SwellGuy

Originally Posted by Solo_One

My response to that is that nothing in life is guaranteed. Its like saying I was dumped by a significant other from a particular race/part of town/religion so I will never trust that subset of humanity with any sort of emotional attachment again. Its short sighted.

Do ex-star wars galaxies players swear off sony electronics? PS3? Major motion pictures? Holding a grudge against a multinational corporation by not playing a game is slactivism at best and the only one losing out is you if you were in the market for the product but wont buy it for some sense of duty to a few developers. If you think they were so amazingly talented(I'm not going to make a judgement on that one) then they will find work and keep being awesome without your boycott.

I will miss the best days of this game just like all of you guys but i'm not done playing videogames at this point in my life so i'm going to try out what comes out as long as I can afford the hobby and it interests me. Maybe at some point I'll start buying fair trade, organic, and non-ncsoft just to prove a point but for now i'm gonna go with the flow.

My invitation still stands by the way, press Y to open the friends menu and add the global I posted earlier.

Originally Posted by Solo_One

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?

Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy

Happens all the time by certain people, like "The Squirrel" does all the time already.

Yea, but posting that every single time can be viewed as annoying to the person it is directed at and not good for opening up constructive conversation, especially from a mod point of view.

Originally Posted by Lothic

From the article it looks like DCUO's lairs will be mostly hardwired spaces, with just a few details that can be customized. On the upside it looks like they will have (as Captain-Electric mentioned) a feature I always dreamed CoH SG bases could have - the ability to "assign/attach" your lair's entrance to any door in the game world you want. That way your lair could physically be in a single spot of your choosing, just like a real place in the real world. It's also funny that they are going to allow 1v1 PVP in lairs. I guess since CoH could never figure out how to have full SG vs SG raids being able to fight 1v1 is better than nothing.

I must admit having lairs in DCUO does make me a tiny bit more interested in that game. Unfortunately I think there's still enough to dislike about it that'll still keep me from playing it. *shrugs*

Originally Posted by Dispari

I'm not playing any other MMOs. I didn't enjoy WoW, Aion, GW, RO, GE, or CO. I have no idea where I'm going to go now.

Mostly I don't know what to do with my modern-day themed characters, or Arachnos-inspired characters. I just can't take characters like these to some medieval fantasy setting game.

Where is everyone going? I'd like some ideas and some discussions on what games offer what.

Originally Posted by DarkBlaster_NA

This is funny to me, This is exactly what i would do.

Only CoH could make me enjoy releveling, in any other game, Like WoW (Hate it) Or SWTOR (Very good, but only on the first playthrough for each faction) i would just quit.

Originally Posted by DarkBlaster_NA

...Would you care?

Let's assume somehow your character miraculously remained, unharmed along with the servers.

Originally Posted by Healix

For you, dear Bill
A Scrapper is a whole lot like a chainsaw. Somewhat hard to handle, incredibly dangerous, and most fun when wielded by the slightly insane.

Running a scrapper is similar to fuelling up a lawn mower with nitro-methane, and then aiming it at the bad guys.


Every scrapper should have an army trying to kill him, it's the only way the scrapper might have a chance to die.


Scrappers do not view "Run!" as an imperative. They view it as a notification that they are now fighting alone.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

There's no problem in the universe that can't be solved by a handful of T4ed scrappers/brutes being thrown at it.

Originally Posted by Tethers

I understand people wanting to move on. I understand not wanting to. I don't understand the lets-rub-salt-in-open-wounds mentality some people seem to have.

Originally Posted by TrueGentleman

Quite so, and this includes covering the MMO industry in general.

This means that if they cover NCSoft and its games, they're not doing their job if they overlook the company's past behavior, which wasn't exactly that of a paragon of corporate rectitude. Anyone who now reports on Blade & Soul or Wild Star ought to note that they're coming from a publisher notorious for abruptly terminating promising games. Since MMOs require a medium- to long-term investment from their players, that's a pretty damning reputation.

Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy

This whole hippie thing is such a shame to me. I feel like these delusions are preventing so many people from playing the game and spending time with their characters while they still can...

Make the best out of the time you have left instead of clinging to an unrealistic future.

Originally Posted by Roderick

What makes you think that SD was talking about appearances? I've met literally tonnes of people who look completely normal, but as soon as they open their mouths, the creepy factor goes through the roof.

First impressions start when you first see the person, but they don't end there. The entire first meeting, up until the point where you part company counts as "first impressions".

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

I remember when my main had accrued so much debt he was effectively unplayable. I had to wait until they imposed debt caps before I could make any progress on him again.

Of course, rather than quitting outright, all that debt on Chad got me to start playing some other characters more regularly and to make new ones... and to fall in love with Controllers... <3

Originally Posted by johnny_butane

should have kept their thread on the first page. It wasn't when i posted. Now i claim both threads in the name of shawarma.



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Originally Posted by TonyV

Having access to the reverse engineering crew, I'm almost certain that it will continue in some fashion. The only questions are details around how, and exactly how much functionality it will have. I'm still hopeful that we won't get to the point where this is our only option, though.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

That's where I am. I have nothing against MMOs as a concept, but damned if they aren't all boring, monotonous slogs that try to ram socialisation down my throat and waste my time. And why are they almost all Fantasy? Seriously, this is like the dark age of FPS games where everything was either Doom or Quake which had no plot, characters or interesting locations outside of brown castle and grey castle.

To me, City of Heroes was the Half-Life of the MMO world - a game which used the basic RPG mechanics and MMO infrastructure to deliver a new, unique, eccentric experience more focused on impressing its players than just yanking money out of their pockets. And it really WAS ahead of its time. The MMO market then wasn't as saturated as it is now, so a "different" game wasn't valued as highly.

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

CO is great if you want to feel like an errand boy for the big name signature heroes, and if you want an actual nemesis.

DCUO is great if you enjoy having your face firmly fastened to the loins of every franchise DC superhero ever. Nothing says "I'm a superhero" like being Superman's b****.