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Quote:Kthanxbye.Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
Look, I'm angry, people.
I know NCSoft will succeed, I know they'll never read my post. City of Heroes may have helped them get to where they are today, but now we're collectively an ant beneath their big steel boot.
So thanks for your precious little nuggets of reality, folks. Really, thanks. I'm sure you're really helping the world to be a better place, sprinkling these little glittering turds of wisdom everywhere, reminding us what a success story NCSoft will continue to be despite sacrificing our entire community and history on its quarterly altar.
But you know what?
Bite my shiny spandex.
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The interesting part is that NCSoft will never see this post.
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What is?
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Anything stand out to you Fey, from seeing the video?
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Yeah I subbed after I watched a couple more videos.
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Interesting.
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Planetside 2's game requirements are the highest I think I've seen for a game, let alone MMO.
OK SO here is a typical play story session and a couple of bosses edited in. I sound pretty derp.
I am looking for advice but I can only imagine that it will be about dodging:
Guardian Jaybonaut on Yak's Bend
Sylvari with commentary.
Omni - I just built this PC and you can see what it should look like when playing it with everything cranked including AA, only take into account I am recording in 1080p at full quality (I render down to 720p) and limit recording fps to NTSC standards. -
Quote:Check again.Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter
NOTHING in the NC Launcher or loading into the game (how hard would it have been for a little system message to appear at login?) gives you any indication that the game is counting down to oblivion.
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Quote:Please go and check - let us know what you find. People chose to ignore it now, but arguments can be made that it isn't their fault - I get what you are saying. I guess they can be surprised in December.Originally Posted by Roderick
If it were sent by GMOTD and email, it would reach EVERY SINGLE PLAYER. If those players choose to ignore it, then the onus is on the PLAYERS, not NCSoft.
The methods that NCSoft has chosen to use to reach the playerbase each reach 50% or far FAR less of the people it affects, and they know this.
No, the argument is not pointless. It takes 2 minutes or less to copy/paste Zwillinger's announcement to the GMOTD and a form letter that can be emailed to the whole mailing list. Why wasn't it done? -
Looks pretty good actually.
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Quote:Yes mostly.Originally Posted by Feycat
For which part? I'm not being snarky, I'm just wondering what you're looking for? Leveling advice?
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Quote:That's ok, if they make a GMOTD and email everyone who has an account regardless if they are a subscriber, there would still be people you will run into that won't know about it, so this argument is pointless.Originally Posted by Roderick
I never got an email from Paragon/NCSoft informing me of the shutdown.
I never got in-game notification via the GMOTD.
I do frequent the forums and follow CoH on Facebook, as well as occasionally checking in on them on Twitter. So I saw Zwillinger's address to the community.
Many players (over 90%, according to Zwill) never even register for the forums. 55,600 people follow CoH on Facebook (less than half of the generally assumed playerbase, assuming that all those followers are current subscribers). 6,800 people follow them on Twitter (That's barely twice the number that showed up for TonyV's Unity Rally).
It's possible that there are people who follow news sites that got the announcement that way, without ever seeing it through any of the above sources, though I consider that unlikely.
My point is this: I am still running into people in-game who have no idea that the game is shutting down, because there has never been an OFFICIAL announcement made in a way that ALL players will see it, ie the GMOTD or an email sent to all subscribers. NCSoft has failed in communicating with us, because the information hasn't been put out in a way that is guaranteed to be seen by all of its customers.
Edit to add:
Also not good enough. I've never seen that. Since we have the ability to make the launcher pop up, launch the game, and close itself, it is quite possible to never see any of the advertisements or news stories listed on it. -
Quote:Fitting. I fall under SuperHero.Originally Posted by Stunrunner
I thought you might have been talking about this. (Warning, huge pic.)
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I uploaded this but tell me if it works ok.
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Quote:I'm hoping he was just throwing a tantrum and it wasn't his true nature.Originally Posted by Pebblebrook
Your forum experience will likely improve if you just put him on ignore. Unless someone quotes him which negates the feature.
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Help me out then...
My main is a Sylvari Guardian. I tend to sell all weapons to vendors except for the top two damage dealing ones, if they are different from each other. I tend to equip everything into the upgrade slots right when I get them. I run around and try to get hearts and open up most places I can, but I sometimes ignore vistas as some are a giant pain in the butt. I am level 23 and leveling is certainly far slower than in CoH by a huge scale - I played for several hours earlier in the week and went from 20 to 23. My personal story actually took me to one of the portal hubs and into the human area, where I was dropped down to level 9ish I think.
