NuclearToast
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Quote:Great post, and great critique. Thanks, Moo.Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
Please note that this is not a 'You're doing it wrong! Fix it or else I'll leave!' post. This is a critique of data flow, e-commerce site design, and usability.
Yes, my biggest complaints are around costume descriptions and sets (c'mon guys, even Cryptic has screenshots for both their games), and other detailed descriptions (like the fact that aura and cape unlocks don't =explicitly= state they unlock for the entire account).
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Quote:I prefer to help fight, even if it is (somewhat realistically) trying to hold back the tide with your bare hands. At least I feel like I'm doing =something=. And that forces the spammers to do something as well.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
....for about 2 minutes, or as long as it takes for them to log into their next account.
Besides, the more we report, the more IPs get logged. Paragon Studios aren't, at this point, new at running a successful MMO.
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As a VIP player, I have two advantages:
1. I can use Broadcast.
2. I can inform everyone, even F2P players, that "/ignorespammer" works.
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Quote:As someone who has spent the last several nights hanging out in Atlas Park (on Justice) attempting to help new players, let me say that the vast majority of them seem to plainly ignore any and all attempts to communicate with them.
Re: F2P Players need chat love
And I'm =trying= to help.
I can't assign blame to the lack of a chat tutorial, lack of channel access, or lack of basic reading comprehension. I can only report what I've seen. Specifically, that many of the characters I've seen have even skipped the tutorial and are OJTing everything about the game.
<shrug>
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Arcanaville, will you marry me?
Quote:Honeymoon time! It'll be all spreadsheets and simulations!Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I do.
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Quote:Costume change emote!Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
So clearly there is a need for a clanket emote.
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Quote:How about we agree that, "Premium players get what they pay for"?Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Anyway, I had some extra time to waste on this, but... I do not feel swayed one bit that the content was not part of the expansion. And that is fine. I have no problem how others want to see it. I only brought it up because people were saying it was wrong to see the content as part of the expansion. And I see that as wrong. It is completely justified to consider it part of it.
How about we just agree on "they are tied to each other"?
Not that we have to agree at all.
Any more than that is assumptions, opinion, and entitlement, wouldn't you say?
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Quote:This is one thing I think Champions did right. You go to a separate instance to level up, and can experiment to your heart's content with power choices when you're there. Once you leave, though, your selection is locked in.Originally Posted by seebs
Even so... There are powers I've never tried, because someone told me they were bad, and it's too expensive to grab the power, try it out, and see.
Right now, the only way we have of "testing" a power is the power customization screen in the costume editor.
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The ability to turn off sounds and colors, SensoryDeprivationTank, is an Tier 11 veteran reward. Hang in there.
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What are these "software bugs" you're talking about?
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Quote:I still fail to see why "FREE NOW" equals "EVERYTHING I HAD TO PAY FOR BEFORE" just because people are nitpicking over "NEARLY EVERYTHING". Who's childish?Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
A lot of angry premium players for sure because it is very childish to deny premium players what they paid for.
Ding ding ding.Quote:Originally Posted by Winterminal
First off, I will agree that it sucks for returning players to return as premiums and lose out on so much, especially entire IO builds.
That said, a player can return and play for free, which simply was not an option in the past. So for the player to expect to get everything they left behind, now at no cost, is unreasonable. The glass is half full.
See? Entitlement is spread across all player types.Quote:Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Want another good laugh? There's a thread up in player questions where the OP is angry that the devs are adding stuff to the store faster than he can earn free points to buy it with his subscription.
It's so unfair he can't get everything for free as soon as it's released.
If you only have one guess, then my guess is you don't run a business.Quote:Originally Posted by Lucky666
Well then why couldn't they just gate it behind a sub in the first place? My only guess is their greedy.
F2P is not F2PE (free to play EVERYTHING). Their goal is to entice former players back and start subscribing, not to let them play EVERYTHING without a subscription.
Although, keep arguing about GR and Incarnates and requirements, you're just feeding my shadenfreude.
