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Quote:NCSoft has been pulling out of the North American market for a long time and Nexxon now owns a big share of them and is even more skeptical of the N.A. Market. They're not interested in selling to you.Originally Posted by Chill_Arrow_EU
Well if they arnt going to be selling to us in the near future lets hope they dont expect to sell to us in the long future - cause while I understand that there are many reasons for the re alignment I have a long memory and am not sure if I would ever bother with a rent ware game again -
The option no one seems to have considered is that instead of selling the game, they could just spin off Paragon Studios and then license it to them.
This is the win-win-win
NCSoft keeps all the IP, doesn't contribute any funding, and just collects checks. Paragon Studios continues to develop the game and just has to keep it profitable. In case of a COH2, NCSoft could still do that. And the players get to keep their game. -
Quote:There's things they can do:Originally Posted by Starsman
A boycot tends to be a temporary measure you keep up until the company changes his ways.
There is no changing this, and I am not boycotting. But as far as I can remember this, I wont be giving NCSoft any more money.
1.) Change their minds based on fan support and reinstate Paragon Studios and continue development. Unlikely, but possible. http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes
2.) Sell the game to another publisher so it can survive
3.) Release the source code so the game can live on
A boycott can definitely put pressure on a company to do these things. But since NCsoft seems disillusioned with the US market anyways, I don't think it will be successful.
But it's worth trying. -
I guess I'll no longer be dividing my time between here and Secret World and will just be in Secret World from here on in.
I can't express how unhappy I am about this. I seriously can't. I have no words. This is so much worse than Tabula Rasa, and I'm still not over that one. -
Quote:The Order of the Stick comic raised 1.2 million dollars on Kickstarter to reprint some books (out of a goal of 57K). We have to have at least as many dedicated fans.Originally Posted by Revanos
At the moment I doubt we could pool together that much of a financial backing, but at least it's worth a shot.
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Maybe if we can determine if NCSOFT is willing to sell, that someone could organize a kickstarter to raise the cash and crowdsource the money to release the game Open Source.
Or maybe some of the source code can fall off the truck while they're packing up the servers. Eh Devs? Wink wink? -
Quote:At least you get the kick the crap out of your stupid looking demon butt for being such a stupid looking demonic moron. That learned me good... no way am I turning into that reject from pressing random on the character creator.Originally Posted by DarkGob
/SIGNED DAMMIT
It would certainly be a huge step beyond that stupid level 50 Morality Mission where you meet your future self as a cheesy angel/demon (depending on alignment). -
Quote:Or Base Item.Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell
Everyone who's shot the idea down here is right.
But! Maybe it could work.
What if, and I'm just tossing this out off the top of my head as I just came up with the idea ten seconds or so ago, players could purchase a statue of their character to be placed in some kind of "hall of fame"? -
Quote:I got some Empyreal merits from completing some of the DA arcs as well.Originally Posted by Arilou
You get a component roll every time you complete a story-arc. And Gabriel has a weekly quest that gives you two (I think) Empyreal merits for doing all the DA story arcs.
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I refuse to play with people who act like jerks during play, period. I'm playing to have fun, this isn't a second job for me. I'm not going to treat it like one. If someone messes up and we don't get a badge (oh no!) I think we'll live. It's not like we only get one shot at this.
If someone decides to get verbally abusive, either they leave the team or I do. Life's too damn short to deal with someone's emotional meltdown over a video game. -
Quote:Yeah, seriously!Originally Posted by Arilou
The worst part is that, IIRC, it's Reed who gives them all names... And he calls himself Mr. Fantastic.
"Hmm let's see... Sue you turned invisible and you're a girl... so you're The Invisible Girl... Johnny, you're a human who can burn like a torch... how about the Human Torch... Ben... Gosh I don't know what the heck kind of thing you are... let's just go with The Thing for now... and me... well, the choice is obvious... I'm Mister Fantastic!"
