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Melissa Bianco: "We basically have taken City of Heroes to the next level. And I don't just mean like, the next level, we took it to the next level with Villains. We took it to the NEXT level with Going Rogue."

Wasn't that clear enough for you? They took it to the next next level!

Seriously tho, while that statement does beg the question, how many levels are there, I think, as GG pointed out, this was part one of a series of promotional videos. This one was primarily to set a context, and the following ones will probably go into more detail about GR. I think it's obvious from this one that they are hoping to draw in some new players with GR, since that seems to have been the target audience. I hope they are successful in that.

Please don't misrepresent my post like that. I was NOT saying that the devs don't listen. Actually, I believe they DO, and that Ghost Falcon's statement was true. I was only pointing out that the addition of capes, in particular, was not a game change made due to player feedback - and so, it comes across as misleading to use that as an example. There are SOOOOO many examples of changes made to the game that were a direct result of player feedback, they should stick to those.

I think "capes" makes a nice bullet point/sound bite, and that's why they used it as an example.

Kinda figured there'd be a new surge of posts here, since i17 added... what? 75 badges? I figure the 700 club thread will see some more activity, too. And it's only going to get crazier once GR hits! 6-and-700 badges are going to be on the low end, all of a sudden!

Heh - I played MA/SR in the beta. At launch, I decided to go with DM/SR for my main, instead (although, to be fair, that was mainly because I wanted a punching set, instead of kicks. But, perhaps that's just a rationalization, because, yea, it sucked ).

Great video, as always, Sam... I too have a question, and mine is, I'm sure, a rather silly one: at the 4:30 mark, you show a few letters - did you copy/paste souvenir text onto parchment textures to create those, or are those actually in-game somewhere, and I've managed to miss them for 6 years?

Pretty sure I know what the answer is, but I just want to be certain.

Well, to be fair, I didn't get 600 badges in a few months. I was at 477 when I finally thought to myself, "time to get serious about badges!" So, I've picked up about 130 new badges in the last few months. Decent accomplishment, I figure - but I won't rest til I've finished ALL the badges I can!

Anyway, grats also to Lineuphere1 and Nericus!

Have you ever managed to win? Mine always beats me!

Oh, and, welcome to the monkeyhouse, both!

That's easy!

The Flash!

Only, if he existed in CoH, he'd have to swim, instead!

Indeed. Even in MMO's, which have been slower to adopt widescreen resolution support, presumably for fear of PvP advantage, the trend is there. Just to name a few MMO's that have it (quoting Zierce from another thread here, since I havn't tested all these personally) - WoW, EQ, EQ2, Champions, STO, Eve, and Aion.

If CoH doesn't adapt for this technology, then it's falling further and further behind in satisfying what the modern gamer wants, and we will find it increasingly difficult to attract new players.

Just outta curiosity, how about DaoC, WAR, AoC, Lotro? I know you've played some of those, not sure about all. But, anyway, yea, the more examples you can show of other MMO's that DO have proper FoV widescreen support, the better.

Noob!

There - spelled right!

I'm going to jump in, even though I'm one of those old-schoolers (or dinosaurs, depending on your perspective) still using a 4:3 monitor. However, when I was house-sitting for a friend, and brought over my computer, plugging it into his widescreen monitor - I became aware of just how big an issue this is (yes, the -vert is not AS big a deal for 16:10 as it is for multi-monitor, but it's still significant)!

Here's my .02 worth. If you want to attract dev attention to this issue, approaching it purely as a multi-monitor issue is probably not the way to go. The devs may assume (and rightly so) that players using multi-monitor setups are a very small minority, and therefore relegate this concern to the "very low priority" bin.

On the other hand, if it were presented to The Television as an issue that impacts a LARGE AND GROWING number of their current playerbase, and, most likely, an even greater percentage of potential future players, they might be forced to consider this a high priority item!

What I'm getting at is that more and more gamers are using widescreen monitors, and so more and more of them are becoming educated about FoV and widescreen support in games. It's like when widescreen format was still new in videotapes - before widescreen TV's were available. Most people didn't understand letterboxing back then, but over time knowledge spread, and eventually people caught on that pan-and-scanned movies sacrificed a lot of the original image. Widescreen TV's became more and more pervasive, until, nowadays, all DVD movies get released in widescreen format.

The PC gaming industry is going in the same direction, due to widescreen monitors becoming the standard, and not the exception. Eventually, if not already (I havn't researched the numbers), almost ALL gamers will be on widescreen monitors.

Since one of the goals of Going Rogue is, I think, to attract new players, it would be a big mistake NOT to think about what gamers are looking for in a game these days! The graphics of CoH might have been fine in 2004, when it launched, but it's looking more and more dated. And with Ultra-mode supposedly bringing the graphics up to more modern standards, overlooking such a basic thing as proper FoV and widescreen support would be a real shame, as it might very well lead to poor retention of any new box sales.