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Originally Posted by UnSub

Vanguard.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

Yeah, but even more ridiculous to think that something in a major motion picture was ripped off from CoH.

Originally Posted by PownUnoobs

At the same time, Stan Lee definitely knows about our donut

Originally Posted by Catharctic

Hmm . . . notice the steady decline after that? Maybe there was more of a PvP crowd than people thought (not to mention how many of them had multiple accounts active).

Originally Posted by Constant_Motion

I've got 80something as well on more than a couple of heroes; wish we could trade them in for something else.

Originally Posted by TonyV

This is an excellent point that I left out of an analysis a while back.

NCsoft reports all financials in South Korean Won (KRW), whereas most of the income and expenses of the game are in US Dollars (USD). The KRW is down right now against the USD, which means that when you pay them USD $15, that is not as much on the books today as it was a year or two ago.

That's the bad news. The good news is on the flip side of the equation. Expenses such as wages and salaries, marketing in their primary market, physical production of media (game packages, etc.), hosting and maintenance costs of the U.S. servers--those are all also cheaper in the reported currency as well.

To paint a truly accurate picture, you'd need to map the numbers against the exchange rate. Ideally, you'd break it out by percentage of players using the different currencies, but even just tying it to the USD instead of the KRW, since most income and expenses are in USD, would be more informative than looking at the raw numbers.

I'm also not saying that there wasn't a drop. Q1 was a pretty big lull in between issues, and a pretty major competing game (Star Trek Online) did launch right in the middle of that lull, so it wouldn't surprise me if NCsoft took a hit last quarter. But don't panic yet. I suspect the true situation could be summed up, like it probably could be for the past couple of years, as not as good as they want it, but better than people are probably thinking.

Originally Posted by dave_p

Despite the fact that the devs never post in here, I'd really like to think they're at least monitoring some of the threads in here, esp one like this where the overwhelming majority are in agreement about a bad feature. I think I counted about 3 or 4 pro-new UI so far and everybody else against, most of us strongly.

Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

That doesn't excuse them for being crappy, nor makes your winking attempts at justifying them any more "cute."

There was a nice sketch from an old cartoon I've long since forgotten that comes to mind:

- You will do it and like it!
- I'll do it... But I won't like it!

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

I'll give it a shot, but since I'm not your secretary I'm not responsible for anything that gets lost in translation.



I hope that helps.

Originally Posted by BigFish

says the gal who went out of her way to claim that at least half of the forum members were perverted

Originally Posted by SkeetSkeet

Of course you have the "same" global name on every server. By definition, that is what a global name is.

In your example, they could chose to... or not to... allow the same name to be used more than once on a single account. That's a design choice and I suppose there are plenty of valid reasons why they might chose one way or the other in a scenario where they cut the cord on using toon names for communication/email.

However, there is nothing about it that dictates they couldn't chose to allow it and having to rename your duplicates is in no way a consequence that absolutely follows from using global names.

Originally Posted by SkeetSkeet

Sometimes a poster posts without reading anything except the last post in a thread. That particular consequence, how it could be dealt with and what could possibly be some groundwork already in place for it has been covered.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Bill Z Bubba exists on every server. As a placeholder only on all but Pinnacle, but he exists there nonetheless.

Will I be given a free rename for every one of those Bill Zs with this server merge? Will I have to be stuck with BZB, BZB1, BZB2, BZB3, etc?

As usual, a poster posts without thinking through the consequences of their request.

Originally Posted by SkeetSkeet

Yeah, if I went to play the game one day and nothing else had changed except that I didn't get to click on a server name while logging in, I'd ragequit too. heh.

Originally Posted by Tyrrano

*cue mad search across Paragon for the blueside equivalent...*

Originally Posted by Captain_Freak

I would have to say that theres more to do blueside than red.

Want to hazard zone? Blue has em.

Want to earn +5 end without having to run a 40+ Tf? Blue has it

Want to earn 5% hp without needing to farm damage? just do blue tf's

Want to fight something besides Arachnos and Op'd longbow? Blue

Want a bank mission that you can finish without the timer starting? Blue.

Want new content? Blues will get it before red or they get it at the same time.

Want a varied Respec mission? Blue has 3 factions you can fight where as Red has the annoying Cot with thier acc debuffing ghosts at low levels and acc and rech debuffing ghosts at later levels.

Want a market that works for the most part? Blue.

Want to start somewhere besides mercy? you get a choice on Blue.

Theres many more reasons to go Blue than Red. I prefer the Red At's and the blue playground. Veats are much better than Squids but one At isnt enough.