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theglasskitten
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As the title states, I would love for an official state of the game update.
It would be nice to hear how all of the changes over the past year have helped improve Champions Online. It would also be nice to have a general idea where things are heading. Is there any new content planned? What fun new power revamps can we expect to see next? What awesome ideas are being cooked up with the new emotes?
In 2016 we got a lot of exciting news and some really great updates. Each year since we have gotten less and less with some of the changes being extremely controversial.
How have past changes helped improve the state of the game and what should we be excited about in the future?
It would be nice to hear how all of the changes over the past year have helped improve Champions Online. It would also be nice to have a general idea where things are heading. Is there any new content planned? What fun new power revamps can we expect to see next? What awesome ideas are being cooked up with the new emotes?
In 2016 we got a lot of exciting news and some really great updates. Each year since we have gotten less and less with some of the changes being extremely controversial.
How have past changes helped improve the state of the game and what should we be excited about in the future?
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Possibly players would be more excited about the game if they felt there was an actual plan the devs were following, instead of seeming to be almost random work (unless, of course, it really all is random and there is no overall plan; in that case continued silence is probably better).
> "Hey devs, give us ammunition to shoot at you with" :T
I’m actually looking for a reason to continue spending money on the game. Right now i don’t have one.
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> They've become pretty gun shy over the years. It would be nice if they would share more of their vision of what they hope to do and what they are trying to do (besides costumes in lockboxes). Possibly a lot of the ammunition could be taken out of the guns by the devs framing their communications carefully. E.g. "We hope this year to revamp the Force and Celestial sets and update the Mandraglore lair as was done with Andrtih." Note the use of "hope" here. Means that if for some reason they couldn't get something done it was not put forth as a hard promise that players could use to rail against them (of course some still will, but this deflates a lot of it).
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> Possibly players would be more excited about the game if they felt there was an actual plan the devs were following, instead of seeming to be almost random work (unless, of course, it really all is random and there is no overall plan; in that case continued silence is probably better).
Yes, we need a reason to be excited! The part about continued silence does make it feel like there is no plan currently.
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Of course, we all know what's gonna vacuum the money out of my pockets: cute anime costume pieces. You want more of my money? Watch Cardcaptor Sakura, or Fate/kaleid linear PRISMA Illya and just recreate whatever you see there.
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> Me too. We're actually really weird in that regard. A lot of the rest of the video game audience is currently going nuts about microtransactions, and here we are wanting more reasons to feed small payments into this game.
Exactly. I have invested a lot here over the years and would like a reason to keep doing so, as I’m sure many others would also.
Letting the consumers know the state of the thing they are investing in is a good way to encourage them to continue investing. It is a common practice.
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Then there's the reality that, in regards to what's coming up, there might not really be a state of the game. Remember that live stream Kaizerin was on where every question was answered with "maybe?" or "I can't say" or "we'd like to do that but we're not sure if we ever can" when it came to asking what was down the pipeline? I don't imagine that's changed at all, so laying out a road plan for us is just as bad of an idea as it was four years ago.
I mean sure, I'd like a state of the game, I just think it's a terrible idea. Sure, common practice and all that, but you also have to look at the specifics of our situation.
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> Then there's the reality that, in regards to what's coming up, there might not really be a state of the game. Remember that live stream Kaizerin was on where every question was answered with "maybe?" or "I can't say" or "we'd like to do that but we're not sure if we ever can" when it came to asking what was down the pipeline? I don't imagine that's changed at all, so laying out a road plan for us is just as bad of an idea as it was four years ago.
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> I mean sure, I'd like a state of the game, I just think it's a terrible idea. Sure, common practice and all that, but you also have to look at the specifics of our situation.
The lack of communication makes all of this appear to be true and that is disheartening.
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Yeah it's a shame nobody does TA anymore.... said Foxi, and then 2 hours later was invited to a TA u3u
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As for state of the game, there are some things they could say that, I think for the most part, would not supply too much negative ammunition for the haters, and could give fans things to anticipate. E.g. they could say which power set is going to be revamped next. They don't have to say when (so they aren't committed to a specific release date), just what is next. Sure, if the say Earth than someone who really wants Archery next could have a forum rage tantrum, but nothing is perfect. Similarly, they could say which lair update is next (assuming that they can get Destroyer's Factory working properly).
I wish they would ask for input from players too (e.g. what kind of lock box themed costume would players like to see next), but that often seems to blow up in their faces, no matter the intentions.
Still, giving players something new to anticipate, instead of just guessing when the next event switch will be flicked on again, could have more positives than negatives if carefully handled.
Yes. I play Elderscrolls Online as well and why I keep coming back to it is because the developers create real reasons to. For instance in two weeks I get a new class. Champions is more random fixes and changes some we never asked for like the character select screen.
Champions is unique in how there isn't much current competition in the super hero MMO genre. If they brought City of Heroes back, I bet Champions would lose players. And by bring back I mean officially not on private servers. Champions is really the only game in town right now besides DCUO.
Sad state is that City of Heroes was a superior game to this.
Care to put a wager on that?
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