Friggin_Taser

... Like a Fox!

The servers are going to go down Rikti Invasion or not, so let's party like it's July 24, 2007 when they are up until the Freedom hits.

Stupid... or just stupid enough to be genius?

You decide.

There's still going to be zombie apocalypses and trick or treating for solo players.

I'd much rather do a simple trial for 4 people than try to amass at minimum 2 teams to do Banners again.

Edit: Forgot tip missions. The Halloween tip mission will probably be back, too.

"Stop wearing your backpack over one shoulder, we invented that, copycats!"

Okay, I agree with you there: they can buy both of us off with the Kheld sash.

Sadly, you can please some of the people all of the time but not all of the people all of the time.

You and others might feel Kheldian customization is a priority. But a lot of other people think power pool customization and other particle effects as well as new auras and other new tech is more important.

Maybe Jib hasn't used leveling pacts yet because he prefers to play with himself.

Yes, a beta full of veterans who have played this game for multiple years (if not 7+), in a beta situation where it's new and shiny.

A new player, though? Will he or she really care that they can turn their brown eyes blue after just choosing brown eyes in the costume creator, for lack of a better 90s alternative rock song reference? No, they will be too busy cleaning the streets of thugs or helping Twinshot and the Stars or just learning the ins and outs of a game we all learned years ago. I can only imagine that, like most people playing the game the first time, the leveling and new powers will be the things they worry about, not that they picked the wrong pants pattern or robotic arm style. It's easy to forget that we didn't even have Icon or costume changes when this game was released, and yet all of us in our, in your words, "noobish" ways managed to make it past Liberty and into Paragon City just fine.

One dialogue tree branch will not ruin that anymore than costume contests or AP having a Wentworth's or City Hall being the entrance to Recluse's Victory or AP having one of the most convenient paths to RWZ has. Surprisingly, Atlas Park has survived and the costume contests remain to this day. While the sky is literally falling in issue 21, anything short of Shivans is not the end of the world like some have proclaimed it to be in this thread.

Immersion is relative. And apparently also fleeting for some where even the tiniest change to the UI (the most immersion breaking of all game development tools) of all things can break it.

I was just about to post this exact same thing.

I loved running and leading Keyes, but it just didn't have the same luster for me when I was already Tier 4'd out and didn't really have a need for anything astral or emps unlocked. Hopefully they update Keyes and the Underground when they add new slots so they are used to unlock them, too.

Except for Emma. She still gets hers from Trashy Lingerie.

In other news: the sky is falling because of issue 21. No really, it is. All over Galaxy.

Unless you are the VERY VERY VERY VERY tiny minority of players who have to train up at Liberty each level for roleplay reasons (and in the 7 years I've played this game, I've only known one person who did this), how does this affect you? Getting from level 1 to 5 and getting to King's Row has never been faster. And everyone assuming that every new player will just sit around at the costume creator the second they leave the costume creator has to be some of the laziest and thinly veiled attacks on the mental capacity of new players yet.

We already have situations every day when Miss Liberty is swamped with people and heroes who have to train can *gasp* still train! The level 1-5 game goes by so fast, especially for new players, that they probably won't even notice the one tiny line of dialogue that seems to be the great immersion breaker 2011. And veteran players can now chill out at Mirror Spirit or War Witch and update their costume on the fly without having to break THEIR immersion and stop fighting crime so they can run to Steel Canyon or Independence Port.

So your complaint is this change will make the area around Miss Liberty hellish when there's a costume contest?

It already is. Even if people aren't changing costumes or auras, they circle around and camp Liberty until the contests start and boombox or do whatever else people who have enough time to camp Atlas do.

This change is a tiny QoL addition that makes the game just a tad bit easier for everyone, especially new players. I'm sorry if it breaks anyone's "immersion," but that's a cop out argument to use. Why do my characters, who make their own costumes, have to go to some "store" and pay a tailor to wear them? How many times do the X-Men stop in between fights to visit the local H&M to re-buy their costumes?

If one little dialogue option on the trainer's tree that can easily be ignored is enough to break your precious immersion, perhaps said immersion was too weak to sustain life in the first place.

Who taught you how to use analogies? Me? Because this one is both hyperbolic and flat out wrong for the situation. It's like you ran into a crowded theater and yelled "Cloverfield Monster" just to see the people shake their heads at you.

We just better be sure not to cross the streams.

No, I was reading what you said anticipating you responding with some kind of loophole so you can get around the threat of cancellation you made.

And you came through with flying colors.

The fact remains: they offered an in-game item for advertising purposes. You can dress it up in whatever lies or half-truths you have to to make it seem like it wasn't advertising, but when you have a few thousand people suddenly liking your facebook page, it's 100% pure advertising. Even if you had to make a fake dummy account to do so, you still took time out of your in-game playing to do something not-game related involving advertising to get an in-game benefit. How a system like this would differ from a simple link in an emailed newsletter or a link on the Launcher I do not know, but apparently you drew this completely arbitrary line in the sand on just what level of shameless advertising you are willing to subject yourself to for in-game items and seem to be trying to cast it over everyone else.

So by your own stated ultimatum, NC Soft has lost you as a paying customer.

You do realize that anytime the mods advertise to follow them on twitter to win a free costume code or game code or to like them on facebook to get a 100% exclusive emote in-game, that's advertising, right? So I guess they lost you as a paying customer, right?

And how would anything suggested in this thread be any less intrusive than billboards in the game, even if those billboards are turned off by default. A bi-monthly newsletter you can kindly delete or unsubscribe to in your email box or a link in the launcher you can kindly ignore does not make the game City of Pepsi.

Or even if they do it like the Xbox Live Rewards now: from time to time (maybe every other month) I get an email about a survey I can take or a service I can sign up for (the last one was, simply enough, Bing) to earn Xbox Live points.

If they did this in an email fashion every other month and offered small sums of Paragon Points for it, I'd be down for that. And it'll be kept as far away from the game as possible.