rian_frostdrake

were i to guess, i'm thinking you will be correct on this. new game price tends towards 49.99-59.99, expansions tend to be39.99. also likely on the collectors edition which will be the one i puchase, despite the fact that my cov figure(didnt get the collectors ed that time, so only one) is currently collecting dust on my shelf.

as was said, devs dont handle advertisements, buut, during the launch of the architect pack, the banners were pretty heavily circulated around gamer-centric sites i visit, and that was really just the existing game plus the architect system, they even hired a group to do viral videos for the at system, starring the other singer from barenaked ladies, which were fairly funny and got the whole "touch my awesome button" thing going. I would be very surprised if there was not another push once gr was closer on the horizon.

yeah, a fox/wolf tail is a common request too, i do sympathise with one thing. that may be an issue is that a bushy tail might start to look cartoonish. i know the wolf tail in champs looks kind of chunky and clay-looking. a fox tail can work since it is smooth, a bushy tail may be harder. but in either situation, i have a werewolf secondary main in cov that would love for me to be wrong. fish fins too, i have a mermaid that is making due with the finned gloves option, but its clunky.

are you getting drinks or a side? i eat at subway often, and while i find a foot long to be a bit much for my taste, i just get the six inch sub, the drinks and chips plus tax tends to run things up into the 7 dollar range, plus if we are going beyond fast food, to sit down places like a perkins or italian oven, you find yourself within a dollar of the ma pack very fast. but you get my point about shifting resources, right? that the cost is fairly low and can be covered within a week by making subtle adjustments to your daily costs. Since we are talking food, i covered it easily, my regular lunches at work were 5 for a drink, side and entree, i just got heatable entrees for 2 bucks at the local grocery store and bought a drink at work, saving 2.05 a day, spread out over 5 days and the cost was covered for a minor adjustment and no real decline in food quality. i prefer larger pontoons myself:P

you know, my suspicion(NOTE entirely guessing here, could easily be wrong) is that more items for the back costume slot, which have been hinted at before with the jay designing so many backpacks yadda yadda quote,are going to be something they are going to bring about in going rogue. outside of the veterans awards of issue 8, we really havent had a substantial costume pick release in some time. The last major one which introduced new categories like monstrous heads and legs was...that's right, the last expansion, city of villains. So my guess is that we will see backpacks and jetpacks in going rogue, not just a booster.

i notice you also are asking for scabbards and quivers, i will try to find the quote, but last i recall they didnt want to do them unless they could get them to sync up with the powers that would use them. so that is likely why we havent seen tham and may not for some time. it is kind of jarring on champions to have no scabbards that match your sword at times, and other times to draw out your sword and still have a blade sheathed at your side, so like heavy clipping, it is going to really bug some people, and comes down to a design decision.

a bird head would rock, but you can sort of fudge things with the long nosed jester mask. in fact while the shape is wrong, tengu did have human faces with very long blunt noses, so it would be pretty darn close...time to make an alt

ah another unconsidered positive

well, actually the clipping thing has been hashed over several times and yeah, there will never be consensus. the old jay rule was no clipping with 90% of items, when he announced that the high collars from the magic pack were announced to clip badly with larger shoulder options, and honestly people were happy. The hard truth seems to be that if you make parts that extend a certain bit from the body, they are going to have issues. I know on champions the same thing comes up, there are a lot of costume options that clip horribly with others, you really have to make the aesthetic choice. For truth in advertising purposes, i would happily sacrifice some clipping to get tails with these new robes. a separate issue is the shoulder pads separating, this is a real issue and apparently its being fixed(maybe it has already been fixed, dunno, havent changed costumes for a bit)

well, lets be fair, i'm getting the 66 in a few days, but putting a much wanted shiny at the over 5 year mark is kind of daunting to any player starting today. vet rewards have been great, but after a certain point putting anything too amazing in becomes a disincentive for people just starting, besides, city traveler is still pretty darn good.

not that i think it will matter, but i really have to question your use of screwed over. outside of aesthetic complaints, we got a power that, if anything, may be a little too good for a microtransaction item. we got a lot of costume options that occasionally clip but have spawned several long threads of admirers that have made novel uses of them, and several new sword models.

I hate to invoke personal responsibility here, but pics of the costumes and youtube vids of the ninja run were out on the day the pack was released. the "screwed over" consumer has the responsibility to educate him/herself as to the aesthetics of the pack before buying it, if they don't do that really is not the fault of the company. If you are that concerned about quality, wait a few days for the full report of the consumers to make sure, and be educated , beyond that knock off the entitled consumer deal, and try the informed consumer instead.

heh, i'd say that its a case of terminology, monstrous does not inherently mean evil in the context used, i tend to use it to combine the concepts of bestial and powerful, the other association, of being nasty is not really implied, but i see how that could be misunderstood since it is another standard definiton of it. Its generally just used here to mean beast+strong.

Rian is monstrous but would spend all day saving kittens from trees(were it ingame) and putting out fires in steel, its just that he is a dragon who can tear apart Malta robots with his feet and fists, so its a step up from being just a beast, hes a monster.

well, the run is anime-ish, i have seen it used in naruto and ninja themed anime, but i have also seen it in excel saga, gachaman and even some giant robot anime, its an expressive form of running, thats it, lets not get bogged down on names(and recall that it was originally called wuxia run, after chinese kung fu films, but that got voted down). I know a lot of people fixate on the "ninjas are cool" line from herocon, but come on people, lets use some of that vaunted imagination that leads us to go on about the costume creator in the first place, less narrow mindedness, more fancy!!!

not to get bogged down in this silly derail, but threads have already shown swashbucklers, "v" style alien soldiers, monks of the four winds,mixed martial artists, wizards, Chinese soldiers, et cetera, with the new options but it certainly was not just "ninja"


one thign i would REALLY like is for jay to go back and make robes compatible with tails, the martial arts pack forced some hard choices for me that it shouldnt have. lemmie take some clipping if it means i can stay true to my concepts. that has been bugging me since issue 4.

this bears repeting over and over again, the shard is just wasted potential on top of wasted potential.

I have to say, this analogy is deeply flawed. asking to stay at someones house is asking for a significant accomidation on the part of the people you are asking, not to mention a risk that the petitioner could do bodily harm to you once allowed in. asking to join a team in a video game, particularly one designed to be played in teams is a minor inconvenience and carries no risk. provided they are polite, some peoples severity of reactions is simply baffling, just say no, if they persist orr are rude, that's a different story, but beyond that it is far from a significant inconvenience. this also is a bad analogy, outside of maybe a japanese hibachi resturaunt where people sit at larger tables and are seated with strangers. It is exceedingly rare to have strangers sit at tables withe ach other in fast food resturaunts, and there certainly is no percieved benefit to doing so, in an mmo generally teaming allows access to different content and provvides benefits of increased preformance and, in the case of some buff powers, a new level of functionality, so no resturaunt analogy works with a massively multiplayer online game.

maybe an ok analogy is if you are at a basketball court playing a game with your friends and someone comes up and asks to play. the analogy has limits because uneven numbers of players are generally avoided, but at least it covers the fact that this is a setting where people do approach one another and getting together, while not required, still nets different rewards than just shooting baskets by yourself.

and to head off this old chestnut before it takes root, I am not saying that everyone needs to team, i solo often myself, but i am saying that this kind of game does carry the implication of teaming, and getting pissy about it is silly given the nature of the game genre. so long as everyone is polite you are not being put out by typing "no, sorry"

i have been lobbying for this for quite some time, it helps a lot on the games that have it.

as for the rest, no, you were polite, he wasnt, fault lies on him.