Anything new in the market this Tuesday?
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Agent White,
Posted on: 2012-04-10 12:18 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Oh, certainly, this should be a cakewalk. Except, you know, the cake is a lie.
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Originally Posted by Neuronia
Then you need new whips. All the tools exist in game:
1)Take Atlas Park/Cap au Diable/Nova Praetoris maps and use them as backgrounds; 2)Seed your characters in a kind of visual turnstile, the tech exists in the costume creator with the left/right arrows; 3)Use a zoom tool to approach/decrease distance to characters. So...yeah, probably a few weeks tops and I'm sure the programmers have SOME free time...  |
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Probably Martial Arts and Imperial Dynasty costumes on sale.
More along the lines of things you would use with a Staff Fighting character and things you would use while leveling a Staff fighting character.
Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios
Next week's featured item must be something involving cheese, to go with all the whine around here lately.
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+100% XP boosters next Tuesday, ladies and gentlemen.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
More along the lines of things you would use with a Staff Fighting character and things you would use while leveling a Staff fighting character.
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Huh, that's much more useful than what I was guessing- a staff vanity pet which runs on four legs.
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Originally Posted by Emberly
+100% XP boosters next Tuesday, ladies and gentlemen.
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Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
J/ Wilde/ / AIL - Celebrating five years!
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Originally Posted by Codewalker
Next week's featured item must be something involving cheese, to go with all the whine around here lately.
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Originally Posted by joshdex
Huh, that's much more useful than what I was guessing- a staff vanity pet which runs on four legs.
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http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Shadow_Mokadara
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Careful. I think at Premium only 36 of the 48 are available. |
Originally Posted by Nethergoat
second best returning player advice I got, right behind hey, try typing '/ah' the next time you log in. =P
I'ma gobble up some of those discount server slots. More slots would be ridiculously useful right now, and even if I re-sub it's something you can never have enough of. |
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Friar Porky Pig?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
More along the lines of things you would use with a Staff Fighting character and things you would use while leveling a Staff fighting character.
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total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Now that's just creepy.
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Originally Posted by ShadowMoka
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Originally Posted by Codewalker
Now that's just creepy.
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My apologies.
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Shadow_Mokadara
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Now you get a 1 on the attempt to stir it up scale. Keep it going and you will reach full on troll status soon™.
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Originally Posted by SmegHead
Ok, so your aren't in any way frustrated with the "lack of dev communication" you just talked about.
You just complain about it. Got it. |
The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.
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It was nice talking to you in game this morning. Thanks for the additional information you gave me. Cheers.
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Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
On my staff/da brute doing a pylon test it felt like watching paint dry. I never actually wrote down the dps because of how slow it was. And this was on a min/maxed build with all purples/procs and stuff you could potentially have as well as having t4 alpha, interface, and destiny. The chain I was using was PS>SR>PS>SS. I also tried a build with a procced out mercurial blow, but that didn't really help. I even tried adding EotS to the attack chain on a couple runs (which actually wasn't that bad compared to the PS>SR>PS>SS chain), I think that chain I used was PS>SR>SS>EotS using EotS for the -res. Respectable to me is 300+ dps, which is probably higher than most other people consider to be respectable.
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The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.
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I am a programmer and anytime a non-programmer says that something is "trivial to implement", I politely tell them that is like saying that a full engine overhaul for a car is likewise "trivial to implement". Or painting a good portrait is "trivial".|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Originally Posted by Neuronia
So...yeah, probably a few weeks tops and I'm sure the programmers have SOME free time...
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Yes, those hours between 1 am and 8 am are being wasted on sleep.
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Classic...sig worthy.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Dude, last week they gave us a Liger vanity pet.
It really doesn't get more "meh" than that, if you ask me. |
The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.
