I, like many out there, get to be one of the people to honestly say that "I have been playing since Beta". This is, also, my first MMO... not including tastes of Galaxies, Planetside, and Everquest that I have had in the past. By first MMO, I mean the first one I've ever owned. This is mainly due to the face that I've had friends ranting about the things done in "their" games from a Dev-Team approach that seem so... wrong.
It would often sound like the those "other" games' Dev Teams would be tweaking the powers based on the vocal minority. They would come back with a response that sounded like a veiled "If one person breaks the rules, you all do" kind of teacher response. Punishing the whole class, as it were.
I never liked the idea that the games would be modified from the time I start playing... because in those three games I mentioned, they seemed to become less fun, not more... but this all changed with my roommate and his brother who have been waiting for
this game since they were in high school. I'd long wondered what kind of games they were into (because it's often the only common ground I have with other people), and at some point...
City of Heroes came up.
I've enjoyed comic books for years, off and on, but I never got into them as much as my two roommates did. They started talking about this game, and where it had started with... the changes, the delays, and it sounded like another company I knew (
Nintendo, actually, not
Blizzard) in that the longer you waited for a game, the better it got before release. I learned from them that the game was going to be coming out "soon" and that there was no way they weren't going to be in on it.
When the game finally went into public beta, you know what I found out? I found out then that the Devs really do listen to us. I really felt important when I was sending off bug report after bug report. There was "floating" geometry in Independence Port... you
couldn't jump over
any of those shorter walls without Hurdle. There were little messages set up so when you completed a mission... was it easy, hard, or whatever. I submitted ideas, and I submitted my thoughts on how some of the things worked in the game... and you know what? Lots if not all of the thing I've submitted have been done! I'm not saying their listening to me specifically... I'm saying that they're listening to
us (you and me)... we just have to continue to be vocal about it... and in a reasonable way.
CuppaJo, I've been playing this game for a year plus. Recently I even managed to get my own account (with the Valentine's Day thing, actually). I'm still out here, I'm still sending bug reports, and every time people start using foul language in Peregrine Island, I'm there with a Petition "just in case" those people are ruining other people's gameplay experience just as their ruining my own. I don't pretend to think you're listening directly to me or that I'm more important because I've been here longer or anything. I just happen to know you listen to
everyone... If you didn't, then we wouldn't have a Badge that says "Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls."
You guys, all of you, have made a great game. I will be sticking with you until the end when I'll be buying CoH2...
See you in the Future,
Huntermun
P.S.: I don't think it would be totally out of the question to focus heavily in one area or another in certain Issues. I like that you guys are all over the board (I just saw Lou's warehouse for the first time in a long, long time last night... nice tileset), but maybe you might want to focus on something in an update more specifically. This time we got Arena, next time we get Skills (::crosses fingers:
, but how about making a huge addition to the costumes after that? ... or spending time making
all the missions look more distinct... and lastly... something has to be done to make the plot more obvious in some missions. I love reading it but (for example) when it's timed... I click away to go do the mission, forgetting to read the full text... Oh, and more Souvenirs!... Will we have a shelf for those in our "homes" or headquarters later? That would be cool. Where are the children of the city? The homeless? The handicap? Why do
none of the cars ever park? Why are the stoplights not blinking yellow to indicate they aren't working instead of just being off... and (lastly)... is weather so hard?... at least give us some wind to blow our capes (or no wind in an office, unless there's AC)...
I'm gunna stop now... n\_/n
