I think ppl need to calm down with regards to other people's posts. At the end of the day it's an open forum so FFM and the others can say whatever they like as long as it's nothing offensive.
I agree with FFM with regards to feeling cast aside by the big cats at NCSoft and for that reason I'll be playing on here until another option eg CO is released. I LOVE this game for all it's faults, but ONLY because it's superheroes. Give me another game to play that does it better and I'm gone though, and right now CO looks pretty damn strong.
This looks really good - and I love the way it seems that the 2 new TF stories are tied together - the Villains' SF starts out with stealing info, and Heroes' one starts out with trying to find the stolen info, with both leading to an encounter with the 5th Column.
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the little announcement about Issue 15 hasn't grabbed me enough to say 'Stop playing WoW'.
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@Golden Girl
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Hello?
Does anyone think for one minute that the Devs would announce everything before its even done yet?
Yes, this could be it. All of it. And, if that is fact, *then* I will side with the unimpressed.
However, it might not be. They could and may have a load of stuff ready to unload on us unsuspecting mugs.
As ever, I'm waiting for the boat to come IN first, before judging the quality of the cargo.
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@Golden Girl
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Encouraging at least...
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After reading through the overview I was pretty disappointed. I havn't been with the game since the launc but I've been around for two years and those two years playing the game were amazing. The endless possibilities, of builds and costumes along with the friends you make is astounding. The MA was pretty fun but the novelty wears off after a while when either you run out of room for further arcs or the Idea Express grinds to a halt.
I'm not planning on cancling my subscription yet because I wwant to wait and see just how good this next issue is. I admit, the past few issues have been let downs and the Devs have a number of promises to fulfill but I'm willing to wait until i16 (Assuming they're rushing i15 to make it closer to the anniversary)
To me it's like ordering a nice lovely dinner but the desert isn't as satisfying as the rest of the meal.
I love the look of everything great so far! And it's all stuff people have been moaning about for the past few weeks/months!
It does look a bit meagre for a big 5 year anniversary issue though. So my guess is they are holding back the big selling point of the issue.
That or this actually is all there is for Issue 15 but it is going into beta soon, and since none of that stuff looks really test intensive it might possibly go live at the end of may still within the anniversary month.
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Trying to look on the plus side of this at the moment but I cant see much there for that. A new TF would be nice for my level 50s, but I want something to make me roll a new toon, and there's been nothing for a quite a while that has. There could always ben unannounced proliferation in there, cause there are some non-existent combos I want to try but there's certainly not enough content in that to encourage me to play more. I'm hoping that they're holding back on their big Ace that was going to sell the issue and that everything else wont just be padding for what has just been announced
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They were appropriately appalled
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Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
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I'm pretty sure the MA is open to level 1s
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I'm pretty sure the MA is open to level 1s
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Sure it is, but in about an hour they end up at level 30
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I'm damned sure it is, but doesn't cover my need........ has it inspired you to make a new character then?
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Women wrapped in silk
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I'm damned sure it is, but doesn't cover my need........ has it inspired you to make a new character then?
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No - but I'm sure there are some good arcs in MA for lower levels
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I'm damned sure it is, but doesn't cover my need........ has it inspired you to make a new character then?
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No - but I'm sure there are some good arcs in MA for lower levels
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There probably is but finding them is the problem.....
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I'm damned sure it is, but doesn't cover my need........ has it inspired you to make a new character then?
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Well, they're looking to fix that with the I15 MA improvements
@Golden Girl
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And back to the opening post - we should start taking bets on who the new TF contacts will be, and which zone they'll be in
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I'll take a wild guess that some of it will take place in Striga and Boomtown.
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Hero 50's - 25
Villain 50's - 1
Maybe Cimerora too?
I also think there'll be one or two unique maps for the TFs too - they seem to prefer fewer, longer missions now, with some special maps.
@Golden Girl
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Yea really i'm not that bothered i'm willing to wait until release before i make any judgements on its worth. I'm rather excited tbh about it ^^
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But I'd imagine that today of all days GR and Avatea may be communicating with the devs (when they're in work) to organise the test server appearance - so it's not even required that the devs themselves read the boards.
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GR Has left the team of Developers for good. i was speaking to him previously in e-mail and he said to quote:
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Err - does he work weekends??
It says 7 work days - so if that wasn't inclusive and he doesn't work weekends that makes this Friday his last day.
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Well either way you look at it from that date he's still working today ^^ So you would still be right there, what a time to leave though.
Whether through preference or circumstance, I find that the much greater part of my time in game is spent soloing. So TFs & SFs are largely things of mystery to me. New ones don't exactly sparkle for the primarily solo player. What with MA containing haystacks full of pointless muck and very, very few needles of style & wit, I'd be horrified if the Devs were counting on players to create mission content while they just worked on TFs that solo/pick-up-and-play players can't easily access. What with the anniversary event being a complete washout for part of the playerbase thanks to the servers being incapable of handling player traffic in Atlas that I'm sure was less dense than at launch when my old and inferior PC managed quite happily, I'd say this has been a very disappointing few days.
I'm not canceling or crying "Doom", but I certainly think some employment of common sense, due care and attention, forethought and competent management would have solved, or at least assuaged, most if not all the problems - which in some instances may have been fostered within the playerbase but not without seeding and teasing by Devs and Mods.
CoH has done really well to survive with a steady playerbase for 5 years. I don't know what percentage of their active playerbase is made up of veterans at any one time, but surely there's a tremendous risk involved in any reliance on a flighty market providing passing-trade subscriptions to keep making up the monthly numbers, especially for an ageing game with very tempting competition launching which, in some cases, already has name recognition and heavyweight pop-cultural clout.
I keep making dumb analogies in these posts, so here's another one: Players left in droves after ED, and as far as I know CoH may have replaced them. But they didn't have the same fight on their hands back then. And it was a leaner, fitter, younger and hungrier game. Like Ali toward the end of his career, CoH is old and showing signs of flab - which means it'll have to train harder and harder to get back that muscle-tone and handspeed, or some ripped young punk is going to come in and embarrass it with a career-ending hook we all see coming. My worry, from what Positron appears to be saying and has said yesterday, is that the Dev's don't see it, and if they do, they may have waaay too much misplaced confidence in their own jaw...
I'm still paying my subs, but the only thing that is keeping me around at times are those I've met in-game. The MA was fun for a little, but I can't even be bothered to write my own arc... I dunno, jaded? Possibly, but the little announcement about Issue 15 hasn't grabbed me enough to say 'Stop playing WoW'.
That in itself makes me sad...
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