Have to admit it . . . GW2 may replace COH for me

With all the talk/reviews on this board lately of how good GW2 is, I had to try it out. Now having played COX since before issue 1 and initally poo-pooing any ideas of playing another MMO, once I actually tried GW2 and went beyond my assumptions that I couldn't find a game that gave me the same satisfaction that COX gave me, I discovered a really fun game.

Thanks for the suggestions all and I encourage others who were in my same mindset to give it a try.

Glad it's working out for you.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Sure. Great. With loyal customers like you, NCSoft might not regret closing City of Heroes.

Like many others I had already pre-purchased GW2 before NCSoft dropped the hammer on CoH, and despite the utter jackass move NC pulled... yes, GW2 is a good game, and in many ways the next Gen MMO...
That doesn't mean I want to give up CoH, as GW2 is a completely different game with its own strengths and limitations.

If you pre-purchased GW2 - can you send it back and ask for a refund?

Not asking anyone who has already bought the game to do so. That's your decision.

This is a purely technical question. Can you? Or is that not allowed?

I can tell you right now, that if I were in that position? No matter how pretty the game was, or how many of my friends were playing it and begging me to join them. I KNOW that I would be looking at this option. And if it were possible to do so, I WOULD ask for a refund and I would tell NCSoft exactly why they had lost my business.

However, if they have your money already and you CAN'T get it back, then yeah. No use NOT getting your money's worth.

(Okay. So it strayed from the purely technical. I'm a little bitter.)

Is it productive to hate someone because they found a game they like playing? I like GW2 as well, and I don't regret doing business with NCSoft, because in reality it's ArenaNet that has made this game and I personally find it superb on many levels.

I can dislike and even hate NCSoft for its business policies on one hand, but I'd be a hypocrite to boycott them after Dungeon Runners, Exteel, Tabula Rasa and did nothing except continue my subscription to this game. I feel I can be justified in taking a step back, saying 'hey, I like this game, and I'm going to play it' and still support CoH.

NCSoft on a personal level does not care what I personally may or may not feel about them. And I have better more productive uses of my energy than to be angry at a faceless corporation, such as help out with the saving of the game in some form. So that is my choice to act so. I don't think given just how many other studios and from far bigger corporations than NCSoft are letting go employees and killing games that I can make an exception and call them 'evil'.

Australia lost 18 studios in the last calendar year alone. I choose to see things in that context.



S.

On another note (and not for a minute knocking the OP) aren't people just sick to the back teeth of fantasy genre games? I mean granted, it seems that all the games NCSoft has axed have been games that have been something other than poxy elves, dwarves and paladins and they've done so as a result of people not playing them very much, but what I don't understand is why.

As a genre, Science Fiction is as if not more popular than Fantasy, but the sci-fi genre in games tends to be over shadowed in favour of fanstasy (with the possible exception of EvE). I did look at GW2 after recommendation of some of my old SG mates, but I've also tried (and am absolutely loving) SW:TOR. Most will probably tell me why GW2 is the better game, but my digestive system will simply not allow me to endure yet another RPG based on a tired and much over used formula for the setting.

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Felt great to type, felt responsible to delete.

I WILL say this. It's just not the time or place to be pushing that crap in people's faces. Not here, given the circumstances.

Show some restraint and tact, if you have any. Some of us aren't ready and willing to throw our arms around the publisher who nuked the best studio ever without warning. Don't tell me about other studios. You can't give your money to ArenaNet without also giving it to NCSoft.

I'm a bit bored of 'high fantasy' and anything with vampires. I don't mind urban fantasy, but the cosmopolitan-ness of City of Heroes does it one better. We get the 'urban wizards,' but also aliens, giant robots, and tormented mutants.

(I had hoped that we would one day get a Midnighter EAT. And a Giant Robot one.)

TSW... I like it. It has a way to go but I'm keeping myself optimistic. I keep meaning to try STO, too, but somebody told me that ground combat has melee units (even while their shirts are intact) and that really bothers me as a Star Trek fan.

They said..

WoW could replace it, Aion could, SW:TOR, Tabula, TSW, WH, LotRo, Tera, DCU, CO, STO, GW2, FF14, or any other MMO that i currently forgot.. then why i still play CoH? (i played all of these and way more).

It never could replace, it only could 'add' to what i already had. The only game ever that could meet up the awsome community was FWO, wich closed few years after CoH was released, CoH replaced FWO for me.

GW2 is fun, but the 'interaction' with the community is far far far less, events you just wack along others you dont even know the name off, with a few that you go 'ooh i've seen you before!'. But what i see in GW2, is nothing more then a mire shadow of what GW1 once was. I'm a huge fan of GW1, Luxon vs Kurzick pvp characters, doing guild stuff to own a town, spending hours finetuning your build, doing instances/dungeons with a min/maxed team, all that GW2 has not.