mercykilling

Ogod. Thank you SO much. I laughed so hard...and it came at a time I really needed to laugh.
By the way...email sent. Petitions signed. Facebook club joined. I'm doing everything I can think of to show my support for this game and the desire to see it continue.

Corporate greed has to be reigned in by the people. This event can be a catalyst for something. Vice Presidents, Chiefs of Staff....corporate boards....they all go home to forty room mansions....while the people that support them often go home to an apartment with forty people crammed into it. Time to end this injustice. You and I, dear gamers....we support them. By buying their products. I "listened" to several broadcast conversations last night while wandering zones, remembering things I love about this game...and throughout all of them was a great love for this, our home. But -also-....several people made mention they were keeping an eye on NCSoft stocks, which were plummeting. We, the people...CAN make them listen. By taking away our support, and supporting each other. Individually...we can't win. Together...we can.

I know all this sounds cheesy...but if anyone starts to think...."hey, maybe it -can- change..." then what I'm saying is valid and true.

But that was a digression. Rodney Dangerfield did the best rendition of this in Back to School.

"Do not go gentle into that dark night...rage, RAGE against the dying of the light."

Let's rage.

I know this is a huge suggestion....but make new geo's. *gets ready for incoming flak*

New models would make a whole boatload of stuff possible, correct?
Ah, what am I thinking. New models would probably break the game so that it couldn't be fixed.

*glances at the new mob bodies in the DA arcs*

.......maybe not?

Not sure how you managed to think I was talking about paragon points.
You TOTALLY missed my intended point, but hey. You seem to do that a lot, so I'll forgive you. You also seem to snip out certain parts of posts to reinforce your delusions, so...once again, I forgive you. That's twice. All you get.

What is a slap in the face is the fact that I pay a monthly stipend. Which should set me above marketing schemes and ploys. But does not.

What is a slap in the face is that the very same subscription fee was just fine for game play for a VERY LONG TIME. Freedom comes along and all of a sudden, it's no longer enough. A blatant statement was made by the devs which I will paraphrase here. "We once got $15 a month from you, and that covered everything we put out. Now, however....we want a $15 sub and extra for you to get everything we put out."

True, we're getting stuff at a more frequent pace. This just shows me that the game developers were capable of this pace previous to the Freedom model, but were too.....heck, I'm not sure -why- they didn't. Another slap in the face.

Now...I get that not everyone shares my opinion. Which is fine. Really. ^_^
But to insult me and tear me down simply because my opinion is different from the majority is.....well.......just immature. Wrong. I'm a human being too, with the same right to express my concerns and feelings here as everyone else. Kinda makes me wish there was a way to ignore certain forumites posts like you can ignore certain people ingame. The vitriol that is spewed forth as common expression in these forums is exactly why in six plus years, I've posted less than five hundred times.

But, I digress. Back to subject.

Yes, I feel wounded and slighted by the way we as V.I.P.'s are being treated. We get the same marketing department schemes to drum up money tossed our way that is intended for premium players and free players. That should change. Not likely to, but I wish it would.

We as V.I.P.'s also do enjoy a good number of ingame perks. Which I am EXTREMELY grateful to have. Almost 24 character slots on Virtue alone filled. If I dropped my sub, I'd lose at least six of them, as I'm not sure the previous verteran program yearly slots count as purchased slots. Nor am I sure if I'd get to keep the 12 "original" slots or get dropped down to the 2 or 4 slots a premium/free player gets. I like mah global channels. I like having bases for my characters. And yeah, they're SG's and VG's with nothing but my characters in them.
Pretty sure we know what all the perks are....and those perks are why I'm still paying the sub.

To sum up.....yes, I love this game. It's my first MMO, and having tried the others out there since being introduced to the genre by CoX......I come back every time. For the most part, the community here ingame is outstanding. I've a wide circle of friends and at any time of day or night I can log in and find at least five people on my global list to do things with.
WoW doesn't do that for me. CO doesn't. STO doesn't. DCUOnline doesn't. Just City of. So it's not because of how we as V.I.P.'s are getting ALL THESE MARVELOUS THINGS from the devs that keep me coming back....because we're not. Really. We are for the most part getting shafted by the marketing department now. It's because of friends and what I've gotten used to having ingame that keeps me subbing every six months.
By the way...I bet dollars to doughnuts someone will clip something out of this and use it to point out yet another fallacious and erroneous judgmental statement I seemed to have made with this post.

Anime=/= options. Nice try, though. Options would be things like...multiple choices for power animations/colors. Having a single item for use in bases to seperate room height -like a floor does-. Or actual stairs that go up a single flight. Additional costume pieces, yes. But not asian/anime flavored. Plenty of other genres out there. Steampunk. Sci-fi. Horror. Heck, even actual clothing that doesn't look like painted on items. They're starting to branch out like that, which is -good-. It's even Very Good. With capitol letters.

Let's come at this in a different perspective. Touting one's cultural heritage is generally viewed as having pride in one's roots. It's also done all the time. African-american culture. Asian culture. Russian culture. Hispanic culture. The list is quite long.
However, as soon as someone wants to tout their White Anglo Saxon Protestant culture, it's immediately labelled as "racism". Why aren't the previously provided examples labeled as "racism" then? It's no different. At least to me, it isn't. But, that's another discussion not for these forums.

The example above was given to provide reference for this statement.
An opinion that differs from the majority view is not trolling, just different. I don't like manga/anime or that whole genre. Doesn't make me evil or a troll, just means I've a different opinion and view of it all. The original question wasn't "Why do you like/support/want to see more of anime in the game?" It was "Why all the hate/dislike?" If anyone's trolling, it's the supporters of it. My two cents. Also, done posting here. As you can see by my post count, I don't normally post here in the forums. Six year veteran, too, so yes. I -love- this game. Greatly. I've nothing but support for it, even if they remove my posts. Even if they add things to the game I don't agree with. At least now, with Freedom, I have the option of not purchasing things I view as a waste of my money. Score all the way around!!

Umm...Titan weapons is a two handed animation set. Can't pair with shield. No two handed animation set can. Dual pistols, dual blades, titan weapons are all right out. Sorry.

Wait....let me see if I'm understanding this right. I pick which characters to play, locking out the others. When/if I sub back up....I -lose- those characters in favor of empty slots?

Purely subjective opinion. Not factual at all.


Hrm. Fairly certain this "mechanic" has been used in other fighting type games as well. So it's not really that different or unique, insofar as being revolutionary, but simply new to CoH/V. Mostly.