rian_frostdrake

Well, my little 8 ball says, the drain has been from a lack of new story and mission content, which i expect(and freaking well hope) GR will rectify. Beyond that, this game has had some qol improvements this year that assured my staying,animation customization was bigger than anything any other mmo offered me. But honestly, Things will be as they are and there isnt much that pouting or stomping our feet can do to change things. If you see a new player, be nice to them. and if they have a question, help them if you have the capacity. maybe even global friend them, so you can be the go-to guy/gal. that is the only power we the players actually have, but its not as small as it may seem, loyalty doesnt spring from trees, its is cultivated through good works(gyah, too many customer service training seminars...but ti is also true, despite being sappy). There is a reason coh has the rep it does for being friendly and inviting, MAINTAIN IT!

as for marketing, im guessing that they aren't marketing now because there isnt much new to market right now, but theya re going to market heavily on gamer specific sites, like kotaku, penny arcade, /gu and the like when GR gets it's hype train chugging. much like they did when the MA box hit, there were a lot of ads then.

GYAAAGHHH!

happy...inarticulate...but happy... if he can make robes work with tails i will be beside myself. yes, my main character is a freaking dragon, this is big...

Eh, at this point i'd rather they not tie too much game affecting stuff into the vet rewards, given that the rewards are now at the 6 year mark. that said, the insp thing will be nice in about 4 months for me.

it happens a lot between major news releases. soon the devs will drop some info(supposedly this week) and then everyone will over analyze that to pieces like a chicken at an alice cooper concert. It is kind of the way things are on a fourm dedicated to a single game.

well af, if gr were only what we saw at herocon, i'd be inclined to agree, 2 powersets, a side switching feature, a graphics feature that may not affect a number of us(though leaving it optional was a good thing to do, kicking the low end systems off forceably would be nasty) feature and a zone that s i seemingly a mix of 1984 and minority report only goes so far. but lets wait till we know more than the first murmurings of content. I would be surprised if the large staffing up and relative lack of storyline content or new art for over a year only lead up to that. that would actually get me dooming if that was all. I suspect a lot of older players have burned out a bit on the current stuff and are waiting in the wings for gr, and looking at the spike villains gave coh, even with a poorly received feature like ED which hopefully GR will lack, lets say im reasonably optimistic that it will draw back some people for at least the short term, from then on the ball is in the devs court to keep them.

think he means subscriber numbers.

it has strongly been hinted, i believe at herocon, that mutation will be monstrous bits related. no idea of content though.

no, that snark post was for frozen, i was still trying to be objective with reikaru. and i have said about 3 times that i know that its not the whole community, its just that for such a small community, it does seem to have a higher percentage, and it is not just coh players. Heck, lets take it to bartle's archetypes. the constructive pvper like riek probably is is closer to the achiever type, they play, they improve, they dont intentionally destroy people's fun, and often they try to make sure new players feel welcome, i am not referring to them, but a surprisingly large proportion of the communtiy is "killers" people who'se fun is generated from ruining other people's play time, not competing. they dont care if they win or lose, hell, they often are bad pvpers, but since killing them doesn't shut them up, even if you get a group together and beat them senseless, they still win because they forced you to interrupt your fun play to go deal with them. they continue ruining the image of pvpers for everyone. and lets face it, after issue 13, emotions did run high and a lot of people who may have been constructive players lashed out a lot and ticked off people who previously had defended pvpers from the more aggressive anti guys. I count myself as one of the changers, things got too heated, too personal and lost civility,a nd the escalator was usually a pvper.

as for the badgers, that is their fault, but there is problems there too, if a badger asks a pvper to quit fighting them and the pvper responds civilly that the rules of the pvp zone are that they are a target, that would be subjective, but if the pvper berates the player with a string of profanities, as is usually reported in these situations, well then that is less subjective.

that must be it, of the small pvp community there are only 2 or 3 jerks, but they were EVERYWHERE and despite the brave attempts of the community leaders to rein them in, they were too busy building houses for the homeless and curing cancer to rein them in, so those 2 or 3 bad attitude guys went on to irritate a good 40% of the general community. it couldnt be that there is a larger gorup than that who likes being sadistic jerks, that clearly never has been brought up here or in any other game with pvp, its just those 2 or 3 guys, thanks for the clarification, all those separate forum names that used the general forums as a toilet post issue 13 till the moderators purged so many threads, they must have been alt accounts of those guys. and the current pvpers with the blatantly insulting sigs, they are just using them to warn the other upstanding members how not to be. kudos good sir, your efforts are appreciated.

Paragon studios proudly presents, the New Game Experience.

if i stand in a gamestop and mention okami or beyond good and evil, same deal(and i do, a lot), you arent going to get everyone no matter what even if the game is amazing. its frustrating that crap games get popular, but life is not nor will it ever be fair. really outside of wow or maybe, MAYBE aion, are people particularly informed about mmos? can i get a granado espada chat started up? im betting right now i could get the same reaction on chamions, conan or warhammer, to joe sixpack, its pretty much wow or nothing, maybe modern warfare 2 if they misunderstand what a mmo is.

Interesting point about the mac, especially since a lot of pc players bought the mac pack for the costume set and free month. I'd have thought it would be higher. I do see a lot of players with valkyrie bits mixed in their costumes, so the view from the street was that a lot of people got either the full mac or the stand alone 10 dollar booster.

one thing i hope happens is that a lot of both blue and red players make their characters rogues and vigilantes. that way neither side suffers because they can join teams on both sides.

she is acute one. and that is no hyperbole. wonder what her sine is?



c-c-c-combo breaker.