Lemur Lad
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That would piss me off. I vowed to never give SOE another dollar of my money after SWG, and I won't break that vow.
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And here's a photo of an actual lemur for comparison.
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This was a post I was planning to write before the big news, but I thought it was as appropriate a way of showing some of my feelings about the game as anything.
Lemur Lad wasn't my first character, but he quickly became my favorite, and was my first 50. I've always been proud of his look, and been very careful about making improvements over the years.
Here's a recreation of LL at the beginning.
And from the back.
He's changed a lot over the years. Real Goggles, a true fur pelt, a moving tail, and the backpack that was always there in my imagination. -
I love you bAss, I can't believe you didn't tell me. Awesome though.
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Quote:A lot of companies have termination NDAs, when it comes to things under "trade secrets"Originally Posted by JayboH
That makes no sense. Why would content that will never exist be under an NDA now?
That being said, Posi did say on Friday that if they do get to go to work on Tuesday, he will try to set up an Ask Me Anything session where we can find out any unresolved plot issues we have. If they don't end up doing it I may start bugging him over Twitter to get the gang together at some offsite system to talk to fans. -
You've done a man's work here sir. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I thank you for living little bits of your life with us, and not just being a name on high.
I thank you for not getting burned out from all the abuse heaped on you (unearned) just because you were in the big chair.
I thank you for being a true and total part of this community.
I most of all thank you for all the little things that happened behind the scenes when Lighthouse and Ex_Libris were here and started up projects like the City Scoop and the PERC. You were clearly in our corner, and that mattered more than I can say. The interviews you consented to do, the way you came to us to plant secret messages in the paper during the lead up to Ouroboros. I've never felt more included and you're responsible.
I came to this game with a heavy heart, even though I was joining friends who were already playing. I had been an ardent player of Star Wars Galaxies, until they essentially upended everything I cared about and re-did core aspects of a game I loved.
I was bitter, I was untrusting of developers, I very nearly quit MMOs entirely. I came because I was painfully bored and because my friends told me this game was about as close to the PnP RPG Champions as could realistically be. So I tried it. It took some time but without knowing it you steadily wooed me. It was clear there was a very different vibe here. Content was updated and added and done well. Combat was fun. The enhancement system was simple but detailed. I played by myself and with friends, but avoided the forums. I had been burned and was still raw, so that was the promise I made to myself.
Eventually though I had too many questions and things I needed to learn. I lurked for months, then slowly started answering questions to Pay things forward. In that time I saw more and more of the community and saw that you and the other devs were active (as active as someone working a full time job could be) participants. It was clear you got it, and it was becoming clear this was a place I could be happy. You had me.
I'll be leaving like I came in, with a heavy heart. This time though for completely different reasons. The game I love is still being taken from me, but it's not being done by the people who have convinced me they love this game as much as I do. It's not being done by you guys. There's too much respect and fondness and happy memories for me to feel more than passing bitterness at the Powers that Be.
If it matters at all, you should know you made me happy.
Every game developer should aspire to do their job as well as you and the others have.
Thank you,
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Quote:*shrug* requiring a monthly charge is not the same as having a monthly option available. I think your beef is largely semantics.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Yeah. A source that can't be bothered to get their facts correct.
Really?
CoH: Freedom launched September 7, 2011 and that's somehow several years?
Not to mention the whole "limited gameplay" if you aren't paying a subscription.
When they can't get easily checked facts straight (facts that they are using to try to use as the basis of their premise), the entire article is questionable.
This is one of the many reasons I quit paying attention to sites such as kotaku long ago. -
Quote:So tell me again why what you said is supposed to be indicative of anything broader than how you feel currently?Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
An observation made with extreme sampling bias is no datum at all.
You're talking about how your feelings are shared by a lot of mythical people who seem to have left. I'm talking about real people in this thread and in this game who are still here, playing, paying and enjoying the game.
Saying I'm not statistically valid is fine, but I wasn't trying to maintain any sort of statistical absolute. Just pointing out that people who aren't happy stop trying to swim upstream and leave, and the people who stay are happy to do so, and a large number of them have been staying and enjoying just as long as you have.
There's no added weight to your argument based on how long you've been here that isn't counterbalanced by people here just as long who feel the opposite. -
Quote:Considering a lot of people politely disagreeing with you (like me) have been playing nearly as long as you, it's pretty backhanded to refer to the folks who might have agreed with you as the great ones.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
I am *an* example of a long term player, but perhaps not the ur-example. Maybe I was, once, but all who were like me left the game. Someday there'll only be fossils of the great old players, our bones imprinted in the rocks of the high-rez revamp of the Hollows someday...
The point I was trying to make subtly I'll have to make more bluntly it seems. Most of the people I talk to when I play are old timers, so are most of the names I recognize in this thread. They're still playing, I'm still playing. We've nearly all taken breaks now and then, but we still come back. And by and large from what I've seen here and ingame, people with a sweeping negative opinion of the new system like yourself are in the minority.
