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  1. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JayboH View Post
    I wish this was small enough to become my new sig. This is the full honest truth and the funny thing is that some people will condemn you for this honesty.
    Well, it depends;

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Atlantea View Post
    Oh no. I think they WILL feel this. The effects will be subtle at first. But if we as an entire community decide that all bets are off and that our game is TRULY dead, and we decide as a community to go full - bore negative press assault mode?
    As far as I can tell, the veneer of civility we've maintained by now is supported only by the hope that it might have an effect on how NCsoft treats the game - it is, to put it differently, a byproduct of the fact that we still have something to lose.

    If CoH closes down for good, with no hope of revival, I intend to go full martyr on this. Whenever I hear someone mention a NCsoft game, I will point to CoH's death like the head of John the friggn Baptist and tell them what NCsoft does to still-running games. I will point them to the petitions, to the rallies, to I24 patch notes, to everything that showed just how vibrant the game had been, and tell them that this, this is what they should expect. That no matter what they want, no matter what they expect, no matter what makes sense to keep or kill, that one day, sooner rather than later, they will find themselves without the game they invested themselves in. With no fanfare, no explanation, no apologies, no bang, but only the whimper of "refocusing of direction". And I am far, far from the only one who will shout my warning to the other players, because between the interests of a company who takes away with far greater ease than it gives, and those of my fellow gamers, there is really no question where my focus lies.
  2. Quinch

    AP33 Forever!!

    POST-ACTION

    Silly idea that I can't follow through because I can't art worth... anything.

    Can someone make a parody of the Lex Luthor fourty cakes picture with the text "When NCsoft wasn't looking, City of Heroes players filled thirty-three Atlas Parks. That's as many as three elevens. And that's awesome."
  3. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BricksTown Thug15 View Post
    seriously what is with some people taking this so seriously.

    The game was old and had a good run. Some people need a reality check that protesting like angry citizens will not accomplish anything. MMOs getting shut down now a days is just the nature of the beast and to be honest hearing about this game getting closed was not surprising in the least.
    A tense correction - the game had been having a good run. It would have continued it if it wasn't headshotted.
  4. Quinch
    ...but then I realized that spamming up the Help or broadcast channels would have been a pretty pancake move.

    So with that in mind...

    {clears his throat and puts on "The Night Pat Murphy Died. You can YouTube it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Bsb-8pxG8}

    ♪Oh, the night when Paragon shut down is a night I'll never forget,♪
    ♪Some folks still have their login screens and haven't closed them yet.♪
    ♪As long as there was crime still left to fight, everyone was fired up♪
    ♪And with every ambush in Praetoria, a scream went: "It's a trap!!"♪
    ♪This is how they showed just how much they'll miss their city,♪
    ♪With hundreds of colored capes just running through the town!♪
    ♪In Atlas Park but not Mercy 'cause all devs still hate villains,♪
    ♪And everybody teamed like mad the night City shut down!♪
    ♪As Zwillinger genericed Crotchman for running in the buff,♪
    ♪Someone shouted, "Since you're fired, can I have your stuff?"♪
    ♪Positron saw chaos rise with increasing alarm,♪
    ♪Then got a random invite to an AE fire farm!♪
    ♪This is how they showed just how much they'll miss their city,♪
    ♪With hundreds of colored capes just running through the town!♪
    ♪In Atlas Park but not Mercy 'cause all devs still hate villains,♪
    ♪And everybody teamed like mad the night City shut down!♪
    ♪The heroes piled in wall to wall, from Atlas one to ten,♪
    ♪They thoughtthey'd crash the login server, again and again.♪
    ♪Hours passed, the countdown came, when a single voice appealed,♪
    ♪As Iceman shouted: "Can't it wait? We just started Quarterfield!"♪
    ♪This is how they showed just how much they'll miss their city,♪
    ♪With hundreds of colored capes just running through the town!♪
    ♪In Atlas Park but not Mercy 'cause all devs still hate villains,♪
    ♪And everybody teamed like mad the night City shut down!♪
    ♪Lady Gray was ran like crazy, the aliens driven back,♪
    ♪The skies turned green from Kings to Bricks from the counterattack.♪
    ♪The devs staggered back to their beds through the breaking dawn,♪
    ♪They closed their eyes, then realized they'd left the servers on!♪
    ♪This is how they showed just how much they'll miss their city,♪
    ♪With hundreds of colored capes just running through the town!♪
    ♪In Atlas Park but not Mercy 'cause all devs still hate villains,♪
    ♪And everybody teamed like mad the night City shut down!♪
    ♪Oh, the night when Paragon shut down is a night I'll never forget,♪
    ♪Some folks still have their login screens and haven't closed them yet.♪
    ♪As long as there was crime still left to fight, everyone was fired up♪
    ♪And with every ambush in Praetoria, a scream went: "It's a trap!!"♪
    ♪This is how they showed just how much they'll miss their city,♪
    ♪With hundreds of colored capes just running through the town!♪
    ♪In Atlas Park but not Mercy 'cause all devs still hate villains,♪
    ♪And everybody teamed like mad the night City shut down!♪
    ♪And everybody teamed like mad the night City shut down!♪
  5. Quinch
    Remember to tip your servers, guys.

