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When I heard Disney bought Star Wars my hope was for a new, better, SW MMO

But wands would be gear, so everyone can make the wand as they want

Keeping the Houses (fractions) equal and letting gear be the factor isn't a bad thing. Spell selection and gear can be what makes one different.

Now that could work.

A small, but not really game changing, bonus to certain spells.

More for flavor than "OMG! You're main offensive spell is that?! You have to be Ravnclaw!"

Though, I'm sure there'd be players going "But you you're .02% better and that means gimped if you don't"

I was thinking a bit further than Harry's kids, but still in time to see Harry Potter and the signature characters.

You have to have the fractions, but really, they could have all the skills be the same for every fraction. No need for special skills if you're this group or that group.

All work together while working against each other

Possibly have some big bad who can bring Voldermort back!

I LOVED CoX's art style. Was it the highest quality of MMOs now? Nope. Would i consider it the best? Probably not. But did I love it? SURE DID!

My suggestion for what I would go with for a MMO wishlist is based on what I would like, and what I think would get mass appeal.

Exactly. It wasn't like I didn't get my own fair share of tells asking "Want to ERP" or even more blantant "Want to cyber." You know...in the T rated game

Truthfully though, in my experience this is just popular in MMOs period :/ I was in TOR (I can make a Chiss Force User now...^_^ So, you know, it's worth playing for me now) and just standing around in the Catina in a popular enough area I sighed to myself.

Not that I'm not used to it, but I just wasnt expecting it. I guess I should have. Slave Leia after all.

Really, my idea of a mixing of western and asian styles was int he style of art itself. While no, not wanting it as cartoony as Teen Titans animated series, that would be an example of mixing asian and western styles.

But really, just need an artistic style that can appease both sides (and it can be done). For artwork for the game, Id stick with the same thing you see in superhero comics now. *shrug* The point is a superhero game.

Hell, there's superhero comics that go realistic looking. So it's not like that's not a possible style for a superhero mmo. I jsut wouldnt care for the art style (hated it when Gary Frank did that in Gen13...think that's the artist who did it).

I played on Virtue. Went to the D often enough. Every day I logged in, I saw at least one bikini and heels character (okay, maybe they wore a coat too).

B&S does have higher graphics (it is newer after all) so that could likely be a factor in someone thinking of it more in B&S. Myself, I see the intent of the outfit.

And mind you, this isn't me encouraging people here to play B&S. I know I'm going to try out the game. But even before the CoH closure, I didn't expect many players here on the forums to check it out. Even less so after it's closure.

But I do see B&S having a lot of things asked for by the players here. Greater customization being one of them. Individual fingers being another.

Can make a character without being hyper sexualized. Will everyone do it? No. But I think the amount that do that will be the same amount who do it here (percentage wise anyways). It's either, you will or you won't.

Make it at least 20 years after Voldermort and bring ina new big bad.

I didn't realize that Warren Ellis run on Gen13 with it's manga influnece art became non superhero because of his art!

And what is it? To this player it looked like a fun MMO with things people asked for here. Like grappling. Throws.

Hypersexualized? Yes. But again, nothing I didnt see in CoH (and I saw less a lot more in CoH than I've seen in Aion or B&S)

Oooo. That would be a good one to bet on as well.

I'd still give it to Pokemon though

Do I need the fanservice? No. Do I like the art style? Yes. But then I liked the art style from CoH too. I like the art style from WoW. I like the art style in Forsaken World.

By cue, I meant put in a bit of an asian flare. I'd hope for a good mix of a western meets asian style. I think that would give the game more of a mass appeal to all regions.

You see the artwork and think that's the game. You see the fan videos and think that's the game.

What you never bothered to look at (by the sounds of it anyways) is they have outfits that cover up the whole body.

And if I kept to the superhero genre, it would be the player who decides the outfit, as I'd keep the costume customization too. Sooo...any revealing outfits would be because of the player. Just like in CoH where you saw it all the time.

Or if you meant the body type? Well, you really havent bothered to look into the games and see you can make characters who aren't barbies!

I'm curious as to this poor record of closing MMOs. You mean the MMOs that just flat out failed miserably?

You mean those MMOs people point at (including you...but not everyone doing the pointing) didn't even bother to play anyways?

You mean how NCSoft closed down MMOs, but Sony has closed down at least two MMOs I can mention to RL friends and they at least knew of them (Matrix Online and SW Galaxies). Mention Exteel, TR, DR, hell for some of them even CoH, and they're "Never heard of them".

Now, I'm not saying don't go ahead with not purchasing anymore NCSoft products. They closed your favorite MMO! But don't try to use the record of lack luster games as the reason for it. You didn't care when those games where closed down by NCSoft untill they closed down CoH. Before the closing of CoH, you were thankful for NCSoft and where more than willing to support them, at least in the "YAY NCSoft!" sense, if not in the actual playing of their other games

And some of the posts saying "BOYCOTT!" are coming from posters who are the types going "What? There were other MMOs? CoH is and will be the only MMO for me."

So, hell, you'd be saying it even if CoH was down to you and 799 other players.

I love CoH! See my forum reg date? I've been playing it sense end of DEC 2004, beginning of Jan 2005, when I saw the box at Wal Mart and was all O.O OOooooo!!! My account lapsed once in all that time, for all of one or two weeks as I waited for my paycheck. I stayed after being banned for three days and they didn't reimburse my three days of paid time.

I have no idea why NCSoft decided to close it. I don't like that they did. But if I was going to boycott NCSoft, it wouldn't be because they closed down a few other MMOs that were failures. And yes, they were failures! They flopped!

At least own up to it. You're boycotting NCSoft because they shut down the MMO you played, not because of their track record, or you would of started boycotting them long ago.

I'm curious as to what you mean by "not evolving" The storyline kept getting added to (whether we liked where it was going or not).

What exactly is evolving? New types of missions? Changing the game mechanics constantly? Changing powerset numbers all the time so people didn't flock to them? Making more resistant to a specific type of damage enemies, so people would say "I avoid them because they resist my damage to much" or tougher enemies so people could just not run the content, you know, like how most people avoided Rularuu because they were tougher and not as easy to beat as those Council enemies?

Art style is subjective. I really don't care for what people kept telling me was the best graphics with Elder Scrolls.

Bit of grind. Obviously helps keeps many games more likable through out the regions and not just America's "OMG! I have to beable to level to max level in two weeks and then ***** about lack of content" You know, like we saw in CoH with people complaing the same day of new contents release that they had done everything, so now what do they do?

Superhero game. If you can't build to be the level of Spider-Man, Spider-Girl, ect to solo AVS, it's not a superhero game. Unless you like prefer playing Power Pack level.

And putting IOs, Auction House as game lore was lame. Oh! Look I picked up an inspiration! It's game lore Laaaaaame. Saying badges was in lore too was stupid.

Some things should be left purely as out of character game mechanics versus in character story telling.

Depends on who bought it and what they were planning to do with it.

Yeah. Kinda suckie. But being close to an 8 year vet myself, and having a few good IO builds, I'd be okay with it.

Even more okay with it if it was just the IP bought and then totally revamped and improved and *droools* Oooooh, the things they could do to make it so much better!

No matter how they said it, players would be upset. Also, it could just be habit.

Maybe they're planning to make a CoH2 with a new engine, and much more likely to be popular in Western and Asian markets (Of course, I'm in the belief CoH wasn't popular in the Asian market due to game mechanics and not because of genre).

They even made a popular play about such money making schemes! I think Uwe Bowe even made lots of money doing just that with terrible movies!