Discussion: Formspring.me 4/23 Dev Q&A Transcript

Alexander Keith's IPA for the win!

That's one of the more ridiculous straw man arguments I've seen in a while. Straw man arguments don't work when it doesn't look like a straw man, but instead, like a big pile of excrement. Instead of pushing over the straw man, you simply fall into it.

I liked the new hospital concept art Mr. Nakayama (do you live in the mountains by the way?) The Praetoria concept art is really slick and nice, and judging by the (few) screenshots I've seen Praetoria is just as slick as its concept art.

One question: Are all the hospitals in Praetorai named "Cole Memorial" like how all the Rogue Isles hospitals are named "Black Heart Memorial," or does each hospital have a unique name like the Paragon City hospitals?

I really, really hope it's the latter because all the RI hospitals having the same name is my number one pet peeve for CoV. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!

You know, all I was saying was that apart from this one thing...only 2 extra character slots per account, compared to the last retail release is poor, a few more posts may not be as vocal as myself, but you really do not seem to really want to be bothered on it apart say we should be happy with it. You have decided it's fair, and that's it. As for bringing in Straw man arguments, well thanks for that, didn't have a clue what you were on about, I would call that an over reaction ans maybe a tad sensitive. But it has proved to me the lengths you will go to and ignore any discussion about it just to try and rubbish someone else. Any arguments and discussion put forward do not seem to matter at all if it does not conform to your view point, as any little bits will just be quoted and rounded on anyway. I maybe should have put some and bin the post to lighten it up a bit, but then again, I don't think that would have mattered really.

Overall, we both must like this game, otherwise we still wouldn't be around playing it after so long, but 2 slots is what we got with an issue when they expanded the overall slots to 36 and brought out the VEATS (think it was the same time), so just 2 when we have a Gamechanging product like Going Rogue seems to do it a diservice, as many people have filled all there slots with charaxters already, might be only able to afford the new release at the time and want to play more that 2 new characters in Preatoria, heck each AT is getting a new powerset to start AND we're getting a new starting zone. With all the teaming and leveling madness, even if you have a couple of slots and play on more than 1 server with mates (RL and online) those 2 slots are not going to go far.

Maybe another free server transfer window during the 6th Anniversary Festivities could help with this, now we know what we're getting, as a lot of people only play on 1 or 2 servers mainly and may have some "Storage" slots available to place characters put out to pasture to give them room for when GR hits. Yes people knew GR was coming out, but many probably expected more than 2 tokens, and a few might have been expecting another 12 purchaseable slots with 4 or 5 with the box. For many they may have already planned what they were doing with GR, but maybe before they knew about Kinetic Melee and Elec Control, as Pistols and Demons were known about but no others so a new plan needs to be worked out. Anyway, just a few ideas and discussion points for everyone, but I probably already know the reply I will read in the morning

It's scary how often my daughter is right these days... :shocked:

A Q&A session?

Agreed, we expected actual answers, the Devs shouldn't have answered the, "Stupid Questions" and just ignored them.

I think I've found your problem! You need to play on a server other than virtue.

I'd like more slots, too. That doesn't mean the Devs haven't been generous in the past. It's the insistence that the Devs are obligated to give us more else they're doody-heads is what I was pushing back against in this thread.

Did indeed like it a lot
One quick semi-artsy question; Any chance of a cinematic intro to the game? I feel the team really missed a trick with that; the cinematics for CoV release and suchnot were really, really cool, as was the GR one. Some manner of intro cinematic, which could also be used as a 'general' promotion for the game, would be great, imo.

And, really off-topic; gizza job?

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.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

batt, you ignored me the first time, but cov also cost more than gr does. for base gr, it is 30 bucks usd, for cov it was full price, either 50 or 60 bucks at launch(i forget the exact amount, someone else will likely fill in that blank.), we got more because we paid more. for the difference in price you could get far more than 2 slots.

we got one, the developers didnt answer questions for things that they didnt have an answer to, and they didnt answer questions with the answers that people wanted to hear, but they reflected the reality of the game. we rarely get major info in these(usually we get less, the spears answer, the revelation of epic/patron changing, and the tentative release window for the mutant pack,the moral switch timer, and how many bleeding slots we are getting, as well as the future of boosters were information) so this was not out of line with usual q and a's. particularly with ww giving a "state of the game " address next week. yeah the release date and powers question were poorly chosen, but otherwise it was a standard q and a, teasing, not revealing.

well, since you said entire playerbase, i can reassure you. of my 30+heroes, none are going vigilante, so there you go, the entire playerbase isnt going vigilante, problem solved, have a cookie

Incidentally, I get that same feeling from reading your post.

I knew exactly what was this was going to be - a PR move to get me all giddy about Going Rogue. Hell, the inclusion of exclusive concept art was a dead give away.

No one really should have expected them to answer the hardball questions. Everything was filtered through the marketing department.

theres a difference not answering hardball questions and answering questions that they have A) already answered or B) are easily accessible which most of the questions they picked fall under one of those two.

Each AT get's it's own. While the general purpose can be cross-matched (Blaster/Stalker, Corrupter/Defender, etc) each AT is still unique in what "holes" it has - which is what APP/PPPs are to fill.

Yeah, and I don't think any were an exact match for anything live - also, we got the standard "This isn't even beta-firm yet" bit from Castle.

They've mentioned rewards for those who stay "pure".
PC_Guy - you've been around long enough to understand how marketing is on letting the news out of the bag. And yeah, there were some of the already answered, but there was some good chunks that were new and/or more clearly stated.

I understand how marketing works, i think its crap but i still understand it.

Yes but it was stupid, the definition of stupid to have a Q&A with things that we already knew from other interviews and common sense.

Frankly I could care less if the Dev Team likes Vodka, it has nothing to do with the game or other questions like what non-COX characters do the Devs like, etc...

Those were questions that shouldn't have been asked for something like this.

Plus, if Marketing wasn't going to let them answer any of the hardball questions, then why did they even have a Q&A at all.

It was pointless.

robo, im going to be polite here, but you are just being overly dramatic about this. as i said, this is about as much in line with information as past q and a sessions, if YOU found nothing of value, do not assume none of us did. part of the reason for the closeness of the community to the developers is that we do see their more human sides as well, so yeah silly questions like the vodka one was just that, a little communtiy nod, if there had been a better question that they could have answered with what they are allowed to say now, the likely would have but there wasnt. please try to be rational here. and maybe you could toss around the term stupid a bit less, it can come back at you.

My understanding is each AT will have tweaked power sets available to it.

IE Brutes will have Epic pools made to fit them, and Blasters will have patron pools tailored to fit them etc.

Probably just tweaks of existing stuff but I'm pretty sure that's how it's going to break down.