Ogi

There's no need to be petty at this point.

Unfortunately one area where CO entirely surpasses CoH is making things unobvious, inconvenient, or both in its menus.

First there's the level 10 bit.

Then, when you can buy Zen, even if you go to the store from CO, you can't use that Zen until you go and transfer it to the game you clicked the buy Zen link from.

It's got gamepad support, sidekicking, and a costume creator so I'm going to give it a fair shake (it doesn't hurt that my favorite stalker was claws/wp and Night Avenger is basically that, just stuck with viper claws) even though it has tried its best to get me to go away at this early stage.

I'd have been much less annoyed at the Wade situation if they'd removed him from Sharkhead like they did to all the bluesiders they offed. Don't give that poor excuse for poorly utilized "shock" and "suspense" any more credit than he is due.

Wade to me will be forever more be nothing but a punk that got played and left to rot by Nemesis/Silos, hopefully without the slightest second thought or regret.

Think of it as less a punishment and more of incentive to work for someone that isn't the embodiment of all that is wrong with corporate culture. If they really want my money they can disassociate themselves from NCSoft.

(For the record, I hate both the player AND the game. No "hate the game not the player" cop out for me.)

Having finally hit 10 with a character and opened up a lot of stuff (including being able to throw money at them to try the AT I thought might be one that'd get me to throw more money at them) I have to say, what the hell were they thinking locking all those costume parts (and everything else) behind level 10?!?

I may be the oddball in this case but if there's a free trial, I do that, then if it I like it I might subscribe, not subscribe and then see if I like it (or are golds locked until 10 as well?). The costume creator is the first thing you see, why you'd limit that part so much (but then shortly toss you into talents, specs and power abilities with little useful explanation of ratings and whatnot) is beyond me.

While not the same type of claws as claws, the Night Avenger has claws and stealth and acrobatics is basically ninja run, so at this initial stage, I am happy with my money thrown in Cryptic's direction. I would have been a lot happier if I could have just done so from the start. Seeing that the gear is six slots I'm a bit less apprehensive of that aspect. My windows install might be getting some use again.

Sadly, I doubt NCSoft realizes that when their last accounting trick fails and they are consigned to the corporate round file they will not have a eulogy as grand as CoH has.

If there's one with the community I want to be around, I'd give it a go.

If not, probably use it for access to the costume creator.

NCSoft's "shut up and go away" message was a pretty clear signal they weren't going to be involved with saving CoH so there isn't much purpose to using the official boards, other than saying the farewells to the community.