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Personally, I'm sick and tired of all the "soon" rubbish, and no longer expect ANYthing from NC.

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So just what exactly do you think the 3-times-as-large dev team are doing right now?
Jay previously made costume parts and new NPCs at the same time while working on his own, so obviously with an assistant now he's only capable of making a few costume parts for a booster pack.
BAB used to work alone too - but he's got at least one assistant in the animation department now - so I guess NCSoft really wanted to make sure that /e cardtrick emote looked just right?
War Witch - who does zone NPC tyext and placement - is certainly blackmailing NSCSoft to keep her job, as she's had next to no work in the previous two Issues.
And NCSoft, well aware of the two new superhero MMOs on the way, rehired Sean "Manticore" Fish - the CoH story/lore guru - right after they bought the game, because they thought it'd be cool for him to hang out with his old work team again?
And apparently NCSOft are still looking to hire more for the dev team - just to help out the economy, of course.
So now that the MA is released - quite obviously the last thing left on their "to do" list - they call all kick back with soda or coffee and fully enjoy their renamed studio while NCSoft donates even more cash to them.
Because it's totally unlikely that the devs would actually be working, or have a strategy bulit around the release of possible competitor MMOs, or that NCSoft would even want them to do this.

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DCUO looks too consoley for me and with playing this, I have gotten used to high customisation.

EG. Cant tell you how many asian mmos have come and gone on my comp due to limited looks and archetypes.

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Personally, I'm sick and tired of all the "soon" rubbish, and no longer expect ANYthing from NC.

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I'm expecting massive "special offers" when a certain other game is released, but only to cope with the massive player outflux...

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Are you able to define further 'Special' and 'Massive'? - because I'm not sure I can take another Respec and/or character slot.

Looking as a positive.. I'd love to see something that really puts the sparkle back into Paragon for me for Issue:15, I really would. Something that made my inner hero swell with pride like the first time you heard the Atlas Park music and saw Heroes flying past at impossible speeds.

That said, sadly FFM's post does strike a chord with me also. Communication has been bad and from our point of view they have passed on opportunities to make it better.

In the past, everytime the word 'Soon™' was used by the Devs my compulsion was to run around the block naked screaming "wibble!", and yet because it was so infrequent I could repair my relationship with the neighbours. Now with Soon™ being quoted more and more frequently I fear I will soon be an outcast in my own community.

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Funny enough ML, City Vault is something that would make me happy, there is nothing worse than having to use memory guzzling apps to track your badges, and having a few pages to showcase your characters would be great, as I have said before, EQ2 Vanguard and others have them so it cant be that hard. But sadly City Vault has been relegated to that "Shhhh Dont mention it any more and they may forget we were going to do it.........SOON" bin.

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Superheroes?

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Nope. At least not for me. I'm not really a comic book superhero fan. I just like the game.

Although the lack of elves is a plus point.

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Me too, although I dont mind Superheroes, I dont play it to BE a superhero, it just plays fast and fun.

Wouldnt make the elves point though or dwarves for that matter ..... have you seen the MA?

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Except CoH is going backwards.

Most people used to be able to play it just fine, now there are disconnects, ultralag, chat bugs, etc etc

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Okay so I admit I was grumpy when I posted this, should not post in the mornings

Just cos of crashes etc lately.

Must admit, I played other games too, ;like LotRO, and although pretty etc they just dont have that fun element that CoX does/did depending on your view.

But this is why I think they need to pull their fingers out, as if CO has even half the fun of CoH in its prime, then they could have trouble. Especially in the light of never being told of any plans for the game or even regular contact or forum presence.

True but in a five year old game dont you think they should be things of the past? Especially when the game has played a lot better previously.

Except CoH is going backwards.

Most people used to be able to play it just fine, now there are disconnects, ultralag, chat bugs, etc etc

I noticed a piece in MMOZine about City of Heroes and its Fifth anniversary.

Good advertising you may say, but what do we get about the future?

Something like "We have tons of stuff planned for the future but we cant tell you anything."

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt but I cant tell you what is on it.

Thanks )

(though still dont see in general why in this day and age it cant be immediate for any transaction)

Agree with pretty much all of your post Scarlet.

I didnt want the MA, but must admit to actually liking it more than I thought, though this brings 2 problems.

a) Having hooked me, I now have my 3 arcs, so cant make any more.

b) I have been quite lucky and found some fun arcs with good custom creatures and therein lies the rub - If I never see another Malta/CoT etc etc again I will be happy, as they bore me now compared to new enemies with a varied mix of powers, u never know what to expect. (Though also if I never see another cargo ship just dumped full of enemies I will be happy too)

I really do wish they would do something with PVP, as having never played it in another game, I got into in CoH, but although I am one of the few who thinks the changes were for the better, PVP is still dead as more work is needed.

