Nethergoat

Spoken like a profoundly uninformed yahoo with an axe to grind who hasn't played in several years.

Nobody hated ED more than I did...I actually briefly quit over it.

But the introduction of the invention system effectively reversed ED while opening up pre-ED levels of performance for a whole host of characters and ATs beyond inv tanks and regen scrappers.


I don't mind a good rant, but you need to know what you're talking about.
Otherwise you sound like a homeless souse yammering at traffic from the overpass.

do you do anything other than haunt GW2 threads reflexively defending everything about the game?

Just curious.

gratz.

for me, fantasy is the Great Dead Horse of the computer game universe, a lifeless hulk that developers simply can't let rest in peace.

Whatever dude.

You like it, you use it.

Stop trying to convince me it's super duper and anyone who doesn't use it is just missing the whole point of an MMO.

If I want to listen to a bunch of nerds talking to loud and being socially awkward in a group setting I'll hit the local comic shop.

When I log into a game, I'm there to play the game not sit in on a geek sewing circle.

I think I posted my vid card upstream a ways, but basically it's a dual processor Dell with a couple of gigs of RAM that was 'pretty good' four years back when I bought it. Upgraded the power supply so it could push a real video card, which is about the same vintage as the computer but further up the performance scale.

I'm not blaming CO for these problems, it's obviously something weird on my end. I'm just not motivated to ferret it out while I can still log in to Paragon City.

It's great when I'm playing something with my friends, it's at least useful in a fast-paced FPS team setting, but it drives me *crazy* in games like this one.

My daily real world routine delivers my full daily allowance of small talk and banter- it's one of the things I log in here to escape from.

Indeed.
CO's wannabe console roots shine through even in the fundamentals.

Which is fine if you like console style gameplay.


ran around a bit this morning.
The game is overprone to crashing and server disconnects- pretty much every session has been ended by one of these. This AMs was particularly irritating as we were about to complete one of those supervillain alert things.

Which is one thing I like about the game and think it does well- the whole alert system is nicely implemented and I've been able to get one going pretty much whenever with minimal waiting.

yeah, what he said.


Might work, might not work, but neither outcome will cost you a dime.

point one: use google. Being informed is always one click away.

point two: there is a vast difference between text and the spoken word. In the context of a game, I can ignore any volume of text without distraction. Someone or several someones yapping in my ear is an entirely different proposition.

figuring out when to spam BLOCK seems to be the key to effective combat in CO.

Lame, but.... *shrug*

More of Jack's special brand of genius....tailoring the game to appease an anticipated console demographic, then scrapping the whole console idea & sticking PC gamers with the fallout.

SMH.

The first thing I did in CO was disable voice chat.

Vent or Teamspeak with friends is one thing, strangers yammering their inane babble in my ear while I'm trying to play a game is a "feature" I can live without.

Yes.

I'm normally all for linking sources, but in this case just block-quote the key text and leave out the link, no need to drive traffic to an *******.

Look, i'm as pissed at NC as anyone, but this idea is just silly.
The number of potential plaintiffs is relatively tiny, the monetary losses of each ditto. Imagine success: five or ten years from now each plaintiff gets a check for $1.50. Whoohoo!

It does nothing to bring the game back, it provides next to nothing in the way of compensation for affected players, the only profit in the entire enterprise would accrue to the lawyers involved.

I'm all for annoying NC and making them regret this entire debacle, but really now. The numbers simply don't justify a legal assault, beyond complaining to some other huge corporate entity like a credit card company and letting the two of them go at it like prehistoric monsters in a Ray Harryhausen film.

it was a stupid idea that failed spectacularly.


and good riddance.


/edit
although actually, in the brave new world of F2P it would be a valid revenue path.
subscribers = no ads, F2P = ads.

Those who bandy such ideas around strike me as people with zero firsthand experience employing a lawyer.

I have, and to justify the expense you need to be A: Wealthy or B: Pursuing a substantial payoff.

Even if I stood to get my *entire* material investment from the 8 year history of the game back in one lump sum, employing a lawyer to pry it loose would place me deep in the red.

This was my main complaint with it the first time around- really poorly organized, and what organization it does have is largely counter-intuitive.

But you know what?
As the game doesn't seem alt-friendly I don't mind. If I'm going to be mostly playing one character all the way through, having to dig around the editor for stuff will extend my interest in the design process.

CoH provided a more than ample supply of ingredients to sate my thirst for straight up cape n' tights Silver Age characters. And that isn't really my complaint with CO anyway, my issue is with the proportions & 'look' of human standard characters. Even with extensive slider manipulation human characters look weird and plastic-y to me. And the face & hair options are almost criminally bad.

But no biggie, I only have two character slots so I'll just stick with the Goat for now, he looks fine. If I get a wild hair to fill the second slot I'll go with one of my stable of cyborg/robot characters.

Games are like any other business- as long as revenue outstrips expenses, you'll do fine.

CoH *should* have been fine for the foreseeable future but was betrayed by corporate BS. I wouldn't worry about the size of the CO community because their publisher seems to understand what they have- a niche game that is part of an overall F2P strategy, not a WoW killer.


On the topic of CO as a game, it isn't fair to say it "sucks".
There are many things I dislike about it, but it has already outlived DCUO on my hard drive by ten hours. It's a different creature than CoH, and so I expect discontents as I much preferred CoH.

But it doesn't suck.

gawd, what a waste of limited resources.

I don't think it's been brought up much because most people (like me, for instance) have never had to think about it.

It wasn't something that occurred to me until a few hours after the closedown announcement- I was just bounding happily along, secure in the knowledge that F2P was working and we were getting more content in a shorter span than at any previous time in the history of the game.

ah well, better late than never I guess!


and also, of course, not many people dig deeper than the surface layer of an issue. That's a wall I've run into several times over the years here, in debating in-game ads among other hot button topics.