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Nope. I've already filled my entertainment time with other things. Nothing in CoX I can't get somewhere else.
I might give a full CoX2 a look a few years down the line. -
Good luck, all, and have fun.
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I wish I had characters stuck in the real Galaxy City. Always preferred it over Atlas Park.
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Quote:That'd be a little difficult to do since Carbine is wholly owned by NCSoft. Just like ANet. Just like Paragon Studios.And Wildstar.....Carbine should run the hell away from NCSoft while they still can. You can't tell me there aren't other publishers out there who'd be willing to take them on.
Quote:And straight from Brian Clayton, NCSoft's reputation HAS been damaged by their closure of CoH (and not just by the fact that they're closing it but by the brutish, callous way they went about the whole ordeal) and they ARE in fact worried about that. As they should be. Blade & Soul, cheesy grindfest that it is, is making its way stateside at what will still be a very bad time in NCSoft's history reputation-wise. -
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I don't care how many tutorials you have as long as I can skip them after the first time. Unless it's just an awesome tutorial.
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At what point will the 31 page proposal be available for us to read?
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I'd be interested to see this 31 page proposal.
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Apparently, if the boards for the last three months are any indication, NCSoft's BIG MISTAKE was buying the IP and leasing the engine rather than letting Cryptic kill the game through neglect. Since most of those villifying NCSoft now already had their hate on for Cryptic back then anyway, would have saved NC money and an earache down the line.
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Happy Thanksgiving, all. And to the non-Americans, Happy Thursday.
No pumpkin pie here. French Silk pie instead. Mmmm. -
Quote:You mean the differences like the fact that the US had already abandoned any pretense of neutrality well before the attack on Pearl Harbor? Giving war materiel to the other Allied nations through the lend-lease program and instituting the draft to ramp up the armed forces in anticipation of joining the war directly both predated the declaration of war by a year and a half and two years respectively.Why, because there was death involved? If you can't see the relevance then I'm not sure there's any real help for you as a human with empathy or as a student of history. It's most likely that you're choosing to focus on the differences between the two scenarios so that you can ignore the similarities.
Oops. I guess history invalidates your tasteless comparison. -
Quote:If you don't know what's wrong with you analogy, I'm not sure there's any real help for you as a human with empathy or as a student of history.Convenient way to invalidate any movement you choose, eh?
And the U.S. just should've stayed out of WWII, and let the Axis take over the world. But only because, damn, "If we get involved now, we'll be hypocrites because we didn't do it until WE got attacked. Crap." -
There was a time when I didn't appreciate what you brought to the game, and more importantly what you brought to the forums.
The truth is, you have been the definition of a pillar of the community. Thank you for years of pleasant posts, insightful observations, and enjoyable wit.
As Father Xmas has said, I don't know if I will ever see you on another forum, but I wish you well. I know that any community you join will be better for it.
Good luck with your end of the City event. -
Quote:You clearly weren't around for the first few years of CoH, when it was always cold in Paragon City.And I know you will bring many things this game allows, but fact is this game not only has much more cartoony style, but also went out of its way to avoid overly sexual things like visual nipples or color pallets that would allow players to have a naked-ish look by "smart" tinting of spandex.
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I suspect Father Xmas meant gameplay, but visually I get more 'Iron Giant' from Wildstar than I do anything else.
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Quote:I don't believe that is true. Pulling one's own weight is not even remotely the same as meeting expectations, much less maximizing return on investment.I think the bigger problem there isn't whether or not a game got axed. But while not being a perpetual gold mine, AFAIK CoH was the only one of the games that WAS still pulling its own weight. That makes things scary for pretty much every MMO in existence, because now we can't even base the long-term survivability of our games on the coldest known standard.
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Quote:It has more to do with timing than content.This is one of those things where I have trouble grapsing the depth of what is implied. If corporations have the right to push the envelope of lying to9 the max in order to fluff their products to infinity and beyond, then do customers NOT have the right to do the opposite? If they don't, then the implications of that are quire disturbing, and suggest that we live in some sort of dictatorship. Only the dictators are companies, not politicians.
I like winter.
Seeing something wrong and speaking out against it is admirable.
Seeing something wrong and virtually ignoring it until it effects you, then clamouring for attention by stating that you are now speaking for the rights of everyone in your chosen demographic? Not so admirable. -
I can't help but wonder how this might look to someone who didn't have a stake in the game.
I wonder if they might not look at all this hubbub and think "if five games in five years is so bad, why were these people still around to get burned after four games in four years? Why is five so bad, but four is 'ok'?". Or even "These people have known since at least the Garriott case in 2010 that this company was capable of dodgy, if not outright illegal, practices. Why didn't moral outrage compel action then? Why were they still supporting a game owned and run by such a company?". In short, why did this urge to 'defend mmo gamers against the business practices of callous publishers' only show up when our game was on the block instead of any of the others that shut down, NCSoft owned or otherwise?
An outside observer might think it appears a little hypocrital, and perhaps a touch self important. A "This didn't matter until I was effected, but now everyone should take note" situation. A bit late to start complaining about something that's been going on with little protest from us for at least five years, isn't it?
Then again, I don't really think most people outside the CoX community care. At least not any more than most of us did when some other game we didn't play shut down. As I recently mentioned elsewhere, I suspect most of them, if they even notice, will shrug it off as the bitter complaining of the last holdouts of an eight year old game that had to go F2P, one that most outsiders hadn't heard of or didn't like to begin with. -
Quote:The way it reads to me as well, unfortunately.Your post looks like a bitter COH player trying to rain on Wildstar's parade. If that was your objective....congrats?
And, honestly, I don't think non-CoXers really care. They view the shutdown of CoH the same way as most of the people on these boards viewed the shutdown of TR, AA, Exteel, DR, etc. If you weren't playing and enjoying those games, you just shrugged and kept doing what you were doing.
Anti-NCSofters say "NCSoft is bad, and shuts down games! They are the Evil!"
Non-CoXers hear "A 10 year old game most people either never heard of or stopped playing is shutting down. In other, actually important, news, ME3 is letting you pay for new clothes!"
Right or wrong, I suspect that's going on more often than not. -
I thought the last three slots were going to be:
New Car Smell
Drum Solo
leading up to the final slot....
Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
Though my sources might be slightly unreliable. -
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Just out of curiosity, how is this any better?
Seriously. You complain incessantly about the troll yet don't have the personal accountability to not feed him. To the contrary, you do everything in your power to keep egging him on by replying to him, often two or three times in minutes, and then create a thread guaranteed to give him another thread to respond to when he creates another account.