Miss_Freeze_NA

New players to the game don't count?

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I could read what you wrote a thousand times and you would still be wrong.

Yes, and Kirk/McCoy were always there to teach/remind him of what it is to be human. I'd agree that the alien of the week types (when done well) helped progress the exploration of humanity, but I personally don't think an alien Captain would work.

So all that bantering back and forth between Kirk, Spock and McCoy about "being human" was all just some massive ploy to fool the viewers into thinking the show was about an exploration of humanity when it really wasn't. Right... gotcha.

Clearly, you're a moron.

Gene Roddenberry would disagree with you. And I believe he would know better what Star Trek is about than you do.

Back on topic... so long as it is well written and cast, it would be a success. I for one would love to see another Trek series on television. I would like to see them get away from scripts and plot points that get drowned into the technobabble though.

And yet another fine example of a lack of reading comprehension....

I'd have included your own veiled jabs at telling others they aren't playing/built right, but I see you've edited your previous post to remove them since you were called on it. Nice try though.

Having spent the better part of the past few pages adamantly trying to convince people with a dissenting opinion from yours that they're somehow not built right or aren't playing right, I'm at a loss to see how you can justify your comment? Feel free to dismount your high horse at any time.

Good for you that your Regen doesn't die on iTrials. My experience and the experience of quite a few (7+ year veterans mind you) friends I team with regularly is that /SR and /SD far outperforms Regen any day of the week at endgame. I agree with those who've expressed that while this buff is nice, but it doesn't help the Regen set all that much.

Sorry... had been lurking this thread and found the reply funny.

LMAO! Holy crap man, you have serious neuroses or something. I think it is hilarious you are trying to pull others into it as well to justify this to yourself. "We" means squat... others read my posts and understood them perfectly. If you thought I was saying something else in the post, YOU (not "we") read it incorrectly.

Holy crap, are you paranoid much? You call it backpedaling or whatever you like. I call it having to dumb it down enough so the likes of people such as yourself can understand it. I will try smaller words and pictures next time.

Ok fair enough. Yet if they have never played the game, how would the content not be new to them?

Completely and utterly false. The intent was to say that making lifetime subs available upon release of GR is a potential draw to NEW subscribers. Of course it is more of a targeted sales pitch to a newer player than it would be for the existing ones, yet nowhere did I say in specific "only new subscribers should get lifetime subs" and existing customers should be excluded. You misread it entirely. I emphasized new subscribers as in the potential to bring in new subscribers from a lifetime sub if they like the game is there.

Offering a lifetime sub with GR might draw a large number of new players to give the game a try (hence where I said it may draw in another 120,000). Not every one of those new people will opt for it, yet the offer helped bring them in.

First, a new player never having seen/heard of CoX before will not know the difference of it being 6 years old. To them, the content is all new.

Second, simple mathematics. $200 or $300 (assumed) for a lifetime sub vs. $800+ and counting over 6 years is fairly simple to understand.

You are also assuming a new player would buy one right at the get go. A new subscriber may see the GR box set on the shelf at the store advertising a lifetime sub, which in their mind is a good deal if they like the game. That incentive may get them to try the game for a month (which I am thinking the purchase of GR will include a free month of gameplay) and then pay for a lifetime sub if they like it.

People are also assuming the majority (existing and new players) would buy a lifetime subscription. Some will, some will not. No one knows for sure what the exact figures would be.

WoW uses something similar to this concept. You can click on chairs within the environment and your avatar will sit on them.

Where are you getting "not too many care about" from? "Not too many" cared about Walk either... yet we have it now.

I'm all for this idea. I would like it to be coupled with chairs our toons can fit in though. The ones we have now seem to be either too small or ridiculously large.

Obviously.

Read above where I am referring to NEW subscribers, not the existing base. Offering a lifetime sub is a good deal and can be an incentive for new subscribers.

All you are doing is assuming. You are assuming offering lifetime subs would negatively impact the game when you have no idea whether it would or not. Sure, it might. Then again, it might not.

I happen to know quite a few people who have not received any pay raises in the last 3 years, let alone EVER receiving any kind of bonuses.

And for all anyone knows, offering a lifetime sub along with a new, boxed expansion like GR potentially could bring in another 120,000 more subscribers to play the game because it is a "good deal". You are guessing at what the impact would be.

You are also guessing that 80% of the playerbase would buy a lifetime sub. For all anyone knows, it would be less than 1% who would.

You mean like paid expansions (CoV, GR), server transfers, booster packs, character slots etc?

You are guessing that offering a liftetime sub would be interpreted as any kind of "white flag" to the industry.

See above. NCSoft has been making money in numerous other ways to "keep the game going".

They could offer one with the release of Going Rogue. Offering a lifetime sub would not signal the deathrose of this game as many seem to believe it would.

I think the reply about Shatner's toupee was the highlight of the thread.

Exactly.

This speaks volumes about players who are complaining about rep comments. In order for you to see these, you literally have to click the rep icon in every post you made. Just think about that for a minute.

Well said.

I find your post to be "bullying" and "harrassing" so I'm going to report you to a Mod.

Please don't give the OP any ideas....

To start, I was not "attacking" you or your post. I simply disagree with some of the things you posted. Perhaps you might extend some of that reading comprehension you suggested to others before typing a reply...

Second, I was not referring to you alone (as anyone with some reading comprehension can see) in that I was citing some of the wording mentioned by the OP in my reply. My apologies if that was unclear, yet it is also to some degree proving my point.

Lastly, I will repeat that I personally believe people like yourself and the OP should consider growing thicker skin and just learn to ignore the nonsense. If someone saying they "hate you" and want you to "go back to Freedom" truly bothers you that much or (like the OP) feel "bullyed" because someone negative reps you or leaves a snarky comment or tag, then perhaps you should consider another social outlet.

No offense meant here but you should consider growing thicker skin.

Sure, posts/tags/whatever should be removed if they are truly offensive or outright threatening to someone, yet the majority of ones I see are nothing I would consider all that terrible.

Spamming the Mods to remove posts/tags/comments because someone said you were dumb or disagreed with you or negative repped you is just plain silly and a waste of Mod time. It is also my personal opinion that it is a far cry from "bullying" or "graffitti" or whatever else you want to call it.

If posting on an internet forum really bothers you this much, perhaps you may want to consider not surfing the internet anymore.