Jophiel

Without hard numbers, that's pretty meaningless. I'm just making up numbers here but let's say my profits are one million dollars a month. Then they drop to a thousand dollars a month. Then I find a way to triple my profits... now I have three thousand dollars a month! Success?

Well, certainly more successful than going bankrupt but a whole lot less successful than I set out to be. Without real numbers, you don't know where "We've tripled our profits" sits on the spectrum between "we've just stopped the hemorrhaging, are eking out a slim profit and won't have to shut down the servers" and "OMG this is so much more money than we ever dreamed of seeing".

I believe before they purged last time (or the original time), one of the devs remarked that they knew that naming in a superhero genre game was different from naming in a fantasy genre. You can pretty much face-roll your keyboard and get a name in "Elvish" to use in a fantasy game but people in a superhero game are more hung up on getting "Golden Ocelot" or "Atomic Ice". It's just the nature of the genre.

"Knickers in knots"? Why on earth say "We have to protect these names form inactive accounts on the off chance their subscribers come back after two years" and then insult the actively paying customers who just want to name their character "Howitzer"?

Saying what names you want in this context is pretty meaningless since you just get a bunch of people saying "you're not creative". I don't have any particular names I'm after (I'm about out of slots anyway unless I start buying more) but I support a purge on general principle because it'll make some active customers happier and I'm more worried about player retention than the slim chance someone's computer broke back in 2007 and they're just getting it fixed now. I will say that many "great names" other people come up with are ones I'd never use and I'm sure some of the names I like are ones they think are stupid. Passing judgment on whether their opinions are valid based on how you feel about them wanting that name is pretty pointless.

If you're paying an extra $15 a month just to hold names then you're welcome to hang onto them. Someone who hasn't paid their $15 in years gets less sympathy from me.

Everyone can come up with some story about how they were just incapable of playing for years on end. I'm not sure it matters. If you have a paid parking spot and go off into the military, they don't just hold it for you for years for free -- you either pay the rent on it or lose it. If you have a locker with your gym membership and lose your job, they don't say "Save that locker in case one day Joe comes back", you either keep paying your fees or lose it. It sucks and all but, honestly, if NCSoft was to say your names get freed ten seconds after your payments stop rolling in, I wouldn't think they were wrong for it. Maybe a bad business choice from a PR standpoint but not "wrong".

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Bring up your bio and, if using Win7 or Vista, use the Windows clipping tool to save an image of the area you select.

"Eyes up here!"

Dump one of the AoEs, grab the Rad AND the Stalker and chew through the big AVs that much faster

I might have missed some earlier versions, but I think the models look fine enough. The creator itself though is horribly limited in options, far worse than CoH (or CO) was at launch. Their handling of the color palette is a joke.

It's good through Monday though!

I don't think DCUO is a bad game but its style doesn't seem to have much overlap with CoH. As said, more of a console game than a MMORPG. And their character creator is laughably limited.

He seems rather miscast to me. I remember him described as older (not old, but older than some guy in his 20s), heavy set, a lousy dresser and more rumpled in a considerably less trendy way.

That's TV for ya, I guess.

Three small purples? The Titan ate my scrapper's lunch but two purples took me over the soft cap (I have higher def to start with, hence me telling you three) and the only thing to harm me were the auto-hit fire patches.

Whoever counted the Castillo fights as three EBs, they most certainly is not. The first fight, you take him down maybe 25% and he flees. Up top, you take him down to half and he freezes the battles, says his stuff and makes his grand re-entrance at the same health you left him at. At most, he's 1.25 elite bosses.