Issue 16 campaign

Yes I want someone to gain access to Issue 16 closed beta.

No it isn't me.

No it isn't one of my close friends.

It's Samuriko/Dark_Respite, I am hearby starting the campaign to get one of City of Heroes best video makers into Issue 16 closed beta (if she isn't already).

Because she's done a better job doing trailers than the Paragon Studios team have done in the past and it would be awesome to be able to drag her out of retirement to have a sparkly new trailer from her.

/signed

Except, of course, that she 'retired' from doing so.

(That said, yes, I *do* greatly admire what she's done, and could do with this if she chose to.)

See my Guides and Tutorials

/Signed
I remember the ones I've seen. Great work.

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/signed a thousand times over, love Samuriko's work

She is pretty good...

/signed

/signed

the characters they use half the time seriously offend my eyes...they could of used some sort of fashion sense ya know? or just had SexyJ make the characters >.>

Dr DJ, who is the girl toon in your sig and panel?

it's funny you know...I can't recall how many times I've been asked that question Angel from King of Fighters

Agreed, Samuraiko does have a certain skill with these videos, I remember watching the Rikti ship gank and grinning ear to ear (Plus the fact that Tsumiju has been egging me on for a Union Rikti gank ever since the Kronos Titan swarm I ran in KR)

So from a creative perspective I can only imagine the time and effort she has put in for these videos. So to allow her access would be awesome as I prefer watching her trailers rather than reading endless ambigious *soon* comments from the devs. :S

I agree, her videos are great, but first we have to bring her out of retirement. Everyone neg rep her until she starts making videos again!

/signed as well.

Big /signed from me. Love her work and it'd be great to see her do a trailer for i16.

I'll /sign this but go a bit further... I think she deserves to get into the closed beta not just because of what she COULD DO for the community with the creation of a video but for what she's ALREADY DONE.

She has already given so much back to the Forum Community and the gamers here with no expectation of reward... not even tickets (be they reward, vanguard or AE)!

In my opinion certain people here in the Forums deserve PERMANENT Closed Beta invitation status because of the contributions they have made to make this such a fun place to be and return to again and again...

Dark Respite is in the top 3 of this list... in my humble opinion.

/signed!!!!!!

I would greatly agree that Michelle (Dark_Respite) should get an invitation to the closed beta.

She has done great work for community relations with her videos. Also the panel she held on 'how to'.

Thank you. But I think I need to clarify a couple of things first. (This is NOT meant as a 'woe is me' post either.)

As much as I love being in closed beta and seeing how stuff works, closed beta is really for testing - to try stuff and break it and help refine things to make the issue as smooth as possible before launch. I can be a pretty dedicated tester, but I've got NOTHING on some of the folks on here.

Second, I retired for two reasons - the first was that I honestly believed that no one would particularly care if I stopped (especially now that David and the gang at Paragon Studios have raised the bar on their videos), and the second was that for the time and effort it takes to make one of my videos, my current financial situation couldn't allow me that kind of investment anymore.

Not to mention that for the first time since CoV came out, David and the dev team released a CGI video that I can't hope to match, even if I came out of retirement. I don't know Maya or 3dStudioMax or whatever they used to create that.

So... I stopped.

I miss it terribly - not making an actual trailer for I-14 was harder than I thought it would be, and then when I-15 came out, I thought, "Oh, crap, I know how I want to... make... a... no, wait, I can't." Then the news about I-16 hit. Then GOING ROGUE. And each time I heard about the upcoming issues, I wanted so much to come back to this.

I even found the music I would have used for I-16 and GOING ROGUE (problem #3 - licensing music isn't cheap), and had the storyboards for both done on my lunch break at work before I'd realized what I was doing.

But, thank you. At the risk of sounding like a total sap (which I've been known to do), it means a LOT to me that you guys want me to go on making videos. Like I said, I really thought that no one gave a damn if I made these (and feeling taken for granted does a lot to kill enthusiasm).

But since according to forum rules, petitions are really not allowed, I'd hate to see anyone get in trouble for posting in here.

Sorry if this comes across as rambling, I just woke up.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

PS - thank you for my virtual gift basket.

Not too fond of the videos, honestly.

Hope ya get a beta invite though. I hope I get one too.

*grabs some pom-poms and cheers for Samuraiko*

i've enjoyed your videos and would be very pleased if you did make a comeback trailer for issue 16.

Getting you into the closed beta would be a nice gesture of appreciation, but honestly you can make a video that's just as good, timely and relevant even if you have to wait for the open beta. (And it will be truer to what the actual release will look like and be easier to make when most of the bugs are fixed anyway.)

i hope you do decide to make an issue 16 trailer, but there's plenty of time at this point to make a final decision. Just do it soon.