Pendix

My theory has always been that Going Rogue was one of the worst things to happen to the subscriber numbers for the game. (Which is terrible because it gave me, personally, something that I truly longed for; a city that looked good and made sense.) Ealier in this thread someone posted revenue numbers that have, in the past, been put in a table. I remember when I saw that table that the steepest decline was roughly the period between the (too eairly) announcment of GR, and the quater before it's release. Then, after the release, the numbers there was no significant pickup. (Which is why I think Freedom was plan B.)

I think several factors were involved; firstly there was somthing of a content/stuff drought between the annoucment and the release, combined with the fact that people knew somthing big and cool was comming, I think a lot of players decided to leave the game, many planing to retun when GR hit. That was bad, it put pressure on GR to be realesed sooner, and that downtime period was ample opportunity for other games, (or IRL) to steal players attention away.

The, when realesed, GR was, perhapes, not what it needed to be to reinvigorate the game, the boxed sales were a temporary boost, but had no real long term, super positive effect on the subscriptions.

I am I saying that GR led us here? No. But perhapes if it had been handled differnetly the game would have been more sustainable.

I'm gona want clarification from the devs before I23, let me tell you.

The unhelpful bit here is the 'More Superheros' bit; it is, shall we say, somewhat too broad. Do you mean more 'tights' textures? More overlay pattern for 'tights'? Masks with definition & geometry? Cowls? More options for Capes? (like chest detials on capes, or differnt mantles).

Also: while I'm here; I'd just like throw my support behind Sam's mucles-for-the-female-model campaign. Seriously, if there is somthing that is genuinely 'Superheroie' that has gone un-delt-with for too long, this is it.

I think the Scrapper version lacks the taunt component.

Is that a new slider?

My question would be: Will there be only one "winner" from each voting catogory, or is it possible that the final pack may include multiples (say both A & D from the raygun catogory) depending on how well they do?

How I would have written the well:

It wouldn’t ‘just exist’, it would have been created, long ago, by a group/race/civilisation (we could call them the Furies) that had just, almost, lost a war with a singularly being who was so powerful it threatened all of existence. Fearing that another individual may one day achieve similar levels of power, the Furies created a maguffin (call it The Well) that placed a throttle (a limiter if you will) on the amount of personal power a single individual could acquire.

However, knowing that such things were never perfect, they needed a fail-safe. So they made The Well semi-sentient, able to relax it’s on restrictions on select individuals in a controlled manner so if a threat to the universe were to arise that the limited forces of ‘good’ could not deal with, The Well, could ensure that powerful Champions would be able to ‘step up to the plate’.

That would be the mechanics of it anyway, actual 'writing' should probably be left up to those who actually can (i.e. not me)

Ofcourse not, the toys are terrible, are rarely look like the characters they are labled as. That's why I'm building a better pony. *Shakes fist dramaticly at the sky*

To be fair while corporations occasionaly do positive (and sometimes even heroic) things, these things are rarely stories that make for entertaining films. "Y-corp gives millions to charity, charities are happy, the end." On the other hand, when corporations do bad things, those things are often wrapped in the kind of stuff that makes or can make for interesting stories; subertfuge, corruption, sercrets & lone heroes standing against them.

(actually Stark Industuries can be portrayed as ethical most of the time, and while I only just started playing Deus Ex - Human Revolution, Sarif Industries is presented positively)

Well, movies are made by corpoations.

And "dominate" people in internet forum arguments.

We already have falling leaves aura, but a falling snow aura would be cool.

actually come from.

I'll reporduce them here:

This quote is from the CoH website and, I believe, was originally written circa Issue 1 (would love if someone could verify). Well before Brutes & Stalkers (or the other 7 additional archetypes) existed.

This one comes from the new (in game) character creation screen that went live with freedom. I dont know if it existed anywhere before that. It also comes with a series of bars rating the archetypes in various areas on a scale of 1 to 10 (which is less vague than terms like "medimum" damage and "high" hitpoints).

I would also like to point out that they do somewhat contradict themselves. "...devastating hand to hand combatant..." does not equate too "... hold his own in a fist fight".

(Personaly I prefer the 'newer' role description myself.)

Cause there is no defensiviness on your side there. None. Not defensive at all. Far to manly to be defensive.

Oh, I grasp it, all too easily infact. It's just hard to imagine someone expecting to be taken seriously when they offer somthing like this up as an underpining of their argument.

*looks up the thread at Smersh*

Ahh good, I wasn't the only one who noticed this.

What-is-this-I-don't-even.

This.

(the other stuff Seebs said I'm pretty much on boards with as well)

My feedback about this is as follows:
If the costume items are exclusive to the packs, and there is no gauretee of getting one in a pack, I will not be spending money to obtain them (will not buying the packs at all).

If, however, the costume parts are avaliable via a differnet means I will almost certainly spend money on them.

Alternativly, if each pack gaurenteed at least one costume item 'card' (of no specific rarity), I would strongly consider buying the packs themselves (depending on total number required to get all the costume pieces, and how much that would cost me).

(it is worthy to note that I am one of those people to whom the consumables and reward merits are not worth real money under any circumstances)

Honestly, I never saw those anoucements. I got the idea from what happened to the other packs; being broken down into individual items & smaller 'bundels' that were more cost effective if you didnt want everything that came in the original packs.

Hurn . . .

Well, I feel dam silly for waiting till Freedom to make this purchase. Even if I get just the costume parts thats still only a 50c saving over the original pack.

I think I'll hold off buying the costumes just yet, maybe it was a oversight and they will be added as a 400pp bundle at a later date. Maybe.