Nethergoat

The project is still off in the misty future.
Not updating the page RITE NAO!!11 has zero impact on "the public".

They could update it tomorrow, they could update it a month from now...it isn't a tremendously time-sensitive undertaking.

Same here.
And probably 99% of the rep I hand out is positive- the only time I neg rep is when somebody tags me for a ridiculous reason in such a way that I know it was them. Alas, I'm petty enough to be vindictive.

I had a stalker for a while who followed me around leaving -rep with the comment "jerk" at every opportunity.
They eventually got bored.

Indeed I have, and appreciated it was!

This is patently untrue.

I'd just as soon take a typographical machete to the devs as look at them sideways when they do something I consider destructive or ridiculous. Ask around, anybody'll tell you.

But when it comes to people leveling ludicrous accusations, or blaming the devs for their personal lack of proportion & understanding of the MMO business....yeah, I'll defend them.
Because it's not their fault so many of their players need to wear bike helmets when they go grocery shopping.

This is a disheartening revelation.

What next, Santa Claus isn't real?

>:e

I think Cat's point was that being part of one faction or the other will provide a benefit, while staying in the 'gray area' won't.

As an incentive to 'go all the way' in a switch, instead of just hanging out in Vigilante land running everbody's content for free. =P

you may have to leave them up until the next 2xp....


=P

And we have a new bit of market vocabulary-

the Law of Demand and Supply!

Good point, I hadn't considered that.

CoV was a game, GR is an expansion.

The two carry entirely different sets of expectations.

Silly people are entitled to freak out because an expansion delivers a different level of content than a game, and everyone else is entitled to ignore their meaningless complaints.

I understand it well enough to realize that comparisons between CoV and GR are pointless because they're two different things, and whining about what features GR has or doesn't have this far away from release is silly.

I don't get the point of being disappointed with information on a project as far away from release as GR is.

Is there a ton of stuff they aren't telling us yet? Yes, because that's how things work these days. They tell us as little as they can get away with at first and gradually release more details as release draws near, and even then keep some stuff back so the product can be perceived as over-delivering instead of under-delivering.

Any 'disappointment' felt by a segment of the customer base indicates either a profound misunderstanding of modern promotional realities, or a comically unrealistic set of expectations.

In either case, it can safely be ignored as misguided and irrelevant.

Creating a feature as the centerpiece of a paid expansion then handing out powerful incentives NOT to use it doesn't seem like an efficient use of resources to me.

Then what makes you think it's in the pipeline?

Why would they then cook up some faction-specific IOs that didn't work using the main feature of their upcoming paid expansion?

It just doesn't fit with the direction the game is going.

This is an excellent point.

I'd be willing to wager that the factions have similar ratios of players at the inf cap, players who have a billion inf, players who have 500 million, etc etc.

The perceived monetary superiority of heroes is a function of a larger population, nothing else. If servers had their own markets Freedom would appear vastly wealthier than, say, Protector. And yet a shared market benefits both parties.

Just in time to gear up for Christmas!

=D