I love this game and want to see what it is capable of, but I must admit, CO is looking shiny, and frankly, I dont believe the "great things to come" rubbish any more, though if they want to prove me wrong and actually TELL us what is coming, I will eat my hat.

I must admit, although I held no interest in the MA, it has me hooked (to an extent) but like you, I have done my three and now cannot do any more without replacing them.

And the chances of getting into Devs choice seem remote unless you are part of the cult they have in the States, as so many arcs that nobody plays most of them.

I know it isnt gamebusting GR, but is the chat bug being fixed by any chance? you know the annoying one that shows which key you have binded for certain channels.

Just one question though, been told I am getting refunded, but how come it doesn't just go right back on your card right away?

Your troll winky has fallen off

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Has anyone at all actually had a response from them yet? Are they all on holiday or just making interest on all of our monies? Its a ridiculously slow response time.

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Well almost a week waiting now, all i had back was a reply asking for my last 4 digits of card and payment IDs, this was 5 days ago :/

Really if your going to charge someone double for an item, at least have the decency to sort out a refund quickly rather than waiting for a week :/

My faith in PlayNC and there abysmal customer service has plummeted to the point im now looking for another game to play.

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Finally had a response today saying my 2 refunds in process of going through, so fingers crossed.

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There's been posts in a separate thread, and I thought in this one as well... Appears not (although there were several from Avatea at the time the problems occurred).

Anyway, to paraphrase what was said in one of the other threads on this:

The support team has received a lot of tickets on this issue. Because the issue relates to financial reimbursement all these tickets need to be escalated to more senior staff. The volume of tickets received (including, it must be noted, a significant number of duplicate tickets that have only slowed down the process) combined with the necessity to escalate them has resulted in it taking longer than normal to process through the queue.

It hasn't helped that this has coincided with the bug that has caused some bases to become corrupt. Restoring corrupt bases is likewise an issue that requires escalation and investigation time.

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Thank you GR, though it still doesnt alter the fact that refunds take about 5 minutes and still shouldnt be taking this long, the money came out quick enough.

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Such as not recognizing that there's Maestro cards starting in 2009, meaning I can't get the booster pack nor can I update my sub at the end of the month.

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This is a known issue and should be resolved in the near future.

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Great, finally get a redname on this thread, and the whole overcharging thing is totally ignored.

Another problem is that a lot of folk have been in the game for ages now.

For example I have 32 alts, now admittedly they are all relatively low except my 50s and a few 30s, but if I had to grind my way to 50 noe, the same way I did my others which at the time was fun, I would probably think sod it and go, or stick to playing the 50s, which again, has a limited shelf life.

To claim there is an error and telling you to try again IS fraud as you are saying that the transaction has not gone through. So get off your high horse.

Naturally everyone that did this is wrong and you are right, good grief.

If it costs NC money, then maybe they should have anticipated demand and had a system that could cope with it and not charge people over and over, something incidentally that they have still not even commented on let alone put right.

Like being able to team as long as you are in an MA building, rather than having to be in same zone.

Favourite author and mission tabs

Blacklisting tab, so we can edit out certain missions, eg farming if thats not your bag

searching, where do u begin, lol a better search engine full stop would be good, or at least facility to search by author, content, name etc rather than bring up 100 irrelevant ones

More filters, search by level, enemies, etc etc

Putting in poison so I can complete an arc....

....and so on

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now let the flames come

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You do know that saying that doesn't automatically invalidate everyone who disagrees with your opinion, right?

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that's not it, i'm just used to have ppl flame me the second i write a truth.
i just have a nature of saying what others think, but some flame back to hide there shame.

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And if that's a veiled moan about a reply to yours on the Magic booster thread, I notice you didn't respond on there after we all had a go back at your post. It was nothing to do with "truth", more to do with your attitude regarding others misfortune.

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MA is a sideshow. An amateur hour diversion, whilst we wait for the real CoX story to proceed in i15. Nothing else.

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To call it amateur hour when, to be honest, some of the writing I have seen in the MA is better than some of the dev stuff which appears quite weak of late is a bit rich.

And they can be fun, something else that seems to have been forgotten in Dev stories, canon or not.

Maybe they think we believe that no news is good news.

Like the lack of response over the overbilling too.

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i don't know what the fuzz is, it's your own damn fault for not watching what you do.
that's what you get from rushing, no wonder i never have such problems.

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Dont be an idiot all your life.

Lots of people were affected by this, here and across the pond.

It was an error with the site/system and not people making mistakes, so think before your mouth goes into drivel mode.