RosaQuartz
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Quote:Huh. Well, I love Little Miss Sunshine, and Toy Story 3 was pretty darn good too. Good luck to him.Originally Posted by Nericus
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Tried out The Secret World and Star Trek Online. Ended up getting the lifetime sub for TSW. I like STO OK, and may play it more once CoH sunsets.
That said, wish I was instead enjoying I24 on live and speculating what I25 would bring. -
Quote:Fantasy Flight Games have a Star Wars PnP RPG close to release.Originally Posted by Rabid_M
And a new Star Wars PnP RPG.
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A logical acquisition to follow up the LucasFilm purchase. After all, it's well known that Lucas made more money off the merchandising of Star Wars, most of it through Kenner/Hasbro, than through the movies themselves, and Lucas at least at one point was one of Hasbro's largest shareholders.
Hasbro is also the license-holder for Marvel toys I believe. -
Left to right...
Madame Xanadu
Amethyst
Andrew Bennett (aka I... Vampire!)
Frankenstein
Timothy Hunter
John Constantine
Deadman
Black Orchid
Anyway, Del Toro + Swamp Thing would be the most exciting comic book movie I could dream of. Hopefully he follows through. -
Cautiously optimistic. Disney has been a good owner for Pixar, Marvel, and to some extent Jim Henson Productions, mostly leaving them a free hand.
Lucas announced he was transitioning LFL over to Kathleen Kennedy over the course of this year as well, and it looks like Kennedy will still be the main decision-maker there.
I'm not a raging anti-Lucas guy (I mean, the guy gave us Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and ILM... I can forgive a lot of sins with that track record), but it's clear that Star Wars needed a fresh hand. Disney provides a lot of cash that can back big ideas. -
Quote:Yes, especially if the a quorum of PS devs were involved. Whatever is on the community's wish list of "Things I Wish CoH Could Do", their list is about 30 times longer.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
My question to everyone is: in the event CoH can't be saved, can and will you get behind a spiritual successor/new super hero MMO?
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Quote:So... you're not a sock puppet? You just think it's A-OK to stop by every thread talking about this and tell everyone their wasting their time?Originally Posted by Brillig
Yeah.
"Sock puppet." "Serious question."
You're the troll here.
I promise you, I will not follow you around to every thread.
I'm not particularly hopeful at all. But there's nothing wrong with people that are. They're choosing to spend their time trying different things. I see nothing wrong with that.Quote:Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
Indeed! If you're not overflowing with enthusiasm and hopefulness then YOU MUST BE THE ENEMY! Grr, rawr, etc.
And there's folks that spend their time trying to tell everyone else that they're wasting their time. Nothing wrong with that either, except they go to every single thread to say it. And that makes them look like a jack. -
Quote:Nothing wrong with my community spirit, it's a serious question. What do you have to gain from spreading negativity into every. single. thread. people post about their reaction to this?Originally Posted by Brillig
Ah yes, there's more of that wonderful CoH community spirit everyone talks about.
I guess you could just be trolling, but I actually hope you're getting paid for this. -
Quote:Are you an NCSoft sock-puppet?Originally Posted by Brillig
What's even sadder is how willing you are to hate on someone who had less to do with the closure than Andy did.
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Quote:People who don't want to be bothered, don't.Originally Posted by Brillig
As I noted, it's against the EULA. Whether it's legally enforceable or not is another matter, but as a matter of integrity, I like to try to abide by my agreements.
People who are loudly proclaiming to be heroes might want to do the same.
People who do, more power to them. -
Pohsyb. Combining 3 inspirations to make 1 was an unbelievably good QoL thing. Thanks.
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Quote:This. Bring on Super Town!Originally Posted by HexGirl
If NCsoft doesn't want to play ball, than I would fully support a kickstarter for a brand new Hero MMO developed by the staff that we have come to respect and love. I would wait for a few years to have a new one if I knew it was coming.
