Tiger_Pride

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panthershade is from boston also

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Charlestown here

What a great thread topic. Good show!

I am a 28 year old full time student (focusing on human services and writing), on educational leave from my job at a ginormous telecom company to get a degree so I can get out of said company.

I took advantage of the right I have long hoped for (and didn't expect so soon!) and am married (since August) to an awesome guy, also a CoH player, love 80's music and classic games, and volunteer as a counselor on an HIV Information hotline several hours a week.

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Two words:

Kill Skuls.

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Et tu Emmert? Et tu?

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Seems to me the only way a guy would get angry if you are a guy playign a girl, is he he had hit on you, not knowing.

If he does not know, and knows he would be uncomfortable if you are actually a guy, he shouldn't hit on you n the first place.

What is funny to me is that I think the guys are more concerned with the possibilty of flirting with another guy than the idea the person might be an 11 year old child.

And while we are on the subject, Statey promised me a rose garden.

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As yours is the only post I've seen in this thread disputing my claim that the vast majority would have preferred another week or two of delay while they fixed the most egregious bugs, you're very clearly not part of that vast majority.

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Fact: The unhappy people are always the loudest. Why? Because they are unhappy. You should also climb out of your little message board limbo for a moment and realize that the posters here are a miniscule portion of the players of City of Heroes. Some casual players don't even realize there were any changes made.

And as for the "reading comprehension" comment, if you need to attempt to insult the people you refute, then you obviously don't have much confidence in the gravity of your opinion.

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The fact is, they knew there were many, many bugs, and they rushed I3 out without fixing them. Many of the bugs, though not game-breaking (as in crashes), are very definitely a problem.

Just for example: Silent blinkies. Howinthehell did this bug get into Live? It was probably one of the most extensively-reported bugs on Test.


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This bug got into live because it was lower on the priority list than many bugs that were removed. There are alot of bugs and issues that "Joe Average Gameplayer" doesn't even know about. Some of these are major quality of life, or gameply crashes. Those get fixed first.

If you are riding a bike, and hit a tree, do you tend to the minor scratches before that big gash on your forehead? Of course not.

Honestly, the shock displayed over the glowie bug going live is laughable. It is not that big of a deal.

Issue 3 was promised long ago, and they took a long time (much longer than issue 2) to get it playable. The fact is at least as many people were eager for I3 to go live as would want flaws ironed out before it went live. In some cases, people freaking out over it not being live yet, are probably mad now because there are flaws. it is human nature.

I do not think anyone has enough information to be able to speak for the majority of the players.

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To the original poster: Your post was well-written and beautifully thought out. Unfortunately, it is also inflamatory and lacks any evidence to support your statements. Without examples, your statements are only opinions. If you want to help the Developers help you, give them solid examples to work with.

Other people have followed up with some examples of bugs, which I think was more helpful.

I think the release of Issue #3 was a HUGE improvement over the release of Issue #2. Were there some bugs? Yes. And I'm sorry if that had a more serious effect one some than others. My empathy defender didn't have any real tweaks made, so I only know about the changes based on what I've read here and what my friends say.

I've temporarily lost my connection to the map server several times since Issue #3 went live.

I'm glad Statesman said the inaudible glowie is being fixed, because I rely on that sound to help me find them. But when I haven't found a glowie in the past and entered a petition, a GM has almost always come on to help me within 10 minutes or less. I know this is worse if you play off hours, though.

I think it's great that the OP is calling for Cryptic/NCSoft to be ABOVE industry standard. That's a great goal and I'm sure they would really like to do that. But I don't believe this was BENEATH industry standard.

Issue #2 had some really bad stability problems. The servers were crashing or being taken down multiple times over the first weekend. It was extremely frustrating. Someone mentioned that, without a Respec, Issue #3 made some characters unsafe to play. (It's a game. "Unsafe" might have been a bit strong.) There's a huge difference between system instability - truly unplayable - and the bugs being listed here.

Instead of telling the Developers that they came thisclose to making the sky fall, I'd rather say "Thanks for taking more time on Issue #3. I see a lot of improvements in the way the release was handled and I hope the next release will go even more smoothly."

Perfection, or near perfection, would be really nice. But Improvement is also good, shows me they're going in the right directions, and gives me hope.

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5 stars for you MissInformed. I am sick of the nastiness that all too commonly goes hand in hand with criticism of the game.

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Me, I'm 32, almost 33, and I remember the days before Pong. CoH, and it's free updates, seems pretty nifty to me.

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26 year old here: the "free updates" are anything but... not only are we paying customers, but they're usually bundled with a healthy dose of nerfs and changes.

The devs aren't offering "free" updates out of the kindness of their hearts. They're doing it to retain paying customers. Stop paying and see how many updates you get.

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Why don't the people complaining like it's the end of the world put their money where their mouths are and just leave. Obviously if it is so horrible, then you don't want to play anymore, right?

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When I read posts like this, I can't help but think about some of the articles I've read in Newsweek and such about the so-called "Age of Entitlement" kids are being raised in today ("The Power of No," Newsweek, Sept. 13, 2004, for example).

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Amen Twinlights! Instead of giving thanks for what they have, some people just zone in on whatever they don't, and complain. I can't speak for other countries, but we Americans, are spoiled bastards.

It's too bad, because when you look at all the things that we have right now, and the things that some other people DON'T have around the world right now, we should all be thanking our respective higher powers(where applicable) that we have all that we do. Lord knows if karma could spawn a natural disaster, the USA would have been drowned years ago.

For all of those complainng about the devs "not doing their jobs"...

How many of you are reading and posting here when you are at work and should be "doing your jobs?"

I have secretly longed for Greek mythology to make its way into CoH....

Please let this be it...

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Sparkle Motion!

Gamma Man - Leader
Captain Utopia - Captain

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^5 brother!