Discussion: CoH Developer Q&A Friday, April 23rd!
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Acemace,
Posted on: 2010-04-16 16:46 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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It's a fair point, yes. They could have been more in depth on stuff. But I really think it's better they be vague than copying our 'beloved' former Head of Studio, Jack Emmert, and promise stuff for certian times and then have to renage on that due to, y'know, he didn't actually bother asking the guys who it concerned if it was actually feasible in the time frame. |
Originally Posted by GMan3
I don't know Techbot Alpha, I went back and read the posts by those two and while they were a little over the top, they have some good points. I wasted an hour on-line that day, my fault I admit. I was amazed by the fact that they were answering questions that had already been officially posted and by the lame "Who would win in a race?" or "Do you like Vodka?" questions they decided to answer. Actually, amazed is a little lacking in color but I am trying to be polite here.
I counted about 64 questions and was only impressed by the answers to about 5. I will admit that the dodge they gave for the drop date of Issue 19 was funny, but I think they could have chosen better questions to answer. Honestly, I think most of us would be happy if we had a little more detail on what or when things are planned to come about in the game. If they had said PvP is in the works, but not until at least Issue 20, I think most would have been happy with that kind of answer. While some would have complained, most would say Ok, we have a guess-timate at least. And if later on they had to move it back for reasons of complexity or other game content again, the grumbles would happen, but I believe overall people could accept it. I will tell you a lesson I learned in my 13 years in the U. S. Marines. Any information was better than nothing or vague ways of the hand, and changes are expected. Either Marketing or the Devs (maybe both) seem to have not learned that lesson yet or forgotten about it. |
For the PvP question, it's pretty simple really. They are working on it, and will be coming to it. When and what timescale is quite possibly something even they don't know yet, due to the fact they seem to work on three issues at once nowadays, and GR is probably taking major precedence over anything else.
And who knows what marketting thinks, at the best of times. The Devs =/= Marketing, either way.
Finally, don't get me wrong; I know there is still some what I'd consider broken stuff in game. And yeah, PvP is one of them. Base editing too, and (for me anyhow) the majority of Blueside content and this morbid obsession with 'New shinies is better!' when, really, the game chassis (the majority of content) could do with a polish.
I just object to being typed at like I'm an idiot
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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
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Actually you missed the boat on the PvP comment I replied to. There isnt a they are working on it and dont know when. It was there wont be ANYTHING in the next 3 issues (counting the one comming out this week). That means i19 before anything pvp related... Thats a good 8 months or more by my calculations.|
Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
For the PvP question, it's pretty simple really. They are working on it, and will be coming to it. When and what timescale is quite possibly something even they don't know yet, due to the fact they seem to work on three issues at once nowadays, and GR is probably taking major precedence over anything else.
And who knows what marketting thinks, at the best of times. The Devs =/= Marketing, either way. Finally, don't get me wrong; I know there is still some what I'd consider broken stuff in game. And yeah, PvP is one of them. Base editing too, and (for me anyhow) the majority of Blueside content and this morbid obsession with 'New shinies is better!' when, really, the game chassis (the majority of content) could do with a polish. I just object to being typed at like I'm an idiot |
I expected the dont let the door comments to fly. I didnt post for you, I felt the developers ought to know what this long time player isnt happy about. Whether you agree or disagree. Obviously Ive paid 15$ a month for 65 months, I like the game well enough to pay.
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Finally decided to start posting on the forums lol...|
Originally Posted by OneAboveAll
How appropriate that no pvp questions get answered.
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This made me lol for real.
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I can answer this question with a "yes, it is available through flashback and gives 40 reward merits."
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Originally Posted by Defcon_Kid
if it's true that the soon-to-be-old Posi tf version will be available through Ouroboros
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Q&A was a marketing maneuver to promote what is coming up, and spill out some new info to tease the players with. That's how Q&A for upcoming products works. That's the entire purpose of them.
Given the amount of snark in the comments posted by some of the people here, I wonder why they're still playing this game if the developers are soooo dumb and soooo stupid and are trying to hide some sort of a biiiiig conspiracy! And oh dear gawd, they have no idea what they're doing, and only the few snarky people do! They should be the developers! *eyeroll*
It's a video game, people.
As for the questions answered, yes, I was expecting more teasers. But oh well! We'll find out all about it in a few months!
It was an oddly timed Q&A really. Nothing meaningful imparted. They could have waited until after i17 goes live (since we know all about that) and used the opportunity to give details on the next booster and i18 snippets rather than a heap of rather vague "wait until after i17" answers.
Not that I care particularly. But that's kinda the problem, I knew it'd be like this so I didn't really care about it one way or another.