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And Superman didn't - because it's all about the setting.

It's got nothing to do with choosing - it's what the game tells you you're doing.
For example, on the 3rd misison of the ITF - you fight Requiem and Romulus - you reduce them both to 0 HP, but the game tells you neither of them are dead - you've defeated Romulus, but the next mission is to defeat Romulus, while the clue about Requiem's journal tells you he's TP'ed to another location - and the 3rd mission briefing tells you that Imperious has questioned some of the soldiers you captured in the caves with the Shadow Cysts - so the minions you reduced to 0 HP in that misison seem to have survived too.
At the end of the STF, the game tells you that you can only hope that there's a prison strong enough to hold Recluse, the AV you've just reduced to 0 HP.

You're free to imagine that you're a superhero who goes around killing people in you like, but it's not supported by the game at all.

Which means you have to ignore the in game info then - the game tells you that you haven't killed Recluse on the STF - just like it tells you that the Praetorian AVs you've reduced to 0 HP have been imprisoned in the Zig, not killed by you, or Requiem isn't killed by you on the ITF, and so on.

Yes, having tasks that tell you directly that you're going to be killing people and have killed people has really ruined the chances of WoW being successful - along with all the other T-rated MMOs that tell players they're going to be killing enemies.

Superheroes don't go around slaughtering criminals - that's why CoH makes it clear to players that they're arresting suspects and not killing them.
A superhero setting isn't the same as a fantasy or sci-fi setting - Superman wouldn't kill the people he's fighting, Aragorn or Luke Skywalker would - the arrest text in CoH is just for flavor, to suit the setting - it has nothing to do with the rating at all.

Neither of those powers mention death or being dead.

But you leave the AVs alive who are way more dangerous than their minions? Like at the end of the STF, you arrest Recluse - he goes to 0 HP, then the end text says he's in prison.

You're free to ignore game lore if you want to, just like the loyalists do - but that doesn't make your fantasies any more "real", or an accurate reflection of the game world and its lore.

We arrest people, and they end up in the Zig, which is the special prison for superpowered criminals, where CoV players also escape from.

You're ignoring the actual mission text and game lore if you think you're killing people as a Hero - 0 HP doesn't = death.

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That is totally incorrect - missions mention all the time that we've arrested people, and that talking to them after they've been subdued has given us a clue to the next stage of the arc, or says how they're now in the Zig.
Plus, the idea that registered heroes would simply go around - or be allowed to go around - murdering gang members sitting on bus stops or spray-painting walls is just ridiculous.

You're totally missing the point again - there's no problem with having evil witches in the game - the poblem is making the badge for defeating them a reference to mass-murder in the real world.
Defeating the Halloween witches is shown to be a good thing in the game - but the badge to mark the achievement is linked to a crime against humanity - that's why it needs to be changed.

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Evil characters, not heroes.

Why would a hero have a badge linking their actions to mass-murder?

What have they got to do with the game giving superheroes a badge linking their actions with a crime against humanity?

It's not creepy as in ghosts and things, it's creepy as in being an uncomfortable and out fo place reference in a superhero game.

I was only told about the badge still having the horrible name, not the actual reason why the name is horrible - I knew that already myself.

You've totally missed the point again - the badge name is offensive because it's totally unsuitable for a game, especially a superhero one - it's being used in a approving way, which is totally wrong.

Loyalists have a rather relaxed attitude to historical facts

Can you explain how references to crimes against humanity can ever be "entirely appropriate" for badge titles?

All the other Halloween badge titles are fine - their titles are all harmless pop culture references or general associations.

See if you can spot the one here that doesn't quite fit in with the tone of the others:

Defeating Vampires: "Hunter" - vampires and vampire hunters - a general association.

Defeating Ghosts: "Buster" - a reference to a comedy movie.

Defeating Werewolves: "Shifter" - werewolves are shape-shifters - a general association.

Defeating Zombies: "Dead Head" - a reference to the fans of the band called "The Grateful Dead".

Defeating Witches - "Malleus" - a reference to an instruction book from the middle ages for hunting "witches" that helped in the mass murder of thousands and thousands of women.


Or you could even compare them to the non-Halloween versions:


Defeating Vampyri: "The Slayer" - a TV show reference.

Defeating Ghosts: "Haunted" - a general association.

Defeating Warwolves: "Silver Bullet" - from folklore - a general association.

Defeating Witches - "Spellbinding" - witches and spells - a general association.

More pop culture references and general associations - including one for defeating witches that has an entirely appropriate title that doesn't references crimes against humanity.

There is totally no need at all to have the Halloween witch badge called "Malleus", and the devs really need to change it to something suitable that isn't sick and creepy - just like they managed to name every single other supernatural themed badge in the game without making them sick or creepy.

It's unlimited, as far as I know.

Katie Hannon seems quite freindly.

You may have noticed a new player saying they were looking forward to experiencing it for the first time

Did you manage to find the reference to ghost busting in the paragonwiki for the "Buster" badge for defeating the Halloween ghosts? Or haven't you looked yet? Or did you find the in game reason for the name of the "Evil's Resident" badge for defeating the zombie bosses? Or the in game reason for the name of the "Dead Head" badge for defeating Halloween zombies?

If badge titles can't use outside references, then those ones must be in the game somewhere, right?

You're totally missing the point again - linking the murder of real people for being something they weren't to defeating in a game the things they were accused of being is totally the wrong thing to do.

None of the Croatoa witch badges make any reference to real world mass murder - they stick with the idea of witches as fantasy things, and have suitable sounding titles to match.

A title like "Spellbreaker"/"Spellbroken"/"Disenchanted" would be fine for the Halloween witches because it'd fit with them being fantasy people that use magic.

History is very interesting - but the horrible parts of it shouldn't be used in a superhero game as the title for some kind of achievement.

Defeating witches is ok in the game, because they're real witches - but it's not ok when the badge for it is a reference to the murder of real people for being "witches".