No news for a month?
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Posted on: 2010-01-05 07:38 in The Global Training Room Test Server
It just seems like they are making it out to be a whole new game with out any kind of little update (we gotta be hush about EVERYTHING), Most of us underdtand that alot they cant and wont talk about because they are not sure about stuff and might make changes to w/e.
Wheres the foreplay? It stopped for me. GR page has been the same for how long? cant update it a little bit? No new little movie or pics? for real?
Well it must be all worth it if they are putting a price tag on it XD
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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Originally Posted by Dispari
Patience? How long will that take?
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
They may be setting up the first wave of the closed beta - or it may even have started
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um..no their their not..
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I'm really hoping that's a realistic winky-face on the end, and not a sarcastic one...'cuz I'm designated in one of the early rounds due to my 5+ years of vet time. And I, too, wanna see what's in the black box ASAP. Getting impatient, even though I know it does no good for anything.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
They may be setting up the first wave of the closed beta - or it may even have started
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Basically too many 50's to count, but I'm generally a brute/scrapper/tank kind of guy.
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Unless they've set up a new GR-specific server, then no beta has started yet.
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Originally Posted by Fiftycalsniper
I'm really hoping that's a realistic winky-face on the end, and not a sarcastic one...'cuz I'm designated in one of the early rounds due to my 5+ years of vet time. And I, too, wanna see what's in the black box ASAP. Getting impatient, even though I know it does no good for anything.
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What did they do for CoV?
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Originally Posted by Sardan
Unless they've set up a new GR-specific server, then no beta has started yet.
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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Good question-I've completely forgotten. What DID they do for CoV?
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Originally Posted by Dispari
What did they do for CoV?
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Basically too many 50's to count, but I'm generally a brute/scrapper/tank kind of guy.
Well, they DID just pull the test servers down at the end of last week to do hardware upgrades...
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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You must be one a friend or family member of one fo the devs then, as they're the only one's who'd be able to say if the first wave of closed beta was starting or not |
Originally Posted by Coldmed
um..no their their not..
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@Golden Girl
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GR is being tested on a separate server - the normal test server will still be open during the GR closed beta.
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Originally Posted by Sardan
Unless they've set up a new GR-specific server, then no beta has started yet.
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@Golden Girl
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Same here. I am only keeping an active account just for GR beta. Depending on what they add and what quality of life features they fix that will determine if I even get GR or not once it goes live.
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Originally Posted by Fiftycalsniper
I'm really hoping that's a realistic winky-face on the end, and not a sarcastic one...'cuz I'm designated in one of the early rounds due to my 5+ years of vet time. And I, too, wanna see what's in the black box ASAP. Getting impatient, even though I know it does no good for anything.
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Marketing for this game has always sucked. It would work alot better if they told us alot of things now so we as the fans can build the hype up about it. They dont do enough advertising about CoX to even reach their core user base. I dont know why we havent seen a commercial or in show appearance of the game on the TV series Heroes.
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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
I don't think you understand how marketing works.
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Totally agree with you there. I think thats part of the reason why I was able to move to playing Aion so much eventhough I have always hated fantasy MMO's.
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Originally Posted by JDub
I feel the PO. I check the forums once a week and am always disappointed to see the same post from weeks before still there. In the last 3 months we had the holiday events and the ninja booster pack....but I'm just bored as hell. I haven't even logged in for at least 3 months...or since Halloween anyways. I doubt I'm the only vet that has become bored. GR is taking forever. Another booster pack would help, but I doubt I'll log in again untill GR goes live. I just can't redo the same content anymore.
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They had a different server entirely.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
What did they do for CoV?
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I have to agree with you here, I love CoX, But The game does need some new (I don't want to say content) Things to keep people interested. Compared to some other MMO's I've played, even playing casually, you rocket to 50. and once at 50, and you've run the tf's, fully IO'ed yourself, played the AE content game. |
Originally Posted by JDub
Nope. Real content is actual real content. Booster packs, changing power colors, and other quality of life changes are very nice, but they are fluff. I'm talking about new zones, events, factions, ATs, powers. Killing the same thing in the same mission for the 100,000 time with a different hat or different colored energy beam is not new content.
Like I said, I'm pretty much over this game. It's gotten old and stale. Here is to hoping GR breaths some life into it for people like me. |
I've not logged in , in over a week, I will start up the patcher, perhaps get as far as the server select, perhaps even the char select, then say to myself "meh" and spend time with the wife (this it not natural) And apparently sometime between UO, SWG, EQ EQ2 Shadowbane, Matrix Online and CoX, I had some kids... one started H.S last fall.. please CoX save me from this domestic bliss! Here are some things you can do...
1. New arch-types, its been quite a while for hero's since H.E.A.T s came out in Issue 2
2. New levels, that take forever to get (c'mon this is a staple of late life MMO's!)
or even a prestige mode that unlocks more powers'
3. More things to buy, anything, seriously. I give away @ 500-700m a week on my chars combined. I'd rather buy myself stuff with it than give it away to avoid the inf cap. You can get things with boosters, but that's "Real" money, I'd rather have more things in game you can buy/customize with, in game that cost inf.
