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And in what way would it be a good thing that they may have done this so that they can sell the IP (and ONLY the IP) to someone else?
IF someone buys the IP, and IF they actually make a game with it, it will have to be an entirely new game made by an entirely new Dev team. What it won't be is City of Heroes. No after-the-end sale made to cut out Cryptic or whoever will change that, or undo what NC Soft has done. -
While I am doing some personal wrap-up storylines and RP, I don't want that for the game at large.
Come December 1st, I'll STILL have characters in City of Heroes. I may not be able to play the MMO, but those characters still exist in Paragon and the Rogue Isles. They will continue to live their lives, even if I'm not there to see it. There will still be heroes, and villains, strange artifacts, and alien invasions.
Their stories might go on in other RP, or in stories I write, or even only in my head, but they WILL go on. There's no need to end the story because the story isn't ending. It's just time to turn the page. -
Now THAT is a pancaking Gunblade!
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Quote:It might mean a new, GOOD DnD movie.Originally Posted by Lothic
It's been bad enough having to deal with WotC taking over for TSR, but the idea of Disney effectively owning D&D is simply surrealistic. Let's just say 20 years ago I would have never figured that likely in the least.
And a new Star Wars PnP RPG.
And a Star Wars themed expansion for Magic: The Gathering.... though that would be odd. -
Quote:And that would be from just the game devs, hoping she can help them figure out what's going wrong with the game.Originally Posted by bpphantom
Seems very wise for someone with her reputation, otherwise she'd be deluged with messages, PMs, requests, etc.
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Quote:I'm still of the belief that they're using the closing of CoH/Paragon as a tax write-off. I also believe they're greatly overvaluing it in said write-off to get as much money as they can for it. If this is true, then it IS bringing them money, just in an indirect way. Anyone wanting to buy it would have to match the higher of either the excessive estimate they've set on it, or the real cost of CoH/Paragon PLUS the amount they'd have to pay in taxes on the sale profit PLUS the amount they stood to save on taxes by closing the game.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Any offer would be more than the $0 or less it made by collecting dust somewhere.
I kind of wonder what would happen if NC Soft's taxes got audited and they had to prove CoH/Paragon's real value, or wind up losing any tax write-off they're getting this way. I'd find it funny if the IRS ripped a chunk out of their *** for this. -
Quote:1. I'm pretty sure the Oro portal was in Temp Powers simply because that was the easiest way to give it out.Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Ok out of all the revelatory stuff coming out there are two (not terribly) critical questions that have bugged me for a while and I'd really love to get answers to them.
- Why was the Ouroboros Portal a Temp Power? I know I've asked this before but it struck me that there's an implication that somehow, Ouroboros was going away some time. In one view, that makes perfect sense. Once the Coming Storm had been dealt with Silos had no need to keep the floating palace - but of course it would have removed a very convenient travel power, and a place to buy/sell cool stuff.
- Flying Disc: Was this a test of a new tech? What was the likely outcome going to be? New powers? It seemed to be a lot of work for a toy (but fun to use when queued for Trials) Where were the Devs hoping to go with that?
2. They did indeed say that the Flying Disk was a new tech test, and they had further plans for it. I don't know what they would have done with it, but I loved the idea of a Defender that worked by giving teammates (and themselves) new powers to use. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
What bothers me most about this is something that's lost in all the talk about the IPs that Disney bought.
They also got Industrial Light and Magic in the deal, the company that all the big studios use for their special effects. That means that every movie from any studio with any high-quality special effects whatsoever will be putting money directly into Disney's pockets.
I'm not sure that's a good thing for the industry. This is worth keeping an eye on.
ILM is the big company for that right now. If Disney screws this up, some other company will become the big name. Where the talent's at will shift, and things will move on. It'll take several years, but it'll happen.
I think that the only people that have to worry about this are the ones making comic book based movies. Be they DC, or Marvel based ones that Disney would like to recover the rights to. As I understand it, the Marvel ones need a movie every few years to prevent the rights from reverting, so they can't wait this out. -
That was cute.
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Quote:Ahh, a fan of G.I. Joe: The Movie.Originally Posted by Nericus
What's funny is that a co-worker of mine went into full on nerd rage at work when he heard of this and was ranting that Lucas had flipped his lid, gone senile, etc etc etc and was ranting how Lucas could do this. Then I showed him how much money Lucas got for this deal and he said and I quote
"A price tag that magnitude......answers ALL of my questions." -
Quote:True. It makes me wonder what would have happened in a full-on engine revamp.Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy
go figure.
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Quote:Thanks for the info. That sounds like it may be just the information I'll need.Originally Posted by Dr Harmony
For Force Fields, grab Protection Field in Force - this allows you to bubble allies or yourself.
You could also go with Inertial Dampening Field in Force and/or Aura of Radiant Protection in Radiant Sorcery as a slotted passive to make your pets tougher.
You get one slotted passive and one Form power, so pick these for some solid defence.
For Force field-ish attacks, try Force, or just go for the Sorcery attacks, depends what your concept is really.
Demon pets - Ritual of Ebon Summoning is the obvious one - gives you a pet demon who you can have permanently tagging along with the Unbound Ritual advantage.
Tyranon's Familiar and Void Horror also make good magical-looking permanent pets. Add in Air eleemtnal from the Air set if you can handle a genie tagging along.
