rian_frostdrake

there was a time when I really wanted to play that game. but that time aint now. I do love hyung tae-kim's work, and the martial arts focus works for me, but for the less anime nerd audience, it is going to be written off as a tera wannabe


but if nc plays ball, i'd go with a good will purchase.

I dont like putting a price tag on such things because there is under and over bidding, but for a reasonable chance a success, I'd like to think I'd do what it takes. im not rich and there are times you are prolonging something because you cant let go(note, that is not the case now, but if paragon restarted they would likely need to re-set up and re license a lot of software, our profitability might not survive that up front cost), but I'd do a lot. I dont really have any untapped gamer friends to bring in (though my little brother was going to sign up once he got an apartment, so there one) i'd pay more if that was what it took, and id put up a one time larger donation if paragon went solo to try to get them on their feet. I already shill the game as much as I can to anyone who cares.

ever play two worlds 2?

ok, not indie, but pretty small dev team.

oh an chantalise is fun, but the image of bilz playing it is giving me giggle fits.

so wait, you are not remaking me in hello kitty online..crushing disappointment

several are already in champions online. was rather amused i couldnt remake most of them in dcou. beyond that, probably not in focused written stories, but ill think about the continuing adventures of my characters.

provided they maintained a forum for us to chat about it, yes, i'd kind of enjoy it. Only consolation is for buff heavy character types, maybe have npc's who will join you in missions, so you still will have a need for team buff abilities. This may be adding excessive stuff, but if you could get different callable npc's based on faction once you affirmed your loyalty to one of the 4 factions...that would be nice.

in a way this is exactly what happened with phantasy star universe. the pc/ps version died from low numbers(much less of a surprise, it was laboring for monthsand neglected by sega of japan) and i can still hop on with an offline character and play. that is good value to me.

as tex said, maiking it a minimally multiplayer game, where you invite friends and just run small groups like diablo. then honestly that would be the home run for me. I can still play with my small group of riends and ncsoft doesnt need to foot the bill for servers. maybe they could keep a small content team on for dlc packs of costumes and powersets. I would be really ok with that.

lets see now, games i will be playing. well, with less time devoted to coh(and work no longer pounding me with overtime), i can finally finish some of my backlog including
legend of zelda, skyward sword(which i have less than 4 hours in, and i love zelda)

the teeth of naros dlc of kingdom of amalur.. the story is so bad, but the game is so good.

4 different tales of games...symphonia, vesperia, chlamydia, something like that. heard the last game had a viral marketing plan. (seriously, symphonia 1 and 2, vesperia and abyss)

finally man up and go into sen's fortress in dark souls...after blightown i have been somewhat scared o the abuse the game throws at you, and i hear sens is where it gets really nasty. have a faith/dex wanderer with a divine balder side sword and a enchanted partizen. currently dragon covenant. shocker there.

finally play arc rise fantasia and mana carta 2.

and finally get my graatsword user in monster hunter tri past that quest with the stupid mimic bird in the desert.

mmo wise, its going to be CO, might try tera, though again, no monks or halberd users? and no the lance doesnt count. probably would be an aman, giant dragon people? i can work with that. and when the west gets phantasy star online 2, i will be running as a cast(big honkin robot) again. in fact my main tank, space robot 5 had a costume that was a semi faithful reproduction of my HUcast from the original.

studio, we can rebuild.

my take is, i liked gw a lot, i think anyone calling it generic or a clone is really misusing the word, it did a lot of clever things and i enjoyed it(though the lack of a martial artist or polearm user class... i swear lately fantasy games are actively trying to tick me off) . before friday i was looking forward to a nice 4 day weekend where id raise my charr warrior, asuan engineer, sylvari elementalist, human mesmer and norn thief.(male for the monster races, female for the humanish races) after friday i have not logged in and am having a hard time binging myself to even try. heck, i played co for the first time in months, may as well prepare to adapt.

this is not arenanet's fault, id be unsurprised if they had corresponded and had friends between the studios, some of them probably played this game and some coh devs almost definitely played that game. this is just an unfortunate situation. I really cannot justify, personally, giving any money to a company owned by ncsoft, ill play ball for the long odds attempt at a studio buyout, but right now ncsoft is a stain, and its unfair to some good people, but a lot about this situation is. same for carbine, wild star is likely to carry the same undeserved(by their developers) stain for me.

Is this a boycot? not relly gw2 is selling like bacon stuffed hotcakes, if the entire fanbase of coh clamped down on gw2 they wouldnt measurably hurt them, and likely a small portion eventually will. A boycott will do, in the end, nothing at all, I will likely not spend money in places that make me fell morally compromised, and anything published by ncsoft is that place right now. If paragon comes back, then ill let it drop, but as it stands, i know rationally arenanet had nothing to do with this, but the money goes to ncsoft, and thats as far as i can tolerate.

one song that has some lyrics that i thing really fit is Turisas-the bosphoros freezes over. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRa5Xx8ufbI . it makes more sense when you hear it.

i'd roll with it, might give me a chance to update some characters that are too old for me to want to re-roll, but have better analogs now.

maybe rian would be a ma/nin stalker, seraph would be a nature/archery defender, violet would be a plant/nature controller . better stuff exists now, and a fresh start would kinda work.

Personally double, but if it were relaunched, the standard rate should be the norm and hardcores really should just get a second account and, if the market stays with us, buy points. if there becomes a gold vip setup where you pay double it would have to not carry any unbalancing implications, this is about real word survival, not ingame rewards.

tulga and vitruim games as well. of istaria. They have ben hanging on with a fraction of our player-base.

Already over there, and i have to say i'm impressed with how they are acting. the community can be contentious, more at pwe/crptic, but still, they are being really open. I'm guessing a portion of that is pragmatism, they are a small game who, but for the intervention of pwe, would have gone this way themselves, and more players would stand to make the game better for everyone, but this is the nicest I have seen them acting in a while. Co is better than nothing..and dcou.

I consider myself a pragmatist, I play ball because thats how you get results, this has lead to me dealing with unpleasant people for a desired end result. I dont look kindly on ncsoft but am ware that like most people in this thread, i lack a real understanding of what went into this decision. I dont work in the industry, I dont have access to the financials nor do i have the academic background to correctly parse the data if i did. ultimately I enjoyed a game and now i wont be able to, I blame ncsoft, I blame the game buying public for adding this game to psychonauts, okami, and beyond good and evil in games I loved that sold poorly while mediocre games with popular features sell millions. And I blame white names. corporations are easy excuses to swing at, but the most uncomfortable truth for people to realize is that we live in the world of consequences of our decisions, and people who could have supported the gaem but chose not to, as opposed to people with real financial difficulties, took the game away from us as much as ncsoft did.

Ah well, going to monitor the fan attempt through titan, i cant do much but will do what i can.

Well i had considered trying this one anyhow because its predecessor is what got me into online gaming, but phantasy star online 2.http://www.pso2.com/us/