Scythus
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Quote:Really? What does "realign focus and publishing support" mean in Santa Elf-ese, then? Seriously, the correlation of the B&S announcement following the axing of CoH with their "realign" language is obvious.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Ah, no. B&S was always coming to the states. This is the "they killed CoH to drive people to GW2" argument all over again. -
Eh, I think people are slightly justifiably edgy after it was revealed that the reason CoH got the ax was because of Blade & Soul coming States-side.
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Quote:Yeah, I didn't get an email about it either. Thank Odin.Originally Posted by Feycat
Which is weird, because I've got an NCsoft account AND an Anet account and didn't get that email. Kinda hit and miss, aren't they?
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Quote:+1Originally Posted by srmalloy
And it's things like this that make me believe NCSoft shut down City of Heroes because it was an embarrassment to them -- they bring Korean-style grinders to the US market again and again, and they keep sliding off into oblivion as people realize what a horrible, endless grind the game is for little payoff... while City of Heroes, almost the complete antithesis of Korean-style grinders, keeps bumbling along -- no sweeping success, but still making steady money for the company. By killing City of Heroes, NCSoft can look at its stable of MMOs and convince itself that when it brings a Korean-style MMO to the Western market and it flops, it flops because the Western market doesn't want an MMO about the subject of the MMO, and turn a blind eye to the reality that the Western market doesn't want Korean-style grinders, regardless of subject. By existing, City of Heroes is walking proof that NCSoft doesn't have a clue what the Western MMORPG market wants. So it had to go.
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Quote:Ooh! Ouch! That burn was a hot one.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Greece almost had a license to print money in 2012, and it meant the same thing to them as it apparently means to NCSoft.
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Quote:This. A thousand times this. This was all very clearly done so they could bring that bullcrap here to the states, but they realized they were lacking resources to do that properly, so they kill the only game that their Korean subscriber base didn't care for.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Alright, I know this is one of those CoH Forum Memes, but I am going to say with all of my inborn honesty that this is a slap in the face. I'm not joking whatsoever.
First, NC kills my MMO with no explanation. Then, we find out that they shot themselves in the foot with their terrible, homogeneous, grindy MMO's and funding a brand new one, and decided to axe an American MMO to make up for it. Then they fail to deliver any sort of update on our game services, while Paragon does their best to keep us in the loop. NOW I find out they're porting this Aion clone over to America not even two weeks after putting the knife into City of Heroes? One of the MMO's, I might add, that's responsible for their huge losses last quarter?
I don't care how overused it is on these forums or how much hyperbole comes with it. This is a slap in the face. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Vyver
To be fair, the lack of aim and short circuit is made up by the set actually being worth a ****.
CoH's electric blast was gimped for its entirely pointless secondary sapper power.
Which did absolutely nothing since enemies don't use energy the same way we do.
Besides, Aim is pointless in CO. You never completely "miss".I've... actually successfully sapped various mobs with Electric Blast. It's not particularly hard, either. You just have to keep blasting them.Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Different people mean different things when they say this, but in the literal sense this is not true: critters use endurance just like we do, and in fact use more endurance per attack than we do on a relative basis. They also cannot use a power if they lack sufficient endurance to use it.
The main difference between critters and players is that critters really only have to attack one thing with their endurance - us - and can use all of it to try to kill us. We have to manage our endurance so we have enough to kill the critters in front of us, and then be able to kill the next set of critters, and then the next set, and then the next.
Edit: I don't know when we would have gotten to the point of doing anything with it, but literally the week of the sunset announcement I was talking to Arbiter Hawk about addressing the issues with drain, and he seemed open to the idea of discussing the subject, pending finding the actual time to do anything about it (the schedule was packed for the next couple of issues). -
Quote:What's funny is that he was fussing over laser swords over in the Champions forum, so he's a bit... hypocritical, shall we say?Originally Posted by Premonitions
This is that ridiculous "no difference between a punch and a laser punch" thing you're afflicted by again, isn't it?
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Quote:Not funny. I've actually seen the fabled black unmarked helicopters; it was about 16 years ago and there were 8 of them and probably breaking about a few air traffic laws by flying extremely low. I could have thrown a rock at one from my apartment balcony because of how low they were.Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
No idea, but now I want Malta to get invisible black helicopters.
The truth is out there...
Broad daylight too. On a main road. What a poor attempt to remain inconspicuous..... -
I'm simply going with the Earth-1 and Earth-2 solution with my characters, where there was always a version of them in every universe. There's no need dwell on CoH's tragic fate in character stories.
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Quote:I wouldn't want to meet any Brits while named like that.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I made a character called Tosser .
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Quote:Psst. It's Black Talon. Black Scorpion is someone much, much closer to home.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
In the original tutorial he gets taken out of the fight early and you were left to face Black Scorpion alone but there weren't any reinforcements. On the plus side, at least he only tells you to 'disable ALL the beacons' once - he used to repeat it incessantly.
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Yeah... I've already been doing this.
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Quote:Maybe Plonk was half-asleep and meant Spines?Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Well, there's the Martial Arts/Fighting Claws set, but who's counting, eh?
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Quote:Yay.Originally Posted by Leandro
Here's her leg:
I fixed it for you:
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Quote:Yeah. Still don't see her, but there's this big Bluto-type dude taking up a lot of space, so she might be behind him.Originally Posted by Leandro
She's near the bottom of the stairs, to the left of the middle handrail. Blonde with black and green costume, right?
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Yeah, I can't even find Ms. Chernobyl in the video version. It's a needle in a haystack.
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The tricorner hat.
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Please people, you're starting to make the community look bad.
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Quote:People just don't know what a vigil is, do they?Originally Posted by Leandro
This is exactly why the first versions of the gathering I was making (a screenshot of which showed in Kotaku) had torches, but I went for a neutral stance for (almost) everybody in the final version. All that fire looked like WE were trying to burn down Atlas Park!
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Quote:Good comparison, as WoW also suffers from the cartoony graphic problem. I have to wonder, are MMO devs out there really in the impression that people want their characters to look like a Saturday morning feature?Originally Posted by Lokikin
As for graphics, I get it. I had the same problem switching over from EQ to WoW... -
Well, don't judge us all by a few overly disgruntled folks. As I've stated, your invitation is one I'll accept if all efforts to save our game here fail. Your welcome is very appreciated.
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Atlas Park 14
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Quote:Yeah, really. What the heck? That wasn't until 5pm EST/2pm PST.Originally Posted by Feycat
But it's only 2:30! O.o
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Quote:Troy Hickman?Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants
I am Mr. NoPants.