Discussion: A Death Revealed....

Maybe Statesman and Recluse die.

All I know is I'm not excited to play the new episodes. I'll probably eventually get around to them but no rushing out to see who might die. The fun, which was trying a story arc, looking at any hints, then coming to the forums and seeing people's theories, and theorizing for myself, was the best.

And yes, there are other types of players who don't play or enjoy it that way. But there are many who do play and view it like that. So by spoiling it, the game just alienated a large portion of their player base.

The other types might be able to enjoy it still but the type that I'm in, now won't.

Still hoping this is all a red-haring though.

Hm, if its not, then I know the next story is going to be titled, "Who Get's Fired... for ruining a portion of the game for so many!"

So mad.

This is like the day Star Wars episode V came out. You are in line for the second show of the day when the first show comes flocking out. But they are all also chanting "Darth Vader is Luke's father!" and destroying the big reveal for everyone else. Thank god we didn't have internet back then because it would have been ruined for so many.


The ball wasn't just dropped here, it fell and broke the foot. So Raged.

I wonder if we'll get a statue of Statesman added to one of the zones?
I think one in the park area between Atlas Plaza and the Vanguard building would be nice, with a pool or fountain around it.

EDIT: Actually, that might not be such a good place for it - it'd mean Ms. Liberty would be looking at it 24/7

Maybe replace the generic statue in the midlde of the lake in Prometheus park with a Statesman staute instead? And rename the park too, to be more sensitive

Another place in Atlas Park could be the sunken bowl area where the zowies are, although it mightn't be so nice to have his statue surrounded by mobs.

I really don't understand the point of announcing it early. Even if it could have been spoiled by people breaking the EULA to find it out, it makes no sense to me to end-run that by announcing it formally this far in advance.

It bugs me.

This is all very confusing yet interesting at the same time. I think its WAI.

This reminds me of the comic speculator craze of the early 90's. A major hero would die and they would broadcast it all over the news instead of letting the reader find out on his or her own.

It is really a coincidence that the day Star Wars early access launches we get this? Just like the "If you are leaving for Star Wars but still care about badges you better leave us 45 bucks" Loyalty program.

If I would have to take a guess I would say since this is 5 of 7 one of the FP sacrifices themselves to bring back Statesman, however that will work out.

I personally have liked the story so far and I don't feel they need to pander like this. Even if I left I still planned on coming back and doing VIP to get the last 3 parts. Now I'm not sure if it's just going to be "Let's do a Poor Man's Alan Moore and kill everyone just because we can".

And since I didn't say it before, good job on rethinking the super packs. It should have never got to that point in the first place but I do give them credit for not being stubborn and unyielding like other companies have been in the past when they have done something unpopular.

I'm not sure why this was revealed early, even having read Zwillinger's explanations. With this forum, revealing something plot-related in advance doesn't build anticipation. It only gives people the chance to run things down even more than they otherwise would. (Note that this isn't as true of things like revealing new gameplay systems, just story issues.)

In that vein, the OCR's should have told the dev team by now that the forums HATE anything even remotely resembling a plot twist, or even a plot development. After all, the motto of the fora is, "If it's on tvtropes.com, it's cliched and bad and a Suit ploy (unless one of a small number of writers used it; then it's Brilliant)." (Can you hear the sarcasm in my typing there?) Still, the vitriol being spewed against this arc in this thread disgusts me. If I were the development team, I would have long ago told the players to cram something in their whiny, pompous mouths, only I would've used much stronger wording. I can't fathom why the story team hasn't given up on people when 80% of the feedback they get is needlessly negative. (The other 20% is composed of the 10% that's needfully negative and the 10% that's positive.)

Since CoH Freedom wet live, they've been tweaking the whole game to a more interactive comic book feel. That said, in true comic book tradition, I'm sure somewhere down the road he'll return to life. After all very few lead characters ever stay dead in comics.

Maybe he is not the ultimate "permanent" death in this SSA.

I'm sorry to say Golden Girl that it doesn't feel epic anymore. But then noone actually seems to think he was anything other than a jerk, so that's ringing false as well....it's deflated a lot of how I felt the writers of the game arcs thought about these things, to be honest.


S.

I was really enjoying the signature arcs and was telling everyone how much the storytelling has improved in the past year or so...

This "reveal" has taken what could have been an epic moment in playing through the arc and relegated it to "meh". I'm really disappointed at how casually this was done. The entire build up of the storyline so far was WHO will die, not HOW will Statesman die. Put another way, if the lead in to the initial arc had been "The DEATH of Statesman" ala "The Death of Superman", then yes the big reveal would have been how.

I mean, really. What the heck?

So, disappointed.

The only thing it seems that is truly dead are a lot of peoples interest in it now that its revealed.

You've ruined the suspense for those that were expecting the death part of the story to be the climax. Now people just have to watch the rest of it like an episode of csi, to find out how, or if anyone else.

At least i can say this about the whole thing...AT LEAST THIS GOT A STORY ARC.
They killed off vanessa de vore as a cut scene filler to prop up the GR poster child mm.

That is what killed my intrest in the game & my subcriptions.

To me this isn't really a spoiler. I was only half-paying attention to the story and was expecting it. But putting that aside, Statesman is like the Superman of this universe, and the Death of Superman was heralded well in advance of the actual event.

One thing that I've begun to wonder, is if the events in this SSA will be culminating in the release of this Mot entity everyone has been talking about which will coincide with the revamp of Dark Astoria.