Night-Hawk07

In some places there isn't even art....

I have to admit though, the opening salvo of the Batman "Death of the Family" arc was good. Let's see how the rest plays out.

There was an Unlimited costume as well, though it lacked the cape. It had invisibility as a special ability (such as unlimited webbing with the Black Suit).

That's not exclusive to this game though. A certain juggernaut that's been touting 11 million players for years is now down around 9 million. Another recently released "heavy hitter" that was claiming 1.5+ million players in the spring has now needed to merge servers and is going F2P in a couple months. Now, both of those games have or are about to see a big spike due to a new expansion and F2P respectively, but within a year you'll likely see yet another gradual decrease in players.

I think it's just all part of the Circle of MMO Life.

I feel the same way. I was hoping this wouldn't show up until November 29th with no sign of the game being saved. Spoiling it all now, then going back and changing everything to reflect the game being saved (if it were saved) just seems....wrong to me. Like New 52 wrong (except I'm sure PS would've done a better job with the New 52).

Still, downloaded and saved just in case....

I see what you did there....

I don't think we have it here, but SWG had a /rude emote that came up as an "unrecognized salute" or something to that effect. It was quite useful for getting your point across.

That really bugs them doesn't it? Despite evidence to the contrary (sure there are clones running around the existing games, but I'd bet they're vastly outnumbered by original characters). They sued Cryptic because players could do that in CoH, now this. Meanwhile, in DCUO, they GIVE YOU armor that'll make your character look like several of their established heroes. It's just funny to me.

I didn't care for Ultimate Alliance, so I likely won't be getting what appears to be Ultimate Alliance Online.

They did not, probably because they aren't allowed to. However, after the Unity Rally last weekend, Zwill (or another redname, can't remember exactly) said that our efforts have been noticed.

This. I wasn't really ever as bad off as some, but from Black Friday, on I said I'd be here until the servers shut off be that in 3 months or 3 years. Still, running around DA, it did feel strange to be running around doing stuff knowing the end was nigh. Then one of the leaders of the Freedom Horde TF group popped in and organized a Posi 1 and 2 run (which I'd yet to do).

At one point we're zipping through SC some bounding around with super jump, others flying either on their own or with jet packs, a few speeding around on superspeed, and me (taking up the rear ) running and jumping around with ninja run. But that scene unfolding like that instilled so much heroic pride in me I don't think I stopped smiling all night.

For the record, I almost never get involved in group stuff. I'm a soloer 99.999% of the time.

I haz one too after just now reading about Utility Belt. I don't normally go on to beta and just wait for the updates to hit and adjust accordingly (this is the only MMO I was like that with too, most others I watch beta like a hawk; guess that's how much faith I have in the team to push something awesome each update and not break everything). So I wasn't caught up on all these new power pools. Now, I'm sad and angry that we might not see I24 cause UB would've been awesome on my main.

I just rolled a new character that uses superspeed and immediately thought "wish I could could either change the color or brightness of the SS effect".....

*sigh*

Yeah I need to hurry up and run the Praetorian content on my main. Have yet to do the iTrials, but I lose VIP in a couple days.... :/

However, I just rolled a new character today that's playing through all the old beginner content (Flux, Wincott, etc).

All that ^. One of these days, I hope our society grows out of being so sue-happy.

It's been just over a week, yes they probably should have said something by now, but I seriously doubt a company that's already in dire financial straights will do something that will cost them even more money in a court. Who knows, maybe they're being so quiet because there's something going on behind the scenes that'll make refunds a non-issue (ex: selling the game off, continuing operation with new investors, etc).

Wish I could "like" this.

I'm actually quite surprised no one's told me to go get...umm...well, relieve some stress. That's usually I'm told when I get excited over nerd stuff. Maybe everyone's just unfriending/unfollowing me.....

This. Now's not the time to be making enemies or making them worse. Some may see NC as an "enemy" for starting this war, but all indications so far are that they're in peace talks. And really, they're in the position of power. Piss them off, and they could make any of the many rescue efforts far more difficult than they already are. Think Teddy Roosevelt's famous quote could apply here: "speak softly, and carry a big stick."

Could see a "resurgence" in player numbers based on the publicity this whole event draws, should this game be saved. People are going to be curious about what made this game so great that even though it was on the edge of oblivion, the players and dev team fought tooth and nail to keep it from going over.

I may be wrong, but to this point I think this is the largest and strongest organized effort to alter a game's course (be that in terms of content like Mass Effect 3, or shut-down in our case) that we've seen. I wonder if NCSoft saw this coming. I'm sure they knew there would be anger, disappointment, and some resistance.....but not something on the scale of what actually is going on here.

The takeaway here for game publishers is "do NOT piss off 40,000+ people who spend their free time pretending to be superheroes/villains."