It's probably fair to say that many long time vets are more or less just "treading water" waiting for GR to give us something new to do. Most of my logging in lately has just been to shuffle alts around for Day Job badges but since most of my alts are almost done with that I won't even have that excuse anymore. The game has been around for nearly 6 years now so to even be -that- interested in it still is a bit of a miracle as far as I'm concerned.
On the up side GR is going to give us Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning. On the down side both of those are really close variations of pre-existing powersets that only sport new animations. One could reasonably say that with a big retail expansion they should perhaps offer more than just two semi-new powersets.
On the "raise the level cap" front I expect based on everything the Devs have said that will never happen. But I'm still holding out hope for the "universal ENH slot" system that was described in the August 2008 market survey. Basically it was intended as a new kind of thing for level 50 characters to achieve that would simulate having to earn a new "level" for each slot. The net effect is that it would be like having to earn levels 51-60. Ever since that market survey was released many of the things it mentioned for the future of the game have come to pass so I feel that the chances of this universal slot system being in GR is pretty high.
As far as "more things to buy" I think we could all agree that would be a good thing. Hopefully the markets will be reformed/expanded to handle the new features.
The Devs of this game have a history of doing things that "conveniently coincide" with the activities of other MMOs. I strongly suspect that with the launch of Star Trek Online just a few weeks away that we will be seeing more GR news very soon. In fact the idea that the closed beta for GR could start on the first week of February would not surprise me in the least.
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I agree with what of the couple of last posters stated. I get that the holidays were upon us. But that's over now.
I'm hoping that once Thursday's sever maint resets the servers and the Christmas event FINALLY FREAKING GOES AWAY we'll see some actual content news.
Also as a vet: I've been getting into zone pvp (RV) more due to the uptick in targets. . . . er players on Freedom. Just made a few pvp builds, and now i have a reason to go after Accolades. Purple IO builds I've already mastered, so pvp builds have kept my interest.
Once I finalized my purpled, max recharge illusion/kin I knew I was running out of stuff to do. I've wanted to get one to 50 since I started playing this game, but kept putting it off cause I had other alts to roll. I've rolled all those alts. To be honest with you neither demon summoning nor dual pistols interests me if I'm going to be blasting/killing the same stuff all over again. (One of the reasons I'm looking forward to the STORY content more in GR, and the stuff for 50s--which hasn't been announced yet).
Last year was giving rpers, storytellers, farmers (of which i am one) and customization hounds what they wanted. I'm fine with that.
What I would not be fine with is if this year is once again just content fluff. The STORY of COH/V needs to freaking move forward already. How long have we been waiting for the Coming Storm again?
The hints at the rikti mothership and revival better be more than just an AE mission and just some invasions (though my bs/regen) does need her rikti sword. 
The letters from the time capsule did impress me in terms off adding to the story.
TL;DR: Enough fluff. Let's move the story forward.
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Originally Posted by Coldmed
um..no their their not..
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I do wonder if the F&F has started yet, or if this Rikti thing the mods are doing will be the kickoff to the GR beta, or just a ploy to keep players interested in CoH instead of STO. Seems like something is in store in the future, but what it is is anyone's guess.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
On the up side GR is going to give us Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning. On the down side both of those are really close variations of pre-existing powersets that only sport new animations. One could reasonably say that with a big retail expansion they should perhaps offer more than just two semi-new powersets. |
How do you know this? Dual Pistols while, yes, 'just another ranged set', does have more to it than that, and the only things we know for sure are the ammo types, ammo changing, and looking cool.
Demons we know even less about, except that (Maybe), the whip means it's more a melee centric MM set?
Also, we dont know if they have new ATs planned or not. They might, for all we know (or dont, more importantly). And Praetoria itself is a whole new load of stuff to do, I'd guess.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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Originally Posted by Obsidius
Wait... is that even English?
I do wonder if the F&F has started yet, or if this Rikti thing the mods are doing will be the kickoff to the GR beta, or just a ploy to keep players interested in CoH instead of STO. Seems like something is in store in the future, but what it is is anyone's guess. |
I'd guess that it was meant to be 'No, no they're not', which, even so; We don't know.
I wish we did. So does most everyone else. Gee, life is a right female-dog at times, isn't it?
And someone scrap me, I just used 'Gee' >_<
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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Golden, you're KILLING me with the insinuations! I'm just trying to figure out if the F&F is going currently. From your vague, oblique statements regarding it, I'd think it is. If so, I'm salivating here at my desk. Next wave can't come soon enough! :^)
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
GR is being tested on a separate server - the normal test server will still be open during the GR closed beta.
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Basically too many 50's to count, but I'm generally a brute/scrapper/tank kind of guy.
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Originally Posted by Fiftycalsniper
Golden, you're KILLING me with the insinuations! I'm just trying to figure out if the F&F is going currently. From your vague, oblique statements regarding it, I'd think it is. If so, I'm salivating here at my desk. Next wave can't come soon enough! :^)
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I know it's annoying (And you're in before me, you g*t! ¬¬ ) So relax. Patience. Take it out on the mobs in game, its something they are good for
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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I can't believe I just typed that.