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Good lord, please let us not have another episode devoted to meta-commentary about Doctor Who fandom.

Back in the old days, a Doctor Who serial would end on a cliffhanger with just the stutter start of the theme music and a fade-in into the howl-around or slit-scan credit sequence! If it was the end of the serial, then there wasn't even a cliffhanger!! That was all we got, and we liked it!!!

But TVbtN doesn't cite any sources at all to confirm that, and the rumors say it won't be. But even the Variety article that's the source of the OP's link relies on unnamed informants when they report, "Sources say a renewal for the David E. Kelley midseason drama 'Harry's Law' is likely, but it's not looking so good for Kelley's take on the 'Wonder Woman' remake starring 'Friday Night Lights' alum Adrianne Palicki."

The news is supposed to come out later today, but the way things are going, the more likely Harry's Law gets renewed, the less likely Wonder Woman will be picked up.

Money, in such cases, talks loudest. If enough players are willing to pony up a sub-subscription - $2.99 per month seems to be the floor of what the market will bear* - then Paragon Studios can think about devoting time and labor toward the project. And then there's all the current projects scheduled and budgeted. Still, there's nothing to rule this out technically.

* Charging a one-time fee for downloading seems like the hardest way to justify a separate app for a subscription-based MMORPG. Maybe those games that have them consider them value enhancers or something.

That's entirely possible. Since CoH doesn't have as many required maintenance tasks as some other games, a smartphone/tablet app would have to rely mainly on options socializing. An offline costume creator or AE mission builder would be great, but since the devs haven't shown interest in PC versions of those, the chances are slim. Similarly the City Vault might be another feature that would lend itself to an app, but that project is apparently permanently MIA.

Some of the apps that I've seen from competing MMOs (which will go nameless here because of forum rules) are free downloads but charge a subscription fee for their use, although others charge only a one-time download fee. Perhaps instead of the question "Has there been any mention of iPad 2 support?", we should let the devs know how much we'd pay for this.

...is excruciatingly tempting to adopt as a battle-cry.

"Dev" really stands for "devious", doesn't it?

Many thanks. Now that the information is freely available, it would of course be sheer perversity to play around with its restrictions.

Perhaps the character name "I'm Spartacus" is free on one of the servers...

Now comes the complicated calculations of the value of time taken up levelling a new alt on an EU server versus the cost of transferring an alt already in progress.

It's a genius opportunity, I suppose, for gaming sites like Massively to write up at least a summary article if Paragon isn't going to bother providing a transcript. Honestly, some of us regard watching unedited videos as a waste of time.

That reminds me of the discussion "What Do the Stormtroopers Think of Vader?" at Overthinking It, particularly this observation:

That's not a viable option for some people (it's also very time-consuming for the amount of information actually imparted).

This is only a rhetorical question, but if one is adapting an MMO from an established pen-and-paper RPG with a voluminous canon spread over many supplements and three decades, does it make better business sense to concentrate on its distinctive intellectual property or to rush out expansions that "mirror" one's competitors' products? (Because Villains and Vigilantes is ripe for online development, and its canon includes an alien invasion supplement.)

I know you're not joking and was tempted to link to the preview video on the competition online's site before I decided not to risk getting mod'ed over it. (It has to be seen to be believed, though, the similarities are so numerous, even if the setting doesn't look nearly as richly designed.)

Perhaps the more colloquial "biting their style" would be more apt here. There are certainly comic book precedents for this kind of setting for superheroes, such as D.C.'s inversions of the Justice League with the Crime Syndicate and Marvel's dystopian "Days of Future Past" X-Men storyline. On the other hand, Going Rogue was announced way back in May of 2009, so there's no way the competition online could have been unaware of the expansion's development.

Surely you're joking. (You're not joking.)