Silver_Streak_NA

I couldn't agree more. It always amazes me how many people usually clamor for lifetime subs, not realizing how they're essentially shooting themselves in the foot.

Agreed.

I've never understood the desire, on the part of players, for a lifetime subscription. It's bad for the game you're playing, and therefore, possibly a very bad investment. Sure, in hindsight, I could have saved money if CoH had offered a lifetime sub up front, and I had taken advantage of it, instead of maintaining my sub for the last 7+ years. However, if they HAD, chances are good the game would have died by now - or several years ago, would have been forced into a micro-transaction business model, so that I'd be paying for stuff, even though I'd bought a lifetime sub.

Look at it this way - a bunch of people buy lifetime subs when the game launches. Two years go by. The majority of players left playing the game are lifetime subs. So, the publisher has very little regular income from the game anymore, and they've used up the giant influx of cash they got at the beginning (chances are, this was all spent to pay off development debts, anyway). How do they keep paying staff to work on continued development of the game? Either, 1) they don't, and new content slows to a trickle, or 2) they go free-to-play, to get new players, with a micro-transaction model that gets more money out of their lifetime subs.

Look at it another way - it provides a financial disincentive for the developer to continue quality development. They get a giant paycheck at launch, and less revenue coming in over time. If I'm the executives of that company, looking at the bottom line, it tells me, "drop development staff to a minimum after a game launches, and move staff over to "New Game X" - in other words, do more launches, but don't support the games as well after launch. Sound like another developer you've heard of?

I drink Pop, also, even though I get made fun of for doing so by all my friends.

Also, everything I know about Canadian slang (not much), I learned from Bob and Doug Mackenzie. I still use tuque and hoser and eh in everyday vernacular, even though I live in Ohio. Close enough.

Awesome, Hube! Great idea - I'll definately join. I won't be on much this weekend, as there is a local boardgaming convention that I'll be spending all my time at, but I'll hook up with you next week. Thanks!

So, your suggestion is - post this in a more visible place, where more people will see it, but I'm better off NOT publicly posting it? Thanks for the constructive feedback, dude.

In any case, to address your points - since this thread has already attracted people who are interested in doing this, and several have said they are on Virtue server, I'm just following up on the thread topic. And, you're right, keeping it on the down-low is better - hence, why I'm not starting a brand new thread on Virtue forums, announcing it. If we get PvP'ers in there opposing us, we'll deal with it. If they outnumber us, and therefore we can't accomplish our goal, we postpone and arrange another time. No problem.

Might I recommend this? It'll open up terrifying vistas of reality.

You're kidding, right? Did you not see the announcement for the 81 and 84 month Vet Rewards? If you don't think a free self-rez (that works like a DingRez), and remote access to the Auction House, are insanely good vet rewards.... you must be one of those people who are impossible to please.

Heh - well, since I've been playing a /SR scrapper since day 1, yes, I'm well familiar with that. When I hit Elude, DEF numbers are in the 90's. It's just that I misunderstood what "soft cap" meant. I thought that, even though Combat Attributes was showing me numbers higher than 45%, they were artificially capped at 45%, except with regard to things like DEF debuff.

I always knew that the Combat Attributes numbers don't go blue until you hit the hard cap. I do know a LITTLE about this game!

Anyway, thanks for clearing up how it REALLY is!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd been led to believe there was another reason it was called a soft-cap - that it was the maximum amount achievable by a character's OWN buffs. Buffs applied from OTHER sources can exceed the soft-cap amount (there is a hard-cap amount which cannot be exceeded by anything, I am told). Is that correct?

In any case, thanks for the answers!

This was my first reaction, too. To be honest, I never felt that the in-game footage used in the past was particularly inspirational. Not that CoH doesn't look good, but that the person capturing the footage didn't have a particularly good eye. Same for the editing. I was very pleased to see much better looking footage this time around - moving perspectives, interesting camera angles, etc - as well as more engaging editing.

Perhaps this means the marketing department hired some new personnel to produce these things? If so, awesome! This is the kind of marketing the game needs to potentially draw in some new players!

It's also used in the new Posi TF, isn't it?