what is the smallest change that would make you quit?

Not much would make me quit. It would have to make a lot of characters I put effort in less effective or broken.

I use IOs a lot, so maybe this.

I can't think of anything small that would make me quit in and of itself. I have quit games because of numerous small things that added up over time.

The small things that piss me off most in CoH generally have to do with Costume items; specifically when one gender gets an entire new costume set and the other gender gets.... a mace. Screw you Carnie Pack.

Some day that may become enough of an annoyance for me to throw in the towel, but not today.

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Originally Posted by RevolverMike If COH2 gets made and we cannot transfer over our current characters and their builds/IO's. Having to start from nothing for an updated game engine and graphics would seriously annoy me enough to just not play anymore.

See, I feel the opposite way. CoH2 would be a new game, with a new engine and possibly even an entirely new playstyle. What on earth would be the point in just copying over a pre-leveled, pre-min/maxed character?

I wouldn't even bother buying the game.

Frankly a CoH2 would have to be different enough from CoH1 to be basically a new game to me, otherwise why even make it? Why would I pay for the same game again?

@Oathbound & @Oathbound Too

If they keep going the direction they are going with the store and begin selling badges. That would be the last straw for me.

They are already selling purples!

Moving from handles to real names.

Really, I can't think of anything else that would do it.

Making me respec dozens of characters for no discernable reason.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=288581

Servers being shut down, I guess. I thought I'd quit when they changed the launcher, and I didn't, and I believed I'd leave when they started tying most of the interesting new content and rewards to group activities, and although I'm not VIP anymore and play perhaps a dozen hours per month I'm still here.

So, yeah. It would have to be a change to the rest of the MMO industry rather than CoH, because what else can we play, anyway? It's 2012 and in the average game sidekicking systems still don't exist, your appearance is still heavily locked and determined by the loot you wear, and you're still a grunt fighting a few enemies at a time.

I asked myself this question a couple years ago, and came up with a few definite answers.

1) If I decided that the Going Rogue content was badly done or not to my taste.

2) If they switched over to a 'Free to Play' model and started moving toward a Pay to Win setup.

3) If they switched over to a 'Free to Play' model and started locking desirable items (costumes, special IOs, etc.) behind a variable-interval, slot machine style mechanic instead of selling them to us outright, just to wring a little more cash from the customers.

4) If the upcoming Incarnate System encouraged repetitive farming in order to advance in it.

5) If the upcoming Incarnate System revolved around player-swarm Raid Content similar to end-game content found in other MMOs.

The time since I18 has not been kind to me, as you can see - all of these changes have come to pass in some form or other. I did go on hiatus for a few months to play that new laser-swords-in-space MMO until the release of I22 and the Dark Astoria revamp, which I thought was particularly cool.

Though I'm not really pleased about the current direction of the game and don't predict that the development team will change course toward something more to my liking, this game still gets a lot right compared to others in its category. My time away certainly underscored that. I'll probably stick around until my SG finally dies or moves on to another game.

I'll be here until:

a) the servers shut down
b) Matt finally gets that restraining order against me

I might not QUIT, but I would certainly rant, rave, sob, weep, gnash my teeth, and break down the door at Paragon Studios when they finally get rid of the /demorecord feature. (On the flip side, I would take a certain dark amusement in watching the Creative Team in Seattle try and do halfway decent ads for the game without it.)

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

The very smallest change for me would be if they encoded all player names to be in either all caps or no caps at all. Or even for every name to start and end with "xXx". I'd lose it.







Besides, how would I tell the doofuses from the rest?

hmm upping the system requirements.

I'm on a low end system (though I did upgrade to 2 gigs of memory and the game plays much better now).

I am on that razor's edge of a threshold between being tolerable for playing the game and being so annoying that its not worth playing without a computer upgrade.

Updating the game to an even more modern computer would end up driving me out until I could get a new computer.

ANYTHING AT ALL.


Joking, of course.

If they made me rename my @Global again.

Fool me once shame on you.
Fool me twice shame on me.
Fool me thrice............ nope not in this lifetime.

I'm here at least as long as my friends are.

Expanding the Hasten Fx all the way to the shoulder and brightening it

By definition if you consider the change small it doesn't matter that much to you.

Oddly the one thing that I like a LOT about CoH (that wasn't popular at launch) is the fact that you can't mix and match any powers. I would not have lasted since launch if you could. It is impossible to make all powers equally powerful so you end up with a world full of like 3 clones and the hand full of characters they make fun of for not maxing out their toons.

The archetype system makes me build a lot of characters I wouldn't otherwise. I would like to see like an extra power added to each set though. With various changes like Fitness being inherent you don't have to make the hard choices you used to, which made for more variety. Having to choose between awesome powers hurts so good...