My opinion: the biggest thing that went wrong
By
Heraclea,
Posted on: 2012-09-02 21:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I guess to each their own... because the Incarnate system is what actually saved me form leaving CoH. When you have leveled every AT multiple times to 50...done every arc, tf, etc... and reached 50 the game just seemed bleh to me. Finally with incarnates I had new stuff to achieve etc etc.
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Originally Posted by Paladiamors
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Age of Conan started to interest me at about that time as well, so that's where I put in the time I had to play. I'm afraid for that game, too.
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"At what point do we say, 'You're mucking with our myths'?" - Harlan Ellison
It seemed to me that the devs always had some kind of issue with emerging playstyles in the game. The people I kept playing with liked the steamroller style. It wasn't available in any other MMO. It was damn fun, and kept your attention. Not like some MMO boss fight where the strategy and where they have to stand during each phase has to be explained to the noob.
The constant complaint was, 'you're levelling too fast, you're running the TF too fast.' But these were challenges we set ourselves. This was the fun. Playing this game became a sort of cat and mouse with the developers. The game got a reputation for heavy handed nerfs; the global defense nerf followed by 'enhancement diversification' is almost as notorious as the Star Wars Galaxies 'new game experience'. This was the first time I left for WoW. Inventions brought me back, and Cimerora got me hooked again.
I lost interest towards the end again, and this is my greatest regret. I had more than 20 level 50s on my main server, Victory. Unlocking the Alpha slot on all of them and some of my other server 50s was enough of a slog. Incarnates did not interest me; it sounded like some other game's endgame grind, the sort of thing I played CoX to get away from. So I moved on and became less active, obliviously confident that the game would always be here for me when I chose to come back. Stupid of me.
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