Minotaur
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Consider getting on the Titan forums and saying what you want from the successor before it gets too set in stone. They're reorganising the forums atm, and better places may crop up but this thread http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index....ic,5057.0.html is not a bad one to post in.
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Quote:Selling off AA and TR would have been fairly pointless as they were flops. CoH is a bit different in that it is making money, so they might have got a meaningful sum for it. I suspect the cultural difference and loss of face if something they flog off succeeds is dooming CoH. They will never develop CoH2, as they know the people who played CoH will not trust them, are unlikely to buy it and are likely to point out what happened to CoH to prospective customers of CoH2 if they develop it.Originally Posted by Kobold_Commander
Except Guild Wars 2, and Wildstar*, and Blade and Soul, and Aion, and whatever their next Lineage re-skin is...
*Anyone still think this game's gonna release at all, now? Or get any post-release support from NC?
Just like how they sold off Dungeon Runners, Auto Assault, and Tabula Rasa?
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Quote:Somebody posted a video where they were knocking low level mobs around with the twist that a friend with fireball launched it at max range just before he used the energy KB punch, so a fireball went most of the way across the map too.Originally Posted by KritikalMass
I once did that to a Clockwork minion in Kings Row. Knocked him over a building.
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No votes for Becky
I vote for any of the cimeroran ladies, particularly the sibyls. "Our secrets are not for men to know" particularly how they stay in those dresses. -
Having met Gangrel recently IRL, I can assure you he doesn't work for NCSoft.
If they cared, they'd refund all points left over (I have about 6K) regardless of when they were purchased, but they clearly don't. -
Quote:Anybody can send an enquiry, I would expect at least a form email saying "Thanks but no thanks" back, but this smacks of just binning any enquiries because they're not interested.Originally Posted by Brillig
Okay, I get it now. You're a literalist. Since it's impossible to exhaust all avenues, NCSoft is clearly lying.
"Sending an enquiry" is meaningless. I could do that right now. The question is, is it credible? Any query from me would clearly not be. As for Mr. X, who knows? Unless his name was Gabe, it probably wasn't.
And how was said query sent? If it actually was a serious attempt to reach out, it would be very ironic if it got sent to one of the electronic or physical addresses people were busy spamming.
Generally stuff like this happens between people who already know each other on some level. Or an intermediary makes an introduction.
I agree that most often stuff happens between people who already know each other. Negociations clearly continued for some time, I'd be very interested to know what the insurmountable obstacle was. -
Quote:Did I say he made an offer, he made an enquiry and didn't even get a reply, they never found out whether it was sensible or not. Hence my questioning their claims to have exhausted all avenues.Originally Posted by Brillig
Uh, what?
I guess what you're implying is that some guy made them an offer? Is there any reason to believe said offer was a) serious and b) reasonable? I'm guessing it was neither. -
Quote:Either they are flat out lying, or the guy that runs a small studio and said he didn't get a reply to his enquiry is (can't remember which set of boards I saw this on atm, if I find it, will link it).Originally Posted by Starsman
I don't think they are lying lying, more like just saying the side of the story that makes them look less bad.
Sorry NCSoft, I'm not buying GW2 or Wildstar, never another penny of my money is going to a company with your horrible ethics (the Garriott case and closing down a profitable game with only a 3 month sunset having had a goodly amount of money off me for paragon points relatively recently which I haven't yet spent, looks like 6000+ will go to waste). -
It's strange, only because of having lost my mother 10 years ago, I recognise all the same symptoms of bereavement in me that I had then (lack of enthusiasm for almost everything among others), and I'm having to make very sure I handle it better than I did that time.
There are a few friends for whom like me CoH has been a huge part of their lives for 8 years who I suspect will feel it more on December 1 than they do now and it may be like that for me too. -
Midnight Pacific, OK, so I'm playing till 8am here
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Could be worse, some idiot from the water company decided to put a mechanical digger through my cable in a main road a couple of years back, took them 6 weeks to get that fixed.
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Quote:My first 50 ran out of missions at 38. They then introduced the difficulty slider AFTER he'd run out of missions so it didn't help him.Originally Posted by Megajoule
Here's another for my fellow oldbies:
Remember when it was easy to run out of missions in the late 30s, unless you were careful and/or made sure to team a lot? (Back then, the only way to get missions was from contacts... and when they were all done, it was street grinding the rest of the way to 40. Couldn't exemp down and run with lowbies, 'cause that gave no xp.) -
I think much of the upset is caused by the way the closure was handled. If NCSoft had come out and said "Guys, the game is losing money, we have to shut it down, we'll wind it down over 6 months" sure there'd have been sadness but a lot less anger. To sack all the devs with no notice and only give a 3 month sunset while the game seems to be still profitable is what caused the anger.
