Poll: Vote for the COH Forums Reskin

Oh well, at least it's good to be ignored, no one notices me talking to myself

I just want to know what's up with Penny's eyebrows. Not only this picture but in general. She glued on the fake sideburns, presumably to get into bars with the rest of the Phalanx. Now her eyebrows are the same color as her sideburns but not her hair. Does she dye them? Did she shave them off and glue on a set to match the sideburns? Is she wearing eyebrow guards to protect her natural eyebrows?

I'm sorry, if Version 1 got such a landslide victory, why are we using version 2?

I can visit the forums just fine on my Android phone, except for some side-scrolling and the inability to log in--I can only read. When I try to log in, it thanks me for logging in, but then returns me to the forum without actually having logged me in. But as far as load times, it's already very impressive and pops right up (even when there's no WiFi around!). I was pretty surprised by that. But yeah, a cosmetically simpler design without the need to scroll would be even more awesome.

And, I just want to say, that I absolutely love the banner design that we ended up with. I understand and respect that it's not the community's first choice. But those of us who do like it, we do exist, even if we've been drowned out. As someone who still reads super hero comic books in the modern era, I assure you that the action-oriented imagery above is more representative of the genre and more like something you'd see on the cover of a Marvel comic book. I've noticed many of the people who are complaining, and remember many of them from David's "What costume next?" threads, and I know many of them have emphatically stated they're not fans of the comic book super hero genre. It's something I've been scratching my chin over.

Whether it's the image above, or issues supposedly related to sexism, I've noticed a vocal group here who've got a problem with the comic book genre, a genre that me and many of my friends and co-workers are fans of. I appreciate the emotion ya'll are pumping into what you see as the good fight, but I also think there are more productive channels for what you're doing, which, basically, is activism. Maybe you should be marching outside of Disney's or Warner Bro's offices, or posting on their forums. I'm not sure if it should even be considered appropriate for you to "march against comic book themes" here, for the same reason you probably wouldn't appreciate angry parents marching right inside your video game store while you were trying to shop. I'm a patient person, but honestly, this is starting to grate on me. Even if members of Paragon Studios are sympathetic to your concerns, we'll never know, because their publisher, NCSoft, expects a profit and an artistic direction that is sympathetic toward fans of the genre as it actually exists, and certainly not its detractors.

I've come here too late, so all I have to say is this:


Wait... there's artwork of Penny when she isn't twisting her butt into the frame?

I'm actually NOT one of those people you typed about, just FYI.

I am, however, 100% disappointed that they couldn't chop up the winning image and stick those overtop of the forum like they did with the losing image.

After all, standing in a mildly heroic pose is just as comic booky as leaping away from logos.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

I think the main issue here isn't necessarily the background itself, but the fact that an official poll about which one the community wanted was posted by the community manager himself and in the end the results of the poll didn't matter. Had the poll been posted by a community member, I doubt there would've been nearly as much of an outcry. Asking what the community wants and then going with the overwhelming minority choice, regardless of whether or not good reasons exist for doing so, looks bad and it's completely understandable why people would be upset. I honestly couldn't care less what the background of the forum looks like, but this poll just seemed rather disingenuous.

The only thing that smacks as disingenuous is the collectively spoiled rotten tantrum in this thread. Yes, the requirements illustrated by the mockups should have been checked (I still think Zwillinger is jumping on someone else's grenade). But after all of the victories we've had in community participation recently (Edit: "we've" as in, us and the devs together) (hello and hello and hello), I find it remarkably petty that ya'll are ready to burn whoever's responsible for this minor goof at the stake. Good luck with that. If the community here wants to be all Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when plans hit a snag, that's fine if all you're wanting is to send Paragon Studios a message that community participation can be perilous.

My only legitimate non-Penny-Yin-related complaint is before they even held this poll they should have checked to actually see if both options presented were viable and no snags would be hit with either. It's always good to plan things out and test everything as much as possible. Especially when putting said options in the hands of the players. They obviously did not do that, and look where we are.