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Hey Storm, Please pass on to your friend that I'm sorry he got modded for something I posted over here.

Apparently you do since you felt compelled enough to post.

Ya know I hadn't even thought of that, and you're probably right about that being what got the thread nuked. I retract my previous statement that it got nuked because the poster I "quoted" was probably a BW employee.

Wow, it only took them an hour to delete that thread. I guess that this Andryah person really is a BW employee and doesn't like being laughed at.

Sensible f2p restrictions is subjective, especially amongst people making the statements you have. What you are actually saying is that as long as the f2p restrictions don't cause you to spend any money they are sensible and you can deal with them, but if anything causes you to open your wallet, the limits are grossly unfair and the game is gimped into unplayability.

If you didn't want to pay a sub fee you could have picked up an LTS, and since you're so certain the game will eventually go f2p you'd be all set to enjoy all the benefits of being a subscriber while still only having to spend as little as possible on microtransactions.

Instead, if the game goes f2p, I predict you'll be one of those people complaining how the f2p restrictions are too draconian and how you think you are entitled to get more because you spent $x amount of money to buy the game when it was still sub based.

What am I basing my prediction on? I'm basing it on observations I've made watching individuals making the exact same "It was a good game but I didn't really think it was worth the value of what I paid for it + a subscription fee + microtransactions. I will play again once it goes F2P" statements before and after CoH, Aion, Lineage II, STO, CO, LOTRO, AoC, SW:TOR, and DCUO all went f2p.

Oh you dirty little liar! We all know you buy your tasty pastry sweets from a local independant mom and pop bakery because of your rabid hatred of unions and corporations. You damn near knocked me down last week when I was shopping at the same bakery for the same reasons.

Baker's union spin doctor's arriving in thread to deny the facts in 3... 2... 1...

No. It's just like George Carlin said.

Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.

The "gamble" boxes and keys to unlock them in STO and CO can also be purchased by converting ingame currency into cash shop credit. That still doesn't stop people in those games from complaining about how unfair it is that they are for sale for real money.

And in SW:TOR the unopened "gamble" boxes, and most of the random items within them once opened, can be traded between players via email or put up for sale on their ingame market and a player doesn't have to spend a dime to get them, but that is conveniently overlooked by the whiners.

Exactly my point.


Yet. Who knows what may be added in the future. If you told the STO players that Cryptic/PWE was going to start selling starships for $50 bucks you'd have been laughed off of their forums. Yet lo and behold they've got three different ones for sale in their cash shop today.

Yes I know STO calls them a three ship pack but in reality it's three copies of the same ship with each carrying different gear that can be stripped off the other two ships and placed on one ship. They even gave the gear the ability to work like our own IO sets so you get better bonuses and abilities if you have them all on one ship.

Nope.

Uhm, what do you mean by "trying"? The game was designed from scratch and launched with the intention of being a gear-grinder with a cash shop.

They've had "gamble" boxes right from the start called Black Lion chests, another box that gives random non combat pets, and a third ready to sell just for Halloween.

Why bother? It's nothing more than a repetition of the same arguments/complaints that were made on our own forums after we went f2P, and on the STO and CO forums, and what's currently going on over on the SW:TOR forums.

That alone would immediately shut the game down again. At it's height of popularity this game never could have justified budgeting a multi-million dollar advertising campaign.

This isn't WoW. Never has been, never will be.

Darn. I was hoping you had heard something about server transfers being allowed or sold. I'd like to move my lvl 26 Trooper off of Bergeren's Colony.

Are they on the right server tho?

You really have no idea why people are upset. Games get shut down. That is a fact of life. However that isn't the reason why people here are upset.

People are pissed at the underhanded and disrespectful way NCSoft handled the closure of the game. Blowing smoke up everyones back ends by telling the people at Paragon Studios and us how well everything was doing, providing funding for continued development of content all the while knowing they were going to yank the rug out from everyones feet. Then just a week or two before the release of a brand new issue they call up Paragon Studios and tell them, everyone is fired.


Wow. You do realize that NCSoft didn't own the IP rights to City of Herooes to begin with right? Cryptic Studios originally owned and developed City of Heroes.

NCSoft bought the IP rights from Cryptic. If NCSoft sold the IP rights to someone else that new person/company would own all the IP of City of Heroes.

NCSoft would not get to keep the characters, stories and story arcs.


They had better keep a permanent database of all that. It's exactly that data that a potential buyer will demand be included in the sale of the IP.


Been tried several times already by different parties, and NCSoft has not only refused to sell, but has lied making false statements that they couldn't find anyone that wanted to buy the IP.

Hit Streak totally went Hulk on Konrads post.





Awesome!

This is the funniest part of his entire post seeing as it's coming from someone whose social life is so nonexistant he has nothing more constructive to do than troll the forums of a game he claims to believe sucks because he had a hissyfit about his PvP suggestion being ignored and quit.

Smatter Konrad, has the football team been shoving your head into the toilet again?

Did the cheerleaders pants you again and laugh at your shortcomings?

Did you just learn that your children (if you have any) have the mailman's eye's?


Oh btw your PvP suggestion from back in June of 2011 where you suggested that nonPvPers be forced to pay extortion fees to PvP groups that "own" the stores and trains in the districts they "control" was at best idiotic.

Below are excerpts from his long winded suggestion.


No one cared that you threatened to quit last year, but you have brightened our last days here by giving us someone to laugh at.

Sure we may be upset over the game closing but none of us are so pathetic to be still butthurt about a suggestion getting ignored over a year ago, that we feel obligated to make an "I told you so" post.


Thank you for putting a smile on our faces.

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas as well.