Father Xmas

All valid points. I had a feeling someone would bring up Lum, I remember trying to do a version of her way back when. A lot of problems with limited or lack of patterns on certain costume parts which I think relate to "skin" being one of your two color choices. Same goes with a lack of patterns for horns.

A long kimono are like long dresses, the game doesn't have the underlying tech to animate movement in them. And the long Furi sleeves are also right out as an option. Again animation.

Miko style robes, I thought I remember putting together a close approximation with existing pieces once. I'm starting to think you are moving from general clothing pieces to very specific outfits that ars unlikely to be mixed and matched.

Also Kanji text/logos tend to be very character specific and rather unique in a series. I wouldn't want to see "Bad" on the back (not that we can get logos on the back, I think, haven't played with logos a lot) on every two bit Titan Weapon scrapper.

Certainly period hats and traditional masks could be a possibility. They can be mixed and matched.

Just my opinion.

• Not multilingual - not as much of a problem anymore since they gave up translating
• Requires rerecording if story elements change - may be a problem getting the same voice actor
• More disk space required - the pigg files marked as music and sound effects are 3/4 of a gig, no idea how much of the 1.8 GB of stageX pigg files are sound

That's off the top of my head. People hate cut scenes and click past mission info as it is, do we need yet another device that people will want to bypass the 2nd, 10th or 50th time they play that content? It'll be Cain's "Stay awhile and listen ..." all over again.

As oppose to being bitten by a radioactive Cthulhu?

Hmmm. Now I can't stop thinking about a Kaiju film featuring a Cthulhu blasting areas around Tokyo Bay with it's radioactive breath.

Issue 4: Colosseum I believe. Back when our costume choices were lumped generally into "spray on spandex", "painted on suit", "baggy clothing" or lumpy armor that breaths. And female characters had skirts and painted on short shorts as an option.

IIRC we also got our two shoulder pets (where's my parrot and/or baby dragon) and individual body sliders ("Give em the knee shooters").

Yes it's true, nearly all manga/anime take place in their own universe which may be or not be our world. However there are cases when characters from one series crossover to another if both series were written by the some author. An example is the author of Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama, had a crossover with young Goku meeting characters from an earlier series of his, Dr. Slump. Crusher Joe occurs in the same universe as The Dirty Pair, but there's a 30 year time difference between the two series. You have all the Gundam series set in Universal Century but that's like lumping all the Star Trek series together. However there are a lot of Gundam series that occur in their own universe like G-Gundam.

Of course then you have all the "day in a life of a ordinary high school student" that don't actually conflict with one another or have impacts on a world/regional scale.

One problem people have with a number of series is the world isn't laid out for them. It's strange, different and it takes a while before any says why. Take Trigun. It looks like a western but there are all these crashed spaceships, giant light bulbs and multiple moons. It's a while before you get some of the backstory. Same could be said with Trinity Blood, it takes quite a while before it's explained how things got so different on Earth as well as the origins of the Methuselah.

Also due to the long story arc nature of some series, dropping in on one episode is like trying to make sense of Lost if you started in the middle of Season 3. Worse with series with ever inflating casts (like Bleach). I can see someone watching one episode and deciding there is just too much backstory to understand and catch up on so they write the series off. At least with B:tAS the vast majority of episodes are standalone, you just have to be familiar with Batman, who is over 70 years old now. Most anime only run a season or two, a few past 5 years and very very few that are iconic enough to be multi-generational (Yamato, Cutie Honey, Lupin III) that they get rebooted every so often.

Yea, that was a stupid comment.

Have you tried defragging the game files. Maybe it's a problem with choppy drive access.

Have you checked out your system's latency? Here is a simple testing tool for that.

Well not officially. But people see similarities. Alien by birth (possible retcon), super strong, can fly (but it was a learned skill), can be tossed through buildings and survive attacks that reduce mountains (acquired through power escalator as the series went on).

Most people who make this comment had never seen the original Dragon Ball series when he was just a young boy who happen to be very strong and simply wanted to become the best martial artist in the world to help people.

No, that's not the goal. The goal of F2P/Hybrid is to extract every dollar a player, every player, is willing to spend. You can afford a subscription, well here are some things you may also be interested in. You can't afford or rationalize a subscription, well do you need another character slot? How about tells? larger money cap? How about an "epic" or a pet class?

The goal may be at least $10-11 a month (large subscription plan) but that's less than three Premium players buying monthly IO and Auction house licenses every month. How about the sale of the new costume and power sets. How many player subscription months does that translate into?

And yes, a steady and or predictable revenue stream is better than a sporadic one, so subscriptions need to include some items for "free" that F2P would need to pay for but there has to be enough item variety so there is at least one carrot for everyone, whether it's unlocked ATs, powersets, costumes, character slots, story content, entire zones, high level content, crafting, player mission creation, etc. Some of which is subscriber only. A player may not care about all those things but enough things may push them into becoming subscribers.

Lastly, people a generally short sighted when it comes to small periodic costs versus large one time costs. Can't afford to spend $500 on a big TV but I can rent one indefinitely for $25 a month. Make the fix cost large enough, the monthly fee seems like a bargain.

I assume you mean forum hate and not developers. After all we got anime inspired armor (think hardsuits from Bubblegum Crisis) and sailor/school uniforms years ago and more recently titan weapons and mecha armor.

Some people simply dislike the art style. They don't like the big eyes, the short impracticable school uniforms on girls, the pretty boys with the emo hair.

Maybe they don't look beyond a story genre they dislike, whether it's giant robots or harem or magical girl or overpowered school boys or excessive fan service. Hate one, gotta hate em all.

Maybe because some of the longer running series are longer running simply because of the excessive filler (DBZ fights or Bleach side stories for example) inserted into them simply because the anime is covering the manga faster than the manga is being written.

And maybe, just maybe they can feel better about being a comic book fan by deriding anime/manga fans. It's not like someone sells a Squirrel Girl body pillow cover.

Edit: And if they did do a line of female super hero pillow covers, would Wasp be throw pillow size?

The same way a nonsmoker is force fed an ashtray and cigarette lighter in every car they ever bought. Or an amusement park admission when you will never go on any of their rollercoasters or kids rides.

That's not as true as you might think. Casinos like repeat customers no matter how much they lose there. Their income model is based on the average player will lose X% of the money they brought with them per hour. Therefore you want lots of people there and you want them to return frequently and spend a lot of time there when they do. Meal and entertainment comps, slot tournaments, free swag all makes the little guy feel important as well. And the overall experience keeps them returning every weekend and willing to lose $100 before calling it a night, all the better. 1000 guppies is better than one whale.