep revenue decline for a quarter, what we didn't see was a sustained bump from Freedom.Originally Posted by Brillig
Or maybe what "utter bullcrap" consists of is looking at the revenue numbers for the past two years, realizing there should have been two major positive events, and thinking that the game was doing well.
I'm sure someone knew a decision was in the works where one option was the termination of the game and the studio, but I suspect the other options was a major downsizing, get Issue 24 out and then a new issue once a year plus costumes and new superpacks (and the occasional power set that was already far enough along in the design phase).Quote:Originally Posted by Aggelakis
This.
Zwillinger posted an I24 teaser pic on Facebook at 8:00 or 8:30am on Black Friday. He wouldn't have done that if he'd known the rest of the crew would be kicked out the door before the end of the day.
I would guess Brian, Posi and WW knew something was going to happen. Zwill might have been too far down the food chain or due to his job talking with us was intentionally left out of the loop so he couldn't "give it away" due to a change in how he interacted with us.
Rumors of a downsizing in a MMOs dev staff is as bad as a server merge to the perception of potential new customers, as well as those looking to re-up. -
Sorry, my attempt of humor and commentary. It's obvious that they made their decision and even a well written logical argument or a heart felt passionate plea isn't going to change their minds.
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Quote:No because Starcraft is nearly a national sport in Korea. No where near the same.Originally Posted by MrPlayskool
Watch karma come around one of these days. For example, let's imagine that Blizzard decides it wants to stop supporting Korean Starcraft players. Now, while that may not be exactly the same, the outrage would be quite similar, and potentially worse.
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Got it last night, thank heavens that I don't need to be constantly connected to play. How many of you "customize" your troops looks? CoH habits are hard to die.
Playing on normal, so far no wipes, just the occasional "No I didn't want to move that player, now they are in the open" deaths. Lost one sniper that way. -
Interestingly enough a number of those were the feature villains before the credits of Batman: Brave and the Bold. Yes they are mostly silly but do represent the kind of villains we were getting during the Silver Age.
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I thought something was up when all the Kirby dots codes became available. I was expecting more of a Issue 24 will be the last while dev team gets trimmed back, by a lot. Not what happened, didn't expect that.
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True, the afternoon Toonami but traditionally the midnight to 6am slot on AS was anime.
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Quote:Sure I've seen it 4 years ago as well. It's just having it on actual broadcast TV is impressive ... if it wasn't a 5th tier network. The nationwide Spanish network has overall higher ratings than the CW, which tends to be full of ... now how was it phrased at Barnes & Noble ... teen paranormal romance.Originally Posted by Coin
I'd almost be jealous that you US people are getting to watch it....if I hadn't seen it 4 YEARS ago!
Seriously, when will TV execs wake up and learn what works
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Quote:Worst kind of article, full of rumor and low on facts. The game currently wasn't as profitable as the article suggests nor at any time NCSoft stated they were closing CoH for B&S.Originally Posted by Van_Raye
What exactly is it that is stupid?
Here is the article that makes the claims that two investments groups were interested, so I don't know what your issues are but don't dare to call yourself a grown up unless you act like one. As for me, refusing to grow up is a personal choice. With you, it's clearly a limitation.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10...ndly-products/
It was obviously written by or the "facts" supplied by someone who enjoyed the this game but continue to cling onto the various rumors of a huge playerbase, significant profits and that there must be causality between closing one game with opening another.
I'll agree that our game is more friendly toward a younger audience with it's use of stylized violence, aka no blood splatter, as well as it's statement that mature adult oriented games are fine (however the phrase "adult oriented" could suggest to some a more sexual/pornographic content). However CoH is still rated T (not EO or EO 10+) while I imagine B&S would be rated M in the US, T isn't a family friendly rating. -
Quote:1%er dudeOriginally Posted by Torment And Agony
OMG! Santa supports corporations and profit and hates City of Heroes! Thats why the game is being cancelled before Christmas!!
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Quote:Exactly my point.Originally Posted by Quinch
...I half-expect that to be NCsoft's reaction too...
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Just saying. Interesting to see what gets "adjusted" for broadcast.
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Quote:Well Broadcast Network TV Black/White morality. A bad guy wouldn't save the good guy but the good guy would save the bad guy.Originally Posted by Dark One
Is everyone in that family a ******* moron? I mean seriously, you are under no obligation whatsoever to save the life of the man who killed your father, the people you know, is a psychopathic murderer and is delivering you to god knows what. You let the ****** die and you get away. It's pretty much exactly like the end of Batman Begins only this kid doesn't have the sense god gave the common turnip.
The only time I remember it didn't happen was Buffy.
Ben: She could've killed me.
Giles: No, she couldn't. Never. And, sooner or later, Glory will reemerge and make Buffy pay for that mercy. And the world with her. Buffy even knows that, and still she couldn't take a human life. She's a hero, you see. She's not like us.
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The horse was the most impressive part.
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Google translate is funny.
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Quote:And what's wrong with that?Originally Posted by Torment And Agony
Whether one owns 90% or 0.00000001% does not make anyone less culpable. All 100% combined are seeking the same goal - profit.