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Don't worry, next year we will be able to buy the badges.



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I have to agree, not all Badges will be earnable by every character.

This last issue made many Badges easier to get via Flashback. The fact that they continually make event badges available again with each successive event leads me to say :

"Suck it up."

First after a First by Hero 1!

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For nearly $10 (including shipping) one can get a CoV or a CoH game with one month free. Is 240,000 prestige (12 slots) worth $10 to you?

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Hmmmmm ..... maaaaaaaybe.

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I hope this doesn't mean I11 isn't coming until December 9th.

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I would think they would give us at least 3 working days...5 would be better....after i11 comes out before the prestige bump.

And att least a full weekend.

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I'm predicting 12/4/07.

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Hmm... going to have to pad out the SG then over the next few weeks. One time grant thing was unexpected.

LH, I assume that means, it's not taken back if the person leaves the SG?

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This is pretty much what I've been doing the past week ... too .... many ..... alts!




PS. WEWT!

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It's been so hard keeping quiet about this.

Like many of you, I am an avid fan and player of this game. I've played it since launch, have multiple level 50 characters on both sides of the fence. I truly love this game and it's been an honest to god, dream come true to have the opportunity to work on it during the day and then go home and play it at night.

The thing that has excited me most about this whole deal is that I can only see great things coming for all of you guys as the players of this game. And to me, that's what this is deal is all about. Making the game awesome for as many of you as we can. That was ultimately the biggest factor in my decision to leave Cryptic and join NCSoft. All of those things that we've had to push back or write off as taking too many resources to get done in the limited time frames and limited manpower. All of the bugs or QoL issues that have been lingering for what seems like forever because the programmers were too busy fixing the major bugs. All of those really big pie in the sky ideas that we've dreamed about for so long and couldn't do because there was no one who could implement them...that's all back on the table. The sky is literally the limit. It's been really tough having to make decisions on what would be the 'best bang for the buck' and I'm really looking forward to having the recourses so that won't be such a deciding factor moving forward.

Of course, just putting more resources into the game wouldn't cut it by itself. We have a fantastic team that's been working 100% (or more in some cases) on CoH/CoV and every single one of us has made the move to stay with on this project and with this team. So now we've got a lot more recourses, the same fantastic team, the same great game to pour all our energies into, and the best bunch of players to create that content for. Personally, I've never heard of a situation like this in the game industry. It just doesn't happen.

I am completely stoked. You guys should be too. We literally would not be here without you guys.

There's going to be a period of transition as we move into the new studio, staff up, and train those new people in using our systems...but we're going to do our damnedest to make sure you guys don't notice and very shortly after that you will notice the results of this. I really wish I could talk about the things we have planned, but it's not my job...so I don't get that privilege.

All of this is still bittersweet. I have nothing but good things to say about Cryptic, they're a fantastic studio who created a fantastic game and they're now moving on to create more fantastic games. I'm truly going to miss working with them. I'm sure this was a tough decision for them to give up the controlling share of the franchise, but one thing that probably helped make it easier is that they knew their creation was being passed into the absolute best of hands. There is no other group of people in the world who care about this game and it's players like we do.

Looking forward to a very bright future for this game and all of you guys. We love you all of you. You drive us nuts sometimes, but we still love you.

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Rock the [censored] on!

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Can we get a Dev list of who's around and who stayed with Cryptic?

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Jack Emmert remains in his position as Creative Director of Cryptic Studios, that he has been doing back since he transitioned off the day-to day CoH team and Positron took over as the Lead Designer.

As was mentioned by Brian Clayton in his Dev Corner, the previous Cryptic Team Leads all join us, consisting of:

Matt “Positron” Miller (lead designer)
Aaron Brady (lead engineer)
Ken Morse (lead artist)

With one exception, everyone who was presented with an offer to stay on the City of Heroes team under the NCsoft banner has accepted and is looking forward to working hard on the future of the franchise! While this includes a good number of people, it also includes many of the familiar “red names” from the forums, such as: Melissa “War Witch” Bianco, Floyd “_Castle_” Grubb, Back Alley Brawler, Ghost Widow and “Sexy” Jay Doherty.

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Who's the one exception?

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... Jack "Statesman" Emmert who is staying with Cryptic.

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Does the debt wipe count towards badge progress ?

*ducks*

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I was wondering the same thing ...

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All players with City of Heroes retail* accounts will now have access to City of Villains, and all City of Villains retail* accounts will now have access to City of Heroes. Players that didn't previously have access to "the other side" will find that they do now. Just log in to check it out!

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So I just bought both versions of the game...does this mean that I wasted my money and if I had waited a week, I could have paid half as much?

