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Originally Posted by EvilGeko

My guess is patch is going up today. Our accounts won't be flagged as having GR enabled until tomorrow. Unless there's a bad bug and then I'm going to give Praetor White the finger!

Originally Posted by Lothic

Ironically if GR/I18 actually went live today instead of tomorrow there would probably be a few people out there who'd genuinely be mad because they were expecting one more day of "pre-GR" playtime.

Originally Posted by Cayenne

I don't have the tens of thousands of posts that other people do

Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum

I'm a fan of the game & I have high hopes for the expansion, but I dread extreme optimism.

This game is being released in a weak economy with low consumer spending and dreary forecasts. It never had even a tenth of the subscription base of the "industry leader" -- even if you count the populations of each only in the area of release that they share. In that perspective, it won't be "industry shaking."

It will, however, be very successful in its own right.

CoH was made with a fraction of the budget of other "leading" MMO's like Eq2, WoW, Age of Conan, Aion, LOTRO, and Warhammer Online-- and that made it's "modest by WoW standards" subscriber base give a very nice return on investment. Going Rogue would have been budgeted with that in mind. It will perform solidly for its market size, but it won't transform the MMO landscape (based on sales revenue and quarterly profits).

Originally Posted by Lord_of_Time

You do realize that O_I is an alt account of Twixt? For anyone that knows that name I have to say no more. That explains the entire thread.

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

I was playing a Hero arc the other day. "You saved us! I thought we were going to die!" said a hostage when I freed them. "Shut it," I replied, "I'm only doing this because it pays well and I get to beat people up without getting arrested."

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

I do this on lowbies sometimes, only I combine cheap insps to make giant defenses. It seems like there's *always* someone willing to overpay for king-sized purples.

Originally Posted by RagManX

As a poster who puts up much quote-worthy material, this is one of your finest.

RagManX

Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails

If you have ever read "The Killing Joke", then you know Batman's take: he beleives the Joke chose to go insane, rather than face reality, and therefore is personally responsible for his choices.

However, it is also DC canon (arguably) that the Joker is too crazy to realize his actions have 'real' consequences...he may be 'aware' that he is a comic book character and thus that any killing he does can be blamed on the author (or ultimately, the audience).

But you cannot blame Batman any more than you can blame every police officer who has ever had a felon guilty of a capital offense at gunpoint and did not pull the trigger.

However, this is very interesting. If only there were some kind of interactive setting (maybe an electronic one) where one could explore the morality of possibly supporting a corrupt system versus the possible necessity of committing murder to protect the innocent...

Originally Posted by maggotface

Billions upon Billions?

Originally Posted by Gruumch

I have 2 villains I plan on taking blue.

FM/DA Brute so I can get the Tanker APP's and a Stalker I made a couple months that was meant to be a Hero.

I may take some of my Heroes redside, but I don't play them very often so we will see.

Originally Posted by Peacemoon

Yep the demographic of forum posters has interested me for a while. For instance when I use to play DAoC and the looked at the IGN class forums, the stealther/assassin forums were always the most popular, despite the class's general rarity ingame. Conversely the healer forums were slow, even though ingame they had a huge representation. If you check other games, even this one, the people who play support classes seem to be the type who are much less competetive much less likely to post. This is strictly my opinion based on all the online games I've played, of course. I do sometimes wonder if support issues get overlooked because of this but I digress.

The point that I am slowly trying to make is that I agree, the forums represent a certain particular type of gamer and not the playerbase as a whole, and those people tend to be more likely to complain (Even me!)

Then again I think its just human nature. We tend to remember bad not good. We tend to be blissfully happy and silent when happy and usually voice our opinions only if we are angered or annoyed. It makes sense though, if I had to constantly post what I liked about the game, as opposed about what I didn't like, these forums might get a bit spammed.

P.S Loving the fact other people are as excited as me. I can't wait for launch day and Nova Praetoria being packed!

Originally Posted by Talen Lee

And a way to address the 'short' TFs like Katie, Eden and CAD.

Originally Posted by maggotface

So Fulmens is a KING of science, and eryq2 beats up hookers?

Im ok with this comparison. The only way it could be better is if Fulmens was Carl Sagan instead.

Originally Posted by CaptnJustice

(Puts on flame-retardant suit...)

Okay, so before I state my ideas let me say that I know the devs have said this isn't going to happen, and no I haven't read ALL the threads on the vehicles suggestions, because A) I'm lazy... and B) I have too much of a life outside of the game/forums... So forgive me for any similarities to any other posts...

As for bringing this subject up again, I basically wanted to put my 2 inf in on the subject and also keep it alive so that hopefully eventually the devs will see how much the players want it and perhaps work it into the game... So without further adieu...