As for getting things we asked for? Every issue I see things I've wanted and asked for more than once over the years. They may not be precisely as I envisioned them, but 98% alike is good enough for me. If the fact you keep asking for things and they never happen is bringing you down, maybe you ought to think about how those things relate to the average player, or the majority. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
How is it contradicting what I said? I didn't say all or every, I said very limited and usually. I never said we never got any for free, I just didn't bother picking them out of the list and doing a count, because the number we paid for was obviously greater.
You're right that everyone was given CoV, but that was more than a year after their release. Which is precisely my point. We're talking about getting powersets when they come out. Over the history of the game, most new powersets have been behind a pay wall of one form or another when they come out.Oooh you caught me. I forgot to make one statement conditional in the entire post by leaving out an almost, and that means you get to say I'm saying the opposite.Quote:Originally Posted by BellaStrega
This is what you said:
This isn't true, and there were powersets offered alongside trick arrow and archery, and you didn't need to buy CoH to gain access to the other free powersets.
You're shifting what you said, though, which was that everything after trick arrow and archery required purchasing CoV or Going Rogue, and that is not true. Now you're trying to say you actually said something else. It's not a thing if you correct yourself, but what you wrote doesn't communicate what you're saying it communicated.
When a power set is brand new, there is usually a premium for getting it.
Most of the new sets had to be paid for. Trying to twist what I wrote because of one missing word doesn't change that. If I hadn't put the main point in giant letters you might be right that it got confusing. However when I write in a caveat 3 times during the same post, it's probably safe to assume the one sentence that doesn't have one was a minor error and not the actual point. -
Quote:As has been explained to you numerous times by several people already, you're asking for a state that has never been the case. You can pretend like there was a time when all new powers were given as part of your $15 fee, but it doesn't really exist. So the fact that they've changed to a different version of the same paradigm shouldn't be an issue.Originally Posted by _Hush_
.However, you shouldn't have to pay for powers as V.I.P period their apart of the game. Everything else doesn't matter me that's my only "gripe".
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Quote:People complained about certain ATs and powers being locked behind CoV or GR. People will ALWAYS complain about something. If they change the system somehow, there will be something new that will bug people.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
People post about how disappointed they are with VIP status every time a new powerset is released. A simple tweak to the VIP rewards would make all these threads go away.
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Quote:Correct. All basic auras show up as locked behind a pay wall for <30, unless you get the Account unlock or use the 1 shot unlock from Emp (or Astral, I forget) Merits. The rest of those were part of the Origins booster.Originally Posted by Zortel
Some of those are the ones that you can unlock by doing the level 30 Aura mission on Red or Blue side. Or you can pay 160 paragon points to unlock all those level 30 mission auras for all characters from level 1, like the cape unlock.
The other ones are from the Origins pack (That had 5 capes, 10 auras IIRC)
PS: The Aura unlock and Cape unlock? First things I bought from the store. Being able to make a character with a cape and the Glow eye aura from level 1? For any character on that account? For the low-low price of 160pp*2? A-freaking-mazing. -
Quote:Unfortunately probably Bioware. The bulk of the complaints I've heard is that it is 8 pretty good single player games tied together, and the multiplayer aspects are all a lot weaker/bugged/outdated than they ought to be for a game with such a long development window.Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
Ah, you are right that was three months ago now they are reporting under 1 million. That is more than a 100,000 lost per month...WOW.
I guess John Riccitiello's calling the performance disappointing is an indication of a coming catastrophe...Possibly.
So they are going to try to adopt a F2P model but have no expectations on what the response will be? Hmm, sounds like the proverbial throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks mentality.
I wonder who is going to get the bulk of the blame Bioware or EA?
Though on the other hand, a lot of the issues people had with server populations due to early poor choices about adding servers instead of capacity, I think falls on EA's head. Not sure though. -
Quote:Agreed. No new game is ever ever as good as whatever hype is attached to it, and it always takes a year or more for a new ongoing game to reach it's stride and get some decent additions to content to flesh it out.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
And none of them with match up to CoH
We've always had people looking at the Next Big Thing on these forums and claiming it's going to be so much awesome than playing here. Some of them leave and never come back. Most of them have though, and haven't very often had good things to say about their experiences with the brand new shiny. -
Quote:I'm sorry, how exactly is when and how you make your purchase decisions the fault of the developers?Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
I buy yearly subscriptions, so I only need to make that decision once per year. Every year I agonize over it. Last year I hit the button after realizing that I didn't have anything else to play. That isn't always going to be true; in fact, some very tempting games are coming along in just a few months.
Right now I'm coasting on a decision I made last year. CoH needs to do something amazing to keep me, given the current state of affairs. I see no indication that they'll do that -- they *like* the way things are, even if it means losing players that have been here since launch, even if it means bleeding people away. All I can say is that no love affair lasts forever, and good luck to all.
