Look, Would You Just Announce I24 Already?
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2012-07-11 13:22 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Well they did announce that they would be giving out a freespec with I24. Also I'm sure some people will complain that the crashless nuke and other Blast set changes makes things to easy. Finally, historical evidence shows that someone will complain that any given issue is "boring" and doesn't contain anything they care about. |
Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
those trials are boring and easy and give you a respec
so one can conclude that issue 24, if there really is one, will be boring, make things too easy, and give you a respec. |
So given all that I am entirely confident that someone will say that I24 "is boring, makes things too easy, and comes with a respec"
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OBJECTION!|
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
They haven't announced specifically that they are fixing the text errors, but they did call this "Fixing all the things" during the Coffee Talk (why call it a coffee talk, I saw no coffee in evidence).
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Zwill clearly has a coffee burp just about the time Synapse shows up.
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Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
if they were fixing text errors they would have called it "Fixing all of the things"
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The big reason they don't just announce it -now- is because the moment they announce it is the moment players start hounding them for why it isn't released right NOW. They do have a release schedule they try to stick to, teasing stuff early is a good way to build excitement and it gives us something to tide us over with until the big meal of info followed, eventually, with the release (or at least beta).
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You may be onto something here. Respec trials at 24, 34 and 44, and what we've seen so far makes issue 24 seem like a "respec" of sorts for portions of the game.|
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
There are however 2 Trials with a minimum level of 24. The Terra Volta Reactor Trial (Jane Hallaway as the contact) and the Tree of Thorns Respecification Trial (Sparcetriel as the contact).
So there is a precedent for Heroes getting one thing with 24 and Villains getting something similar yet different with 24. |
So after this, nothing in the entire game will be fixed, revised or altered again until issue 34, then again at 44! It's been proven with math!
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You should make a music video of this! |
Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
"WE WANT IT NOW"
(Sung by the playerbase to the tune of "I Want It Now" from WILLY WONKA) Player base: Power pools! New rules! We want this issue before end of summer Zwillinger: You will, guys... Player base: Coz we all want to play! Zwillinger: Anything you say Player base: And by the way Zwillinger: What? Player base: We want a blaster! Zwillinger: Um, you've already got several... Player base: A no-crash nuke blaster! Zwillinger: Oh, one of those Player base: None of this crap where we nuke half the map and then need a long nap- Zwillinger: You can have all those things when the issue's released Player base: No, now!! We want more powers! Make Presence USEFUL! Give each pool more stuff, and make Fighting MORE buff, Give Kheldians SOME luv... Give it to us! ARRGH! NOW! We want the game! We want the whole game! Whether we farm it or just want to narm it WE WANT IT NOW, DARN IT! GIVE IT TO US NOW! We want it today No, not tomorrow We want to take it and totally break it SO HURRY AND MAKE IT! We want an entirely new graphics engine Break things to make it all fit And if it's not everything we have imagined We will /ragequit! We want it patched! A game engine unmatched! Revamping bases, new costumes and faces We'll STAY on your cases And how! Don't care how We want it now! Don't care how We want it now! Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
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I don't care who you are, that there is funny.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I know you think I'm just going to hit everyone with a wall of text, and I just want you to know that you're absolutely right.
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http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes#
I get the feeling that we're not at the right "place" in the issue's timeline for the big announcement and marketing push; all this is a special pre-announcement preview that we - by which I mean those of us who diligently read the forums and watch the coffee talks - are getting.
Soon enough, they'll announce the issue the usual amount of time before the issue is to actually arrive.
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So tell us . . . how do you really feel about social media?|
Originally Posted by Black Zot
I hate social media because it's Big Brother's younger sibling, and people are waving it around as a good thing.
I hate social media because I'm sick of everybody and his dog tying their login systems and miscellaneous functions into sites that have been proven over and over to have all the security of a rice-paper hut. I hate social media because I can't go ANYWHERE without someone trying to shove it in my face. (Also one of the reasons I hate religion, but that's an entirely different topic.) I hate social media because I find it morally repugnant to cash in on the details of someone's personal life. Like reality TV wasn't bad enough in that regard? I hate social media because it does a lot of things that anywhere but the internet would land you in prison for voyeurism/stalking/harassment/etc. I hate social media because it hands a microphone to a lot of people who really should have their tongues cut out instead of giving them an audience. |
Please don't hold back.
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Originally Posted by zwillinger
i am pleased to announce that we are planning on making an announcement about announcing the announcement of the date of the issue 24 announcement page.
Soon™. |
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I thought so too, but this is a really tough room.
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Originally Posted by Ulysses Dare
I don't care who you are, that there is funny.
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Okay, THAT, was epic.|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I know you think I'm just going to hit everyone with a wall of text, and I just want you to know that you're absolutely right.
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It was a little more than I expected from you, but not by much.|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I thought so too, but this is a really tough room.
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The level of awesome was consistent with what I've come to expect from you.
