SenseiBlur

Indeed indeed... if I don't find something good soon I will be starting my own, or crashing and burning in a glorious burst of flames! Either way, should be fun.

"and seeing the Korean Won's continued decline against the US Dollar "

That's from your original post, so you might want to edit it, along with all the other warnings of grave danger, averting disasters and such if you don't want your message to seem like doom and gloom. Just another suggestion.

When I say the game is alive and well I mean just that. The game is alive and well. Are the developers facing the same issues they were in 2008? No, they aren't. I don't delve into the personal lives of the developers. I watch the game itself, what direction it's headed in, what's planned for the future, what the population is doing, and how the outlook of the people playing/developing the game seems to be. Right now, those are all looking very good to me personally. So yes, I believe the game is alive and well, specially when you look at the age of the MMO.

I didn't miss the point on the currency exchange. I got that completely but the point still stands. This movement with posters and such is very unlikely to succeed in the first place and subscription gain from it would be minimal at best. The best way to recruit people to a game is to focus on its strengths, not to simply put it out there and be like "Hey look at this poster, play City of Heroes today!"

I'm not an economic genius but if the value of korean currency is dropping in comparison to the US dollar would that not mean that they are making more money instead of less since they are being paid in US dollars? (Completely unsure of this, I am not an expert on the subject of currency changes :P) Unless of course prices they are paying elsewhere are also drastically rising at the same time in which case again... a minimal spike in subscriptions for a month or two is not going to save them nor cause them to start hiring more people than they already would.

I'm sorry but I'm afraid I really just can't back you on this as a major effort to "Save the game" or whatever. It's nice and all but you're delusional if you think it will.

As I said before, that change would be the only thing -I- could see attracting new players to the game (on a large scale that is). Other MMOs have the market cornered in the PVE aspect and are far better if you're looking to spend your life raiding etc. Same goes for PVP.

What does CoH have for players? It has excellent roleplaying elements and some good PVE elements. PVP has long faded as a factor, and raiding is there but it's also mostly irrelevant because the game itself is fairly easy on a whole and the game is very very far from being dependent on raiding to be "good".

If the game and it's development were having issues I highly doubt we would see the amount of future planning like we are in the incarnate system.

No amount of subscriptions is going to save a company from war if war is going to affect it, none (Specially a nuclear war, and that discussion really is not one I care to participate in).

You say you're not trying to create the attitude that CoH is falling but that's exactly what you are saying, so forgive me if I'm a bit confused on your position here. I don't think anyone here wants the game to fail, but going out and yelling to the world to try CoH because it needs to survive all willy nilly is not really the answer and as has been stated by a number of people before... this is not exactly a new game and many many people have already played the game at least once.

This is what I'd think would be the largest problem.

I'm not offended, but as I said simply promoting the game for the sake of promoting the game does not seem like a positive stance. The way I read it your message said to me "I love this game, but it's dying... please take pity an play it to save it!" Not only that but you suggest that the developers have an unfavorable view of their own game by saying we should change their view on it.

I don't see the game dying. I see it alive and well, and as you said we get new people every day. If NCsoft wanted more people for City of Heroes and more money, they would make a commercial or something and continue to actively advertise it. I think they did a decent job promoting going rogue.

In other words, I just don't see this idea as needed or warranted which is what I meant by "rubs me the wrong way". Your message, to me, has a heavy air of pity and defeat to it, and I don't believe it has any place here.

And I did give a suggestion. I'd love City of Heroes to begin promoting itself as the only MMO that truly caters to RPers above other things, and I'd love to see their development shift towards that. I think that in itself would attract an exodus of disgruntled RPers who are oppressed and left in the dust by other games -to- city of heroes. All other aspects of the game (except maybe pvp) profit through roleplaying elements in my opinion so it's a win-win for City of Heroes as a whole. Combine that with this game never really having a hardcore raiding/pvp scene and I think it's the most logical direction for the game to take. When I promote CoH, I promote it through all the wonderful things it's done for RPers like the mission architect (Which is the single greatest tool for RPers in MMO history IMO and it has the potential to be the greatest for years to come if they gave it an overhaul and added a swath of further customization to it). Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't.

That's news to me. I see new people asking for base improvements constantly *Shrug*

Not when he specifically states that it's not going to happen until he leaves. The way he worded it... it's implied that once he leaves there is instantly a far higher chance (I.e. greater than zero) that it might be considered (assuming the new dev doesn't post a new 100% rejection to the same idea). Until the new lead states otherwise, it's back to theory crafting and speaking for devs as people do daily anyway. Either way, it's no longer a valid post since he is not with the company anymore and doesn't personally guide its direction. It's like saying a dead guy is speaking for the living.

Not arguing the position, just that the screenie itself is not valid hehe.

But thanks for the info I'd be fully against the idea myself actually since currently we don't even have underwater, much less anything further.

I'm with him.

But if it strikes your fancy http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Slithershot

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