rian_frostdrake

not to put too fine a point on it, but if what i have read on the topic is to be believed, rick was, while a very smart man with some great ideas, a lot worse than having "little management experience" and the game was pretty much a disorganized mess till jack came in and actually focused things. Video games are commercial ventures as much as artistic ones, and a great idea with no coherent vision is going to crash and burn. Those who have been following the 38 studios collapse can attest to the fact that a good game and a lot of passion cannot save a critically incompetent business plan.

the ground opens wide.

pretty much. she has shown some awareness of coh, she linked DR's coh machinima cover of "do you want to dare my avatar?"

putting it that way is exactly why you keep getting scheduled for that training bucko.

Its more that they will use it to screech when they find a bug after it launches. I could send you a pm checklist about who i expect to go batnuts over this between their monthly "i quit" posts, and i also know there are posters who glom onto every negative thread because they just love to complain and fuss.

well, given that my main character is a dragon, i wouldn't mind an emanation point in the mouth (strangely, sounds dirty) I suppose one issue is that powers animation times would have to match the original animation cast time. for most sets the casts arent too long that shouldn't look too awkward, but a maybe some of the snipes may look silly standing there huffing and puffing. I also wouldnt mind guns, wands, and maybe a guitar. yes, fine, i want to blast hellions with lightning guitar riffs, dont judge me. :P

you know, im not seeing it now on paragon wiki, but i seem to recall a supplimental backgrounder that disputes the official story of marauder going into the wild, beating down the anarchy and organizing the people to survive that tells of him going intot he wild, scavenging and robbing the people who were too weak to fight back, staying on the run from the hamidon until eventually cole forced him into line. does anyone else remember this? based on this id say he is an unredeemable thug...but im also concluding that im going senile because i cant remember where i saw that.

well, the funny thing is, coh was looking shaky post cov, but not because of ed. that is when(supposedly, information not officially confirmed) the devs got pared down to 15, i dunno if you remember but i7-i8 also took around 6 months. they did the best they could but with a very limited staff. (and, for the time it took, issue 8 had a lot of stuff, including wings, which were a big thing) so the closest coh was to dying was by starvation from cryptic.


oh and how about actually go on opic. incarnate stuff is interesting, no question, i like the buffs, like the power, and given the generally freindly raiding community on liberty, I enjoy the raids. people listen but nobody loses their mind if you make a mistake. I am going to be interested in seeing how they add 4 more powers without becoming obtrusive, where you are more reliant on being an incarnate than being what you are, classwise, but So far the stuff has been good, and the hybrid discussion in beta showed they are open to input and working with the community. i still care more about costumes and alternate animations, but incarnate stuff is a nice little additional thing once you have level capped.

I will back him on the complainers. towards the beginning of freedom there were a few loud complainers that paragon was being greedy releasing stuff faster than vip stipends could cover just to force us to spend cash. It wasn't a huge contingent, but as in many issues where people have a stake, they posted a lot and derailed several threads.

you are right, he doesnt get to do that, people gave him that power, they did not want the responsibility. your faith in the rational actions of a democratic government to not overreact, abdicate responsibility, avoid petty partisan infighting, and stay within moral lines is not really justified by history.