Power Creep video

Just interesting

We all know what this is already, but it's still a good topic that can be discussed in CoH. This term has been brought up regarding incarnate abilities, and I'm sure Synapse and Hawk are well aware of this careful balance requirement.

Thanks for sharing.

I like how I play most of the games mentioned, except for the gorilla.

Yes, that was an interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

No prob - these guys make great game discussion videos regularly.

actually this is probably the MMO with the least amount of power creep I've ever played. Unless you're running lvl 50 content, all players function at a balanced level. Even at lvl 50 content it's mainly the level shifts that cause the power creep.

The part early on about reward creep made me think of the MA system vs. the newer SSAs and trials. Remember how farming the AE used to be THE THING because tickets could get you so much stuff (recipes and salvage)? Now it's all about the merits, tickets are at best a niche reward to chase after. As the devs haven't updated of the rewards for the MA*, now hardly anyone plays with it, farming or otherwise.

*I know that farming and exploiting are reasons they haven't. Still, they could do something with it such as updating rewards for vetted dev choice arcs or whatever, but that's not happened either.

I expect this thread to have a lot of DOOM! involved...

But yes, they game has experienced major powercreep over the years. While every MMO is plagued by it to some extent. CoH has seen short bursts of powercreep. From IOs to inheritent Fitness to Incarnate stuff.. including levelshifts to flat boosts to certain set. This game has definitely seen it's fair share of creep.

This game is slowly dying and anyone who disagrees is in denial and the best way to keep it around for even just alittle while longer is to some how halt powercreep. We haven't even gotten to the Omega incarnate and people are already 50+3, able to solo most content with little issue... heck some can even do it at 50, showing such a huge flux in power for certain sets. I understand our development team is only here to milk as much money as they can from us until CoH2 comes out or until upkeep is larger than income but I'd someday like to see old content revisited instead of selling us new crap that just says 'grow moar powerful for only XXX points or moneyz!!!'

Note his signature, then leave it at that.

Yeah, I disagree with pretty much everything he said, to say nothing of the bits that are just flat-out factually wrong. Guess that means I'm 'in denial'. I just love when someone prefaces their weak argument by saying that anyone who disagrees is wrong by fiat. Saves you from actually having to construct a sound argument yourself, I suppose.

As for the OP topic, I've been a regular follower of Extra Credits for some time now and the video in question was a good treatment of the issue in my opinion. I'd agree that our game has less power creep than most, in no small part due to the conscious decision our Devs have made to avoid the level cap increase carrot-and-stick model that other MMOs such as WoW have been using. The continued focus on revamping old areas/systems and adding content to the low and mid-game as well as the endgame also helps combat this as opposed to a 'game begins at levelcap' perspective you see in some other games.

Interesting

City of Heroes sales in millions of won

2008	2nd Q	3rd Q	4th Q	2009	2nd Q	3rd Q	4th Q	2010	2nd Q	3rd Q	4th Q	2011	2nd Q	3rd Q	4th Q	2012
 5,416 	 5,743 	 6,193 	 6,865 	 6,837 	 6,673 	 5,471 	 3,928 	 3,348 	 3,491 	 5,709 	 3,239 	 3,051 	 2,787 	 2,812 	 3,435 	 2,890 


	 2008    2009    2010    2011    2012
1st Q	 5,416 	 6,837 	 3,348 	 3,051 	 2,890 
2nd Q	 5,743 	 6,673 	 3,491 	 2,787 	
3rd Q	 6,193 	 5,471 	 5,709 	 2,812 	
4th Q	 6,865 	 3,928 	 3,239 	 3,435