Kitsune Knight
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Quote:You could have not responded to his post.Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy
And to add statement was not for impact either. Like I said earlier, please please do not make this into a big deal. Just let it go. It isnt that serious. So I mispelled persay big deal, get over it please.
On the internet, the more you say something isn't a big deal and to not worry about it, the more everyone thinks they need to make a big deal about it and worry about it (because you drew attention to it). The way you actually accomplish that, is to simply move on and don't acknowledge it.
But sometimes drawing attention to it is more fun!
Esepcially when you don't have a dog in the horse race
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Are you trying to legitimately ask a question, or are you trying to wag your finger at someone(s)?
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Quote:What model did you have that could manage that? Primarily, what GPU?Originally Posted by RogerWilco
It's one of the things I really liked about CoH: I could play it on my Macbook while travelling.
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Quote:That was also pretty much the only use of Statesman in a long time. Unless you count his evil alternate reality versions (which I don't, although both you can fight had much more character development than States...). Statesman has barely ever been in the game, only very rarely ever actually having any involvement in the game. Superman actually appeared in his comics.Originally Posted by Xzero45
The best use of Statesman in a long time was killing him off?
His daughter had just been murdered by aforementioned powerless guy in cold blood. As for the giving up part? He already had his powers stripped, and one thing you learn in the Villain version (not sure if the hero version goes into this), the entire reason Wade killed him was to absorb his (Zeus's) incredible will power.Quote:Honestly, it was only sad in the fact that the devs threw him away like a chump. He didn't fight anything. He just gave up. He walked into the world's most obvious trap, lured into a smoldering crater in an exotic location by a man with no ability to actually fight Statesman. He didn't even show up at all previously in the arc, so there's no chance to actually establish any sort of emotional connection.
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For some reason, I have a strong suspicious that whatever deal NCSoft had with Transgaming was transferred over to ArenaNet & GW2 when they axed CoH. I have absolutely zero evidence, but it's just a gut feeling
I'd be curious to see a comparison of the cider-wrapped version of GW2 pitted against a Wine/CX version (also on OSX) version of GW2. Any performance difference? Battery? Stability? Hell, I just checked out CodeWeaver's site (developers of CrossOver, and major Wine contributors), and they have an entire sub-section of their forum setup dedicated to GW2, and the top sticky says that they (CX) are working on improving the stability.
ArenaNet might be better off making a deal with CodeWeavers and have them handle the "porting". They can't do a worse job than Transgaming, from the sound of things. -
Quote:Who said the negotiations were going on in SK?Originally Posted by houtex
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Quote:NCSoft did negotiate with the developers of one of their previous games (I can't recall which) to sell the IP back to them, but they never reached an agreement (maybe they wanted too much... or the developer wanted it for nothing... or the meetings were interrupted repeatedly by godzilla attacks- we don't know why). Tabula Rasa was also quite a different situation, with how things went down with Richard Garriott and losing a massive lawsuit against him... that was a game they had a reason to want to bury.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
the problem is that games like hellgate, apb, and apparently now rf online is that their publishers just shut them down, ncsoft seems to actively bury their dead games, otherwise i'd expect tabula rasa or exsteel to have been resurrected by nexon or pwi. ncsoft seems to want to make sure their former i.p. s dont become competitors in the future.
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Just because you have something under copyright, doesn't mean you're entitled to be able to 'use' it (copyright really doesn't even cover use!). Take for example if you wrote a piece of software that included a library (which is fundamental to the working of the application) written by another entity, which you had licensed to be able to use for 5 years. You release the software you wrote (which is tightly coupled to said library) and it's used for many years by many people. You most certainly own the copyright to the part of the software you wrote, even if the copyright to the library is owned by another entity.
Once the 5 years is up, for some reason you or the other entity decide to not renew the license (why is unimportant)... what happens? You still own the copyright to the code you wrote, but, you can no longer use that library... which means your application is completely and totally non-functional. Just because you own the copyright to your code, and your code doesn't work without their library, that does not mean you're in any way, shape, or form entitled to continue using their library (nor are you entitled to any form of compensation/recompense).
That's the situation AE/costumes are in. The options in this case are basically the same as my hypothetical situation: either convince the other entity to return to the old setup (or something akin), or reimplement the missing functionality (write an engine for hosting AE / showing your costumes). The latter part, though is still potentially messy, as your AE/costumes might be considered derived work of NCSoft's copyrights, which gets you into extremely expensive lawyer territory. -
Freedom was my original home, and I spent years playing pretty much exclusively there.
Over the last year or so, I've largely moved off Freedom to Virtue, finding the population wasn't that weird mix as you ran into on Freedom, as I prefer to PUG, not run with a closed group. I originally moved over more so because I was out of space on Freedom, but it was back during the Shark Week event I returned for a period where the strong culture difference was quite evident. Virtue now feels much more like Freedom used to feel, possibly at least in part due to many of the well known (at least to me) Freedomites moving there back during the period of free server transfers we had a few years ago.
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Quote:There's always been those that wanted desperately a reason to complain.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I personally thought that giving us real money refunds for time past foreclosure and recent points purchases was the RIGHT thing to do, rather than a reason to be even more angry.
