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Quote:Seriously? Stop being on the GW2 "side" in this thread. Just... go away, actually. You're making us look bad :POriginally Posted by Solo_One
If anyone wants to join me I'm on Blackgate server named Matriculated.(cool names are impossible to come by since they're global :/ )
Edit: also you guys need to be less butthurt, this game is 8 years old, get another hobby. NC is a business. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Also, why would anyone want to look you up after that? :P
Surnames are the way to go. I was literally logged in 5 minutes after head start started (12 EST) and only got ONE of the 5 names I was gunning for without adjustment. MADNESS!Quote:Originally Posted by Biowraith
(more seriously, I hear you; despite logging on about 2h45m before the the servers were officially due to go online, I didn't get any of my preferred character names besides Biowraith - the ones that were already grabbed in the first 20 minutes are names I've successfully used in pretty much every other online game I've played, including ones I didn't play until a year or two after launch)
Um, wrong. You can get any global you want because they tag 4 digits on. Character names are server-wide exclusive. Since I got "Seven of Cups" on Tarnished Coast, no one else in the game can have it.Quote:Originally Posted by JayboH
Uh, I'm very sure you can get any name you want in GW2, because it will always give you a random 4 digit number after it, even if you are the only one named that.
...unless there are 9,999 players that just so happen to want the exact same name that you do, but that seems impossible.
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Quote:Actually, it kinda looks like Otherlands may be leaning in this direction. I'm keeping a SERIOUS eye on that game. I'm not a fan of sci-fi game settings, but that was one of my favorite book series. There's SO MUCH squee...Originally Posted by Schismatrix
But with the option to import characters from any other game or setting.
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Quote:Nope, apparently just drop into a thread to insult people.Originally Posted by Zemblanity
"Bro", I'm not trying to win an argument, do whatever you want.
BTW, if you're gonna get informal, I prefer "sista." I lack the proper powerset for masculinity.
I can read lots of things into it. It doesn't say a thing about Western games, US, EU or otherwise. If you have anything besides thinly-veiled racism to hang that hat on, let me know.Quote:Originally Posted by Zemblanity
"In a realignment of company focus and publishing support, NCsoft has made the decision to close Paragon Studios."
If you can read this and still buy stuff from them, go nuts. Just don't go crying to the courts when they decide "company realignment" dictates the need to close US and EU servers for Guild Wars II a year from now.
Oh, and if they decide to close GWII servers a year from now, I will indeed refrain from crying to the courts. I'm not even crying to the courts about COH. Just a simple protest in the streets.
It would be so nice if people dropping into the tail end of threads would bother to read the previous posts so we don't have to rehash all the nonsense. Alas. -
Quote:So... Exalted then?Originally Posted by Schismatrix
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- What we keep: all our ridiculous powers
- What we lose: all semblance of power and class balance
- What we add: even more ridiculous powers
- Why it would be like City of Heroes: the Rifts IP is the only pen and paper RPG property that has a worse sense of powers balance than City of Heroes, so we'd feel right at home.
- The other other downside: The game mechanics would be relatively simple except for being arbitrary, confusing, and inconsistently applied
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Quote:Well look, if you're going to call people insane because they don't subscribe to your made-up theory, a cite request is not out of line.Originally Posted by Zemblanity
Oh, I do, two actually.
"Martian Translator Device: Don't run! We are your friends!"
"Martian Translator Device: We come in peace! We come in peace!"
Both from Mars Attacks (1996).
Back it up or pack it up, bro!
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Quote:OMG THISOriginally Posted by Arcanaville
The game: Transmetropolitan Online
- The concept: seriously, read the book
- What we keep: costume creator, insanity
- What we lose: Boring architecture, common sense
- What we add: double the drug budget for the writing staff, triple for the VFX staff
- Why it would be like City of Heroes: force everyone to play on Virtue and make the tutorial dump you into Pocket D, and you'd be halfway there already.
- The Downside: downside?
- Why I would play this: pre-order bonus power: the Chair Leg of Truth
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Quote:So, you don't actually have a quote where they say that.Originally Posted by Zemblanity
Read what you will from what just transpired, and I'll do the same.
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Quote:They aren't openly withdrawing from Western markets. That was a "that must be what this means" interpretation layered on NCSoft's statement.Originally Posted by Zemblanity
You'd have to be insane to purchase GW2 knowing that NCSoft is openly withdrawing from western markets. Unless there's an offline version of the game, everything that company sells is suspect, it might be taken away without warning.
If you have a quote where they say it in that many words, I'd love to see it.
Considering that they're still supporting Anet and they seem to still be developing Wildstar, I don't see how you can say it. -
Yeah, it keeps doing that. Pretty aggravating - I wish they'd just leave it on. I like my sig :P
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Looking at all those character creation screens... wow, just wow. Look at all those young people choosing what avatar works best for them, what appeals most to them, and how DIFFERENT they all are.
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Quote:Exactly! I generally feel that way anytime someone buys the IP to something (like a book) and makes something (like a movie :P) that's so totally unrelated that I wonder why they spent the money on the IP in the first place :POriginally Posted by Slaunyeh
But if you're going out of your way to pick as remote, and as undeveloped, a setting as possible, you could just have made your own, instead of making it not-Eberron.
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Quote:Well they probably did it so they'd have more room to maneuver. I mean, setting it in Dragonlance would probably have ended up like the more tedious parts of the GW2 cutscene stories, when you've got the heroes of the novels dragging you around/you drag them around stuff. A lesser-known part of the IP certainly gives them more freedom, but I think it hurt them.Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
Eberron was a strange choice. Placing the game in Stormreach, as far from the core Eberron setting was stranger still. I like the Eberron setting, but it doesn't have the brand recognition of Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms.
