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Can we hear some news/plans for the year 2015?
Because you got something planned, right?
For Champions Online's future.
Yea, we know that talking makes people angry if those talks don't become reality, or something.
But silence also makes people walk away. Some for good.
And we can play the guessing game for only so long.
Because you got something planned, right?
For Champions Online's future.
Yea, we know that talking makes people angry if those talks don't become reality, or something.
But silence also makes people walk away. Some for good.
And we can play the guessing game for only so long.
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New powersets
New costumesets
More mission chains like the space one
something other than vehicles or lock boxes
emanation point revamp
visual effects revamps for some powers
When are you going to tell them?
You have me so darn curious right now, Brou.
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1. The server hamster is pregant, the server will be down for several weeks as she looks after them.
Lordgar will be taking a course on how to sex hamsters.
2. TO add a bit of realism to the game, Dino's will now leave large steaming piles everywhere they go. These will causing tripping and snare hazards.
3. Due to a radiation accident while testing the Champions LARP game, TT is now changing into a small highly offensive "WHAT the heck is it?"
4.Due to the success of the gimp challenge, a new type of slot will now be available. This will be called the Free from form slot. It will have only 7 spaces and will not allow, form, passive, blocks, active offence/defence, self res or advantages.
(amending due to deadman20)
players using this slot must team up with other players using the slot, in order to run any team-based content (Alerts and Lairs), and will not be able to equip any gear or devices.
5. To facilitate easier fusing, a new 'fuse all' button has now been created. This will automatically fuse you entire stack of mods, all you have to do is click. "do you wish to continue? "after each fusing.
6. IN order to bring the game, more into line with the PnP game. Players will no longer have automatic immunity to their own powers. Players will now have to buy the new adv on passives to acquire immunity.
Those who do not have a passive with resistance and the adv will now take full damage from all attacks including their own. This includes PC's and NPC's.
Power sets unable to buy this for are Technology, martial arts and might.
Individual powers are all summons plus self-res.
7. Strafing run will no longer work inside buildings or in space. The replacement cost has become too prohibitive , in terms of planes.
8. Vehicles will now be able to be colored in a limited palette. The current colors are flouro green, orange, red, and yellow.
(due to Jonsills)
8A. 1 colour per vehicle.
8B. Sunglasses to shade against vehicle glare are now on sale at the Q store.
9. Costumes are now available in all sections. So if you want to wear your underpants on your head, you now can.
However, due to the time it took to do this, clothing is now only sized to fit the generic dummy.
This may cause some ripping and unexpected wardrobe malfunctions on larger characters, while smaller characters are advised to wear belts to keep their pants up, to avoid tripping hazards.
10. I got up at 4.20am on Sunday unable to sleep. This thread is fair game.:biggrin:
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Having seen a few of your characters, yes you could.
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Don't forget, players using this slot must team up with other players using the slot in order to run any team-based content (Alerts and Lairs), and will not be able to equip anything!
Hehe, the one thing that I will be remembered for; setting that silly challenge up.
But hey, I'm glad people enjoyed it. I still need to follow through on my Gimp.
And I will always be @DZPlayer122.
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I thought i did that on the post #1.....
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Plans for 2015:
* Build a couple of low quality costume sets for the Z store. * Crank out a handful of lockboxes. * Avoid new powers, systems, or anything that depends on a longer term vision for the game. * Use entry-level devs and/or experienced devs who split time on other "real" projects, so that most everything delivered seems half-assed. * Continue to scale down expectations by providing even less communication to players. * Try to stay in the black by further reducing development costs.
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Be fair, from the hints being thrown around, it also sounds like we are going to get another hour or so of content too, yay!
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lol, ouch.
I'm usually not one to go out of my way to attack Cryptic, but this is pretty awful. Take a dollar off of the crappy sets, and double the price of the good ones, really? Why not just leave the price where it is, actually take pride in your craft so that you don't release buggy and shoddy work, and inspire more people to spend more money that way?
