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Ok everyone, come back with me.... all the way back to issue 8. There's no such things as IOs. The best enhacements in the game are SOs and the occasional HO (Hami) and omg, anyone remember
CTOs?.
To summarize any 'nerfing' of the IO system with merits - I wouldn't even care if they did away with the whole Invention System - say Dr. Brainstorm's equipment was stolen by
Rularuu the Ravager and we all have to do the Cathedral of Pain trial to get it back.
Essentially they are making something harder that didn't even exist until a few short issues ago. Most of my characters never touch IOs and stick with good ol' predictable cheap SOs so what the merit system means to me? Nothing absolutely nothing.
Does anyone remember why you would do a Katie Hannon TF
before issue 9? Umm....: Badge for an accolade, fast xp from lvls 30-34, achievement badges for cabal and red caps for an accolade, and most of all [u]for fun.[u]
As for PvP, now maybe you have to TRY to win. Stalkers, TP foe, pocket emps and sonics, Energy Melee/anything, and previous 'i win' powers and powersets now have to use strategy and perhaps put forth some kind of effort to defeat people in PvP instead of mashing a total of 3 buttons.
For all you dramatic whiners out there canceling accounts, all you're saying is "now that the game isn't as unintentionally easy for me to win anymore, i'm going to quit" and "now that the game is how it was supposed to be, i'm going to quit". To those people I say, good bye and good luck - less lag for me. Maybe if you squint at whatever game you're changing to it might give you the illusion that that game has as much detail as this game you left without reason.
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As a matter of fact just take all the updates away... wipe the slate clean and don't try to make the game better at all. Or even better, NERF all powers by at least 50% - that way everyone but the mostly manly of men will quit.
They you can wave your little unit around and brag about how you can play in even the must miserable setting all alone, and how it's better that way and you still love CoH!
Now that we've "summarized" what would make you happy...
Can we find a single argument here that doesn't involve sticking our heads in the sand and accusing any rational dissenter of being a whiner?
I mean really I am starting to suspect that the developers just salt these forums with their close friends or maybe even post as random customers. There are so many suck ups and "yes yes yes" people here that I begin to wonder if ANYONE has noticed that this is the only superhero MMO on the market at a time in history when the most successful entertainment medium is "superheroes" and it has been consistently shedding customers and suffering population declines for months and months on end.
Meanwhile a game like WoW which exists in a saturated market and has terribly outdated graphics and a crumbling infrastructure is pulling in MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of subscribers simply by listening to customer demands and giving them some or not most of what they ask for.
Is it too hard to ask anyone to understand that the "punishment" mentality of game development does not gain customers, it loses them?
Can you just suck on that lifesaver for a second and let the flavor register before you go on another pointless posturing lecture about how making a game harder is always the better choice?
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Well put.
I'll offer you an asbestos suit for the fanboi flames to come.
