So what do you predict in the state of the game address?

Sadly I have to agree with this. DCUO is a great interactive comic book but a lousy MMO game. And who wants to pay $15/mo for an online comic book?

First off, it's aspergers syndrome.
Second, thats not really the kind of thing you joke about unless you really want to come off like a complete goit.
It's like playing 'I whip my hair back and forth' in a cancer ward. Just saying.

OT; Yeah, people have a major problem differentiating 'might happen' and 'we have promised this and we shall carve out our hearts if we fail!!'

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKFGREngKC0

Really, I never expect much from these sorts of pep talks. I'll be pleasently surprised if we get something substantial, but not at all upset (or surprised) if we don't.

People who ***** about it that much usually don't have actual Aspergers, just internet-self-diagnosed Assburgers.

Er me?

Technically yes both games are fundamentally different.
But license wise I found it superb. The backstory is coherent and well written and those comic sequences are superb. And there is an almost inexhaustible amount of possible future content.

For me it lies somewhere between arkham asylum and WoW. Plus it actually has some endgame content out of the gates. Not everyones cup of tea but i am very excited about it.

And rather than silly digs such as the tiresome char creator disparaging, realistically it could quite easily bump the whole superhero gaming genre. Comics fans but newbie mmo players could rip through it and then find out about CoH's rich and deep gameplay and decide to give that a try too.

This is a GREAT time for superhero comic book fans. In the cinema superhero films are starting to be a respected genre with actual name actors and directors eager to get involved.

And finally we are starting to get decent superhero games. I see CoH and Freedom Force as the games that set the standard. And now we have Ultimate Alliance, the unmissable Arkham Asylum and the very shiny DC game.

And lets face it, CoH is just a juggernaut. Games come and games go. CoH just keeps on rolling :P

I would be careful about that, as I for one *KNOW* that several of his friends DO have Aspergers Syndrone and they do play CoX.

And yes, they have complained just in the fashion that Techbot actually posted (And I have heard them be like this over Skype)

So what was your complaint again?

I know the line of going 'too far' is sometimes hard to figure out, but people are waaaay too PC & sensitive these days. I once said something was 'retarded' on a message board and got lit up for being insensitive to the mentally handicapped.

I didn't take offense from the the poster's remark, no more than I did the movie 'Deuce Bigalow' (humor with Tourette's Syndrome), nor 'Something About Mary' (having some fun with mentally handicapped).

And I say this as one who has a son with Autistic and Asperger tendancies and has to take meds (these things are not as easy to diagnose as many think - I've had different doctors tell me different things). Whatever it is, my son is certainly different and has difficulties with school and social interactions. Even so, I know the difference between humor and true mean-spiritedness.

My opinion: we've all gotten a little thin-skinned. Heck, we have school's banning or editing Huckleberry Finn because of the N-word (when it should be obvious to anyone with an iota of literary ability that Mark Twain was attempting (and did, splendidly) to show the evils of racism; even more remarkable considering it was written in the 1880s)

There is such a thing as going too far, but like pornography, it's incredibly hard to define when that is. But going to far the other way make life just one big blob of gray.

I don't think you have to worry. Unless someone has an ownership stake in a business, turnover at all levels of an organization is inevitable and, in the long run, a good thing.

While legacy code can be a PITA if its not documented properly, most creative endevors... especially one with as massively varied an audience as this one... benefit from getting fresh pairs of eyes looking at them. If the old hands say that something is utterly impractical or impossible, let someone new take a look at it and they might find a way to make it work. This game benefited immensely from getting out from under Jack's original concepts (players don't need to know hard numbers... three minions should be a challenge... etc), and who knows what ideas some new hand might come up with that might make the game even better?

As long as the turnover happens at a measured pace (i.e. senior people stepping aside so that the rungs beneath them can move up the ladder and make room for new hires at the bottom) this is the healthiest model for an ongoing business that plans to be in the business for the long haul.

We were promised BIG things before and they came in the form of the mission architect. An awesome feature but a flop if you look at it as a key feature (I think you have to given the resources, time and effort put into it. Not to mention they released a box for it too).

I have a bad feeling the new stuff will not be too different from the old stuff.

Probably by a hand-waving, terrorized citizen running through an office building.