I agree, unfortunately pwe/cryptic's pride for this game is long gone. Imho, there is no reason to up the price of the "best" costume sets, while the sets that do not sell well is getting lowered.
I don't see a dev post.
You're kidding right? We should be singing their praises. In this age of "One price fits all - regardless of quality or quantity", they're actually willing to lower prices on something and risk less profit just so that the price matches what you're actually getting.
Imagine if all those triple AAA producers actually said "You know guys... we didn't put out enough content in our game to warrant the usual 60 dollar price tag... let's lower it to match what we actually produced".
Oh but wait... this is about taking pot shots at Cryptic and being pointlessly negative, my bad yo.
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Addendum:
* Double price for wothwhile costume sets in order to squeeze twice the money from the suckers in preparation for Valiance stealing over half our player base.
* Increase our non-denial denials by 10%.
* Increase neglect on addressing bugs and server security issues like the random mass disconnects.
Yes, Cryptic has all but given up on this game.
Which makes it confusing that you haven't.
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I guess most really do prefer being miserable.
Well, yeah, it's your bad, but for different reasons. I get that your shtick is that you're a contentious troll, and it's amusing sometimes, but not everyone who has something critical to say is "being pointlessly negative" or "taking pot shots". I rarely criticize the devs, and usually get lumped in with the fanbois and fangirls.
That aside, it's odd that you fixated solely on the 'lowered prices' aspect, and totally ignored the 'raised prices' aspect that this change also includes. I'm sorry that I don't see increasing the price of most of your inventory as an act of noble altruism. If only more businesses were heroic enough to lightly discount their worst selling items and double the cost of everything else.
An example: Your favorite burger joint has sold $5 cheeseburgers for as long as you've been going there. It's a fair price; this isn't gourmet stuff, but it's pretty good most of the time. Sometimes the meat is a little undercooked. Sometimes they rush the order and don't put the toppings on there that you wanted. But most days, you're happy to lay down $5.
Then, they decide that they're going to start doing $4 sliders, and change the price of full-size burgers to $10. To stretch the analogy further, they also offer the best burger in your area by lottery; you can buy a raffle ticket at a dollar a pop, with about a 2% chance of winning.
Sopraiseworthy business practice?
I think I speak for everyone when I say, "Kindly STFU about Valiance already."
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Oh look, you did that thing that people do when they're unsure about what they're about to type, so they add in this nonsense at the start.
Yes. I explained why in the post that you're responding to. Better offerings deserve a higher price.
Now that you realize I was also talking about the price increases, go back and re-read my post with that knowledge, because not a single word of it has changed.
I pay people when they do good work, because they deserve it. Paying people what they deserve often takes precedence over me minimizing the amount of money coming out of my wallet. If I want something great, I'm willing to pay an accurate price - that makes me feel better than minimizing expenditures does. And no, I'm not rich, not even close.
Is a game like GTAV worth more than 60 bucks? Yes.
Is a costume set worth more because the people making it stepped up their game and/or the set has more items in it than most other sets? Yes.
Praiseworthy business practice? Yes.
If paying people what they earned makes me a contentious troll, then so be it, I'll wear the title with pride
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If they are "stepping up their game" as Spinnytop believes, then let's see the evidence of that. I would be happy to pay a little more for something interesting, if I got the feeling some serious new effort were being put into the game, and not just a scheme to try to squeeze a little more coin from the diminishing number of devoted fans.
Given what we have seen so far this year, I wonder what is more likely... That they are on the verge of releasing some cool new Z-store stuff that will justify a 100% price increase? Or that they are releasing some less than stellar stuff that only seems reasonably priced when compared to the new 750-1000 Zen bar?