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That was beautiful, thank you for sharing VoodooGirl.
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I did a 3-day trial for TSW.
I'm kind of on the fence. It's strong in the storyline department as mentioned above, and it's a great-looking game.
I'm not sure if I like the ability/skill system though. It's not particularly intuitive, and I don't know if I like the idea of being able to just switch-out a completely different build. I mean, my characters' powers in CoH are part of them, part of who I imagine them to be. I can't imagine Rosa Quartz joining up on a team and going "Oh, we need a blaster instead of a tank? No problem, I'll just load up a different set of powers." I guess what I'm saying is that switching out powers like that hurts my emersion. And in a game like TSW, emersion is everything. -
You've been outstanding in your job, sir.
Hopefully we'll all meet again in City Of Heroes II: The Search For More Money. May the Schwartz be with you! -
Give the news to my kids, and there would be much joyful noise.
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Quote:It's no more or less practical than... what are you trying to do? Get Cryptic to hire them to work on CO?Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
Yeah... Honestly, while I love you all as a community- Don't get me wrong- I do not consider the effort to 'save' COH to be the least bit practical.
I think the best productive and practical thing we can do is encourage Cryptic to hire our dev's before they all find other jobs. Probably to go work on generic fantasy MMO's, which would be a giant shame.
I'd rather see them work on a new project that I could someday maybe seeing myself playing. -
Quote:Agreed, thanks to everyone for your thoughtful answers. I hope somehow we can still see some version of your future plans.Originally Posted by Zemblanity
Positron, Protean, Arbiter Hawk, Doc Aeon, Viridian, Black Scorpion, Warwitch, thank you for giving us these answers, and thank you for all the work you put into the City over the years. I probably didn't say it enough, so here it goes one last time - you devs rock!
Best wishes,
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Keep in mind that their severance packages are likely tied to a non-disclosure agreement. For financial reasons, I suspect no dev will comment openly on the closure except in the most broadest ways.
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NCSoft killed City of Heroes.
If "economic realities" forced their hand, there were likely many ways they could have divested themselves of the game that wouldn't have involved the immediate termination of a studio of developers, the immediate cessation of their work, and as of November 30 is disenfranchisement of the player-base from the game. They chose not to avail themselves of any of those options, at least not to date. -
Quote:This. Massive layoffs, tightening credit markets, and uncertain economic conditions tend to make people re-evaluate where their money goes.Originally Posted by UberGuy
I consider it more likely that 1Q 2009 was the global economy really tumbling into the crapper that was responsible for that. The very first thing that goes when times get tight are discretionary expenditures, and game subscriptions are right up there.
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Quote:Wouldn't we play it just because Fun is Mandatory?Originally Posted by Neuronia
The game: Paranoia Online
- The concept: You're a clone. The Computer is always right. Trust no one.
- What we keep: Everything, but...Citizen, who gave you the right to proc Fire Blast in such a manner? COMMIE TRAITOR TERMINATE.
- What we lose: Any trust in the fellow player.
- What we add: Purchaseable Clone packs. 80 Paragon Points for 5, 160 for 12, 400 gives you a 24 but about half of them are faulty/bugged.
- Why it would be like City of Heroes: The game already gives us instructions and not all of them are reasonable...
- The Downside: Computer model ARCA-NA1-V1ll3 has been known to mercilessly eliminate citizens that, well, are blatant idiots or nuisances.
- Why I would play this: Because the Computer has asked me to, obviously.
Also, why stop at Transmetropolitan? Let's have a whole Warren Ellis OnLine game. -
Thanks for sharing this Posi.
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Quote:I'd started taking Medicine and Presence pool powers on characters I was leveling up in live just so I wouldn't have to respec into those pools when I24 released.Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar
I made several characters to get a head-start on levels for Awesome Stuff in I24. I just have to hold up hope that the community efforts can save the day so they'll get to see it eventually.
First time in 8 years I'd taken "Stimulant".