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Go to redside sometime and see how many players you find.

The show is on NBC, correct? It'll get a half season, minimum, then.

That's just how it is. The consumer is accustomed to going through new games on a very regular basis, and the competition is there to ensure there is enough new content, as long as the consumer is willing to buy new games to achieve that goal.

It's not that important, anyhow. Competing with content means you're, in essence, competing with all video games, ever made. You must compete with the social side of the game. With features. With options. With the ability to customize and personalize characters.

Many MMOs fail in large part because they get burdened with licensing. COH succeeded in no small part because it was able to create a universe where the user was a central part, and not playing someone else's role. They key to the subscription model is to make the user care enough about a character to want to keep it around.

No, it hasn't. They suffer the same problems that the other pets do.

Pet AI is still problematic, but bad Masterminding got a buff, as it were. Control, however, was lost for all.

Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you just have such a team that steamrolls anything.

A lot of people like playing that way, as well. You'll likely find more people who enjoy steamrolling and getting rewards than you do people that want to turn up the challenge just for the sake of challenge.

If I had a nickel every time someone brought an absolute statement to a discussion, I'd have a lot of nickels. There's never a shortage of folks whose arguments are nothing more than 'because I said so'.

Running a regen blaster in this fashion is a downtime reducer, not a direct counter to more defense.

The closer you get, the more it adds relatively.

I agree. Even on random groups, I'll excuse myself if the team is streamrolling. I just don't find it very much fun to walk up to every spawn and 'race' to get my one power off in time.

Correct. It is not knockdown, as defined by the game, and in some cases it can actually increase the distance between adjacent enemies. There is always an angle of deflection to be concerned with.

Yep.

Those definitions have been fought over since they were invented, like most definitions.

Ditto. The AT is about control, and that needs to get fixed.

No it isn't. I didn't gain one bit of functionality that I didn't have with Goto. I lost control in the process.

It was only a "gain" for lazy players of melee pets.

If you want to see nonsense, start throwing out absolutes.

Nice work on the mini-guide. With time, and such advice, we'll end this nonsense about the mission being 'impossible'.

They obviously help. The changes threaten to marginalize that help, however, relative to other ATs, given that Blasters are primarily damage ATs, and are therefore bringing something the rest of the team already provides.

Everything in the game hates stairs. I was just doing Maria's arc the other day, and Ms Liberty could take on AVs, but that staircase baffled her.