Ganymede?? Valentines event on live now?
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Beber,
Posted on: 2009-02-09 10:14 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I doubt anything ever was planned, the point is... why?
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Why not?
Why sould their be a new event every valantines?
And why not have events for labour day, or Martin Luthor King's Birthday, or Independance Day, or whatever.
Or better still, just have events occur when significant changes occur in the game world.
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Because with the size of the Dev team they could of done something new if they had put aside time to do it!
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Sure they could. or they could do something more interesting instead
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even if its a variation on the current event.
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Kill snaptooth in a slightly different way? Give out more phat loot? The Valantines events are rubbish anyway, we don't need more. Thier main purpose was to test co-op teaming anyway.
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the Dev team is beginning to think its barely worth the effort development man power-wise to do this event update-content
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And they would be right.
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I agree with ML. They carped on about how the Dev team was greatly increased last year, since then we've seen fewer Issues per year and now rehashed events. Seems the more devs they add the slower they get.
A "Kill Baby New Year for getting lost somewhere in the tunnels all those times" mish would be nice for example 
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Damn right!
And to reflect the Valentine's Spirit of love and harmony, heroes and villains could team up to kill him together. 
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i totally agree, but now, the only extras being produced are the paid for bonus packs. this was inevitable, and an obvious policy shift from NCSoft. i fully expect that issues will go the same way.
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I sincerely hope not, I am trying to give NCsoft the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the events, but those of us who have subscribed for over one year will no doubt start to recognise re-hashed content, and there is the argument that It does more harm than good in the eyes of subscribers.
My fear is that Architect (albeit a player-requested feature) will have a negative effect on the amount of NorCal created new Taskforces and missions both Red-side and Blue-side, because there could be this underlying ethos felt or quoted of "You make the content™ with The Mission Architect" (said in the same way as Robocop's "You pick the heart!") .
I pray with every fibre of my being this doesn't make NorCal lazier. 
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well, when they stepped onto the micro-transaction slope, the goal posts changed for them. before, the little extras they included - special events costumes, badges, temp powers and such were just that - extras. a little bonus to the playing community. now? now they know that a significant chunk of that community will pay extra, there is no incentive for them to work on and publish extra bonus content. i'm well into my third year here, still new by may posters standards, but i'm afraid that my perception of NCSoft's corporate policy as regards it's players has suffered considerably recently.
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well, when they stepped onto the micro-transaction slope, the goal posts changed for them. before, the little extras they included - special events costumes, badges, temp powers and such were just that - extras. a little bonus to the playing community. now? now they know that a significant chunk of that community will pay extra, there is no incentive for them to work on and publish extra bonus content. i'm well into my third year here, still new by may posters standards, but i'm afraid that my perception of NCSoft's corporate policy as regards it's players has suffered considerably recently.
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Agreed. For me it was when they took an existing game mechanic (Respecs) and rather than making it easily more accessible by making the last trial reward repeatable chose to charge for them instead.
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Agreed. For me it was when they took an existing game mechanic (Respecs) and rather than making it easily more accessible by making the last trial reward repeatable chose to charge for them instead.
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Who wants to bet you'll be able to buy purple recipes before too long?
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Why not?
Why sould their be a new event every valantines?
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Because subscribers will be turned off by any perceived apathy on NorCals part.
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And why not have events for labour day, or Martin Luthor King's Birthday, or Independance Day, or whatever.
Or better still, just have events occur when significant changes occur in the game world.
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Great Ideas Praf!, I would love to see this either additionally or in-place of.
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Kill in a slightly different way? Give out more phat loot? The Valantines events are rubbish anyway, we don't need more. Thier main purpose was to test co-op teaming anyway.
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In game MMO events thrive if they are updated or replaced with new ones. Re-hashed content is seen by subscribers as at best a part of the game to be ignored and never to be bothered with again (See FFMs opinion) or at worse an embarrassing reminder of Dev apathy.
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the Dev team is beginning to think its barely worth the effort development man power-wise to do this event update-content
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And they would be right.
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Cold, possibly true from their Point of view, but cold.
Luckily for them the incentive is not on them for the choice whether or not to bother, It will be mandatory once the competition hits and people have two other superhero MMOs to choose from. Old events and rehashed content are going to hurt the game in terms of player's perception of the game and thus subscription numbers. In short NorCal are really not doing themselves any favours.
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Because subscribers will be turned off by any perceived apathy on NorCals part.
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No events at all, certainly.
Doing the same event every year, with minor additions, or more loot, is also pretty apathetic.
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I would love to see this either additionally or in-place of.
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5th aniversary event, coming in April or May.
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I completely agree. Ever since the NC acquisition, new stuff has been thin on the ground, and holiday events aren't that interesting. Apart from the Zombie Invasion, which was awesome, but it ain't exactly like that took a lot of work.
It all reinforces my opinion that something hueg is coming after I14.
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I completely agree. Ever since the NC acquisition, new stuff has been thin on the ground, and holiday events aren't that interesting. Apart from the Zombie Invasion, which was awesome, but it ain't exactly like that took a lot of work.
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And was random as hell in terms of storyline. I mean was all that about? Why are zombies returning from the grave just because some hero got themselves another costume?
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5th aniversary event, coming in April or May.
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Has this actually been officially confirmed though, or is it still rumour?
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
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Ok im not a long time subscriber mainly because i also play another mmo, but seriously you dont know what you've got here with COH. The developers at NC do alot for this game, its got too many great and unique features. Unfortunately that means that your used to getting all this attention and content when you need it.
The other game i play is The matrix online and really if you play it for any length of time you come to appreciate just how lucky you have it to have a development team over 5 members that are dedicated to bringing continually great and unique updates. Go see re-hashed content, it'll enlighten you that it could be alot worse...
