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Over on the NWO forums, it's against the rules to make goodbye posts?
Wonder what that means.
Wonder what that means.
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Part of the problem since December, 2012.
That's pretty common in MMO forums. Too many of them end up creating drama which has to get deleted anyways.
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Ahh that brings me back reading the WoW forums. Such a lovely drama gathering it was.
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I wish more of the CO community would consider that before posting. It may be fashionable to bash Cryptic right now, but every negative post is another nail in the coffin of a game I still quite enjoy from time to time.
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The thing is, there's not much left to talk about when we have such big gaps between short-lived content. If we were being blasted in the face with new missions, bug fixes, and costumes all the time, the forums would sing a different tune. A lockbox with a vehicle every few months is not that.
Allow me to be perfectly honest-
I'm more concerned about a fellow player's time, money, and enjoyment than I am Cryptic's financial success. 99.9% of all the major complaints on this forum are not only legitimate, but should be out in the open and seen. If Cryptic wanted new customers, they'd fix the problems and there would be no complaints to the degree we've seen them. I see attempts here recently, but I refuse to take any blame whatsoever for 'loss of revenue' on Cryptic's behalf. If players' dissatisfaction ends this game- then so be it, do what Jack said and 'Make better games, take better care of our customers'.
I am, however, hopeful about this next series of events.
The added story arcs bring more depth to an allready rich universe that is so well brought from the pnp to the mmo. On every new story arc are new costume sets added. The costume parts are finely detailed and over shine old pieces. The customizable vehicles make the gameplay even more exiting, adding a whole new level of playability to old and new missions.
What else have i missed?
Oh yes, Cryptic/PW have earned the nails on their coffins.
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I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
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Then that begs the question, regular or peanut M&Ms?
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I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
I recently learned that M&Ms give you bad breath.
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...it's against the rules to talk about the broken chat ban system.
...despite you being able to do so here and on the STO boards.
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I'm honestly still impressed with that move. We all thought we were going to chip at NWO's success by informing their players about the chat ban system. When faced with such a threat to the success of their latest product, Crypwe did the only thing they could....
Fix the problem.... by silencing their customers.
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Part of the problem since December, 2012.
Precisely. If Cryptic took better care of its things, the complaints wouldn't runneth over like they do now.
It is nice that they claim that all but the finale of their latest "event" will be permanent. I'll be holding them to that promise.
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This is absolutely hilarious. made my day.
I've tried playing nevermind. Yoiu think one start point is boring. try one mission levelling path.......eerrgg aarrghhh.
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Yes, it's not unusual, any more than it's unusual for drama queens to make such posts and then...not leave. Other places I've been it's more to stop that nonsense than to quiet criticism.
Normally true, but in this case when you look at the whole package you quickly realize that it's to quiet criticism. The fact that in other games it's done to prevent forum drama only serves as a convenient cover story.
Yeah, the one leveling path is kinda jank... I got excited when they let me pick a city during character creation, thinking each city had its own leveling path. Not really sure why they had me pick it still...
The actual game mechanics are kinda fun in NWO though. The only real complaint I have is that playing NWO makes me want to come rant on the CO forums because NWO has a lot of mechanics we would love to have in CO. Wish the developer for NWO would buy CO, since the developer for NWO has some really fun ideas that I wish the developer for CO would use. I wonder if the game engines for NWO and CO are compatible with each other............<insert more periods as needed>
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For the smoochan "of selected city" title of course.
If you say so. Frankly, if Cryptic has ever tried to quiet criticism, they've been an utter failure at it. There's far more open criticism here than any other boards I've ever seen. I don't think they try to quiet criticism. It's more that they simply ignore it.
They don't care about quieting criticism about an abandoned project. You'll notice that the rule is in place on the boards for their current project, since that's the one they're concerned about. They know no one is going to the forums for the game they don't advertise for.
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Many people might not have gotten to that point yet and still have years of fun and excitement before they have done it all. Be a shame for 'em to miss it all because of a few rotten grapes on the vine. This game is better now that it was when I joined. There is no real option for an open Super Hero Game out there. Would I still pay for life membership if I just found this today? Yeah, damn straight, if I thought it had a future. Do I think it has a future, maybe not reading these forums (Ive still got heaps of costumes to unlock, lots of stuff I could buy, If I knew there was a few more years in it, Id probably go buy some Zs).
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I've never been especially dramatic. Sure, I'd lose my temper from time to time, but I didn't rage-quit every other week like some people did.
And I really am leaving. My subscription runs out July 25th, after which I won't be able to play any of my characters anymore. I'll be around until the 22nd or so, which is when I go on vacation and won't be playing games or reading forums. Unless something drastically changes in the next 10 days (which I'm not anticipating).
I'm not rage-quitting in the slightest. That would imply that I thought I had a reason to be angry about something. It's more of a disappointment-quit than anything.
I made a good-bye post mostly because I've always felt that disappearing without saying a word was kind of rude, especially when there are people you've known for a while who might wonder where you went (you, flamingbunnyman, Scythus, other people I knew from my CoH forum days).
Different strokes for different folks I guess. The game is worse now than when I joined. I keep a hand on the chance that it will turn around.
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The point isn't whatever conspiracy idea you came up with.
The point is that over there, in a fresh new game, goodbye posts aren't allowed. Over here, in a game run by the very same company goodbye posts are allowed even though the ones here are certainly more dramatic and cause more of a ruckus.
Think about that and what it says. Leave your nonsense conspiracy theories at home.
Playing it for what it is (i.e. not a Neverwinter Nights game, since those had a lot of customization) I think Neverwinter is actually fairly fun. The way I can attack people using Super Jump with my Great Weapon Fighter makes me feel like a super hero, and all the active dodging mechanics that reward me for reacting quickly really make me feel like I'm in an action-packed comic!
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What it says to me is they probably had (or are anticipating) a bunch of annoying rage quit posts and didn't want any more. And that they don't do anything here because they barely know we exist.
Banning goodbye posts is a very ineffective way of "quieting criticism", if that's their goal like you think it is.
Not to mention, the moderation on that forum? Seriously, you'd be banned from CO forums for life if you said the things I've seen over there. Some of it is appalling- and I was in the Marines for 5 years.
To be honest, i've had numerous comments and posts mysteriously disappear, not be removed for content, but actually disappear like they never happened, both here and on STO, and while it was all negative criticism, it wasn't anything that really seemed to break the rules. If anything it just seems like theyre trying to keep the number of posts down on the same subject rather than quiet the criticism. Maybe if they made a specific post called the goodbye thread, and you could only post there if you were quitting?
Seriously though, while i can understand wanting to keep the thread count low on any single subject (quitting the game in this case) I really don't like the idea of them censoring people, with in reason of course, so hopefully it's the previous rather than the latter.