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And the annoying thing is that is working, and People try to Defend this Cash Grab change
We have. I know I know... you can't actually acknowledge it for reasons. I for one will happily say that they have definitely stepped up their game with some of the recent costume additions. I'm even wearing one of the ones that I poo-poo'd at first, and doing it with a smile.
Some odd capitalization going on there... not sure what to make of it.
To me it actually looks like the total amount that could be spent will actually go down. The number of sets that will see a price increase look to be in the minority, and only the more recent ones, while the ones that will see a price decrease appear to be the vast majority. Remember, the majority of the costume sets are practically ancient at this point, and Trail Turtle did say that the older ones would be seeing the decrease.
I think calling it a cash grab is a symptom of "free2play-itis" where people see corporate cash grabs everywhere. Overall, this looks like they're capitalizing on their newest, best material, while admitting that the vast majority of their material is old and sub-par by the new standards and are lowering the prices accordingly.
This isn't based on faith. I don't have faith in Cryptic.
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Your charming facial expression in your forum avatar is a SLAP IN THE FACE Jon. It makes me want to listen to a bed time story about programming nightmares while sipping hot cocoa.
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The timing really couldn't have been worse for this; the Scientist set is frankly amateurish, and the Scoundrel stuff, while very cool-looking (IMO), is plagued by texture errors that were pointed out numerous times during "testing" and promptly ignored.
Releasing something with bugs, errors, significant clipping issues, broken color channels, or faulty textures after your customers have brought those issues to your attention in a part of the forum supposedly dedicated to finding and rectifying said errors... I mean, that's not a problem that will be fixed by asking for a few more dollars. It speaks to a fundamental lack of pride in your work and concern for your customer.
I'd be much more inclined to think this was a good idea if they had shown any ability to consistently release solid, well-tested items. If you have years of history telling me that you won't fix your crap when it costs $5, I don't have much faith that you'll do it when you charge $4, $8, or $10.
The biggest fault with this game is the new mentality to put a price tag on everything that comes out that is a feature of gameplay. Emanation points? Power replacers? When is this previously free PvE earned content going to be added BACK into the game.
Maturity levels almost reaching adult in this one
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It's not really the same thing. Raising prices is not monetization, it's simply a price hike. Putting some time on an expanded nemesis system and putting prices on new things like Nemesis Mission Packs that have a chance to drop cool stuff, with paid tokens to eliminate a one-day cool down on them, more nemesis slots, Premium Status on your nemeses so they pop up in alerts above non-premium nemeses, henchmen packs, powerset packs... That's monetization.
Honestly, if they wanted to make more money on costumes, I think leaving the old ones alone and just coming up with new super-premium sets that cost 10 bucks and come with more options would have been a better idea.
(I'm no doctor.)
I'd say it's because player-made monetization focuses more on the entertainment aspects of a game, and how it can be expanded to appeal to a mass audience of players at once.
Dev-focused monetization focuses more on money-making aspects because at the end of the day, no matter what personal attachments they have to a game, money-making is the number-one priority.
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I... wow... these ideas... if there was a way to make my nemesis override AoQ in alerts? Holy carp, I'd pay for that. (And promptly make a nemesis, 'Holy Carp', wielder of the sacred fish... err, assuming that nemesis weapon models aren't busted. I haven't checked that recently.)
Nope. Nemesis weapons still can't be customized. I tried to give The Broad Street Bully, my ex-hockey player turned draysha junkie nemesis, the hockey stick vet reward weapon skin, but no dice.
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(Also, I really want Deathjest, Spider-Bat's Nemesis, to wield a deadly Foxbat Trout like a sword...)
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As things stand cant see me jumping ship to Valiance till I've seen more game play (it looks far to much like CoH and that just seems like going backwards)
Of course nothing says I cant play both
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...and would evoke the same accusations of corporate cash grabs, because in the F2P market "If it's not free, it's corporate greed!"
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Of course it would. Happens every time. Who cares?
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Did they ever fix the bug that wouldn't let you load costumes in the nemesis creator?