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The endgame grind, perceived or reality?

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-03-28 16:16 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Chuckles07 View Post
Isn't there another popular game where you run around chopping lumber and digging up ores? That to me is the worst kind of grind.
Yes but in CoH I can't use that grind to construct a floating skull fortress of doom with lava flowing from the eyes and casts a shadow so dark the normally daylight averse monsters continue to spawn in it.

 

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The game's starting to feel grindy to me. It may have been a grind before but it didn't feel like one and, really, that's all that matters. I've put off playing the I20 trials on the Beta server because I don't want to be burnt out on them before they even go live. But the whole "Here's a bunch more slots to unlock with more droppables" thing doesn't have me especially excited.

But I'm paid up through July so I'll give the game until then to convince me that I should continue paying for it. If I'm still feeling like it's a grind then, I'll find some other way to spend my time. Given that we'll likely still be banging out the same two trials, I'm not overly optimistic but I've nothing to lose between now and then.

 

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Originally Posted by Killerkitty View Post
NCsoft "focus group":
http://s410.photobucket.com/albums/p...view=slideshow
(shortcut: j.mp/warcrap)



Anyway, this reminds me of a conversation I had the other day:

03-31-2011 02:00:40 [Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: I only got the game after villains came out, because city of heroes advertising made it look like some cheesy nerdy comicbook game. city of villains seemed way more cool, still does, shame pretty much every update is hero stuff
03-31-2011 02:01:47 [Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: mmm, for villains it's like finished grandville do RSF... now become a hero
03-31-2011 02:02:23 [Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: RSF is *old*, seems like thye havent added anything new to the game for villains really
03-31-2011 02:03:16 [Roleplayers]The New Black: they can't, then the vocal hero players, who outnumber the vocal villains, will bark up a torm.
03-31-2011 02:04:11 [Roleplayers]The New Black: er... storm, even.
03-31-2011 02:10:21 [Roleplayers]fenrir: Which of course only makes more people go blueside which makes them less likely to add to redside...
03-31-2011 02:13:04 [Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: yeah I don't think its peoples' fault so much as the company, the way ncsoft closed down tabula rasa completely even though it was making a profit proved they are pretty ruthless
03-31-2011 02:13:32 [Roleplayers]Emgro: I miss TR.
03-31-2011 02:13:43 [Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: they thought giving the servers and staff to Aion would give them a bigger profit, it backfiredo n them haha.
I like how my contribution to this conversation was a maudlin memory of a moribund MMOs.