Discussion: Introducing Blue Steel


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Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement.

Greetings Citizens of Paragon and the Rogue Isles, I am Blue Steel. My real name is Ray Snyder and I’ve been working on City of Heroes / City of Villains for over three years now and in the industry for over a decade. My current title at NCsoft NorCal is Design Support; I’m the guy that helps the Team track down hard to find Bugs. I also give first impressions on features and provide suggestions on how to make the game better or more fun. My job was once explained to me as “to make sure the game is fun”. I’ve also done some light design work in the past. I implemented the Snakes for CoV’s launch and populated the out door mission maps for the Rikti Warzone among other things. You will be seeing more of me on the forums as we move into Issue 12 Beta (which is still a little ways out).

A bit about Me: I’m a gamer and have been since I was eleven and I first saw D&D. I’ve played tons of Role Playing games and then moved to table Top War games. While I was at Cryptic, I ran company game leagues for Warhammer 40K and Warmachine. Right now my table top passion is AT-43. I started playing MMOs with Ultima Online and have played Everquest, Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Dark Age of Camelot and one to two others I can’t remember at the moment. Oh, I played this one game that I really liked, as I was a huge fan of Comics and I doubt I’d be the gamer I am today with out there influence as a child. It was City of Heroes. I fell in love with the game and played like mad. Image how I felt when Cryptic hired me to help make the game more fun. So I’ve been with the game since Issue 4 and now as we are 7 issues past that and working on Issue 12, I can still say this is my Favorite MMO. I’m going to continue to be here working hard to make “City of” all it can be.


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Welcome Blue Steel.



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So, tell me. How many Chuck Norrises can Blue Steel whup?

(Someone link that thread here, would you?)


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Welcome Blue Steel! It's very cool that a player and fan not only got hired by NCSoft, but also gets to be Blue Steel.


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Will we see blue steel ingame like all the others?..and will he have his "ahem!" shield?


 

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Howdy Blue Steel and welcome to the red side of the boards.

Wait, red is blue? How did this happen? It sounds like a trick by Lord Recluse...!


 

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I hear his tears cure cancer or somethingorother.

Seriously though, welcome to the forums


 

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Welcome!


 

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Hola Senor Steel!

Would you be so kind as to please inform me where I can find you so that I may eat your heart and wear your skin in order to gain your powers and thus take over your job, you lucky S.O.B.?

Huggles,

Smash


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Howdy Blue Steel.

Welcome to the madhouse we call the forums. Leave your sanity at the door.


It works best that way.


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Thanks for the Warm welcome. I'm really happy to be here, helping make "City of" a better place.


 

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Were "Le Tigre" and "Ferrari" already taken?

Welcome Blue Steel. Let's hope you don't get replace by "Magnum."


edit: Ha. First after Zooland... err ... redname.


 

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I just want to say how glad we are to have Blue Steel on the forums.

Whoo Hoo!!


 

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Wow Mynx too.

Hi


 

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I just want to say how glad we are to have Blue Steel on the forums.

Whoo Hoo!!

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Ha! Hey Lighty, I caught another Red Name that needs an introduction!


 

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I just want to say how glad we are to have Blue Steel on the forums.

Whoo Hoo!!

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Ha! Hey Lighty, I caught another Red Name that needs an introduction!

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I was just about to say...


@Arwen Darkblade
Proud Member of Hammer of the Gods and Sanguine Syndicate
Arc ID #86194 "Cry Havoc"
Arc ID #103934 "Dr. Thomas' First Day"
[URL="http://tobyfife.blogspot.com/"]Hero Girl[/URL] - my geek culture blog

 

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Didn't we put Mynx back in her cage?


 

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is going on here?!?!

A hearty welcome to our other new overlo... I mean, redname, Minx


 

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I just want to say how glad we are to have Blue Steel on the forums.

Whoo Hoo!!

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Ha! Hey Lighty, I caught another Red Name that needs an introduction!

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Ex? Hunh. This post doesn't appear on the Community Digest. Is your status changing too?


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*shoot's Obsidius in the foot* No ruining Blazing Saddles running gags! *bap's him on the head with cowgirl hat*


 

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Hi Blue!


The author of this post is speaking in generalities from his personal experience.
Your experience may vary.

 

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Greetings and salutations!

Blue...where's ur avatar?


 

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Welcome to the forums- and thanks for all of your hard work on the game!