And it's saying something that the latest update to DDO actually takes your character on an expedition to Forgotten Realms. o.O
Also, I'd reeeeally have liked an entirely urban game set in Sharn. That would have turned the cliché fantasy trope on its' head if anything can. -
Quote:I'd be surprised if they ever added it, since some of the crafting collectibles (gems) are immediately useable.Originally Posted by JayboH
I wouldn't be surprised if they add a toggle to 'Deposit all collectibles' in GW2 Slaunyeh. Then you can play and play and only look at replacement gear drops and then when you are ending your play session just tp to your favorite crafting area and go nuts.
I'm just happy they're working on a preview function for the TP already, yay!
I was really shocked that DDO didn't use the Dragonlance setting. That was the one I'd have killed to play in.Quote:Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
I would do anything for an MMO based on the Dragonstar D&D setting (anything, that is, short of starting my own software company and go look for funding. Obviously. I'm not crazy). -
Quote:Yeah, I did too. I was like "Antz + Firefly + MMO!"Originally Posted by Starsman
I got a vibe that is what Wildstar seems to be shooting for. Only saw a cinematic trailer, though. It was cartoony but it made me think that is what a cartoon version of Firefly would look like.
No, it isn't. Seriously, don't you have anything better to do?Quote:Originally Posted by Steele_Magnolia
Beware. NCSoft is having a massive problem with Guild Wars 2 hacks (11,000 so far that they've acknowledged) and are blaming the players.
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Quote:If you actually read my posts, I guess you'd know the answers to both part of that. The answer is that yes, I do post in other thread, and no I don't defend everything about the game.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
do you do anything other than haunt GW2 threads reflexively defending everything about the game?
Just curious.
Do you do anything other than troll threads of a game you're not interested in?
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Quote:They AREN'T similar. Your similes were entirely wrong.Originally Posted by Ironik
I don't read rian's posts, and I saw nothing in what you wrote that contradicts the basic fact that GW is derivative of WoW on a basic level. The should have disguised it even more if that's what they were going for, but they clearly are aiming to siphon off some of WoW's playerbase and are taking aim squarely at them. That's why they have so many races which are similar to ones you find in WoW.
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Quote:That's like saying that people who chose to spend all their time in AE powerleveling in virtual reality drained the "superhero" from the superhero-ness of COH.Originally Posted by MrLiberty
As a final note, I had to laugh as a game who supposedly removed the grind from MMO's has people AFK XP farming. Grind removed indeed.
People playing the game counter to it intended purpose don't negate the purpose. They're just buttheads.
There is no grind, but you can CHOOSE to grind if you want to. For some reason, many people do. I am mystified.
The best thing they could have/should have done with AE is make it never drop XP, just tickets or even no reward at all. Then it could have been a pure storytelling device and not a treadmill. -
Quote:Firefly MMO!Originally Posted by JayboH
...like a Cowboys vs Aliens MMO?
I never did see that movie - any good?
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Quote:Because we're COH players and this is OUR board too, and we're allowed to discuss other games here and choose to do so.Originally Posted by Slazenger
Why can't you use GW2 boards? why should I have to go elsewhere to avoid threads about it?
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Quote:Seriously, if there'd been a checkbox to say "stop dropping vendor enhancements on me! Period!" I'd have checked that BAMF in a hot second. After I started IO'ing, I never looked back.Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
Nevermind IO sets, plain ol' regular boring IOs were no doubt the single biggest quality of life improvement in CoH's history.
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Quote:It's true. I'd far rather see an ice drake drop 2 coppers than a 2-copper grey scale. Yes, beasts shouldn't have money, yadda yadda. Why does the vendor want this scale anyway? :POriginally Posted by Slaunyeh
Honestly, considering the number of good ideas and overall convenient systems in GW2, I was a little disappointed that they had retained the vendor trash tradition.
I should note, however, that if I'm occasionally fairly harsh on GW2, it's because they have set the bar pretty high. And in a few situations they decided to limbo under it.
Especially since they very nearly negate the bag space issue with the "deposit all collectibles" option and the AH being accessible from anywhere. Why do we NEED a bunch of junk in our bags as well? -
Quote:If you don't want to participate in the thread, no one's forcing you to. We're allowed to discuss other games on this forum now, and are doing so.Originally Posted by Slazenger
Yes we get it, it's a great game yes got it, but right now threads like this maybe better suited to GW2 boards as to not antagonise core CoH players on their own forums, things far more important than GW2 are of more interest.
And ALL OF US who're in this thread right now are "core COH players" and most of us are also participating in the efforts to save the city, even if we also play other games. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
(Also, I suppose you could consider enhancement degeneration a form of gear degeneration, which was absolutely horrible before IOs were introduced.)
Haha, oh, the memories of making sure you returned EACH DO/SO DROP to the correct vendor, to try and scrape together enough inf to replace all your red SOs...
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Quote:Yes you can, and I did, and Rian did. The fact you didn't bother to read our arguements doesn't make them invalid. It just means you're arguing in bad faith.Originally Posted by Ironik
Of course they changed the small details -- they don't want to get sued. But there's no way you can successfully argue that the races and professions in GW are substantially different from those in WoW. That's like saying because Superman is an alien and Shazam is a kid who transforms they are substantially different. They aren't.
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Quote:Seriously, you are wrong about that. WRONG. The Dragons are NOT the magical source of everything.Originally Posted by Ironik
GW with their magical source for everything.
Annoying.