The South Korean version of this game (City of Hero) actually had a promotional standalone costume creator. It was leaked onto the Internet for about a week before it was removed from the site. The company has treated it like it never existed ever since.
The general consensus for why this was case is that it had do with the settlement of the now infamous Marvel lawsuit. Theoretically by keeping the control of costume creation behind the curtain of having to be online in the game the Mods of this game could better police people and prevent them from making clones of popular comic book characters. It's pretty much this reason alone that explains why we'll likely never get an updated standalone or web-based costume creator at any price let alone for free. *shrugs*
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Yeah it's a bummer. For what it's worth the South Korean costume creator had a costume save/load feature just like our current creator but it had it like 2 years before we got ours in this game. It was weird that it took them that long to give us that obviously useful capability. *shrugs*
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This argument doesn't hold as much weight now* that the game is effectively F2P. Also, I don't understand why "a standalone creator would lack policing" makes any sense since nothing is currently stopping you from making costumes of copyrighted characters and just saving them without ever creating the character. The only difference now is that you can't create costumes during game downtime. Why this should matter in regards to the lawsuit is beyond me.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
The South Korean version of this game (City of Hero) actually had a promotional standalone costume creator. It was leaked onto the Internet for about a week before it was removed from the site. The company has treated it like it never existed ever since.
The general consensus for why this was case is that it had do with the settlement of the now infamous Marvel lawsuit. Theoretically by keeping the control of costume creation behind the curtain of having to be online in the game the Mods of this game could better police people and prevent them from making clones of popular comic book characters. It's pretty much this reason alone that explains why we'll likely never get an updated standalone or web-based costume creator at any price let alone for free. *shrugs* |
*Well, soon.
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The "argument" as you put never held that much weight for me either. But like I said the general consensus at the time (and over the years) has usually held to this as the reason why it hasn't happened. Legal settlements often don't use much logic or common sense when it comes to real world realities - I could easily see how NCsoft could have made the arbitrary concession to drop all plans to support an offline costume creator in return for Marvel dropping the overall lawsuit. Weirder things have happened.|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
This argument doesn't hold as much weight now* that the game is effectively F2P. Also, I don't understand why "a standalone creator would lack policing" makes any sense since nothing is currently stopping you from making costumes of copyrighted characters and just saving them without ever creating the character. The only difference now is that you can't create costumes during game downtime. Why this should matter in regards to the lawsuit is beyond me.
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But even if the situation has changed and there's no legal reason why this couldn't happen now there's still going to be the matter of the Devs being convinced to put in the time and effort into doing this. It's pretty clear that this has not been a priority so far.
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Yeah, it's not hard to imagine that it wouldn't be a priority. That part makes sense to me. The legalese, not so much. |
Originally Posted by Lothic
The "argument" as you put never held that much weight for me either. But like I said the general consensus at the time (and over the years) has usually held to this as the reason why it hasn't happened. Legal settlements often don't use much logic or common sense when it comes to real world realities - I could easily see how NCsoft could have made the arbitrary concession to drop all plans to support an offline costume creator in return for Marvel dropping the overall lawsuit. Weirder things have happened.
But even if the situation has changed and there's no legal reason why this couldn't happen now there's still going to be the matter of the Devs being convinced to put in the time and effort into doing this. It's pretty clear that this has not been a priority so far. |
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An offline (or even internet connected) costume creator. Allow me to view and save/load files for use with the game.
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