CoH on RPS

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011...city-of-heroes

Interview with Brian Clayton about Freedom and the like.

This is an epic quote:

Quote:

"We shared our data; the majority of players are heroes and I think that’s a good thing for society in general, but we certainly want players to be able to live both sides of the superhero experience."

Too bad CoH never had a chance to get a write up on Old Man Murray (despite the gratuitous plug in-game!), but this is a pretty good runner up.

The 95% month on month retention rate is pretty darn impressive.

I found this one interesting:

I found this quote interesting "I don’t think we want to steer the player to the experience that we want." and yet it appears that's exactly what they're trying to do with the incarnate trials.

"A mantra of ours was to provide more to subscribers in the Freedom model than in the previous model; if we could do that, we’d call ourselves successful. We…uh, I lost track of the question."

That is to say, "Sorry, I got lost in my own marketing mumbo jumbo."

Now, Mr Brian Clayton, Studio Director and Executive Producer, unlike you I've not been here since 2003 so I might be kind of a noob, but I am fairly sure cellphones have been there since way longer than 2009.

(I am aware of the update that made cellphone access faster than it used to - still an ackward misphrasing/mistake on such a basic and fundamental feature of the game, IMHO.)

Reading the comments, you see some people who walked away over the IO locking issue. I knew that was going to happen. They should've let people keep their IOs to keep them around. People who uninstall don't buy Points.

Ah, well! The damage is done.

WARNING: I bold names.

People don't redside because, despite the ease of transportation, everything is better blueside, from ease of merit generation to ease of teaming, Make rewards much better redside and things would even out.