Lothic

I gave CO a serious chance (about 100 hours worth) back when it first launched. I eventually came to the personal conclusion that CoH was the better game, at least for me at the time. I haven't played CO since. I'll probably give it one more chance after CoH shuts down completely on the theory that after a few years it might have improved enough for me to better tolerate it.

It's great that there seems to be a chuck of the CO forum community who seems supportive (for whatever reason) to have those of us who've been playing CoH to come join their ranks. I have no doubt there's a significant number of people who genuinely love CO and would love to have more people come to play their game. Sadly that friendly encouragement does not undo my current opinion that CO is still the lesser of the two games and the only reason I'd be playing it again is that it'd be the closest existing alternative to CoH. *shrugs*

Well despite the fairly craptastic attempt to bring Wonder Woman back to the TV screen last year it appears that the CW is going to be giving it a new try. Seems like they want to take the successful formula of Smallville that worked well enough for Superman and apply it to a younger, proto-Wonder Woman.

As always I can see the pros and cons of this idea. By going with a younger "Wondergirl" focus there's no need to try to find some kind of unobtainable Lynda Carter clone who'd be the perfect mix of great actress and Olympic athlete who'd embody everyone's idealized vision of a mature Wonder Woman. Basically with the character set at a younger age there'd be much more leeway in the type of actress they could get for the role.

Of course if they completely drop the whole Themyscira Island and/or Magic Lasso bit and base this show in a "non-costumed oriented" world the way Smallville was then I could see it coming off way too much like a direct Buffy the Vampire Slayer ripoff. No matter what they do the entire idea of doing "Smallville with a girl instead of a boy" is going to seem a little rehashed no matter how well done it turns out to be. Maybe the whole thing is just an attempt to latch onto the Hunger Games phenom. *shrugs*

I honestly don't really like the idea of giving Wonder Woman the Smallville treatment. I actually thought the idea of Smallville was in itself a semi-dumb idea and never understood how it survived so many seasons. But given the fact that it did in fact last so long I suppose it's not too surprising that they think something like this might work. As always time will tell.

I'd buy it regardless.

But as far as how much I'd play it long-term would probably depend on if it allowed some kind of LAN or major mod support. After 8.5 years I've pretty much experienced all of the content you can get from it via solo play. The only thing that would keep me playing would be modding or being able to have -some- kind of multi-player mode.

The simple answer: Yes, I would've easily pay $19.99 a month per account to keep this game going.

The slightly longer answer: I've been paying for my main account every month since April 2004. Even when you add up that overall cost and compare it to the total amount of time I've actually played the game I imagine I've only spent like a quarter per hour at most. In terms of cost for entertainment paying $0.25 an hour is getting something for practically FREE as far as I'm concerned. In that light (and if it would've actually helped) I would have easily paid $50 a month and still gotten my money's worth.

While this idea might be "fun" for us this would all be extra work for people who basically no longer have jobs anymore.

As crappy as the idea of this game coming to an end is we should probably consider it fairly amazing that it'll linger on all the way to Nov.30 in the first place. Besides speaking of the impending end of the world on Dec.21 how do we know that this shutdown isn't already in response to some "insider info" they have about coming events.

As an extra P.S. I at least did manage to reach 300 non-AE souvenirs on my main badging character. I realize most people probably never cared about them but I realized a while back that they were yet another thing to start "collecting" in this game.

Just want to chime in and say it's cool the Devs decided to free-up a bunch of these codes. Hope everybody who wanted one will get one.

Yep the collective idea of a "SG name change token" has been something players have been suggesting pretty much ever since SG bases were added to the game.

What's really frustrating is that ever since the Devs introduced the "Red Star" super leader rank to the game the idea of allowing Red Star leaders to buy a token for the purpose of renaming a SG seems incredibly intuitive/obvious to me. Everytime this topic comes up we always discuss all the pros and cons related to it and eventually most people come to realize that a SG name change token could be implemented fairly straightforwardly with very little risk. The Devs already have the means to change SG names via Dev-only commands - they do this to change names that have been reported as offensive or otherwise unacceptable. All we need is a way for players to access (in a controlled way) that same rename command.

I really have no earthly clue why the Devs continue to drag their feet on this issue...