Sorry not to have said something earlier but my day got thrown off when the forums went down this morning unexpectedly.
I had a reply in mind at the time, but forgot all about it until I came back in a little bit ago.
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Calm down.
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Originally Posted by Black Zot
I hate social media because it's Big Brother's younger sibling, and people are waving it around as a good thing.
I hate social media because I'm sick of everybody and his dog tying their login systems and miscellaneous functions into sites that have been proven over and over to have all the security of a rice-paper hut. I hate social media because I can't go ANYWHERE without someone trying to shove it in my face. (Also one of the reasons I hate religion, but that's an entirely different topic.) I hate social media because I find it morally repugnant to cash in on the details of someone's personal life. Like reality TV wasn't bad enough in that regard? I hate social media because it does a lot of things that anywhere but the internet would land you in prison for voyeurism/stalking/harassment/etc. I hate social media because it hands a microphone to a lot of people who really should have their tongues cut out instead of giving them an audience. |
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I know you think I'm just going to hit everyone with a wall of text, and I just want you to know that you're absolutely right.
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Sorry, Arcana, I hadn't clicked on that until now (I was in a rush when I first saw it).
I was waiting for the camera to tilt afterward and for the ships to come by...
Now I am thinking about casting the Paragon Studios team in the roles... But Zwill kinda sorta has to be C3PO... Or Maybe Zwill should play everyone? A One-Man Star Wars: Episode/Issue 24.
Hmmm...
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Text fixes? Can we get one text related fix that has bothered me since the game came out? Can we put Fighting before Flight in the powers listing where it should be?
Please don't hate me. I have OCD.. or.. well I'm definitely obsessive compulsive...
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Oh that's easy...|
Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
LOL
Sorry, Arcana, I hadn't clicked on that until now (I was in a rush when I first saw it). I was waiting for the camera to tilt afterward and for the ships to come by... Now I am thinking about casting the Paragon Studios team in the roles... But Zwill kinda sorta has to be C3PO... Or Maybe Zwill should play everyone? A One-Man Star Wars: Episode/Issue 24. Hmmm... |
- Black Pebble is Vader. (The Emperor is NCsoft in general - Black Pebble is just their ranking minion who chokes off the overeager employees.)
- War Witch is Leia - the supposed damsel in distress who actually spends most of her time telling people what to do (and they do it!).
- Dink and Tunnel Rat are tied for the role of R2-D2 - the completely unprepossessing type who always manages to do the near impossible.
- Zwill is C-3PO - he translates from player to dev to marketing, etc, is often a victim of circumstance, his advice is often ignored...
- Arbiter Hawk is Han Solo - devil-may-care, cheerful, "I'll make it work... SOMEHOW"... although given his occasional fuzzy look, he'd work for Chewbacca. Or maybe an Ewok.
- Protean is Yoda - looks harmless, loves talking in riddles, enjoys driving people mad, and intensely focused in his own weird way.
- Positron is Obi-Wan - the grizzled mentor who's been there, done that, and even after War Witch struck him down, he became more powerful than she could possibly imagine...
- Arbiter 'Mod 9' Fabulous is Luke Skywalker - the daydreamer who found himself thrust into the heart of chaos and conflict while still retaining his purity of heart, never forgetting his common roots.
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All kidding aside, there is a reason why I made the initial suggestion (politely, I might add, by using the words "please" and "thank you" in my original post which I don't hear used none too often on these forums anymore - at least not like I used to). This game's got a lot of MMO competition coming into the market - and I'll be honest, despite my being a 7+ year CoH player, a more recent MMO game I wasn't expecting to interest me has genuinely got me hooked to the point I'm ready to throw a lifetime subscription at it and drop CoH altogether (regardless of my longtime VIP sub and despite CoH being free to play). I was waiting on I24 news to help sway my resolve before changing investments but no such luck.
Bottom line: I expected a juicier marketing promo by now (something besides "hey, we made certain legacy powersets feel more in-line/competitive with other MMO games") - and I say that knowing full well that development takes time; marketing takes time; testing takes time and I really don't expect nor want I24 "now" (contrary to Michelle's sassy little song; I was all hot to buy water blast and then totally forgot about it after playing this *other* MMO game and I've still no desire to log in and buy it now - so yeah, I really can wait for good things, after all, lol).
At the same point, this is the Insta-information age where headlines move faster than marketing and diplomacy can handle. You guys are so busy throttling, fragmenting and slow-tracking information to support other websites, other conference events, and other media venues in the hopes of drawing new players in that its really hard for "current" and "longtime" players to get excited about what's coming next until it actually comes. Again, in my mind, a reasonable I24 preview announcement would have been nice (with the caveat that more detailed info would come later via other media channels would have been completely fine) but clearly you're not ready to share yet.
That's cool.
At this point, I'm gonna stop worrying about what's in I24 or what any of the forumites have to say about the obvious question on people's minds and log out. I hope everybody has a great day, and I wish the dev team only the best - as I always have.
Thanks.