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And the answer is the same every issue: IF you can't find the answer in the dev/community digest, no. All we know is the closed beta will start right after Comic Con. No, we NEVER have an estimate on an issue this early, so why bother asking?
For the second question, this is PLAYER questions. We can't give you more info, gotta ask the devs for that.
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Has there been any estimate on when I16 will be out?
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Plenty. The estimate I agree with is mid/end October.
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Can we get some more info
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No. Your next piece of info will be when Issue 16 hits the test server. Until then, save your breath.
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Plenty. The estimate I agree with is mid/end October.
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That late?
If the closed beta for I16 starts next week I actually suspect there's an outside chance they'll push it live on or around September 1st... Gee, I wonder what else is happening September 1st that our Devs might be trying to have this release coincide with? 
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At the rate it's going, not CO... At least, I sure's hell hope not.
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At the rate it's going, not CO... At least, I sure's hell hope not.
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Well at the very least the beta of I16 will be happening pretty much at the same time the open beta for CO will be. Good times lol.
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If CO keeps up the way it is, it'll be a no-brainer for folks to pick CoX.
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If CO keeps up the way it is, it'll be a no-brainer for folks to pick CoX.
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Well to be honest I'm hoping CO will be good enough so that I'll have fun playing -both- CoX and CO. Ideally they'll both bring different features to the table and "force" each other to innovate. Real competition would be a healthy thing for this game.
P.S. Small world... I grew up in Altamonte Springs.
It was like a million years ago and I don't live anywhere near there now but still.
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Nothing I have seen (so far) of CO tempts me. DCUO does tempt me and it is different enough I could play both.
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This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
Well like I suggested if CO ends up sucking I might end up trying DCUO.
Heck I'll probably try DCUO regardless.
With that one I'm hoping we aren't going to be "tied to the hip" of the established heroes as much as it appears. I actually didn't like CoV all that much because the story of the game basically forced you to be an "Arachnos Redshirt". I like my characters to have their own backgrounds and identities. I don't want to have to feel like I'm Superman's flunkie.
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My guess is, it'll be out before CO hits. You think it's a conicidence that they annouced THIS expansion around this time? I thinks not.
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I don't anyone thinks it's a conicidence.
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My guess is, it'll be out before CO hits. You think it's a conicidence that they annouced THIS expansion around this time? I thinks not.
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That was -my- point. I don't think it's a coincidence at all.
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At the rate it's going, not CO... At least, I sure's hell hope not.
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So you know, sure's is not a proper conjunction. The words sure and as should never be combined in such a way. Your sentence should read, "I sure as hell hope not."
For future reference.
Wow, how lame of you.
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Plenty. The estimate I agree with is mid/end October.
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That late?
If the closed beta for I16 starts next week I actually suspect there's an outside chance they'll push it live on or around September 1st... Gee, I wonder what else is happening September 1st that our Devs might be trying to have this release coincide with?
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Sept 1st is too soon. That only gives a month of closed AND open beta testing. If they did, and beta goes that well, great. But very unlikely. I would say at least a month of closed beta testing, and a month of open beta. They want to get this right and this is a new game mechanic that I'll bet will be a pain to test and fix. A month of closed beta testing will put this in open for anyone to play at the beginning of September assuming closed beta starts next week. Open beta will be almost as effective as a mark to match the other MMO. I would say sometime in October as a very realistic mark for issue 16 to hit.
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Has there been any estimate on when I16 will be out?
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Plenty. The estimate I agree with is mid/end October.
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That late?
If the closed beta for I16 starts next week I actually suspect there's an outside chance they'll push it live on or around September 1st... Gee, I wonder what else is happening September 1st that our Devs might be trying to have this release coincide with?
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Sept 1st is too soon. That only gives a month of closed AND open beta testing. If they did, and beta goes that well, great. But very unlikely. I would say at least a month of closed beta testing, and a month of open beta. They want to get this right and this is a new game mechanic that I'll bet will be a pain to test and fix. A month of closed beta testing will put this in open for anyone to play at the beginning of September assuming closed beta starts next week. Open beta will be almost as effective as a mark to match the other MMO. I would say sometime in October as a very realistic mark for issue 16 to hit.
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Eh, I suppose time will eventually tell...
I simply don't think the power customization thing is going to be -that- hard to test. Yes it might have taken a long time for our Devs to implement it because there was a lot of "busy work" involved with hundreds of powers. But the actual mechanics involved in plugging -any- definable colors into the game is either going to work or not. There was very likely a large amount of 'cut-n-paste' involved in how this was done.
Regardless of a meaningless debate in which neither of us have any real facts about the software 
I still suspect that the "goal" of September 1st is going to drive this beta cycle more than usual. In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see that real world date taking precedence over bugs that can always be fixed -after- September 1st.
Never underestimate the influence of market considerations when it comes to software releases.
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At the rate it's going, not CO... At least, I sure's hell hope not.
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So you know, sure's is not a proper conjunction. The words sure and as should never be combined in such a way.
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Unless you're from the South. Which is where I'm from. 
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Obviously you are an imposter...
a True Southerner woudl have said "Unless y'all from the South"
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Ahem, it's pronounced ..."da souf."
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Never heard anyone pronounce it that way, and I've been all over the region.
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Obviously you are an imposter...
a True Southerner woudl have said "Unless y'all from the South"
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I immediately thought of "The Deep South" episode of Futurama. I may have to watch it tonight.
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This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Obviously you are an imposter...
a True Southerner woudl have said "Unless y'all from the South"
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I immediately thought of "The Deep South" episode of Futurama. I may have to watch it tonight.
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Is that the one with the lost city of Atlanta?
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I know these questions are asked every issue...but this issue looks so good on paper that I can't help it.
Has there been any estimate on when I16 will be out?
Can we get some more info or even a teaser on the alternate animations for Martial Arts and Super Strength?