I am upset in that the game was improving and getting updated over the last few issues and I was looking forward to the upcoming issues. I wasn't playing as much as I have in the past but still often enough to justify the sub.
The OP was suffering some of the classic Freedom problems, a change of server would have fixed them. -
Quote:Remember to take the mace patron power for more redraw, I played this combo as Captain redraw in one of the betas.Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
If we're handing out combos for people to play, I'm calling dibs on TA/AR right now!
And yes, the staggering number of character builds (not to mention which powers to pick in any given set combination) is one of many things that no game comes close to competing with CoH on. -
Quote:I also did this on my second account with the intention of going FTP with access to what I needed on that account while still paying for my main one. I never actually stopped paying and have about 5K points still on it.Originally Posted by RogerWilco
I bought extra Paragon Points to get into higher levels of the Tiered VIP Rewards.
My main account was paid 6 monthly (I lose about a month's paid time) and the second one monthly so no huge loss to me, but I'm still angry with the way NCSoft is handling this. If CoH dies, I want nothing to do with NCSoft, certainly not a sub to one of their games where I can invest time and energy to then have it closed down on a corporate whim when it's not doing badly. -
Around 80, the first 72 of which had no PLing at all, and all bar 2 or 3 on one account (which till I moved a couple of toons to defiant/union for the EU player event at the weekend had no unused slots on any of the american servers and 48 in use on Victory).
15 tanks and a load of brutes and scrappers make up most of them, I have every AT covered, but only one PB, WS and MM. -
Have fun, would have liked to do this, but am on holiday for a week and out of range of a computer.
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Had a fine time, big thanks to Kallandra and Gangrel for organising.
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Quote:Exactly, this is what finally decided me not to buy the game.Originally Posted by Slazenger
It's not the game itself I have an issue with, it's a game that could be dropped like a bad smell at any moment if NCsoft feel it's not making enough money or they bring out a new shiny they love more. Have no interest in having my hard earned time wasted by people who couldn't give a monkeys and the only time they notice you is when they are wiping you off the bottom of their shoe..
It would have been difficult to persuade me to buy any more NCSoft products anyway given the way they treated the devs. Had they announced the closure of CoH, explained why, given a run off long enough that people could play out their subs and feel they got value from recently spent points, I'd have felt sad but not borne any ongoing animosity. -
Eighth day - Hazel O'Connor seems somehow appropriate
He said: Behold what man has done
There's not a world for anyone
Nobody laughs, nobody cries
World's at an end, everyone has died
Forever amen (amen), amen (amen), amen (amen)
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Btw, for those playing late Saturday night, these events http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...88#post4381588 will be going on at 10pm/11pm which people might want to support.
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While we do have reason to be thankful to NCSoft in the past, what they have just done (more to the staff than to us, although taking subs money then closing the servers down before the subs run out without a true emergency is morally fraud in my book) is so far beyond the pale and lacking any class that it is difficult to react with anything other than anger.
I agree that we have to try to deal with them in order to try to get our game back, and while I very much hope that happens, it doesn't mean I have to like them or buy any of their other games. -
Walter Padilla aka veil one or macron
Again no screenshots, but he was fairly well known at the time -
My first 50 (of 70-80). Mr Minotaur, a big bearded guy with horns, an artificial arm and an axe plus granite armor (my avatar). I joined July 04, played a few lowbies, and he was my first serious toon, back before aggro caps and on SOs he could do things we considered ridiculous at the time (although still not climb a kerb before I respeced TP in).
TheoPWildebeest, an energy/energy blaster slotted out with a load of dam/rng HOs in every power meaning that combined with boost range, he could snipe somebody in Paragon from the UK without using a computer. The toon was a homage to Theophilus P Wildebeest the horniest man in the world, creation of comic Lenny Henry.
Toxic Texan DM/regen scrapper, red white and blue cowboy outfit with a large dubya on his chest. Retired when IH became a clicky, still has 6 slot health and stamina and 1acc 5dam slotted attacks. Bio "Brain the size of a peanut, no should that be planet ? heck I don't know".
These 3 were 3 of my early 50s, and were the ones I did the missions and TFs with for the first time, made my mistakes "what you mean there are shops where you can buy enhancements, you don't have to drop them" for example. -
I distinctly remember in the MA beta, a bug report that started something to the effect of:
"While I was testing my Feed Fusionette to the hydra arc"
It seemed that at that point, everybody wanted their own back for all the KB.