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Quote:Amen. Especially Premium players.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
There's enough entitlement amongst the paying players, I can only imagine the level of entitlement coming from people playing for free who don't think they are getting what they deserve. For free.
This.Quote:Originally Posted by Mandu
I just ignore the players who are complaining about what they don't get. And post helpful messages in the help channel or broadcast about how to ignore somebody.
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Quote:Same here. In fact, merits period. I have around 800 reward merits on my badger. The only merits I've spent are Empyreans/Astrals for the costume bits.Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
For someone like me, who has more Inf than he knows what to do with... and doens't really use IOs at all (except on a few characters), A-Merits don't seem like much of anything.
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Like most other big content providers, they're probably contracting out to a Content Delivery Network. CDNs specialize in providing downloads with regional hubs and cached content that helps everyone get the best transfer speeds possible. One of the biggest CDNs is Akamai.
Companies work with CDNs to assure they can handle demand spikes on big releases without breaking the internet. Steam, EA, they all do it.
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Quote:Like shopping for shoes and planning a wedding.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Some things never change
See? Two can play that game.
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I, too, have issues with the new so-called "Tutorial".
Quote:I had this problem. For whatever reason, my targetting keys would not select the Shivan, so I had to click on it. The targetting box was so huge that I mostly couldn't see it. Not much of a help. Also, we get the zone-trial event window which shows what we have to do. It said to defeat the monster. So I joined in with the other hero and did just that, but apparently I was too late, because then I got ANOTHER window with defeat X Shivans and then had to defeat the monster again by myself. What?Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
I also have to admit I don't understand the fight with the Giant Shivan at the end. I have done the fight a couple of times and have had a lot of trouble targeting and the monster and understanding whether I am hitting it.
Yes. I DO THIS WITH EVERY NEW GAME I PLAY. It has nothing to do with being a veteran. This is my first chance, in-game, to check video settings and other options. I understand the feeling of being rushed by the story, but while lives hang in the balance, what are my graphics settings?Quote:Originally Posted by UberRod
I would sit there for two minutes making sure my keybinds were correct how I want them. I also do this with any new game I play. It's quite time consuming. It doesn't help that you feel really rushed during the new tutorial.
This. I wish they'd just stop calling it a Tutorial, and refer to it as the Quickstart Introduction. The ongoing training missions are the tutorial, if needed.Quote:Originally Posted by viewtifuldee
I don't think the "Destruction of Galaxy City" map is really supposed to be a tutorial. I thought it was more of an introduction to the game and alignment choice. The tutorial starts with Twinshot/Dr. Graves.
Also, my take on the ongoing missions: I get the first one from Twinshot, and it's about trainers. REALLY? Something I've already done a half-dozen times, at least? At that point, I declined, then hit Find Contact to see if I could get the origin arcs. Nope; only two options showed up: Twinshot, and Officer Wincott. So off to the Hollows.
I'm with Forbin on the single-contact line. As a new player, if subsequent alts go down the same identical path, I'll quickly look for other means. Vets know how to do that; new players can learn all the wrong lessons (such as AE).
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Quote:Same here. I don't use TOs at all. I don't even use =enhancements= at all (except for the new freebie ones) until level 12, when I buy all DOs.Originally Posted by SuperBull
I agree with most of what others are saying. I delete all TOs. Leveling is so fast that its not work the effort to slot in the lower levels.
But sign me up for the idea of being able to tell what the enhancements are without having to "Info" them to make sure I'm buying what I want. I =get= the idea behind the origins, but geez.
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I remember reading about CoH before it came out, and being new to MMOs, was like, "Teams of heroes? In a city? How in the flying fudge will that work?" I didn't really get it at all.
But I like superheroes, and so my friend and I ran down to the game store and bought COH the day it came out. (I had to leave the box in my car so I didn't spend all afternoon pouring over the materials in the office.) I didn't even learn about the forums until later, as evidenced by my join date.
Then the magic happened. The AT descriptions while the game loaded! The charts in the manual! (Yeah, remember that?) The heroes in Atlas Park standing around Ms Liberty! It was amazing.