And then he named their group "The Fantastic Four". He's Mister Fantastic. And The Invisible Girl got a name change when she married Reed... to The Invisible Woman. Because he's so fantastic, that one night with him girls, and you'll be a woman! -
Quote:It's attaching a free rename token to a character upon creation. That's exactly what it is on an essential and technical level. There's no functional or technical difference. You're asking for a free rename token on every character. And since if they did it for only new characters people who cry bloody murder, they'd have to do it for all characters.Originally Posted by Leo_G
Technically, yes it is asking for a free rename token. Essentially, it is not. What can you do with a rename token? You can pick and choose from any character on any server at any point in their leveling career and change their name.
Which is the same exact thing as typing "Generic Hero4vw001" into the creator, then using a rename token on them later.Quote:Placeholder name, you don't pick a name that you might not like and have a rename token on the side to change it later, you'd get some name like: Generic Hero4vx001 and the option to fix it later.
The thing is, it's not less server resources for a Dev to Generic you and attach a token to that character than it is for you to just use a token; they work exactly the same way. If the rename tokens are priced based on server resources, attaching them to characters upon creation is only going to cost resources.
I don't think you're trying to get free stuff. I honestly believe you think you're asking for something different. The issue is, you're really not asking for anything different and don't see that.Quote:It's asking to play the game while you think of a name. Please realize this and don't rationalize it as some petty excuse to get free stuff.
That's exactly what it is, though. From a technological client-server perspective, that's exactly what's happening. While you're seeing it as a special use case for a rename token, it's still a rename token.Quote:The option is *not* a free rename token
At that point, it's better to argue to get freebie rename tokens. Or suck it up and buy one.
What makes you think the costume creator wastes server resources? And who said anything about spending hours in the costume creator? Once I have my costume made, I save it locally, then log out and go about thinking about names or using a thesaurus and come back with a short list of names and variations of names. One of them always works.Quote:anymore than the devs letting you to waste hours of in-game time in just the costume creator so you waste less server resources while still paying to play the game. -
Quote:The Purple Man still irks me.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I felt the same way about The Hulk, Swamp Thing, and a few other I'm too lazy to look up right now.
He's a man! And he's Purple! He has mind control powers, but his Purpleness is really what we need to focus on! -
Quote:While a bit tongue-in-cheek in some parts, the original comics were actually, by and large, fairly serious superhero comics.Originally Posted by MisterMagpie
I thought they were a straight-faced parody.
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Quote:Yep, I was agreeing with you.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
That's my point, the original concept was quite serious despite the names which are comparable to concepts we have in this game and are being called immersion breaking, or non heroic, etc.
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Quote:Actually, it wasn't that they didn't take them seriously. It's that the target audience for the toys and cartoons shifted from older teens to young children. So they made conscious decisions to present them as sillier and more humorous in those mediums to be age appropriate. Then that took on a life of it's own.Originally Posted by Traska
I would argue that the rights-holders for animation and toys didn't take them seriously, though.
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Quote:Or, maybe, if Sue Richards had been named "The Invisible Girl". That'd be DUMB! Good thing they never did anything like that.Originally Posted by Traska
A name is important. If The Flash had been named "Runs Really Fast Man", or if Cyclops had been named "Laser Eyes Man", who here would take them seriously?
The Thing is probably one of the most uncreative names in the world, really. It's like Stan didn't even try with that one "He turns into an orange.. rock... thing... Yeah The Thing!"Quote:The Thing
If you like names like that "The Random Item" is available still. -
Quote:The Original TMNT comics were not screwball like the cartoons and movies, either. They were fairly serious, rather mature and well-written comics as well.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Are you implying that people never took the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic seriously?
Four mutant turtles with Italian names raised an trained by a rat that was the pet of a ninja master.
And that from that comic we got how many movies an cartoons and spinoffs?