    Just don't tip them over. We need those to play.
  6. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by corpsegrindr View Post
    hey. maybe if valve DOES take CoH, we'll finally be able to submit user-created content!
    THINK OF THE POSIBILITIES!!!
    That's a point a couple of us brought up - Steam workshop seems to be perfect for user-submitted costume parts.
  7. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer View Post
    And no firebombing NCSoft HQ. Not sure how much that will help our cause.
    The Crusaders made me do it.

    -pockets leftover temp power charges-

    That said... whether I ever support NCsoft again, or whether I will share my opinions about their practices to anyone who will listens depends entirely on whether the CoH situation is resolved to my satisfaction. It's a feeble threat, I know, but I suspect it's echoed by others as well.
  8. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Star Ranger 4 View Post
    there is no audio in that link. how did you manage to break Michelle's so excellent video like that?
    Magic!

    Also, did you check the volume maybe?
  9. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
    I've played all of those except Planescape. Got anything released since 2005 by chance?
    Aw man, you missed the best one. You can grab it cheap on GOG, though - there's a couple of essential mods out, such as resolution and unfinished business patches.
  10. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr_Hellcat View Post
    Post a better video of her so people can get an um.. better idea of who she is.
    http://www.youtube.com/embed/GUVWnMA...ay=1&vq=medium

    A more appropriate link.
  11. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by LittleDavid View Post
    You could say that our cause ...

    *puts on visor-helmet*

    ... has seen the light of Day.
    If the game survives to see Christmas, will we be wishing Felicia Navidad?
  12. Quinch
    What the heck is the deal with Serene being the Black Queen? How did the logistics of that work, on account of her being dead. Also, is she the one Reese is talking about the second time you put him down?
  13. Quinch
    Quick note, there's now an actual character extractor out {hooray!} if you want to pull out raw costume data without fiddling with demorecord.

    Second, you want demos? Here are mine.

    Edit: Link added. Derp.
  14. Quinch

    appropriate music

    POST-ACTION

    Mike Oldfield's "Lament for Atlantis".

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MNbRgNUVnM

    It sounds so very... poignantly heroic to me.
  15. Quinch
    Not that I know of - that said, according to Golden Girl's post in another thread -

    " [Admin] Alpha Wolf: Sorry guys but I don't have any new update. I know Paragon management is having discussion with ncsoft and investors. Continue get people to sign online petitions, post on game forums, and just continue to make noises so ncsoft cannot ignore players."

    - there's still hope.
  16. Quinch
    It would be better to sticky the general coordination thread instead, but I'm not sure if it'd be a good idea.
  17. Quinch

    Posting Exploits

    POST-ACTION

    Heh, nice one.

    My little claim to infamy was right after the "abandon mission" button was implemented. I quickly realized that, as there were a couple of multi-part missions that started with you talking to an NPC, which in turn gave you a small influence/prestige/XP reward. So you could park yourself next to the NPC, talk to them, abandon, call your contact again to get the mission again, talk to them, and repeat on and on.

    So I filed a bug report and that got shut down in the next patch.
  18. Quinch
    I shot an email to Jo of Nerf Now earlier today. Every little bit helps.
  19. Quinch
    Slightly tangential, do we know if/when is the Q/A planned?
  20. Quinch
    I've seen the thread, yeah. Well, the more possibilities, the better, I guess. I mean, Gaben is basically Willy Wonka of the gaming industry, but failing that, well... I'm not picky. SOE, Blizzard, just about anything sounds promising.
  21. Quinch
    Blizzard... could also be an option, frankly. Their own success with WoW might help CoH, and they wouldn't be in direct competition since they have diametrically opposed playstyles.
  22. Quinch
    It would depend on how much resources they'd be willing to commit. Just buying the IP would be a huge investment.
  23. Quinch
    Oh, god, I just realized... Gabe might not read all this until Monday, since it's weekend and all, and sees his inbox loaded with CoH emails.

    The poor guy.
  24. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Angel of Retribution View Post
    Okay, I just re-sent my email. Jesus, that email form is finicky. Firefox and Opera didn't do it, I finally had to use IE.

    Anyway, here's something I wanted to say: Since I'm not VIP(I was going to subscribe this month, but...well, yeah), I can't post on the Announcement forum. So if any of you would be kind enough to take this pic I made and spread it around, I would be grateful. It's a little maudlin, I know, but hey, whatever it takes, right?
    I don't really approve of the last line. The focus here is saving City of Heroes, not payback and it ends up giving the whole poster the stink of Anonymous.
  25. Quinch
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by fieroxl5 View Post
    I spent the last 30 minutes and wrote my email to VALVE instead of getting decent sleep.
    Who needs sleep anyway?