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With the recent increase in superhero likeable ratings I found it amazing that there wasn't some magazine ads for CoX.
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This is IMO the most glaring omission.
The super hero genre is massive right now, in a mainstream context.
Dark Knight Returns, Iron Man (with IM2 on the way), The Hulk, Wolverine, Watchmen etc etc etc
Plus there are more on the way. Captain America, Thor, Avengers, Green Lantern and more.
Plus ... There is Heroes, a very popular show on TV about ... super heroes.
If there was ever a time to advertise CoH, as a game where you can be a super hero, this is it.
Magazine adverts, run an advert in cinemas - before the blockbuster superhero movie main show starts. Hell, even put free trial CoH CD's in cinema's when these movies are released.
Would this cost money? Of course but it may well generate a lot of interest and bring in fresh players too.
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Given that WoW rakes in several thousand times as much as CoH, they could spend 1% of thier income on marketing and still spend more than the entire income of NCwest.
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You must spend money to make money.
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Like banks do? 
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No, banks give away money to people who can't afford to pay it back, despite KNOWING that they can't pay it back, then sell these loans to others, who also know that these loans can't be paid back and when it all goes [censored] up the governments put the taxpayer into trillions of pounds/dollars in debt to keep what should be a business that can fail like any other afloat. Oh, not forgetting these places still give their staff bonuses for running a failing business and the CEO's of these banks still have their cushy golden handshakes and huge pensions to boot.
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One of the most accurate summations of the whole mess! -applause-
Except for the Bonuses part. Its only the higher up bosses who are corrupt, bureaucratic little vermin, and they are the ones that rip off the huge chunks of cash.
Most people, personally including my Dad, are just everyday people trying to make ends meet at the end of the year, and are suffering horrible because of the Government...
/endrant before I go on more 
OT, are there ANY adverts at all for CoX? I've never seen them, anywhere, ever. If this is the case, thats a huge loss. Lost opporunities, lost players, lost notice. Sure, they might save a bit of money now...but thats the whole POINT of an investment, it pays off later!
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Well, I did say 'running' not employed by. I fully agree that the general workforce of just about every company, including the one I work for work their guts out every day so the boss of the comapny can get a bigger bonus from his share price incentive. What do most plebs get? A video message saying 'thanks for all your hard work' on the company intranet site where you can see the well concealed but still there smug grin on his face as he knows he's getting a bonus many many times more than your annual wage for your hard graft. Well, that's what WE get, I dunno about everyone else though!
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A video?? You're lucky, we got an e-mail and a bloody teddy bear
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A video?? You're lucky, we got an e-mail and a bloody teddy bear
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Define the size of this teddy bear . . . . . yes its crucial.
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A video?? You're lucky, we got an e-mail and a bloody teddy bear
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Yeah - it could be one of those huge ones you can cuddle like a real person
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Awww, that would be a real Kodiak moment!
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What, the one where it rips your head off with one swipe, or the one where you're still alive as it mauls you beyond all recognition?
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A huge bear that cuddles you? regardless of whether you're male or female? But then rips your head off????
Bet it's got translucent fur as that sounds more like a bi-polar disorder!
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EDIT: That should be "fought", not "fight" - otherwise, it might seem like I still have soft toys.
In the traditional sense, rather than as decoration - because keeping them as decoration is totally ok.
@Golden Girl
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Erm, no, just a normal teddy bear....well, a moose actually with light up lights on his antlers.......actually, it's a smaller version than normal.
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Marketing, generating interest in the game, product placement and all that to generate more players is really fairly moot when the infrastructure seems to be unable to cope with the current load of 400 or so regular players. If the subs increase only to find that they're constantly disconnecting, rubber banding all over the place, then you're going to lose those extra subs fairly quickly.
Sort the connection issues so that your current player base can play without so many problems, then come up with methods to entice more players.
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Personally connection issues seem to have improved so far no mega lag or rubber banding or disconnects
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Marketing, generating interest in the game, product placement and all that to generate more players is really fairly moot when the infrastructure seems to be unable to cope with the current load of 400 or so regular players. If the subs increase only to find that they're constantly disconnecting, rubber banding all over the place, then you're going to lose those extra subs fairly quickly.
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Yep 100% agree with that.
Yeah, for the most part connection is alright.
But sometimes it becomes horrible beyond belief.
They do need to try and hammer some sort of stability in. Agreed.
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Um.. to make it look new?
Yeah, there are loads of new players out there that we all know would love CoH if they tried it, but the big block in the way of that is this game is really very old. Anyone picking up the box in the shop (assuming they can find one) are going to have a lot of preconceptions based on the age of this game.
This game needs to compete with the new stuff out there. It needs a proper relaunch, with some big changes. It needs to not look like a 5 year old game when CO hits.
I'm hoping for a 5th anniversay relaunch with big changes to the game - war walls coming down kinda changes.
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In the traditional sense, rather than as decoration - because keeping them as decoration is totally ok.
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In the traditional sense, rather than as decoration - because keeping them as decoration is totally ok.
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Well, the occasional hug of the soft toy is ok too
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Like I said in another thread (because I obviously missed this one)... If Champions Online hits the shops and COX is not there... the choice will be simple for every new super hero fan everywhere around the world.
As of players knowing about this game aside from the 4 months after release and winning awards..
WOW gamers I know.. none... unless I pointed them towards it
Shops... Hardly unless he/she was around in that same shop 5 years ago
Game centers.. not ONE runs COX!!! Not one I know. Most never even heard of it.
Comic fans.. never heard of it...
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Lotro has boxes out because it launched a new paid expansion not so long ago, and on the back of that it shifts fresh boxes of original product. Exactly the same thing for WoW. AoC has boxes out because it isn't all that old and the initial print run hasn't yet sold out.
CoH is a five year old game.
Unless they're planning some kind of relaunch with a metric tonne of new stuff in there to attract new players, you are not going to see a new box on the shelves this side of the Atlantic; it would be a monumental waste of money.
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Well there is the impending I14 Mission Architect coming, a fairly unique new feature which should result in a lot of new content. Sure it's reusing old assets, but hopefully it'll result in some unique and fun new content.