Solo_One

Booster packs were a bigger con than anything GW2 has on their store and there was never an option to buy them with influence/infamy.

Arenanet is a good enough company that I'm contemplating buying gems with real money just as a thank you to them for making an awesome game(I don't need anything they are selling on the store). The only time I bought paragon points was to try dark control and I immediately regretted it as soon as I got the pet that wouldn't shut its mouth and the several powers which had zero effect in pvp or were brokenly good.

The rabble you might hear from gw2 forumites is that they introduced a new tier of loot and a new dungeon with scaling tiers of difficulty to unlock it(all very fun and non-grindy). The loot is like something between orange and purple in CoH but it has boosts that no other armor has currently(you can add the boosts with upgrade items). I'm a casual+ player so I won't push for anything higher than the exotics(rare/orange tier) I already have. But having something for more hardcore players to reach for keeps the game busy and makes finding teams easy so its a good addition to the game.

Oh, by the way all this was free content that 100% of the playerbase can access without paying a penny. People who "I told you so" without having given the game a try just want validation on their decision, and I'm done trying to convince them.

Videogames will be forgotten because they don't add to society(imo they actually remove a large portion of the people who could have affected change, but thats another discussion..).

People who make games would have been traditional artists but they wanted to make money. Lets not put them on a pedestal like what they do is holy, you don't need to have played atari in order to make a CoH.

Just as an FYI, amazon has it on sale for $38, you could stick it to ncsoft and get it significantly below msrp!

(last bump I promise)

Someone should research all the games that went f2p from a subscription model and see how much longer it extended their lifespan. I give swtor a year tops until it folds after going f2p. I might play a little just to check out what changed since last time I played in February, too bad I can't even remember the server I played on though(I had a trooper in the reddit republic iirc).

In an attempt to keep this thread on topic, act III just happened. It was a live event that permanently altered the main hub city of the game. Its like if the atlas statue got explodedized by Rularu or something and on top of that the hole from where he came out of became a new explorable(equivalent to a task force).

I've been falling pretty deeply for gw2 lately but then this week the halloween event started. Trick or treating, costumes which unlock pvp in non-pvp zones, crafting cool rare stuff from holiday loot, lore revealed in a new scavenger hunt event, the main city hub getting a hogwarts makeover, pumpkin carving, and more stuff I havent even tried yet. And this is the first act of four culminating on the 31st.

I hope you guys check this game out, it really is genuinely a great game(although much harder than CoX). If you do my global handle is Solo.9027 and I'm on Blackgate, but right now server transfers are free so it doesnt matter where you go.

I understand the anti-NCsoft sentiment around here but I felt like I had to relate how much fun this game is. I try to look at it as an Arenanet game more than an NCsoft game. If you buy it once there is no further money you'd need to give them to enjoy everything in the game so you can minimize any sort of guilt you might feel betraying paragon studios or whatever.

Also, I have not heard of any of the other recent games doing holiday events. Does TSW or CO(or any other game people are transferring to) have anything like this happen?

denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance

Do yourself a favor, work your way to 5 and then post. At this point you should be working on a bucket list or have moved on like I have.

Or just call me a troll for not joining in the meta coh circle jerk that this save our city campaign has become.

You probably don't remember but you guys let me join for a while when IOPs existed to run COP and I was involved in a few base raids vs and along side of you. Nice to know you, thanks for the memories doidd.

I picked it up last night and played 3 hours straight tonight. I am honestly enjoying my tree-people elementalist just learning the game mechanics like dodge and cast times before I jump into pvp(the game auto levels you to 80 for that and it rewards xp for pve!). I only got to level 6 but I've killed a ton of what coh calls GMs and am loving the structure of teaming so far(something no mmo ever got right except coh IMO).

I truthfully wish coh could live forever but the fact that it is dying has given me the push to finally give it up for good. All these years I abandoned so many mmos because this game was comfortable and since the pvp revamp that feeling just got weaker and weaker until 8/31.

If anyone wants to join me I'm on Blackgate server named Matriculated.(cool names are impossible to come by since they're global :/ )

Edit: also you guys need to be less butthurt, this game is 8 years old, get another hobby. NC is a business. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

I was never much of a lore junkie but i always wondered what was the story behind the low level coralax in that pond outside the walls of grandville?

In case I don't get another chance I want to thank you(all of the other CoH staff as well) for your work on this game. Even though I didn't agree with many of your decisions, I respect all the blood and sweat you invested in something as trivial as my recreation. Good luck to all of you in the career world.

I'm curious as to which ivy bridge chip you are using. I recently built my brother a i5 3570k based rig for adobe cs6 work and I have used it for the game as well. All it needed was some fast ram and it runs the game beautifully. I think the whole build was around 400 after adding a ssd and psu. It makes me wonder why people ever bother paying an extra 200 if all they play is this game.

Edit: I used arctic silver paste if it helps this discussion, just removed the stock putty on the included cooler with a razor blade and rubbing alcohol dabbed with cotton balls. I only run one instance but after a full hive hamidon raid or the shark week mumbo jumbo I've only peaked at 65C.

Trying to decide on a patron pool on a new toon I was wondering if the new customization options will allow us to change colors on patron pets too? It would make a differences in which pool I take because I don't really need any more powers after 38.

I don't really care, just curious. I had the urge to buy a super pack back when I first reinstalled the game but lost it when I saw ATOs were on the market for inf too.

One deterrent was that super packs are only sold in points and points come in multiples of $5 minimum. This is a straight dollar value purchase.

I might just roll a second account and play through the VIP story arcs and then let it lapse.

If so what's to stop someone from creating new accounts just to get 5 super packs for a dollarand then repeating?