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Seconded!

And thanks, guys. Couldn't have been easy spilling the beans like this.



... Must've been at least a little fun, though. Come on, admit it. Telling the whole story right away, without having to wait months or years to tell a little piece at a time? I'm sure the developer in you guys was and but the storyteller in you must've been all

Yeah, that's a pretty uncanny summary of what I've been feeling the last couple weeks too.

But I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we haven't seen the last of these events yet. Time will tell I guess. Well okay, time and positive efforts on our part.

Take heart, goat creature! Our city's future may be brighter than it looked two weeks ago. We know that our efforts have been noticed, now it's a matter of keeping them up and waiting to learn what sort of difference they made.

But... but I was so close...

We don't need them to reverse their decision. We need them to realize how good they can look in the public's eye by letting the game - and hopefully Paragon Studios in some form - continue on with another company. One that would consider CoH's level of profit desirable and worth maintaining.

On it! *hits up Craigslist*

Hmmm. Closest I can find is a rusted out Gremlin that can't top 30, and a bunch of knockoff iPhones.

That'll have to do. Pass me the duct tape!


I feel comfortable in saying that while I don't know if we're technically a larger playerbase, we're definitely a more motivated and dedicated one. Most of the players I've heard talking say they came/stayed here to avoid things like mandatory pvp, generic appearance, loot competition and endless grinding. We really, really don't want to have to go to one of the myriad other games that are based around those things. If this were one of those clones, it would suck to have to leave, but we'd find one of the others and be just as happy there... because in the end games like that are pretty much swappable. It's because CoH isn't like those that we stayed so long, and that's also why so many of us are staying now to fight so hard.

Heh... I wonder if anyone told them Virtue would be "extra active" today

Another option is "/e holdtorch". That makes it seem more like a vigil, and says "strength in numbers" more than "protest".

The free bonus for optionally subscribing, which most considered trivial, is now being used by accounts that can't buy anything to help keep the game from shutting down.

I find the irony of this point to be overwhelming.

Heh, it means that just seeing the phrase "Top Ten" makes some of us think it's Steelclaw posting. Worked on me too!

Ah, the life of a designer.

That would be really nice. Y'know, one day when they're a bit less busy. I think I remember them saying that all the numbers for things like powers and enhancements and such are stored in the client, and if that's the case then they have all the time in the world to get to that later.

Tell you what, I'd gladly team up my DP/Martial Combat with your Energy Aura tanker to run a few mishes. Any day.

And yeah, I really don't see them picking it back up either, but passing on the torch is much more likely and worth holding out hope for.

*Pats the floor and slides over what's left of the kleenex box*

Yeah I was getting ready to take a couple months "burnout break" myself, to go play some Torchlight 2. :/


Well THAT'S just gonna have to wait. We've got a city to protect first.

/e knuckles

Yeah seriously. Gonna miss those Coffee Talks somethin' fierce.

Those two were hilarious even when they weren't armed.

It wasn't the impression we needed, but it was the impression we deserved. (No, I have no idea what that means)

I loved that phrase. That phrase was awesome.

A wild Hawkward appears!

Hey some of those were epic. I always got a kick out of it when Z and Co. would chain a bunch of tangents together one after another until it seemed like someone offscreen was about to shout "Ultra Combo!!!"

I kept waiting for them to tangent so hard that they forgot they were on the air, and just wandered off to get lunch with the camera still running. Or for Zwill to show us a "sneak peek of something on beta", and then just rickroll us. Woulda. Been. AWESOME.

Ooh, Velocity. Sounds interesting. I wouldn't mind hearing more about that sometime



On a side note, I fully plan to keep using that now and then, if only to make "one of every combo". Y'know, for nostalgia and all that.

I hear ya. From the day she was born, shortly after Going Rogue, my DP/Energy blaster was meant to be Martial Combat. She came thaaaat close, too. *sighs*

Well for me at least, it's not that CO looks bad, because it doesn't. It looks like it has plenty of things to enjoy about it. Just... not the magic combination that this place had. That game has a slightly wrong visual style, a slightly wrong combat system, a slightly wrong atmosphere. I'll like it, but I don't see myself ever fighting to keep it from shutting down.

*sighs heavily* I'm just gonna go sit over here in the corner for a while. Don't pay any attention to the little whimpering noises, they'll pass.



(Holy guacamole... this was a long post )

Heh, yeah. Super Strength Brute. So cliche.

Fair enough. Still glad to have it. And hey... anyone complains, tell them they can make their own.

Great, now I've got this mental picture of Posi in his gold armor but it's been cast to look like it has bell bottoms and giant lapels.

Edit: Oh but the story was cool

We can rebuild it! We have the technology!

Heh. No but really, save the studio. Not a question.

Sweeeeeet! I like the sound of that. We might want to start giving out that stream link as well then, invite people to come watch for themselves.

http://massively.joystiq.com/livestream