As for this not so general issue, i'd say as most have with the new issues coming up no matter how large your development team is consider that they have planned and working on two large updates for this game having just released another. (lets not include the mac version release too)
Its understandable when your used to the new stuff but don't get upset when they take a breather to count for other things. Planning something as unpredicatble and dynamic as an MMO is not easy... schedules can get messed up by small unforseen problems. (:
(also worth mentioning MXO costs 10% more than coh also...) 
Apparently the 5th column make a comeback for the 5th anniversary event, it was in an interview, i forget where though. They said something along the lines of "we're looking foward to something special from the 5th......anniversary" subtlety obviously not being a prerequisite of press releases.
I can't find the quote now though.
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5th aniversary event, coming in April or May.
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Has this actually been officially confirmed though, or is it still rumour?
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It's confirmed that there is something big planned for issue 15 to coinside with the 5th anniversery.
It is also confirmed that issue 15 will be a big story issue, and advance the plot.
Put that with all the stuff about the Coming Storm, and it might be a good idea to pack your undead slaying axe if you see any shooting stars in April.
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Apparently the 5th column make a comeback for the 5th anniversary event, it was in an interview, i forget where though. They said something along the lines of "we're looking foward to something special from the 5th......anniversary" subtlety obviously not being a prerequisite of press releases.
I can't find the quote now though.
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Ah that, yeah. Vaguely remember that...
Oh, and welcome to the forums!
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Apparently the 5th column make a comeback for the 5th anniversary event, it was in an interview, i forget where though. They said something along the lines of "we're looking foward to something special from the 5th......anniversary" subtlety obviously not being a prerequisite of press releases.
I can't find the quote now though.
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As first posts go, that is very impressive. Welcome.
I really should do something about this signature.
Personally I'm not that bothered with the lack of new valentine content. Spend the day with someone you love instead for cryin' out loud!
I'd rather see some more activities like the Siren's invasion and other community events, real people caring about real people. Always got folks to log on.
A summer event wouldn't be bad either, even if I prefer the actual, real sun - it's just that we don't get to see it much over here.
...but IF NC is working on some awesome 5th anniversary content, I REALLY don't care much about valentine. It's acutally getting a bit boring to grind old stuff on new alts because it's still there and I MIGHT wanna use the cossie options. In a few alts time I'll prolly go ballistic because I can't get winter's gift, but...
Yet, I fear whatever cometh our way, I14, 5th anniversary (I15?), will cause me and many more to say "Meeeh, neeext!". Lagfixes, new gfx engine, bubble corrs, claw brutes, more high level content/TF/SF will go a long way, but most of us has prolly been here for too long. CoX has become an oool' friend of ours, like the wife...
...can't live with it, can't live without it!
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Apparently the 5th column make a comeback for the 5th anniversary event, it was in an interview, i forget where though. They said something along the lines of "we're looking foward to something special from the 5th......anniversary" subtlety obviously not being a prerequisite of press releases.
I can't find the quote now though.
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The Mumsie answering DelMonte, she says yes.
Welcome to the forums dear!
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Yet, I fear whatever cometh our way, I14, 5th anniversary (I15?), will cause me and many more to say "Meeeh, neeext!". Lagfixes, new gfx engine, bubble corrs, claw brutes, more high level content/TF/SF will go a long way, but most of us has prolly been here for too long. CoX has become an oool' friend of ours, like the wife...
...can't live with it, can't live without it!
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If your other half reads that, you are SOOOOOOOOOO dead.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Apparently the 5th column make a comeback for the 5th anniversary event, it was in an interview, i forget where though. They said something along the lines of "we're looking foward to something special from the 5th......anniversary" subtlety obviously not being a prerequisite of press releases.
I can't find the quote now though.
(in other news, 1st post!)
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It was Positron who said that I15 would be based around "the 5th....anniversary of the game".
And welcome to the forum
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I'm going to look back at this thread at the end of the year and have a good giggle.
*ahem*
I can vouch for what Ex Libris has said with regards the dev team having too tight a schedule to put in any new content for Spring Fling 2009.
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I'm going to look back at this thread at the end of the year and have a good giggle.
*ahem*
I can vouch for what Ex Libris has said with regards the dev team having too tight a schedule to put in any new content for Spring Fling 2009.
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You.
Damn.
TEASE!
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I'm going to look back at this thread at the end of the year and have a good giggle.
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Don't worry GR, we'll come and visit you. Just tell us where you are after the nice men have taken you to the Special Hospital with the soft walls, and we can all giggle together...
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I'm going to look back at this thread at the end of the year and have a good giggle.
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Don't worry GR, we'll come and visit you. Just tell us where you are after the nice men have taken you to the Special Hospital with the soft walls, and we can all giggle together...
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Is that before or after the nice men have taking him to the ITC unit?
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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I'm going to look back at this thread at the end of the year and have a good giggle.
*ahem*
I can vouch for what Ex Libris has said with regards the dev team having too tight a schedule to put in any new content for Spring Fling 2009.
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You.
Damn.
TEASE!
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Well, it's kinda fitting for the current event
@Golden Girl
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It hasn't really changed much the last two years, has it? My first Valentine's was the same as the last one and the redux. The one before didn't have the reward menu but I gather was the same mission.
I'm actually glad there's nothing new. Yes; the new larger dev team could spend time making new stuff but for what? A two week event that has to be made fair for every alt from 1 to 50?
I understand the idea that new is better but last year it felt nice to catch up with all my badge collecting on my alts and not have to worry if my main was missing out.
I'd rather they keep the events the same from now on. At least if you've got all the badges you want, you can help out the new players, ignore the event and do some regular teaming or nab the badges on your alts.
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