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Quote:I can log in to my NCSoft Master account just fine. I'd suggest contacting NCSoft support... and failing that, send a PM to Zwill with as much information as you can.Originally Posted by Rodion
Even though I was supposed to have two months of my three-month subscription remaining, I just lost VIP access to the forums and access to all but two of my characters in game. I have NOT received a refund. I can't post in the appropriate forum to report this...
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Quote:FYI, it was announced that they're giving us cash refunds. Check out Zwill's post for the details.Originally Posted by Sir Mason Stone
I'm curious now if my MBA would be supported by GW2. I hope not, as if it isn't, I'll have a better chance of securing a cash refund.
I've installed Windows 7 on a 6 GB disk, so you can certainly fit in a rather cramped space.Quote:Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
I don't have any Windows discs to install from, and even if I did, I don't have the disc space to install an entirely separate OS (especially not Windows 7 - I'd have to delete my entire music collection just to squeeze that bloated 16-20 GB monstrosity in), all for one game that may not even be around in another three months, so... no, I haven't. -
Quote:Yes and yes.Originally Posted by shadow35
Can you still download the beta client right from the NCSoft launcher? Does it work?
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Quote:Yep, the same as always (I just double checked myself on a fresh virtual machine that's never had CoH/the launcher installed and did it fine). There was a thread a week or so ago about the Launcher no longer being able to update CoH, but that was actually just because the machine they tested it on was so far out of date that it couldn't do a fast-update, and the install had to be 'repaired' (at which point it worked fine).Originally Posted by shadow35
Wow, dang, I'm building a brand-new PC next week. Does the launcher still allow you to download CoH from scratch? If not, it looks like I'll be switching back and forth between computers until the end of November.
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Quote:They had never tried to give us credit on another game and call it a day. In prior closing, it took them around 3 weeks to announce what they were going to do, which were refunds (plus several free trials). You know, pretty much exactly what happened here (that was before everything started going F2P, so a trial actually meant something).Originally Posted by VickieVee
They assumed we would go away when they said "End of game", take their credit-on-another-game and go away quietly.
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The NCSoft Launcher.
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The original Titan Sentinel can export to Mids.
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Quote:Wait, people actually thought NCSoft would un-cancel the game and rehire Paragon? I'm pretty sure none of the Titan people were even trying to work towards that.Originally Posted by Rubberlad
Dude, that message is NCsoft officially telling us it's "game over" as far as they are concerned. There are no more action items to take on our side. Either someone else buys the IP or they don't. Everyone did they best they could, now it's time to accept the reality of the situation and make the most of it. If there's no successor announced by November 30th, then there's no successor. No point living in denial in the meanwhile.
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Quote:CoH was 2% of their overall revenue. You think that the amount of income from Bio Armor is that significant that they'd actually care? That seems extremely doubtful to me.Originally Posted by Redbone
If you've not noticed peopel are quite upset about the "arbitrary" date of cutoff for refunds (it's not arbitrary, they wanted to keep all the cash they squeezed out of the powerset released Aug 21 knowing they'd announce the close a week and a half later). People are unhappy with them not reinstating ViP to Premiums.
Also, why do you assume the decision about VIPs was done by NCSoft? How do you know the community reps or Paragon didn't axe that plan (like they did with making everything in the store free)? Hell, they might not even be able to set everyone to VIP easily. I'm a bit skeptical that NCSoft management said NO VIP FOR YOU!, overruling the remains of Paragon (Paragon is only effectively dead).
I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly wasn't trying to imply you were putting a negative/doom connotation on it (the people that are doing that are quite obviousQuote:Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Jesus H. Christ, people. All I said was I was sad and then I posted the link. I didn't cry doom or put it in a negative connotation.
Act like you have some god damned sense.).
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Quote:What in this announcement digs the hole deeper?Originally Posted by Redbone
They're just digging the "we hate NCSoft" hole deeper and deeper. I can't believe such stupid people managed to get that high up in a corporation.
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Quote:An interesting thing is that the items in the 'cash shop' can actually be had without spending any money, since the in-game currency can be converted to the cash shop currency. (not that that changes your point or anythingOriginally Posted by Mental_Giant
TGW2 does have a cash shop, but it's mostly for convenience/vanity items (extra bank space, costumes, etc.). The content is all "free" once you buy the box.)
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I'd much rather MMOs go in that direction, than what seems to already be happening, where what traditionally were offline single player games (with or without an online component) move that direction (i.e. Diablo 3, where a net connection is required at all times to play, or the EA games that require a net connection but don't actually have online modes).
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Quote:So playing Lineage I/II and Aion is perfectly fine?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Living well = not playing GW2.
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Quote:It doesn't use the Mac version of the NCSoft Launcher, so that right there means it'll be a better experience than CoH was.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Great.
Here I thought they'd actually make the game native.
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The Guild Wars 2 OS X client, just like the City of Heroes OS X client, runs on top of Transgaming's Cider. Not native... but it seems Blizzard is the only one that actually makes a native OS X MMO.