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NB: If it isn't immediately obvious, the above indicates that Bruce is attending Pax.

Note: plaync mostly talks about Aion currently. Go to http://twitter.com/plaync if you're interested.

Note: CoH_OCR's twitter page has a ton of pictures and notes from the San Diego Comic Con that I am not going to repost here. Check out http://twitter.com/CoH_OCR if you're interested.

*Edit* Niviene actually had a bunch of stuff that was relevant while the boards were offline but not so relevant now that they're live.

This. Anyone who is afraid that Twitter is stealing our devs away from the forums is someone who hasn't been following the stuff that they're actually tweeting.

If it's really an issue, someone could always create a "RedTweet" thread and re-post all of the tweets to the forums for discussion. Kinda silly thing to do but you'd be certain you weren't missing out on learning that Positron just made his 100th tweet or that he's leery of catching a cold from BruceHH...

Besides, most of the devs who post on Twitter originally got there because they were trying to fill the gap left in their souls by the absence of the forums during the merge. They're as addicted to the community here as we are...

No it wouldn't. If you'll pardon me saying so, that's a rather silly idea, primarily because it's way too open-ended on the one hand, and it doesn't actually generate extra revenue on the other. In fact, it takes extra revenue away!

The point of the Station Pass or any similar arrangement is that it encourages the players who would normally have a single subscription to go ahead and agree to send you more money than they otherwise would. The point for players is to get a variety of games that you ordinarily wouldn't experience, not to go wild and get a bunch of new accounts in your primary game for free. I've never met any EQ player who felt cheated that his Station Pass account only covered one of this six EQ accounts.

I agree that an umbrella account psychologically needs a lower price point than two individual subscriptions. It was certainly true for me. I had considered re-opening my Station Pass account when Pirates of the Burning Sea opened because I enjoyed the beta and Matrix Online was just coming under the umbrella around that time. That was also the time the price increased to $29.95 and, psychologically speaking, my thought processes went like "If I'm going to pay the full price of two subscriptions, then I'm going to make the second subscription one that I really want to pay full price for, like CoH or WoW." They lost me because, despite the value-adds of the new games, they rose past my "this is a bargain" barrier.

Since they've never lowered the price again, they must be getting enough people to justify keeping it at that price. Like I mentioned earlier, as a Free Realms player, and having a passing interest in DCUO it might become a bargain again, but probably not, especially since the umbrella shrank just recently.

Re: The Matrix Online - SOE only took it on in the first place as part of a larger deal to get the rights to DCUO and bring it under the Station Pass. I'd speculate that they ran it for as long as Warner Bros. was originally contracted to run it and then shut it down as soon as the contract expired.

This should tell you something about how successful Sony and LucasArts believed the open class system was.

*hint* They believed it was a failure because it was too complex and too flexible. They changed to the current system because their research showed that players preferred "classes" as opposed to choice.

Whether their research was flawed or not is open to debate, but the fact remains that in their eyes the open archetype system was driving players away instead of attracting them.

Actually, the biggest problem is that players would LOSE to the AI. Gamers play these games in order to feel powerful. The worst thing you could do from a marketing standpoint is to make an AI that actually behaves intelligently. You'd have most of your players quitting because the game was "too hard".

Are you sure you aren't confusing PP with someone else? She's never made any bones about her farming activities as far as I can remember.

The most you can really say is that she was one of the many folks who thought that the farmers ought to get out of Atlas Park (primarily because they were only recruiting high-levels who are typically not the intended audience of Atlas Park), but otherwise she hasn't condemned farming as evil that I can recall, let alone "trolled" the farmers.

Okay, let's address what you're posting: Dude, take a chill pill.

When Niviene starts rounding up the Europeans and telling them not to come out of the "EU Lounge" ghetto, then you can get angry.

It's not our fault that your English-speaking board got merged into our English-speaking board while the French and Germans got to keep their own boards. We had nothing to do with it. We're just players, the same as you.

Whoever created the "EU Lounge" was trying to soften the blow by giving you a little piece of home. They weren't out to segregate you and point out how "different" you are.

As for the passive-aggressive hate, maybe you need to take a look around at the whole forum. In the Roleplaying forum we embraced each other and said "Yay, more RP and more fiction to read!" I'm guessing they did pretty similarly in the art and media forums.

I haven't even really noticed much a difference in "Hero and Villain Culture" aka "Effectively, Off-topic".

You're getting your panties in a knot about the fact that here in this forum we're all just acknowledging that we've got new neighbors. Big smegging deal. Guess what? We've had Euros in this forum from the beginning. It's not REALLY that novel an experience.

As for me calling it "this forum", I can't help that it feels like you were moved into ours as opposed to both neighborhoods being bulldozed and a new joint neighborhood being built. When I look around, I see the trappings of our NA website surrounding it. When I browse the merged forum, I see mostly the threads that were in our forums before the merges. We were more prolific posters than you because there are more of us.

Hate on it if you want, but to most NA forumites, this is going to feel like you were transplanted into our forums. Sorry that offends you or that we have our own American or Canadian ways of expressing the jostling as we all shift and make room for the new neighbors. When you've contributed around here the way that LadySadako has or developed the annoying-yet-strangely-lovable rep of GoldenGirl or earned a rep for thoughtful commentary like SamuelTow or just become a regular and positive participant like any of the other Brits, Aussies, and other non-NA forumites who have lived here for years, then we'll consider you family and ease off on the razzing.

Don't like? Tough. You're in America now, cowboy! Put on your big girl pants and deal!

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