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Originally Posted by Another_Fan

It is posts like yours why I could never consider myself part of the forum community. The in game community was wonderful the forum community insular and totalitarian.

Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter

Also, people tend to do what is in their capability, which keeps the life-saving 'Superhero' population rather small. Most vigilantes are not Kung Fu masters with self-regenerating bio-armor and a telepathic sensor array that can lock onto a purse-snatching from 5 blocks away.

Originally Posted by Brillig

Except your typical vigilante heroes break laws for important things like saving lives. Not for a video game.

Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter

If NCsoft wishes to resurrect CoH sometime down the road, the private servers can be terminated and players will migrate back to the official one.

Originally Posted by Another_Fan

Apparently what heroes do is ignore any law they don't like

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

It's owned by the Nameless Enemy.

Originally Posted by Adar_ICT

Just a quick question about something that has bothered me from the start of the "protests" against NCSoft. Whenever something is brought up that NCSoft has said regarding the closure and their subsequent actions, there are invariably a bunch of Titan/Plan Z people who fall back to pointing out NCSoft's history of falsehoods. What history are they referring to? As far as I can tell, the only substantiated instance of them actually lying about something was with the whole Garriot thing. Granted, it was a pretty impressive falsehood, and the fact that they thought they could get away with it is amazing. However, it is still a single data point. One event does not really seem to justify saying that "they have a history of lying".

I admit that the only closures by NCSoft that I have been involved with were AutoAssault, Tabula Rasa, and Dungeon Runners. None of the three were shut down with anything looking like malice to me, nor do I recall any "lying" on the part of NCSoft. AutoAssault did terribly. Tabula Rasa, although I personally enjoyed the game (after they fixed a bunch of stuff after beta) did not do well either. Dungeon Runners seemed like more of an experiment in the first place, rather than a long term game. Again, I enjoyed it a lot, but still.

I completely agree that what NCSoft did with CoH was pretty crappy. Their actions since the shutdown have been equally crappy. It just bothers me to see how easily people have used a single incident prior to this, as PROOF of NCSoft not dealing in good faith during this process. Yes, it sets a precedent, but does not indicate a pattern. If there are other public examples of outright falsehood by NCSoft, fine. I just haven't seen anyone in here mention any incident other than the Garriot thing, even when they specifically state that NCSoft can't be trusted because of their history of lying.

Just a little observation from someone who admits to not having completely researched everything going on.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

MA powers aren't fatal

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

Well Molly would be about the same age as a youngest daughter for me so I would totally get the "how do I un-see that" as it dawns on you that you just unconsciously ogled your daughter.

Closest I came to that was when I finally realized a friend's mostly live in girlfriend at the time, who paraded around the apartment in rather tight PJs or the occasional (or not so since he bought her one for every color in the rainbow) Chinese silk dress, was actually my boss's boss's daughter who I only met once when she was like 12. I think my head spun like Beetlejuice.

Originally Posted by Another_Fan

There is no intrinsic reason why this game could not have continued indefinitely. People are still playing 50+ year old video games and enjoying them. I expect that 100 years from now nethack and spacewar will still be played provided the technological infrastucture is still available. People are still playing thousands of year old games.

As to no warning that is just sily. There was an insane amount of warning. It was their for you to see. All anyone had to do was look at NCsoft's financials or any of the posts where people were shouting out "WE ARE IN TROUBLE". Instead people on the forums chose to look at numbers that showed a game that couldn't sustain any growth and somehow say how wonderful it was doing.

If you wanted to save the game you needed to hold torch vigils when Castle was driving people away from the game, when Posi was ranting at people for not having a moral compass. You could have joined with me in trying to get incarnate content made into something that actually fit well into the game instead of a game destroying grind.

I mean really didn't the idea of being forced and bribed to do incarnate content set off a lightbulb that maybe having content that was so awful that you had to reward people with game breaking tools was a bad idea ?

Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast

NCSoft made me happy for over 7 years with CoH so in my eyes they achieved their goal/mission statement.

Originally Posted by Winterminal

"Genre breaking" in a superhero-genre-inspired game is nearly impossible. You can look at DC and Marvel and you will find heroes and/or villains from a multitude of different backgrounds. Hell, just take a look at Steel Canyon and Croatoa: with the exception of the use of the same building models, the two zones could conceivably be from different games. It's why we can fight enemies like Circle of Thorns or Banished Pantheon, then turn around and fight The Council or Crey. It's why an Amazonian, a Kryptonian, a Martian, and a few humans can all fight together.

It will be hard to break the genre of Blade and Soul since the genre is much more specific. For example: even if we wanted to create a character like Positron in Blade and Soul, I doubt there will be the costuming/power options to do so.

I agree with you on how to view the character creation sliders. More customization is always good, and as this is the gaming industry there will always be those players who will make the most grotesquely sexual character possible.


All of that having been said, it is what Blade and Soul offers outside their creator (sort of NSFW) that makes it look like there is an obviously taunted sex appeal. City of Heroes females definitely have a hip sway in their walk, and I won't argue the degree of accuracy that sway holds to the average woman walking in heals (most of the female shoes in CoH have an elevated heal). However, I can honestly say without bias that I have seen real women walk in heals with movements resembling that of the CoH female Walk, while I have never seen any woman move through the world like the woman in that Blade and Soul video. The closest approximation I can think of would be a female model on a fashion runway, which typically is meant to exude some sort of physical attractiveness.