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I guess I'll see that when I beleive it... or something to that effect.

I wouldn't really mind if they came ASAP either. But think of it this way: There's only 10 days between I22 and 2xp. If those powersets were "ready" enough to hit before March 16th then they'd likely be ready enough to just be included with I22. Based on that simple logic it would seem that those powersets probably need at least 2-4 more weeks after I22.

It also makes sense when you consider those powerset will probably be part of "Issue 22.5" which, if it follows in the pattern of the previous "half-Issues", won't be ready until some time in April.

Most of the time I usually think it sucks to be as old as I am. But when I read things like this I'm glad it's been years since I had to worry about academia like that.

For what it's worth I don't know how you young people even find the time to play games like this. If MMOs like this existed while I was still in school I probably never would have finished.

Good luck to you regardless.

If we can more than safely assume I22 is launching on March 6th then here's what we have lined up:

March 6th - Issue 22
March 16th - 2xp weekend

Then perhaps around the first or second week of April (just before the kickoff of the 8th anniversary celebration) we'll get Staff and Beast Mastery.

What's extra special about that timeframe is that it'll be like 4-5 weeks after ME3 hits which will probably be right around the time anyone who jumped over to play it will start to get burned out on it and will want to come back... just in time for new powersets to play with here...

Veerry tricksy Paragon Studios.

I'll just have to Avenge my sense of humor after reading that one.

I didn't say "compete" directly. Obviously they are different games and the people who really want to jump on ME3 ASAP will probably still do so. I'm simply saying the negative impact to this game will likely be softened at least a little bit by having something that will draw people -back- to this game ASAP.

EDIT: People seem to forget that Paragon Studios did the exact same thing for Age of Conan. They tossed out Issue 12 (the one that gave us Cimerora) on the exact same day that game launched.

Actually it couldn't make more sense that they'd wait to stand Issue 22 up against ME3 if they tried. The only way to seriously blunt any "player drift" to another game is for this game to pony up some much anticipated new content on the exact same day.

Heck, even if Paragon Studios didn't have a new Issue ready to push out the door they probably would've come up with some amazing new deals in the Paragon Market or -something- to toss out there on March 6th.

I could virtually guarantee that any kind of major motion picture version of JLA would be the "classic big 7" even if everyone loved the DCnU thing. The reason for this is as you said: overall character recognition. Sure your typical comicbook geek might be aware of DCnU but any movie marketed for a "general" audience would always fall back to the versions of the characters that are most widely known by every potential demographic who might go to see the movie.

I think the only way we'd see a big screen DCnU movie is if somehow that version of the comicbooks stayed around for another 10 or 20 years and probably only AFTER a "classic big 7" version had been made first.

I think it boils down to the idea that software is not like a physical product that you can predictably schedule to roll off the assembly line on exactly such-n-such date. Sadly most players don't seem to realize that and are unwilling to accept the idea that delays almost always happen in some form or fashion in this kind of development environment. *shrugs*

Yeah there might some legal issues like that involved. But as a software engineer IRL I tend to think the explaination is a bit more straightforward than that.

Anybody who's worked on software development in a commercial setting knows that there's always the difference between sticking to a firm schedule and the realities of getting software to work reasonably bug-free. While I'm quite sure the Devs at Paragon Studios always do their best to get things finished "on-time" there is always a need to account for unforeseen problems or complications.

What this means in practical terms is that the Devs of this game probably never quite know exactly when a build is ready enough to launch until almost the last possible moment. I used the phrase "ready enough" because in reality this code is never done - there are always bug fixes and updates being worked into it on a constant basis. Thus the real trick of knowing when a Issue is ready is not waiting until -all- the bugs are fixed but when they are fixed well enough to have the minimum impact to the fewest numbers of players. That's the moment of truth when they push it out the door.

So in keeping to the history of what we've seen in the last 21 Issues we will likely never get a set "due date" announcement for any Issue much earlier than perhaps a few days before at best. This allows them to remain the most flexible for working on the code without having to "revise" previous announcements that turned out to be impossible to meet.

