SpyralPegacyon

Originally Posted by Tenzhi

I hate the common MMOG convention of having to visit a trainer to level up, and I'm so glad that I don't have to in this game. I can just click the flashing icon on my minimap and immediately level up.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

Lir: "The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story."
Molly: "But what if there isn't a happy ending at all?"
Schmendrick: "There are no happy endings... because nothing ends."

Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

It's surprising to me that there seem to be people who specifically go looking for instances of people being hopeful, happy or at least satisfied with the situation with the express purpose of "tempering expectations." And I don't get that.

Originally Posted by BrandX

Checked it out at PAX. It's Diablo with Marvel Superheroes.

And yes, you're limited to playing as one of Marvel's superheroes, and not able to create your own :/

Though the list of which characters you could be seemed pretty high!

Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter

This thread just screams what was said about SWTOR last December, right after the much more versatile SWG was shut down to make way for it (which ALSO feels eerily familiar to the current situation)

Then came the Tortanic iceberg. EA's (another rather evil mega game corporation usually referenced by 2 letters) stocks crashed like a stone, half the population left, and SWTOR is going F2P in the fall.

Originally Posted by Atlantea

For you to have your eyes wide open and still make the choice to give them money and in effect your validation for what they have done? Oh yes - I see that as betrayal. Betrayal and selfishness. Because you've decided you'd rather be selfish and choose your own enjoyment and fun over the principled stance. I don't hate you for it. I pity you. Because you've proven not to have the moral understanding necessary to make a principled stance. And in this case, it's so EASY to make the principled stance. But you chose to be selfish.

Originally Posted by American_Knight

Bumping this thread to remind people there are still games to be played no matter who makes them. There are some toxic trheads out there from people wishing ill to certain companies and thus wishing more people will lose their jobs. I can't stand by and see these people do this to others with doing something.

Originally Posted by Signal of Truth

2) Is Mender Lazarus in reality Doctor Aeon?

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Something else to cogitate on.

Internet Attention Span. (Or more correctly Internet Attention Deficit Disorder.)

Due to the more or less instantaneous gratification provided by the Internet for various information and entertainment outlets, there's some expectation of rapid response from corporate entities to various social pushes.

Large, multi-million dollar corporations are amongst the slowest animals on the planet. Due to legal concerns, ongoing business negotiations, and the simple need for standard business continuity (coming in to work and getting all the busy-work done) it can take some companies astoundingly long times to actually respond to things unless they have a lawyer, a process server, or a police officer there.

Originally Posted by Mandu

If you want to make a real impression go with physical instead of electronic. Start a fund. Get a paypal account. Pay some guys in SK to go physically dump bags of letters and boxes of comic books in the lobby of NCSoft Korea.

Jericho wasn't given another season because people sent emails. It was given another season because fans sent 25 tons of peanuts to the studio offices. Chuck got a third season because a campaign to buy Subway sandwiches and leave fan notes about Chuck in their feedback boxes led Subway to sponsoring the third season.

As was mentioned before the most those executives are likely to see is a note that there have been a lot of messages about saving CoH in their inbox lately. Yes that could help but physical gestures always seem huge in comparison.

Think about it. What would impress you personally more. Opening your email in the morning and seeing that you have 10,000 new messages or having the USPS truck pull up and drop off bag after bag of physical letters. Which would you be more likely to ignore and which would you be more likely to start looking through out of curiosity?

Originally Posted by Charcoal

This is the way I see things- Call it optimism or stupidity, it doesn't honestly matter to me. The NDA has been brought up several times- We know they're talking, but neither side will say what they're talking about, when they're talking, why they're talking. That's because the NDA swings both ways- Paragon can't say anything, neither can NCSoft. Just because NCSoft hasn't made a statement doesn't mean they're ignoring us.

Originally Posted by LittleDavid

If there's people who could send in a clear-headed, convincing letter that demonstrates City of Heroes has more worth selling off than by sitting on the IP, but won't because they don't agree with what TonyV has done here, while the trolls and anti-fans send off their death threats and nastygrams, thereby decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio and giving the bigwigs the impression that the CoH fanbase is an internet hate machine ... That's a pretty good example of evil triumphing because good men did nothing, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Ashe T'Dust

Personally what I find sad/amusing is that the CEO uses davinci for his email.

Warning sign people. He aspires to be some sort of super genius that he clearly isnt.

Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon

Tangent #1: My condition damage thief just had a good chuckle. Let's give the game a couple months before we start debating balance.

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

I think someone making a new super hero MMO could borrow a lot from Guild Wars 2.

Like the dynamic events system; having random crimes happening in the world. The problem I've always had with CoH is there's really no reason for the city zones. They just exist as space between mission doors, and to me that doesn't compute when Spider-Man or Bats spend like 90% of time swinging around the open city on patrol. So I'd love to see the same thing brought into the super hero context. To further the idea, completing these events could lead to revealing "clues", if you have investigative skills, that in turn lead you to an instanced mission and part of a greater story arc. Or if you're not the detective type, it's off to the next random disaster.

I think half of their power system is a good idea. If you're a "fire guy" you have access to all the fire powers, but you can only equip so many. If you want to control you can grab the ring of fire type powers and if you want damage you can go for the fire ball type powers. Obviously, I don't think super heroes would be swapping out "weapons" on the fly. You shouldn't have a super strength guy switching to a martial artist or swordsman whenever he feels like it. Although maybe if they grouped them together in sets; super strength+titan weapons and martial arts+swordsmanship for example.

They've got a rudimentary system for environmental interaction with their "weapon bundles". You can find bits of rubble to pick up and toss. Now if only they were cars. You have Elementalist I believe that can create ice weapons; that could be expanded upon greatly by having everyone's attacks create different weaponizable items as a side effect.

Originally Posted by srmalloy

And it's things like this that make me believe NCSoft shut down City of Heroes because it was an embarrassment to them -- they bring Korean-style grinders to the US market again and again, and they keep sliding off into oblivion as people realize what a horrible, endless grind the game is for little payoff... while City of Heroes, almost the complete antithesis of Korean-style grinders, keeps bumbling along -- no sweeping success, but still making steady money for the company.