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I will be buying it of course because I have waited since I8 when I came to the game to make my Lunar Knight concept toon.|
Originally Posted by Android_5Point9
Eh. Not particularly feeling interested in Staff now. Maybe I set myself up with way too big an expectation, but given what I've know about the set and how long I've known about it, combined with how long it's taken to show up just depresses me and leaves a sour taste in my mouth about the entire process. It won't impact overall sales in any manner I'm sure, but I'm not exactly interested in paying for it now. Oh well.
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Having said that I cannot recall as many people in the forums and many many more in game saying anything like this for any other set. In view of that fact, it is more than clear sales will in fact be effected, to what degree is unknown.
It is my sincere hope the people in charge of how this was done learn from it and that the people that want staff will at some point still get it for their own personal enjoyment if nothing else.
The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.
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This is an excellent post and one they could really learn something from moving forward. |
Originally Posted by Moonlighter
~ There is a sweet spot between being exposed to a set on test and slowly losing interest in it as time goes on. I think the time to release staff exceeded that time for me. I was *really* excited for it, but now my enthusiasm has waned. That's probably something you'll want to get metrics on. Everyone probably has a different time scale before interest wanes, but my instinct tells me that the time to release staff after the players were exposed to it probably hurt excitement over the set.
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I just want to take the time to thank you AND all the others that have given feedback surrounding this issue and can only hope that the powers in charge listen and learn. There are so many more people in game that have expressed this, but are afraid to come here to post, your are their voice. Cheers.
The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.
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But... but... Zwill!|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will all be pleased to know that Staff Fighting is coming next Tuesday.
GOOD MORNING.  |
Heehee! You do realize you walked right into that one?
Anyways! WOooohooo!
Thanks! Now for some preperation for this event! *cracks knuckles!*
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Originally Posted by Tutelary
Just waiting for storage sales now.
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The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.
Stop weeping, people - you've got a relase date for your sticks now 
@Golden Girl
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Okay I've lost track. What's the next power set we're supposed to want? So I know what to claim I've wanted since the game started, and so I can figure out how insane it is that we haven't already gotten whatever it is we haven't gotten yet.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Stop weeping, people - you've got a release date for your sticks now
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Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
J/ Wilde/ / AIL - Celebrating five years!
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What I meant was that people in my mindset are a very unique minority of the overall playerbase. There's a ton of people who are obviously very excited for the upcoming release, and I doubt it matters at all that they've burned out such a small portion of people who just happen to be privy to an above-average amount of information. In fact, I doubt it bothers them in the slightest. It's a melee set, it'll sell like hotcakes (or iPads, if you want a current analogy) regardless of the situation behind it all. They're going to release double xp boosters and the Hecatomb set along with it and rake in a ridiculous amount of money. That's not going to change. Obviously so, that's marketing's job, and they've done a fine job of it. In fact, they're doing a fine job now on Twitter, posting pictures of the set and retweeting comments from people who are excited over it.|
Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
I will be buying it of course because I have waited since I8 when I came to the game to make my Lunar Knight concept toon.
Having said that I cannot recall as many people in the forums and many many more in game saying anything like this for any other set. In view of that fact, it is more than clear sales will in fact be effected, to what degree is unknown. It is my sincere hope the people in charge of how this was done learn from it and that the people that want staff will at some point still get it for their own personal enjoyment if nothing else. |
So, no, I don't actually think my opinion is a shared one or that it means crap in the grand scale of things. And maybe it shouldn't. I've disagreed with a large number of Paragon's decisions since the turnover to Freedom and voiced a few of those disagreements, but it's not going to stop them from doing whatever they like, or really do anything that affects the one metric they really care about (money). We've all seen how hilariously poorly the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott went, with a large number of people who joined the Steam group for it playing it on day 1.
So, yeah. Depressing is fairly accurate to describe the situation. We're so far past the time where anything that isn't stamping your feet and making as loud of a noise as possible, gathering up other people to do the same and making yourself look a group of entitled selfish children will get you noticed in a meaningful way.
edit: And the dismissive behaviors exhibited by everyone else cements my belief. Rational complaints and concerns are "weeping" now. Outstanding.
Hmmm... Maybe The Proud Sensai Vanity Pet!!
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