(And they weren't just Italian names, but names of classical Renaissance artists.) -
Quote:Right, that's the same system as the rename tokens!Originally Posted by Leo_G
It's not a whole new system. GMs use it to generic your name. Swapping servers uses it when the name you have is currently taken. It's basically just a "I'm in the character creator for 3+ hours already, now I gotta spend another hour or more trying to think of a name since mine was taken?" solution.
They don't give you a random name in those cases, but a chosen name (either "Generic" or the original name of the character) with a random number attached, then they give you a rename token on that character.
There's no need to implement that as a generator, just type a random number on the end then buy a rename token and you've got the exact same thing.
So your idea is functionally equivalent to getting a *free* Rename Token on every character, which I don't really agree with. So when you say:
That's essentially what you're doing, you're asking to get a rename for free, which is as cheap as cheap comes.Quote:I'm not going to suggest server transfers or renames be made cheaper, however
I actually think Renames are prohibitively expensive. This might be by design because they don't want many of them happening. But if that's the case, your idea isn't any better; the process to rename a character on the server is the same if it's a rename token or a forced rename with a token attached, like when being Generic'd. They're still altering the data record of your character in the same way.Quote:I have no basis to claim if the cost of such tasks on the game's system is negligible enough to warrant cheapening them...not to mention, it sounds whiny requesting something I want to be cheaper. If we want it, it should cost an appropriate amount so that the game makes money. Now, if marketing finds their sales of such tokens are very low and attribute it to the cost being high, *then* yeah make them cheaper.
But then it's just a free rename token. That's the point. Rename tokens aren't magical compared to being generic'd. They do the same thing on a technical level.Quote:That said, I feel my 'placeholder name' is a decent compromise and implementable with minimal work. -
I'd like the Mayhems in Oroborous, not because I outlevel them (I almost always hit them at the right levels) but because I REALLY like them, and even at 50 I'd like to do more than rob the same bank over and over. I want to revisit those glory days of beating down the Paragon Heroes and blowing up cars across the city.
So I vote yes for Mayhems in Oroborous.
I guess Safeguards too for those who want them, but I think those are dull. -
Quote:No. I think that's making a simple problem more complicated when we already have a rename system in place.Originally Posted by Leo_G
Then you support my 'placeholder name' suggestion, yes? Let's make it happen and get this option put in game by next issue!
I'd rather support making Rename Tokens cheaper or granted as VIP awards or purchasable with Merits or something like that. I'm fine with any of those, really. But since we already have a system by which a character can be renamed, the Right Thing To Do is make that option more accessible, not invent yet another whole system to accomplish the same thing. -
Quote:Warhammer Online has player statuesOriginally Posted by Rockshock
I think the closest ive seen of a player statue is in WoW. Theres a statue of the first team to take down the Some big boss in Dalaran, I think.
http://ageofreckoning.warhammeronlin...Player-Statues -
Quote:No need to use X's. Both "Flame Guy Extreme" and "Flame Guy XTREME" are available on Virtue.Originally Posted by Blast_Chamber
Go extreme with "X". xXFlame GuyXx now that says "XTREME!"
Want Evil? Can I instead suggest "Hellfire Guy", which is currently available on Virtue?Quote:Be devilish with the mark of the beast. Flame Guy666 says "i'm evil against villiany" -
I'd love it if every name I came up with was available all the time. That'd be awesome. But it's not the case. Yeah, I spend way too much time mulling over character names and it takes forever to find the right one. And I hate that.
But I'd hate it more if everyone could run around with the same name. I think having the names be unique is the lesser evil here.
I think it might be ok if they did something like, if you've not logged into the game in a year or more, your character names end up for grabs, first come first served, and you get a free rename token for those characters you have redeem before bringing them into the game again (like when you do a character transfer and there's a character of the same name on the server).
But I wouldn't support lifting the name restrictions to unique names, no matter how annoying it is when I come up with the "perfect" name and find out someone else has it. -
Quote:I just checked. The Inquantumite is available on Virtue.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
It's not being any more creative to get Texas Noun when someone else can't get The Inquantumite.