Seven and a half years later, I'm still here. I'm afraid to add up all that I've spent on this game, but in consideration, I've gotten more for my entertainment dollar here than anywhere else in my life. I even cancelled my cable because I'd rather play than watch TV.
Love this game.
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Quote:Same here. This is the kind of thing I do every day. Grammar nazis, unite!Originally Posted by Ad Astra
I just wanted to pop in to say that I think it's wonderful that Samuel_Tow has the grammatical corrections down exactly right.
Good gods, thank you. The more you know... <whooshing star>Quote:Originally Posted by Vanden
Never, EVER use an apostrophe to pluralize a word.
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I saw a number of people that were gloating about doing it on Exalted the first night. Yes, saying so out loud in chat. I thought they were douchebags then.
You could also see all the namegrabbers by the gray-generic characters that were appearing and logging off right away at the base of the stairs.
Luckily for me, I got the ones I needed for my existing characters.
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Quote:Same here!Originally Posted by NeoSaturn
well now, I know what I am gettingQuote:Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
It's account wide
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My biggest complaint with power customization? I CAN'T MATCH "ORIGINAL" COLORS.
On my force field/energy defender, I wanted to make the energy blasts with the same colors and the force fields (which I didn't change). But there's no way to find out what the Original colors are. As soon as you hit Customized, some sort of random colors comes up. Which then requires me to trial-and-error my way into matching the colors.
(I've had to do this for several characters. The above is just one example. And I'm rarely pleased with the results, even after several iterations.)
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Quote:Same here. It's GREAT on low levels, or high levels that are exemplared onto low-level teams.Originally Posted by Lothic
But will I ever likely make a character who's ONLY travel power is the Rocket Board? Probably not. The detoggling simply makes it unusable as a "real" travel power.
That's what I'm using it for. And it is =very= handy.Quote:Originally Posted by Twoflower
But, now I won't feel I HAVE to get those travel powers in there early on if I want to get somewhere higher level without getting mashed into paste by street mobs. That's handy.
BWAHAHA!Quote:Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
My biggest problem with it is that it won't work on water. Unless you have power.
Chalk me up as one who loves the Rocket Board. My technology origin heroes are mostly inventors, and they now use it as non-combat travel just because it's fun. Also, fun fact: Rocket Boots activate while using the Rocket Board. DOUBLE ROCKET POWER!
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My first impression: AWESOME with a side dish of veteran disdain.
I love the new character creator, and am pleased with the market. I found the Rewards tiers and screen very confusing, until someone in a global explained what to do.
Atlas Park is awesome, even if they did move almost every single badge and history plaque. Seeing the rush of new characters reminded me of the early days.
I immediately disliked the the new Brawl and Sands of Mu sound effects, but I'll get used to them.
I really hated the "just like the other hero MMOs" open instances. Ugh, blech, yuck. As someone described above, waiting around for respawns with other people waiting around for respawns... well, I guess, welcome to every other MMO out there. Newbies should feel right at home.
I really liked the new lowbie arcs, even though I felt there were an overabundance of hunt missions. Flambeaux had me literally laughing out loud!
I'm also enjoying my new Time Manipulation/Beam Rifle and Thermal/Fire Blast defenders.
First Ward is really amazing. I mean, really. And more day jobs? Curse you, Paragon, for locking down my badger yet again!
But one thing REALLY annoys me. I've unlocked a lot of costume options from the iTrials and Ouroboros iMerit vendors. However, I can't access them when I create a new character. Not until I actually enter the game and then claim them from in-game email. After which, I can make a trip to any now-plentiful tailor to update the character. A rather nerdrage-y wrinkle in the current process.
But, all in all, I21 is a big hit. Can't wait to see what happens when they open the floodgates to the outside world.
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Quote:It's just crazy enough that it works. For me, anyway.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
If you're still having problems logging in, it might work to log into your NCSoft master account and change the password for your game account. This allowed me to log back in no problem.
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