The Ritual of Arcan Summoning gives you a Tron-ish looking robot ally, this is actually a Lemurian construct from the magic-using undersea kingdom, so tastes may vary.
Telepathy's Summon Nightmare is worth looking at - the pets here are temprary but change with rank, eg rank 1 gives you a static giant worm and a dog, Rank 2 is a dog and monster, and so on. Try this out in the Powerhouse - I found some things I liked in this set for my Martian Princess with a GL-style power ring.
You can defeinitely make a magical pet user who protects their pets. I find its best when transitioning a character to forget their CoX powers (which you didn't choose, after all, but were foisted on you as a whole set) and go back to the idea you had in your head.
Ego Choke or Ego Hold may suit you. Pyromancers Blade's (short lived fiery swords) may work for you, even though your CoX character couldn't do exactly that. -
I believe BAB posted and mentioned that he's at Cryptic, now.
[Edit] Beaten to the punch. -
So, if I wanted to make a replacement for my Demons/FF MM in CO, what would I want to go for?
If there's no good pet set, then what's the closest I can get on the FF side? -
Quote:Less than two weeks ago, I had to pull a CoH timecard off of the rack at a Best Buy and tell them that they needed to pull it, and why. They didn't need to start something entirely new, just give us a way to use those time cards to buy Paragon Points, and then work on getting the card's printing changed to explain the two possible uses. They were already shipping them out, and had all of that side of things set up for use.Originally Posted by Quin
I doubt developing points cards for CoX would have been financially viable after the freedom transition. This is the sort of thing that's much easier to set up on the wave of a big launch, rather than several years after box copies of the game disappear from store shelves.
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When the CoH Freedom market went live, many of us started to ask for ways to buy points for other people. One common suggestion was "Paragon Points Cards", which could be sold in stores. We could buy them for ourselves, or pass the code on to someone else for them to get the points.
We never got them, naturally. NC Soft couldn't be bothered.
Well, GW2 just got them. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/g...ect-retailers/
I'm glad for ArenaNet and the GW2 players (I'm one of them), but I can't help but feel bitter about this. -
Steel Canyon, in the U shaped apartment building just to the North-East of the Northern train station.
My first major RP character was given an apartment there, and that meant the world to him. I'd love to have his apartment, small though it may be. -
Yes!
CoH has been called "Cosplay: the Videogame". And that's true, and part of what's so awesome about it. You can make nearly any character concept in here, and it WORKS!
A fairly solid game with flexable powers, good art, customization and costume slots like CoH, and something to replace Portal Corp as the reason that otherworldly things keep showing up. That's what I want, if a spiritual CoH2 is to be made.
Yes, I know that's a lot to ask. But if you want to know how it can be done, this game right here is the example. Learn from it, please. -
Quote:Funny, I thought the world's premier publisher and developer of MMOs was Blizzard.
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Quote:Well, it would go to prove that pulling out abruptly isn't a good way to avoid us.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
You want to be a venereal disease?
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Quote:I'll admit, they made a little more off of me.Originally Posted by DarkCurrent
Maybe from you, but not me.
Why? Two words: Arena Net.
They're a group of Developers that have poured their heart and soul into making an outstanding game, a game that's quickly showing itself to be something special. The community is small, but it's growing, and there are more than a few people that simply love the game. Their only sin is that they, like the people at Paragon Studios, worked with/for NC Soft.
I can hardly praise our devs, while condemning others for doing the same things.
I can assure you that the people running GW2 are worried now. Success may not be enough to keep them employed, being outstanding may still find them out the door with no warning. I don't want to stand (sit) here and say we should leave them to crash and burn with us. If NC Soft had somehow decided that killing GW2 was the move to make, we wouldn't have wanted that to cause players to attempt to doom CoH as revenge against NC Soft. So, I'll give Arena Net my support, even if that means that NC Soft gets a bit of it.
Anyone that signs on with NC Soft after this, though, can go hang. They'll know the risks, it's their call to take them. -
If we can get an actual countdown for the last minute or so...
I'd like to get everyone in Virtue into Pocket D. And at the 30 second mark, have EVERYONE hit Self Destruct, or the biggest powers they have. I want to crash the zone, and maybe the server.
If the server must go down, I'd like it to be by our hands, close enough to the end that they don't bother to restart it. So that we, in some small way, never face that end. -
Quote:Look at it this way:Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
No, what would have made sense was for them to let the parts of the company that were generating profit continue to generate profit, while stopping the wild expenditures that put them $6 million in the red.
So now, without the revenue provided by CoH, they'll be making around $1 million less a year than they were before.
Yeah, I'm sure that making less money will somehow cause them to make more money. Good job, NC Soft!
NC Soft is short on cash right now, so they need to think about where they're going to invest it.
If they invest $100 in Paragon (and yes, I'm just making these numbers up), they get $110 back.
If they invest $100 in GW2 (for example), they get $150 back.
They have $1,000 to invest. What does the smart person do? -
Quote:Just did. It wasn't open when I was in there yesterday, but I'm glad they opened it.Originally Posted by MishiiLove
Have you checked Pocket D lately?
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Turn on the ski lodge.
Put things in the market up for free.
Add everything to the market that you can. I don't know if the new super boosters were patched to live yet or not, but I'd love to have that costume before the end.