Discussion: CoH Developer Q&A Friday, April 23rd!
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Posted on: 2010-04-16 16:46 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
I dont think the chat was live. And the questions that were chosen to be answered seemed to be pretty generic and un interesting. It looked to me that one person was copying and pasting answers into the answer box. You'll even see a misspelling of War Witch's name on one reply.
To me, this is more of a PR/Marketing thing and probably a favor to whomever runs formspring. I mean why use a service like that? There are 100s of better ways to run a "Live" QA session.
No knock to the devs though, they must all be busting their butts, and it is a Friday.
Bah, this was still the definition of Bull****, "Being locked in a room with the Dev Team", my ***.
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I dunno I've been saying that it was gonna take a lot of pve to change sides....all the pvper's thinking they were gonna change sides just like that were being naive. Some saying they were gonna switch every toon from red to blue....LOL.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Well, I didn't expect it to be a "Can do multiple times a day" thing.
That said, "A week's worth of work" for who - someone playing 2 hours a week, or someone doing 10 hours a day on a team of 8? |
And just so ya'll know...you wont be able to PL through the incarnate levels i.e. constantly farming one mish etc, or doing a.e. mishes. Gonna have to do content.
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We had well over 1000 questions. Part of the group started with oldest questions, part of the group started in the middle and part of the group started with the newest questions.
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Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea
Is that it? No new answers for 5 minutes now.
Edit Nevermind. I just had to be patient. And does anyone know if they are answering questions that were asked earlier today or just now? I asked a few questions earlier today but I haven't seen a response. Should I repost? |
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Heh, brought to their attention, alot of other things have been, "brought to their attention", for years now. :/ |
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
At least one base related question was answered - well, the INF to Prestige conversion was brought to their attention. >.>
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Granted I love this game and I'm going to keep playing it, but things like this get me pretty peeved.
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Yes but most of the questions that were answered were things that we already knew or questions that didn't have anything to do with the game.
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Originally Posted by Castle
We had well over 1000 questions. Part of the group started with oldest questions, part of the group started in the middle and part of the group started with the newest questions.
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My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?Lady-Dee: Hey my fat keeps me warm in the winter and shady in the summer.
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How appropriate that no pvp questions get answered.
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Originally Posted by Castle
We had well over 1000 questions. Part of the group started with oldest questions, part of the group started in the middle and part of the group started with the newest questions.
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Granted some Base Questions were answered which was nice, but I think that some of the more pressing ones should've been answered.
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Originally Posted by OneAboveAll
How appropriate that no pvp questions get answered.
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Well, that was fun...
I learned... absolutely nothing new...
Avoided every PvP question, and no new info.
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Originally Posted by OneAboveAll
How appropriate that no pvp questions get answered.
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Nothing in Going Rogue or the follow up issue. We do have some plans, however, and "Curious Observer" and I discuss things frequently.
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Any ideas on when Bases will get more items/functions added on?
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Originally Posted by Castle
PVP
Nothing in Going Rogue or the follow up issue. We do have some plans, however, and "Curious Observer" and I discuss things frequently. |
My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?Lady-Dee: Hey my fat keeps me warm in the winter and shady in the summer.
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I don't honestly know.
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
Any ideas on when Bases will get more items/functions added on?
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So, with "over 1000" questions asked - and I'm going to say there were probably more like 550 given duplicates? Or is that generous? - any chance of having a followup post with some of the others answered?
I do have to agree, a starting post with "Previously released info - I17 is due X date, GR has Y date targeted, see Incarnate info here, now for the questions" would have taken care of several that were asked.
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Is the new GM mentioned a Giant Tapeworm that lives in the Sewers?
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Originally Posted by Castle
I don't honestly know.
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Always remember, we were Heroes.
I don't mind PvP, I can't understand how people can be so obsessed on it, PvP is almost dead here across the pond, besides this game has far more things to do than Architect and PvP.
Anyway, I have to agree with you that questions like "how awesome", "powersets coming with GR" or "Issue 17 release date" are a REAL JOKE, specially with SO many really important questions from the playerbase (more zones revamped, more SFs to pair with blueside, more old tfs revamped, any tfs in Praetoria, The Coming Storm, if it's true that the soon-to-be-old Posi tf version will be available through Ouroboros, any chance of bringing back either Cathedral of Pain or Calvin Scott tf, etc), that had no answer at all.
Well, at least we can still hope for more information next Wednesday.
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Alrighty then, thank you anyway.
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Originally Posted by Castle
I don't honestly know.
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I had submitted the same question.|
Originally Posted by DarkEther
Still hope they'll answer my question about SG invites to offline folks...been wanting that for a while now.
But I asked it in my Les Nessman guise, so they may have ignore it.  |
I've PMed the same question to War Witch. No response there either.
Makes me wonder.
Castle, Two Follow Up Questions, one Regarding Follow Up:
Any chance we can remove the cast time damage tweak to claws?
Are new APPs being generated for those that swap sides? Meaning, will a hero brute have access to it's own hero-brute APP rather than use scrapper or tank pools?
Be well, people of CoH.
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Safe to assume no bug fixes relating to pvp for another 6 months is what you are saying?
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Originally Posted by Castle
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Nothing in Going Rogue or the follow up issue. We do have some plans, however, and "Curious Observer" and I discuss things frequently. |
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So you will not even do bugfixes?
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Originally Posted by Castle
PVP
Nothing in Going Rogue or the follow up issue. We do have some plans, however, and "Curious Observer" and I discuss things frequently. |
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Damnit, never tell me the odds...well, anyway I appreciate that info as at least an explanation as to why none of my qestions got any love.|
Originally Posted by Castle
We had well over 1000 questions.
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Cool to know there's so many dedicated players still around to generate that many questions.
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Curious_Observer is currently banned.|
Originally Posted by Castle
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Nothing in Going Rogue or the follow up issue. We do have some plans, however, and "Curious Observer" and I discuss things frequently. |
I don't recognize his name, and I don't know what his PvP experience in this game is. Maybe I know him by another name.
But Castle, would you be willing to have a PvP dialog with anyone else? I know those dialogs don't work on the forums without turning into a flame war. But perhaps you could PM chat with one or two other folks?
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Castle
Thank you for your time.
I greatly appreciate you interacting with us.
Ignoring anyone is a mistake. You might miss something viral to your cause.
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Can we at least get bug fixes? We've been begging for four issues. |
Originally Posted by Castle
PVP
Nothing in Going Rogue or the follow up issue. We do have some plans, however, and "Curious Observer" and I discuss things frequently. |
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To be fair to Castle, he did come on vent and chat with a bunch of PVP regulars last time there were major PVP changes. You've got to give the guy a lot of respect for doing that. It takes cajones.|
Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea
But Castle, would you be willing to have a PvP dialog with anyone else? I know those dialogs don't work on the forums without turning into a flame war. But perhaps you could PM chat with one or two other folks?
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The best people for Castle to speak to (from the playerbase) about what needs to be done with PVP would be macskull, ConFlict, and black barrier.
It would've been nice if alot more was answered and not just topics that were already known/common sense.