January 2011 Producer's Letter to the Community

You know.....Doom is spelled with only four letters, not all that jibber-jabber you just typed.

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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry It really bothers me seeing, I feel, the focus of Paragon Studios moving drastically farther and farther away from the community. I don't think I'm the only one that feels that Paragon Studios has little to no interest in a community that has existed since before the game even launched. I am guardedly and cautiously optimistic about new communication and new red names, even though it seems to boil down to (thus far) a new advertising press release to read once a month. Please prove me wrong.

I have felt sometimes that the community was not getting it's voice heard quite as often but then as soon as I do, they come out with things like more options for Monstrous Head/Feet, as if you'll check the costume blog you'll see it's been asked for numerous times.

The dev team may not give us what we want all the time...(other than Respecs, Power Proliferation, End Game TFs, Color Customization, Power Customization, Shields, Wings, End Game content, Auto Exempting, The ability to enjoy past content (AKA Ouroborus), PVP, and a Market system.)...as quickly as we want. But they do try to give us what we want most of the time. Accept the fact that immediate satisfaction don't work in the real world.

Glad to hear about this Letter in the process but will it be any different? Even in this first address we are getting vague hints etc. What's the point of that? Honestly, I just find them annoying. If you guys are so secretive that you can't even tell us the theme of the next booster then I don't know if there is much point to this letter.

It might help if the letter told us a direction or something concrete in regards to direction. Another big help might be if they put up a poll to vote on certain ideas that may be added to game. At least then you would get a better idea of what players are looking for.

I think someone noted earlier there seems to be a huge disconnect from the players by the devs (maybe not huge but a disconnect). I tend to agree. For a few years now we have been told something BIG is coming (AE was one feature and Going Rogue was another). AE is a great feature but when you look at the time and effort spent on it...maybe not so great. GR is nice and all but I would have taken an expansion pack that was 5 TFs (at the ITF caliber with new innovations) over 2 new zones. I liked a lot of aspects of GR and it is a definite improvement but just a slightly new twist on what we've been doing for several years now.

Anyway, it is nice to hear we are supposedly getting some updates/info but I doubt we'll get and real news via this address. More of the same old cryptic clues but now in handy new letter format.

Just looking at that picture, wouldn't it be awesome if it was actually part of an actual in-game group too - like it was a revival of that AVian/Avilan concept from ages ago.
With the amount of nukes being thrown around on Praetorian Earth, there could have been some pretty radical mutantions there, and a bird-person would be a useful mutation as being able to fly or live in high places would protect them from the DE.

Welcome to the boards Second Measure!!! And YAY for DXP weekend (coinsides with my birthday more woop woop - guess where i'll be :P) and great timing as i just rolled a couple of new alts and should help me get my WS to 50!!!!

Idk I find this quite a coindence with dcuo starting tommorrow that now they wanna tell us things

This Producer Letter, War Witch's Massively.com interview and the pic of the new eagle head and legs have succeeded in greatly increasing my excitement for CoH. I have loved this game for over 6 years and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Thanks for all you do for us, devs!