Power Armour

David Nakayama confirmed that the set would be ported to players via his deviantART account. Even though I never had it, I'll probably miss that costume set the most

Oh wow, this is giving me shellshocked veteran-esque flashbacks to playing such polished turds of the MMO industry as Forsaken World (a Chinese made MMO, not Korean, and supposedly tailored for Western audiences,) and it can't help but make me yearn for an MMO without all the MMO ********. Games like WoW and Everquest, due to their medium-defining and earthshattering popularity have given the industry such massive amounts of baggage in the form of grinding and farming and the stock fantasy setting and fixed class/race combos.

CoH is lucky to have launched earlier in the year than that behemoth and thus avoided its fearsome precedents. And now it has been deemed unworthy to continue working on, seemingly because it is one of the few of its kind not set in a palette-swap of Middle Earth.

It makes me especially sad that The Secret World, an MMO whose setting is almost as genre-mashing as CoH's, and whose power combinations are potentially even more robust, is bombing horrendously and unwillingly setting an even worse precedent of "Don't take risks with an MMO, otherwise it will die and cost you money."

Why is that every MMO that doesn't try to flog a dead horse ends up failing? It's seeming increasingly apparent that players are deciding that they'd rather have Azeroth version 00099991 than something they haven't seen before, and that's reflected in the statistics that NCSoft looked at when deciding to can this game.

*Witty emote joke to signify the end of the rant*

Well I was taking a guess and you proved me wrong, thanks for pointing that out.

Now the question is how much of the cosmetic gear is actually fairly sensible, and not shirts with boob-holes cut out of them like the marketing for the game would have us believe.

I understand that this is your opinion and I that I have my own, but I STRONGLY disagree with you on this point. I don't profess to have an incredibly detailed understanding of anatomy, but there is no way I could mistake a CoH character model, with the height slider turned down, for a human child. You can push teenager, at best, and even then the dissonance between the young faces and adult proportions goes way into uncanny valley. The length of all the limbs and the torso are just too long and the movements are all nothing like how a real child would move. As people have said before, to me they look like hobbits.

^This.

I think this is one of the few good character creator limitations we had in this game, if only to completely avoid the unfortunate implications it may lead to.

Also, the whole "CoH is as fetishistic as all these Korean MMOs" argument isn't really accurate. Costumes in CoH are completely up to the discretion of the individual player, whilst B&S, if it is gear-based, will have likely have skimpy outfits that you will essentially be forced to wear if you want any level of competency in combat.

Not to mention that if it is gear-based, it also loses out to CoH immediately in terms of customisation. I didn't receive the email for this game, and I'm absolutely fine with that.

EDIT: I came up with another Blade and Soul name pun: Bored and Insoulted

How not? "Options" and "options that I don't want" aren't the same thing.

Don't we already have those?

So you've never used an X-inspired costume piece for a Y-style costume? For example, pretty much all the Mecha pieces execept (or even) the helmet can easily pass as generic robot/power-armour pieces.

I don't think new, themed costume pieces and fixes for existing textures/models are handled by the same people, so I don't think one ever comes at the exclusion of the other.

Anyway, you seem to have missed a lot of the point I've been trying to make, I'm not saying "More anime pieces," I'm saying "Can people please stop complaining about the perceived flood of anime-style stuff." I want to see more costumes and things from a wide variety of influences just as much as you do, but there's hardly been a hostile Anime invasion because of a few costume pieces and powersets.

I knew as I typed that out that someone would use the schoolgirl costume pieces as an example of that :P Anyway, my point is, that those costume pieces, even the shoulder pets and whatnot have been used in much more than just anime-inspired costumes and the game is better off for it.

People shouldn't be asking "Why would you want more anime in the game?" they should be asking "Why wouldn't you want more options in the game?"

*Internet High Five* I don't know why I like that name so much for a water/time character, but it's just so cheesily appropriate.

Lockdown is for hold sets, Living Shadows is an immobilise, but I have thought about putting it into Distortion Field.

Woah now, if I was allergic to sarcasm I'd be in hospital right now. All I meant is that a free inspiration doesn't make people feel like the really need to use the Paragon Market at least once a week to see what great item is on offer, which I'm assuming is the intent of the promotion. I understand, now, that it's only going to be a consumable, which I'm fine with. A free insp is better than a free nothing, but the "almost anything" wording gave me the impression that if you kept at it long enough you'd get something really special, kinda like what they did with the Super Packs.