Basically by never pre-announcing Issue releases they never have to upset people when their plans inevitably change at the last moment.

It's amazing how much difference just a few pixels make.
These feet now have more human-like toes rather than freaky chimp toes.

Great news and great updates to what was already shaping up to be a pretty cool costume set.
Your responsivness to player input has been awesome.

Looking forward to seeing the final products. Have yourself a Happy Birthday!

Like I said if Paragon Studios doesn't mind creating their own "version" of the brain-slug then I certainly wouldn't mind. One would think that if Valve got away with it maybe Paragon Studios could too. I simply implied it would boil down to how close to breaking the spririt of their own EULA Paragon wanted to deal with.

OK... but being "bothered" by that kind of thing in a sci-fi story is still pretty mind-boggling. Some of the best science fiction is considered the "best" because the fictional parts of it are so close to being likely or plausible that the story tends to resonate that much better with its intended audience.

Basically it almost sounds like Durakken is complaining that this clip was too realistic and that there weren't enough "fictiony" parts to it or some-such. I suppose I am completely missing the point why I should be "bothered" by what's shown in this clip.

Maybe he was trying to say that we should be bothered by the greater idea that such a dark future with an evil corporation is actually possible. But if that's the case his post did not make it very clear that's what he was trying to say. *shrug*

So we already know there are people who farm the DFB long after they are "supposed" to. I predict what will happen is now people will just do the DFB the minimum number of times to be able to start farming the DiB to get as high a level with it as possible.

The Devs probably should have built in some kind of cooldown to these trials just to encourage the narrow-minded to have to go out and play other parts of the game to gain XP. Maybe they could have linked that to say the 1 year Paragon Reward badge so that if you're a "newb" you can't get XP from these trials continuously. But I suppose the argument could be made that if these folks are somehow having fun running the same trial dozens of times in a row then who are we to force them to enjoy anything else?

At the very least having a path for people to easily PL themselves built into the game removes the motivation to hire third-party RMT PL services. *shrugs*

Maybe they were trying to simulate the busy-work that happens when you buy a pack of CCG cards in real life. It usually involves wasting a few seconds each ripping open the wrapping and sorting through the cards.

Back when I used to play Magic I remember there were people who claimed that half the fun was opening the packs and anticipating the surprise of finding out what they got.

The only way a game anything "like" CoH would work on a Vita was if it was a completely new game designed especially for it. Then at that point what real connection would it have to Paragon Studios or CoH as we know it now?

I'm not against the generic idea of "superhero MMOs" existing on handheld consoles. I just don't think it would ever have any connection or relation to what we have here. If Paragon Studios was going to "recreate" a new game I'd rather them create CoH2 for the PC than waste effort on a device that was basically a dead-end before it was even released. *shrugs*

Perhaps a trilogy would be in order: First movie would be the Batman/Superman team up that ends up with them beating some threat that let's them find out about the hidden super-big menace. Second movie would be their attempt to gather up the other heroes to fight the super-big menace. The final movie would be the full blown JL movie. Sounds cool to me.

I agree if they tried to rush a JL movie it'd probably be crummy. But if say in the next 5-10 years they manage a few good tries at Batman, Superman and maybe the Holy Grail of a Wonder Woman movie then I could see a good JL movie out of that. The Big Question of course is whether DC / WB can follow in Marvel's footsteps.

These are all good points. But to use the Avengers as a model we see that this movie still got made despite several lack-luster tries at The Hulk and no standalone movies for Hawkeye or Black Widow. It would seem a JL movie could be made with some "weak links" as well.

Maybe. But again I figure if they see that there's a like a half-a-billion dollars to be made they might be willing to give it a good try.

As long as they don't mind directly ripping off Futurama then I'm all for it.

That's probably almost worth it then considering what you might luck out with across 25 cards. Thanks.

Last time I checked Reward Tokens on beta I didn't see it but that was a few weeks ago. Thanks.