I hope you realize it's completely nonproductive to tell them you find everything they've done for the last year and a half to suck in terms of content, yet provide not even a hint about what this amazing thing they need to do to keep getting your money is.
I took a break for about an issue, even though my 6month sub was still active. I've come back to more than enough new things to do to keep me amused for months. I've enjoyed the new stuff I've seen, and from the look of the things coming soon, I'll have even more things that look fun.
It's clear you don't like what's been happening. That's an opinion. It doesn't change objective facts though. The fact you're not having fun with what they made doesn't mean it's not fun at all ever and they don't care about you (or people who have been here a long time). You're not a meta-example of a long term player. -
Quote:How is it contradicting what I said? I didn't say all or every, I said very limited and usually. I never said we never got any for free, I just didn't bother picking them out of the list and doing a count, because the number we paid for was obviously greater.Originally Posted by BellaStrega
On the contrary, Sonic Blast and Sonic Resonance were released with Trick Arrow and Archery, in issue 5. Dual Blades and Willpower were added in issue 11. Shield Defense and Pain Domination were added in issue 13. Issue 16 provided powerset proliferation.
All of those were available for no additional cost. I believe that everyone who had a CoH or CoV account was given full access to both games prior to Pain Domination's release.
You're right that everyone was given CoV, but that was more than a year after their release. Which is precisely my point. We're talking about getting powersets when they come out. Over the history of the game, most new powersets have been behind a pay wall of one form or another when they come out. -
Quote:I don't even know what this means. Every powerset in this game has been under or overperforming at one time or another. Same with every powerset or class in every other game I've played. Game balance is a complicated thing, and there's no more expectation for things to be balanced if you pay for them or get them free.Originally Posted by _Hush_
Not every power set that is released was performing up to par because people constantly send Arbiter Hawk and Synapse messages in regards to bugs also some that under-perform.
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Quote:Your calculations are off. Per the OP, we're talking about powersets added as part of your subscription fee. None of the CoV or GR powersets count, you had to buy the products to get them when they launched.Originally Posted by Zaloopa
So looking over that list it appears that in the first 5 years of the game we got roughly 5.4 new powersets per year(not counting proliferation), 2.4 of which were free.
In the past year we've had 10 new powersets released, 3 of which are free. So as VIPs our rate of free powersets hasn't gone down since freedom launched and because of the monthly stipend you can technically get most of the paid sets for "free" also.
You can count them as "free" after they were proliferated or the product was merged into the standard game subscription, but not before. I suppose eventually that means things average out to what you said, but that's the danger of averages. The number of free sets for the first 3 years of the game is actually down around 1 a year, eventually climbing upward.
It really just goes to show the OP's perception and definition of terms is what is off with his conclusions, not your math.
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Quote:My calculations say you're wrong. Seriously though, whether it's worth it is a subjective issue. You can't really apply math to it and say you absotively have the correct answer for everyone. You especially can't say that to the folks around here without demonstrating your work.Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
It is not worth staying VIP if you don't do Incarnate content. I have done the calculations and it is more cost effective not paying a sub.
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Quote:Allow me to correct you. Only a very limited number of new powersets have been initially been offered as part of your simple $15 subscription fee. Archery and Trick Arrow were free, but after that everything was initially locked behind buying City of Villains, or buying Going Rogue.Originally Posted by _Hush_
Before the launch of Freedom powersets were included in the sub ( correct me please if I am wrong) now it seems almost every powerset has to be purchased off the market
You can say that's not the same thing if you like, since all those powers later became open to everyone through other means, but really it is:
When a power set is brand new, there is usually a premium for getting it.
It's just that now with Freedom, the interval is much shorter. Instead of a batch of new sets every couple of years, we get a new set every few months.
As for your comment about not getting a discount? You get free points every month to spend as you choose. EVERY new powerset has had at least 2 months lead time since it gets announced to when it launches. It's not the developer's fault if you can't save up 800 points to get the set as part of your subscription fee. -
While Synapse is (hopefully) still looking at this thread, I'd just like to say good job on those changes, and at some point in the future it would be awesome to see End Drain resistance in some sets.
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Quote:Frankly I consider the Energy Aura revamp to be essentially a new set. At least in terms of the change in usefulness.Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
Yeah, Bio Armor should have definitely come first. Wasn't the last new defense set SHIELDS? Hate to whine, I'm just depressed we have to wait til like mid September for Bio Armor now...
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Quote:Originally Posted by Freitag
Additionally, characters that rely on self healing (like Regeneration) can benefit from Bloom when they use self heals like Reconstruction and Dull Pain.My understanding is Heals that grant +res (like reconstruction) are not affected by bonuses to Heal. Other self heals like Dull Pain, are.Quote:Originally Posted by Zaloopa
I thought those heals are flagged as unresistable so they wouldn't be affected by bloom. Are those flags being removed or does bloom work differently?
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I think I went down once somewhere along the way, but I self rezzed nearly instantly. As for the screenshot, try hosting it somewhere else like Imageshack then using the direct link to display it in a post here.