KnightOwl

Good-bye and hello, as always.

Not that it was necessarily complex, but for me the respec system has always been overly tedious and non-conducive to experimentation, especially for situations where only minor changes in slot numbers or resources were desired. I personally would have done much more experimentation and tweaking (and probably played more regularly as a consequence) with a more facile, non-linear interface for doing so.

How would it feel like CoH without mimicking the content?

I might log into it for nostalgia -- fly around the city, hit a few things, then log out.

I don't see an emulated server occupying the same role as the current game: a long-term, routinely returned-to source of entertainment.

Nicely done! I thought Positron was particularly funny to watch from scene to scene.

I guess my take on NCSoft's 1st response is that while I don't necessarily believe exactly what they wrote in their response, I don't really have to, because what I'm reading between the lines becomes more abundantly clear with each passing day. What they choose not to say has importance on a level with what they are choosing to say.

Whether or not they made a good faith effort as far as selling the IP is irrelevant in the sense that they are the ones that will decide on a change in the course of their action, and they really need not make any effort to do so if they so choose.

I don't think that means efforts to communicate or bargain with them are wasted, but I do believe the odds of their acquiescing to an outcome that the playerbase would favor are pretty slim.

Maybe NCSoft changed status with the BBB, and/or became a 'dues-paying Accredited Business'.

I'm afraid I couldn't agree to boycott a online information publisher solely for the reason that they're publishing articles about games from a particular company.

To expect that Massively would change its method of reporting or info sharing based on my disgruntlement with NCSoft is not fair to Massively or its readership.

I am a little surprised that NCSoft issued any statement at all. They had seemed pretty content to let the silence speak for them.

I don't expect they'll say anything further on the matter after this, though.

I preferred the song lyrics to the medical encyclopaedia entries.




<concert lighter>Freebird!</concert lighter>

Hopefully the comic will have positive effects, even if it is a slight jab at CoH.

On the other hand, the PA authors have never been known for their tactfulness, and can sometime be quite the opposite*.









*The lack of tact displayed, imho, had less to with the original comic and more to do with their string of responses to the backlash against it.

That is a very nicely done video!

I watched it with the sound muted, it was markedly more enjoyable that way.

I didn't notice if anyone had mentioned it, but the fact that the playable characters were superheroes, and moreover player-created superheroes, was what made it unique (for me), and was the entire reason I bought in.

I know for others, it was the game mechanics, or the community, or the feeling of personal relationship fostered with the devs over time, but for me it was definitely the genre. Those other things were pleasant enough, but they were icing on the cake. If it hadn't been specifically about superheroes, I'd likely never have tried it.

There was no other video game at the time that offered the same level of ease and simplicity with which to create your own superheroic characters. Being able to play with friends was pure bonus.

I thought Neil DeGrasse Tyson's book, 'The Pluto Files', did a pretty decent job of looking at the issue of Pluto's status from about as many pertinent and variegated positions as one might reasonably expect.

CO has been out since September 2009.

I initially had a bit of difficulty getting access to my original (post-beta) account as well, but after a bit of wrangling with PW support, it was worked out satisfactorily.

Just wondering, how many MMOs have ever been "saved" by a fan campaign? Anyone got the numbers on that? Or, if it happens with CoH, would it be a first?

A longtime fan of the PnP game, I was in CO during the beta, got the lifetime sub (gold), played for maybe about 6-8 months, got one character to 20-ish and a few others into the teens, then went on hiatus and just got back into the game about a month ago.

It's definitely different from CoH in some significant aspects, some negative, but since I didn't play it for ~2 years, it feels new and fresh. Teaming is light, but I've been able to get help with a troublesome boss when I requested help, so there are helpful and friendly players. I'm in the CoX channel.

Global is @KnightOwl.