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Quote:Wow, if that's what's been going on, he's quite the jerk.Originally Posted by PPCGunner
Don't feed the Troll.
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Quote:Yeah, sure is awfully hateful here, maybe I am being too harsh and he's just having a bad day and found me to be his new plaything. If so, I forgive you Nethergoat.Originally Posted by Paladiamors
Nethergoat. For the most part I agree with you, but you have this weird chip on your shoulder with GW2. Not everyone playing it is doing the whole "Get over CoH" thing. In fact I can't recall seeing anyone doing both at the same time in a post. So could you maybe stop linking the two?
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Quote:You haven't noticed the ability to edit posts after 8 years, so take your own advice - you are so acidic and so negative and insulting, for no reason. Maybe taking your frustrations out on a new target is the goal of the day - who knows, maybe if you call me names the game will magically not get cancelled anymore.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
The time for due diligence is before posting, not after whining about people who didn't read your mind. I'd expect someone who's been here 8 years to understand how forums work.
What heckling? I posted a review that I didn't make that also shows the negatives of the title and then gave my own opinions after others gave theirs.Quote:Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Pimping other games on the CoH forums while going out of your way to heckle the people making an effort to save this one while endlessly trumpeting how realistic you are.
Well, it could be worse: I could be playing the role of Mr Rogers and talk about the Land of Make Believe where CoH lives on past Nov 30th...Quote:Originally Posted by Nethergoat
It's great you've spent lots of money supporting the game over the years.
It isn't great that you've decided your new role in the community is playing Forum Wet Blanket.
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Quote:If you request nicely, I will be happy to edit the post to include quotes. What is 'my ilk' exactly in your eyes? Is 'my ilk' the kind that have paid thousands into this game, made numerous helpful CoH videos, made AE arcs that let you bash NCSoft goons, linked the various help efforts everywhere, and also don't expect anything to change? If so, that's pretty accurate.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Well gee, that's not how public forums work.
Unless you quote posts, which you didn't.
Anyway, this post in another thread nailed you and your ilk to the wall:
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Actually, I thought I heard NCSoft was helping with a job fair for Paragon shortly after the layoff.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Gayla
Of course Paragon doesn't work for free, but they're not the ones I pay. I pay the publisher. (Our game accounts are NCSoft accounts, after all.) So the publisher has a responsibility to let me know what's going on.Quote:Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
Ah, true. I glance past that most of the time.
Well, the point still stands. Regardless whether the information is "here's how the game closes" or "here's how it moves to a new owner", expecting info about it this early is expecting it too soon.
Yeah that's a good point too. The official NCSoft launcher provides us the news. It's not complete, but there it is, on top of what is on the official game site page and the releases to the press. -
Quote:My answers were replies to those in the thread and not to you. Thank you for your permission to play GW2 - can I play some other games too or no? Why are you insulting yourself, by the way?Originally Posted by Nethergoat
1: Well, the publisher is the one who canceled the game out of the blue, blindsiding the development team as much as the community. Which makes them the logical source for further interrogation.
2: See above.
3: If we were "ignoring" the news we wouldn't be fighting to save the game.
4: I thanked NC over the years in the only language they care about: $$$.
That isn't giving up, it's realizing one tactic isn't going anywhere and looking for another route to the goal. The Titan crew are still serving as a hub for the efforts of those trying to save the game.
Gratz!
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Quote:To answer the questions, no, because NCSoft didn't communicate anything with you before and never needed to, since it was Paragon's job.Originally Posted by Shadowe
let's try an analogy (useless though they are).
I bank with a particular bank. It's called NatWest, and it is a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland. What if, one day, RBS decided to completely close NatWest, and NatWest decided to communicate this via a post on a message board, and a press release sent to a banking news website? Would it be unreasonable of me, a paying customer for a number of years, to expect one or the other group to communicate that information directly to me? And, since NatWest gets shut down immediately with only a skeleton crew available to wrap up things, would it not fall on RBS to be the ones to tell me? Ignoring terms and conditions that say they can, isn't it polite to actually inform your paying customers - all of them - that you are stripping a service? As business practices go, failing to do so actually stinks.
My wife eagerly awaits Paragon Studios or NCsoft actually telling her that they are removing a service for which she pays. Because so far they have not. -
Quote:Oh, I forgot Paragon worked for free.Originally Posted by Gayla
Because they're the ones taking my money.
