Anyone else get a chuckle out of this article?
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Agent White,
Posted on: 2012-08-11 17:34 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Yeah, CO was a mess. I didn't even wait out the free month. Between a stat system that was nearly unintelligible and horrible, horrible content writing. I was pretty well done with the "game" part of CO within a few days. Add in the single server/many small instances of zones and being mostly unable to find people to hang out or RP with (a big part of my CoH play), I couldn't stomach it for the full free month.
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Gonna keep spewing that lie even as the game dies, huh?
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Originally Posted by BrandX
Plus there's the "If I can't solo my way to max level the game sucks" mentality. Mind you, it's a MMO, so teaming should be required.
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Be well, people of CoH.
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CO has no lock boxes.
| This is why I don't currently play CO, and now that PW is running the show and spamming lock box messages everywhere I will absolutely never play CO ever again. |
Current Blog Post: "Why I am an Atheist..."
"And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained/As we did in the days when Victoria reigned!" -- T. S. Eliot, "Gus, the Theatre Cat"
His problem developed after launch when he got locked into seeing CoH as just a mechanized version of a table-top roleplaying game where, he, as the GM, kept the players in the dark not only about content and lore (which was mostly appropriate, otherwise, massive spoilers would have ruined the fun for a lot of folk), but also in the dark with regard to mechanics.
Jack thought that knowing the mechanics would make the game less fun. The problem with that is that the mechanics had a lot of flaws and imbalances and just wrong numbers. And Jack (and the powers team at the time, excluding Castle) would purposely turn a deaf ear to the players. On top of that, the players would find all sorts of loopholes and exploits which became nearly impossible to fix since... the Dev team run by Jack weren't in dialogue with the players and the players didn't know what the real numbers were to test.
On top of that, the playerbase would change the focus of the gaming habits (hating streetsweeping and using just the instanced missions for level-appropriate foes, e.g.) and Jack was slow to respond (if he ever did) to how the players wanted to play. He tended to be inflexible to what the players were supposed to consider to be fun.
This is why I don't currently play CO, and now that PW is running the show and spamming lock box messages everywhere I will absolutely never play CO ever again. I also don't play STO anymore because of the lock boxes (and the fact they screwed up space travel, but that's a rant for another day).