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Considering how frequently players like to fiddle with their costumes charging a fee each time someone wants to use the costume creator would be far more profitable.

Yeah tell that to Dungeon Runners, Tabula Rasa, Exteel, and Auto Assault. Of the 8 online games we can play from NCSoft they shut 4 of them down when they stopped being profitable. Not very good odds for CoH going F2P.

Oh please. You act like the past 19 free issues, 2 paid expansions, and 11 boosters were all dedicated to animal stuff.

The fact that people can't access Praetoria, Sideswitching, The Incarnate System, Demon Summoning, Dual Pistols, Electric Summoning, and Kinetic Melee unless they buy Going Rogue had nothing to do with your decision to buy it.

Sadly I wasn't being sarcastic. I have accounts at 6 games that have adopted a F2P business model and have seen the swarms of RMTer's and obnoxious players that say and act as poorly as they like because the accounts don't cost them a dime and they can just create new accounts faster than they can get banned.

You give them money and they let you play.

Using vet and freespecs to pull off low level enhancements when I get to level 27 has left me with enough low level IO's that I no longer spend anything on enhancements on any low level character anymore. I have over a hundred in base storage just waiting to be used on the next character concept.

Wait, when did bunnies




become badgers?

Sorry to nitpick but being ex-navy I'm obligated to point out that there's no space between seamen.





Double entendre FTW.

And from what I've seen most MMO's that were forced to go F2P have gone in the crapper as the scumbags swarmed in to ruin those games communities.

You mean the one where the majority of it's population is based in Korea/China and are farmers employed by RMT sites?

I'm sorry but you are the one who seems to be more interested in scoring points here. You offered to drop our speculations on how many people are concerned about this suggestion and I agreed to do the same and return to the actual topic. This is the second time you've referred back to our off topic foray it instead of letting it go.


Anyway as I said in the other origin thread I think origins should be strictly RP because characters can have multiple origins depending on which powersets they have chosen, and it gives the players the freedom to be creative with their character concepts instead of locking them into a game mechanic.

My concerns were based on my past experience with how NCsoft has used group memberships based on global names in one of their other games. There they didn't make the extra effort to let players join multiple groups. Once one character joined a group every other character is automatically enrolled in the same group and if one character quits then all characters quit because it isn't the character that joins/quits a group but the players global handle that joins/quits.

Yeah, that's the same song and dance the doomcriers have been proclaiming for the past 7 years and the end is always a year or two away. In fact it's the exact same spiel the doomies use on every single game forum.

Depends on what your definition of "saving" is.

You could set them on fire and save them by putting out the flames.

You could digitize them and save them to a DVD.

You could cryogenically freeze them and save them to be thawed out at a later date.

You could have a priest absolve them of their sins and then save their souls from temptation by sending them to meet their Maker.

You could process them into food and save them for dinner. Soylent Green is people.

He gets a cookie.

True, but anyone with even a sliver of patience can get as many as they need for far less than what TO's/DO's cost.

Why would you get any healing from using a rez when you aren't dead? If a player wants to burn some stamina, and waste a charge on a power to avoid some debt I say let him throw it away.

You said my statement "-out of- tens of thousands of player" implied that I interacted with thousand of players. I pointed out that passive observation on the forums and ingame does not qualify as interacting with people online.

What was it you said in your last post?

Well that didn't last long.

As per my agreement to your own request I must decline speaking about people not participating in this discussion. One of us should keep his word when it's given.

No that came with Issue 6 Along came a Spider.

Not only do characters origins morph over play but many characters have multiple origins based on the types of powersets they have. Sure Fire Blast can be Mutation, Magic, etc. but Assault Rifle, and Devices for example are Tech/Science.

Making Origins strictly role playing allows players the freedom to come up with any story to justify how and why their powers work the way they do.

No it doesn't. One does not need to interact with people on the forums or in the game to observe the conversations they are having in threads or in the chat box.


I hate to point this out to you but the majority of the 125 odd posts in this thread so far were made by the same 2-3 dozen people, and that is a tiny fraction of the games population.


According to the 2010 4th quarter earnings released by NCSoft If we assume all sales are from subscriptions, (which they aren't so the number is actually less) we can place the number of subscribers at roughly 63,000.

1% of 63k is 630 players, and as anyone can plainly see nowhere near that number of players have made a written statement yet in this thread. At a glance I'd estimate the number of people who made a written response so far is around 30.


Ah the old "if they can't be bothered to post they agree with me" argument. Always a hoot to see used.

Fine with me.

I never said you didn't. I only said I had a problem with your interpretation of what "sizable" was in reference to the number of people discussing whether or not origins should be changed, and that if the devs wanted origins to impact the game they wouldn't have scrapped its effect on the game before launch.