Fabulous!

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Exactly. I am really pissed about this, there needs to be some form of compensation for those who did buy both games. Like maybe a free month or2 or something because this is totally unfair to those who spent their hard earned money on both games.

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How long ago did you do it?

I bought COH a few years ago. COV when it came out. I don't expect anything. I wouldn't *argue* if they gave me something, but IMHO the only people who should get some sort of compensation are those who bought seperately, picking up the "other half" within, oh, the last month.

Hell, I bought the COH DVD Edition and COV CE. Bought the COV CE *twice,* in fact. I'm not pissed at all. I got to play *both,* with 12 slots per server, since COV's release. I think that's been pretty cool - and now there won't be any artificial barriers to things like SG entry for *anyone.*

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I bought CoH at launch, CoV CE at launch, so someone owes me some money on this.

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Actually, you need to be whipped. As if this was foreseen. Grow up.

This thread needs a gross of tinfoil hats, STAT!

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I've seen this movie. The ending sucks.

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I've seen your posts. They always suck.

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In other news :

Rock on NC Soft Team!

Fun ToTing!

I love this event as it marks my start in the CoX world. Just hit my 36 month mark last week and set to ToTing for the new Costumes and Badges.

No complaints so far other than that which has already been mentioned :

1) No Badge Art for the Costume Collection Badges
2) No acknowledgement of a "Treat" when your tray is full and you already have the costume.

Otherwise, a fun event as always!

Cheers!

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Posi and I did want to make this the year where we gave fans what they've been asking for!

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You did it with this fan!!!

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/signed!

Wow. This is like 5 things I wanted in an issue ALL AT ONCE!!!

ZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGG!!!!!11111

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What a great response!

Thanks guys - I'm thrilled that you guys are so tickled with this past edition of the paper.

Now I have to go read Lady Sadako's thread...

cheers,
JS

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*Scramble scramble*

He’s… he’s right.

The most recent issue is Volume 11

But "Senate Questions Vanguard" is Volume 179.

O.O

The Invasion declaration is Issue 10!

If the Volume headlines are to be trusted, we've be in the alternate timeline since Issue 10 launched!

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/em head asplode

Arrrrr!

I'll be havin' me a new Pirate Brute with Dual Blades to be sure!

It's about time. Hopefully this change here in the forums will be echoed in game.

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Arctic_Sun, can you confirm that you meant the 20th Amendment? Because yeah, if it is the 20th amendment in this reality, that's some very interesting implications.

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Didn't Arctic_Sun fly from the coop to a new job?

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Yes he did.

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Arctic_Sun, can you confirm that you meant the 20th Amendment? Because yeah, if it is the 20th amendment in this reality, that's some very interesting implications.

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AS is gone man. Gone.

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O__O

>__<

O__O

That's...uh...whoah.

O__O

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/ditto

Very whoa.

Also LH, you were scooped by CoH General... by Lady_Sadako.

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Sadako. 4 teh WIN.

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OK I hope you people are happy with yourselves.. I'm sure all of this is giving A.S. one joygasm of a sendoff..

My wife is a writer, I mentioned this whole thing to her, and her response was as follows.

We writers love that stuff. Having readers obsessing over every detail and possible intrepetation of the trail of breadcrumbs we've left them.. watching them swallow the red herrings hook line and sinker, seeing them go off on half baked lines of reasoning that make a conspiracy theorist seem entirely rational? that stuff? IT'S LIKE CRACK FOR WRITERS when your readers do that!

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Yes Trinculo, and we are the Crack Dealers!

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I hope the Golden Roller contact is replaced with a tricked out Delorean. The souveneir for finishing his arc would be a "Flux Capacitor".

Biff could be an EB...

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Full. Of. Win.

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Issue 11 : Back to the FUTURE!

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I think it's very possible that a portal that connects two dimensions together could connect one at 2007 to the other at 2107 or beyond.

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Time could be moving relatively slower or faster on any given parallel Earth as compared to Earth Prime ('our' Paragon City Earth)

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A couple of things:

1) We keep talking about the "Rikti homeworld" as a parallel Earth. Why can't it be the same Earth, just different times. We're still talking seriously about time-travel, right? Maybe the Rikti believe that something done in our time will permanently unmake theirs. That would mean they are the ones messing with what has been.

2) Assuming my above statements are correct, Rikti AT's anyone?

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We figure it's a parallel world because of all the other parallel worlds that we've seen: Axis Amerika, Hydra Homeworld, the Praetorian worlds, etc.

There won't be Rikti ATs before Villains get their EATs.

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What if Rikti AT's ARE EAT's?