james_joyce

There's also nothing at all wrong with ceasing to pay for a service that you no longer think is worth it. /ragequit may be mock-worthy, but quitting because you're bored is perfectly reasonable. We have no obligation to stay subscribed.

That said, Praetoria will keep me entertained for at least a couple years, at the pace I play. So from my perspective, they can take their time. But I understand many players urgently want end game content.

At the very least, the Alpha Slot will be coupled with new content.

Since I20 is going into closed beta so soon, I'm actually thinking I19 might indeed be pretty small. But who knows.

Just wanted to chime in on this, even though I haven't read every post here.

I had only heard of the SP comics in passing, had never read them, and didn't really know what to expect of the movie. I went to see it and absolutely loved it, and a big part of the reason I loved it was because it was just bat-s*** insane. So the lack of explanation to me was what made it great. It was just a fun, very funny movie that for some reason takes place in a video game world where crazy crap happens without any explanation. It seemed like someone's fever dream, and I really liked that. I suspect it's the same reason I'll like Suckerpunch.

So I think the reason it semi-flopped is because, as others have said before, it's a big budget movie targeted at a niche of a niche. I don't think anyone should have had any reasonable expectation of big box office success on this one. Most people probably don't get why people explode into coins when you kill them, or why there are random doors floating in space, or why a sword came out of his chest at the end, or what the prefix "Nega" means. And this is on top of the fact that even when you get all those references, the movie is still frenetic and shallow. So even within the 8-bit video game enthusiast niche, it still wont appeal to people who wanted to see something more substantial than a nerd's comedic fever dream power fantasy.

I loved it, probably because I'm in that niche, or maybe just a little outside it, but man is that a narrow demographic.

Pretty much all of Manhattan is safe these days. The walk from Penn Station to the Javits Center is super boring, but not particularly dangerous. I actually work right around there. You'll pass a lot of office buildings and crappy restaurants, and then when you cross 9th ave you'll pass a lot of warehouses and maybe a horse stable, but you don't have anything to worry about. To squeeze the maximum amount of interest out of the walk, you might as well walk down 34th street. Not that it helps all that much - that area is just a drag in general. Obviously common sense applies when talking about safety.

They just need to build another convention center closer to the village. I don't think midtown west is getting gentrified any time soon. Even just building one a few dozen blocks south on the west side would be vastly better - must closer to Chelsea/West Village.

Of course, there's no space anywhere, so that's tricky.

Why not? I think it's a great idea.

Just because they're releasing an emotes pack does not mean they're not also working on more costume packs. I think we have every reason to believe they ARE working on more costume packs - this probably didn't even take time away from costume pieces, since I'm pretty sure animation and art are separate teams.

Is Galactus a villain?

Robin Hood would not be a Rogue in this game. I'm not actually sure what he'd be. Rogues are Han Solo types, not Robin Hood types - they do good by accident or by contrivance, but act selfishly.

Did they change it? I haven't created a villain since they released the expansion.

They specifically pulled it from I18 because it didn't have content associated with it. Presumably this means that when it is released, it'll be released with content.

That's actually a pretty accurate description - remember that Rogues are on their way to Heroes, and Vigilantes are on their way to Villains. I know they advertise it as being morally grey, but it's very hard to do that well when you're moving characters in a specific direction along the spectrum like that. A truly morally grey mission wouldn't move you anywhere on the moral spectrum - your choices would be ambiguous judgement calls, villainous to some, heroic to others. That's more like what Praetoria is (debatably), and not like what the alignment missions are. I'd love to see some truly ambiguous missions in the core game, but these are not them.

That would just be straight up hero in the context of this game... I guess, other than the "kill" part. This game is defining vigilante in a very specific way, differently than the colloquial usage. A Vigilante here is a hero that seeks to stop criminals by any means necessary, even if that means going through innocent people to do it, and it often does. Remember, the whole point of the vigilante missions is that you're on the path to villainy.

The reason the devs pulled the Alpha Incarnate slot from I18 is so that they could release it with the rest of the end game content in I19 - the complain was that even though we had the new Alpha slot, we had nothing to do with it. No content that required its enhancements. So I think that's a pretty good indication that I19 will have some significant end game content.

As for PvP, I wouldn't hold your breath.

I don't think I've gotten any that are explicitly villainous. The one I was thinking of was where some Freakshow are taking out some reformed Freakshow. The Vigilante choice is to go in and take all of them out, because, "They're all scum," or something like that. The reformed Freakshow actually beg for mercy while you're killing them. Gah.

The question for me is, did they have the resources to do both at once but did not, and if so, why? Or is it possible that the upgrades to their tech required to make the new content took more of their resources than it otherwise would? Or do they just not have that many resources?