MrHassenpheffer

Originally Posted by theOcho

From levels 1 to 20 the enhancement provides a chance to cause a small amount of additional damage. After level 20 this chance will no longer occur.

Originally Posted by Slashman

Perhaps I'm living in a slightly different universe than you, but in what reality do game companies wait until less than 2 months before release to do aggressive advertising for their game?

Most games and expansions ramp up advertising well before that. Multiple interviews on as many sites as will have them. Banner ads all over the place(these should be going on for an MMO regardless of an expansion being near release or not). Taken a look at the The Old Republic website?

You hype stuff to make sales. Successful game companies and even terrible game companies do this because you want to draw attention to your product. You want people to constantly be in anticipation of what you are bringing. You want your game to be on the minds of potential customers all the time. You do not just sit on your *** and make a few website updates and then post a note about it on your own forums if you want to bring in sales.

Take a closer look at the game industry and how it works before you make statements like that. Bioware pushed Dragon Age so much that folks at Bluesnews and other gaming sites were talking about being sick of hearing about it.

The people on the forums aren't the ones who need to be reminded about COX...its all the other folks who haven't heard about it or who may not know enough about it to give it a try. Good grief...you realize that there are free to play MMOs that do more advertising than COX? That doesn't seem weird to you?

Originally Posted by Olantern

The reason they're focusing on us appears to be that the game's marketing plan is all about retention, retention, retention. I wouldn't be surprised if someone, either at the Paragon Studios management level or above, has told the devs in no uncertain terms that growing the player base at this point and bringing in new players are next to impossible on the money available. If that's true (a debatable point), then the fact that the game is marketed only to people who already own it starts to seem logical.

Again, I don't know if bringing in new people really is impossible, but everything I've seen over the past year leads me to believe that Paragon/NCSoft/what have you believes it to be.

Oh, and I get the "feeling" the population is down from what it was a year or so ago, but that's all it is: a feeling. I'm much more concerned about the community's attitude, which has gotten noticeably more tempermental, closed, and unfriendly in the same period of time, in my opinion, than about raw population, however it's defined.

Originally Posted by Santorican

How about giving mother mayhem some pants that actually don't make her look like a skank?????

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkRe_...os=YXAc1JW59wg

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

I could cry when I think of what CoH could accomplish with even a TENTH of Blizzard's advertising budget. *sighs forlornly*

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by MadHobbit

my question is :what happened to your marketing budget? this sounds like a cost cutting plan to me.

Originally Posted by PumBumbler

You can bag on Castle for that as a representative of the company, but to blame him for the structural/managerial failings of the system is a bit of a stretch.
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Originally Posted by Gilgamesh

Thanks for your help guys!

BTW, i see... or i barely see some "real" people out there. is my server
with low population or what?
When i played WoW, the noobz area where full o people.

Do you recomend me to change to other server?
im in Infinity

Originally Posted by Sapphire7

Wow. I went from 291 rating this morning to -158 right now. Apparently time for me to bow out of the thread.

Originally Posted by Sapphire7

I see a third option: He fixes it because that's his job, and then puts the creeps, whiners and jerks on ignore.

Originally Posted by FitzSimmons

I see this going 2 ways:

- Castle quietly accepts this and pushes a fix through "soon"
- Castle leaves it as is because he's mad at all the feedback and treats this like he did zone PVP. He ***** it up then ignores it.

EDIT: Yay I'm a glorious beacon of light! How do I freeze the rep system at this point?

Originally Posted by Deacon_NA

I hate to engage in "piling it on" but the thought process is perplexing to me.

With dozens of bugs introduced with the i17 launch, while working on one particular issue, the developer noticed an attribute that had been live for what, 3 years now, didn't match the design spec. At this point, 2 options seem to be

1) Make a note of this as something to be examined later, once the game is stabilized a bit more
2) Ram it in there with (seemingly) no regard to actual gameplay

And they went with 2)???

Now we hear "If needed (and judging by reactions, it probably is) I'll drop the protection some in a future update" so we're actually getting some weird hybrid of 1) and 2) above, the worst of both worlds.

Well, if anyone on Infinity or Virtue wants to run LGTF, I have a perma-dom on both servers that should be able to hold a green by themselves. I'll join for say, 10M per run, subject to change due to market conditions.

Originally Posted by Rick Astley

Because it's most recognisable, but my personal favourite is: She wants to dance with me.

Or The latest single: Lights Out

Originally Posted by Castle

Not a clue. I'd have to ask the mission writer. I assume it works like a standard encounter, rather than like the Hamidon Zone Event, though.

Originally Posted by Doc_OBay_Jr

Well all, been a pretty fun four years most times, was nice to have something to ease my mind as I traveled and reported on u.s. military regulation issues around the world, once they sort themselves with this Not Optional optional UM I'll be back I hope.

All have fun, Good Hunting 2u!