SUPER CONSPIRACY THEORY II!

Nethergoat · 07-20-2009 12:49 PM

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I thought NCSoft bought - not leased - the game engine when they bought CoX in its entirety, and keeping the Cryptic logo around was just part of the deal.

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correct.

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MissKyo · 07-20-2009 12:54 PM

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In short: Ignore people who post pointlessly on the pointlessness of posting pointless threads while attempting to make a point that the points you're making are pointless. They don't understand how posting works.

-Rachel-

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If I was a sig-quoting kinda person, that would totally be in my sig.

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Steampunkette · 07-20-2009 01:12 PM

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In short: Ignore people who post pointlessly on the pointlessness of posting pointless threads while attempting to make a point that the points you're making are pointless. They don't understand how posting works.

-Rachel-

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If I was a sig-quoting kinda person, that would totally be in my sig.

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*takes a bow*
-Rachel-

Westley · 07-20-2009 03:15 PM

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I thought NCSoft bought - not leased - the game engine when they bought CoX in its entirety, and keeping the Cryptic logo around was just part of the deal.

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correct.

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Evidence?

Mental_Giant · 07-20-2009 03:28 PM

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I thought NCSoft bought - not leased - the game engine when they bought CoX in its entirety, and keeping the Cryptic logo around was just part of the deal.

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Evidence?

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I was looking for evidence, and I found evidence to the contrary.

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LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Cryptic Studios[TM] announced today that the development house has sold its intellectual and proprietary rights to both the City of Heroes[R] and City of Villains[R] franchises to publisher NCsoft. As part of the agreement, NCsoft is licensing Cryptic's engine technologies for use with future games.

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This is an old article, however.

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MrQuizzles · 07-20-2009 03:36 PM

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Now, NOTHING is impossible!

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Woah woah woah woah, "you're sure to do impossible things"? If you do them, then they're not impossible, are they? A better lyric would be "you're sure to do things previously thought of as impossible! (maybe)"

Zombie Man · 07-20-2009 04:39 PM

Leased.

But I'm sure the provisions are such that the contract allows NCSoft to renew the lease in perpetuity.

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Westley · 07-20-2009 04:41 PM

O SNAP! The goat was wrong. I R SMART!

Nethergoat · 07-20-2009 04:42 PM

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I thought NCSoft bought - not leased - the game engine when they bought CoX in its entirety, and keeping the Cryptic logo around was just part of the deal.

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correct.

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Evidence?

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devs said so.

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Unknown_User · 07-20-2009 05:53 PM

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and the announcement of a "new" character creator that will allow us to make characters in any order we choose to without having to constantly go back and forth like we do now...

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I guess I'm too lazy to go search for this or memory is just hazy but when did the devs announce a new character creator for this game?

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Westley · 07-20-2009 06:05 PM

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and the announcement of a "new" character creator that will allow us to make characters in any order we choose to without having to constantly go back and forth like we do now...

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I guess I'm too lazy to go search for this or memory is just hazy but when did the devs announce a new character creator for this game?

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*cough cough*

Tripp Hazzard · 07-20-2009 06:09 PM

All I can say is . . .

Welcome back, PK, we missed ya!

We had a few people attempting to imitate you while you were gone, but they just weren't as . . . entertaining.

Unknown_User · 07-20-2009 06:10 PM

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and the announcement of a "new" character creator that will allow us to make characters in any order we choose to without having to constantly go back and forth like we do now...

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I guess I'm too lazy to go search for this or memory is just hazy but when did the devs announce a new character creator for this game?

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*cough cough*

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Oh that, guess I overlooked that small part while mostly reading about power customizatoin and enhanced difficulty settings when the issue 16 news came out.

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Westley · 07-20-2009 06:10 PM

Wait, who? Examples!

UnSub · 07-20-2009 08:05 PM

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I thought NCSoft bought - not leased - the game engine when they bought CoX in its entirety, and keeping the Cryptic logo around was just part of the deal.

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correct.

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devs said so.

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Afaik, it is still licensed from Cryptic, as the previous link indicated. However, if you want to dig up an actual quote I'd be happy to see it.

UnSub · 07-20-2009 08:12 PM

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And all that time spent doing something in the Cryptic Engine like powers customisation

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You are making a big assumption there.

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What am I assuming? That it took time to implement powers customisation? That it was done using the Cryptic Engine which has powered the game since launch?

BABs talked recently about how the animation system he currently uses is a patchwork of simplicity that makes it complex to fiddle with. Now, would you put all that time in playing with such a system if you knew that a new engine that would make everything simpler was just around the corner? ChampO's launch might have kicked Paragon Studios into overdrive, but I can't see the money / planning guys signing off on, "We're going to spend a huge amount of time doing a major task in the old engine, then spend a lot of time doing the same task in the new engine too."

An engine upgrade is possible. An entirely new engine (especially a new magical engine that fixes all problems with CoH/V as some people seem to expect) is much more unlikely.

Westley · 07-20-2009 08:22 PM

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That it was done using the Cryptic Engine which has powered the game since launch?

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This part.

The way I figure it, it's just as likely that they've been working on their own codebase that would work on, or be easily adaptable to, any engine that they decide to use.... sorta like how Java subapps can be "ratcheted" into other Java apps.