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1001 Arabian dicks posted:crying about people making death threats/abusive comments on you is such a sympathy baiting move ur ded
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FrostyPox posted:I wonder if the death threat sender is Golden_Girl, I recall that person posting some stuff on the forums in the wake of the shutdown news that made me wonder if someone might have to call the FBI To Golden_Girl I say "thank you for being a friend."
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Apr 17, 2019 21:15
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nobody should threaten the guy but he is also a piece of poo poo
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Apr 17, 2019 21:18
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Good Lord, I don't know if I would play CoH again but I sure as hell would waste my life on a sequel.
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Apr 17, 2019 21:20
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Mystic Mongol posted:Traditionally F2P MMOs are supported through the in game shop, but no one gave a poo poo about it. Cosmetic options are pretty weak when like 96% of the costume options are already free, and everyone's more impressed by a costume that does something creative and cool than a boxer who used the premium boxing gloves. Equipment in CoX was pretty invisible--if you shelled out for 50 hami-O upgrades, no one would look at you and say, drat, he has a lot of sick upgrades. Also you could get upgrades as good or better purchasing them through the black market in game, which gave you something to do with the money you earned in game--largely worthless money, because again, there's not much to spend it on. Slight inaccuracy here. In the last few years of the game, they did release a number of costume packs(some of which were really good). So realistically, let's say about 65-75% of the good costume options were free. Don't forget just how important that poo poo is to a game like this. Paying for costumes in a game like WoW is the most irrelevant thing imaginable, but a Super Hero MMO necessitates it as a major factor as to why people even bother to play the game in the first place.
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Apr 18, 2019 02:07
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1001 Arabian dicks posted:crying about people making death threats/abusive comments on you is such a sympathy baiting move Lmao how do you post something that makes you look worse than the CoH Facebook survivors group C’mon man
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Apr 18, 2019 06:26
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:Lmao how do you post something that makes you look worse than the CoH Facebook survivors group I think a lot of of us are just completely desensitized to empty internet threats. They shouldn't be ignored but potentially 20+ years of "I will rape and murder you and your family" sort of rings hollow. Even one guy sending me a Google maps of my home doesn't make me flinch anymore (take an actual photo in person you bitch). 99% of the time they aren't even within 1000 miles of you let alone the same country. Then again calling in a fake 911 call to get someone swatted and potentially murdered is a very real thing in the US at least.
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Apr 18, 2019 06:57
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if they want to have a no girls allowed club that's fine, but why not release the source code so the unwashed masses can play the dang game?
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Apr 18, 2019 08:34
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:Lmao how do you post something that makes you look worse than the CoH Facebook survivors group disclaimer: in case you needed the clarification i don't think death threats are good or cool
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Apr 18, 2019 08:49
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Blast of Confetti posted:if they want to have a no girls allowed club that's fine, but why not release the source code so the unwashed masses can play the dang game? If they do have character data, the data might be traceable to the employee who took it. There are a lot of assumptions being made about what exactly happened and how it happened because people want to be mad at this guy, but unless they give the story we might never know. The only thing we know for sure is that people are very angry on the internet, and that’s always entertaining.
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Apr 18, 2019 09:07
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:Lmao how do you post something that makes you look worse than the CoH Facebook survivors group The Sword of Stabbing Leandro: An imposing-looking sword with the ability to wound Leandro infinite times and only kill him when you desire it. Nobody who ever sees you hit Leandro with this sword will say anything, nor will you ever face any consequences for torturing and killing him The Morgernstern of Menacing Leandro: Though this flail weighs seven tons, you can swing it as freely as it was a yo-yo. If you hit anything other than Leandro with it, nothing will happen, but if you hit Leandro with his, every bone in his body will instantly burst into fine powder. Epic. The Pike of Piercing Leandro: A weapon resembling a winged spear, meant to be shoved in Leandro's rear end in a top hat, impaling him. Though it will cause Leandro excruciating pain, it will never kill him - you will have to finish him off however you please. Again, no adverse consequences will come to you if you decide to inflict so much pain on Leandro that his nerve endings actually burn away. The Rifle for Wrecking Leandro: Forged in the fires of Hell by Hephaestus, this all-purpose firearm actually serves only one purpose: to pump Leandro's gay pedophile body with an infinite amount of adamantium bullets. Watch his body twitch like a puppet as hundreds upon hundreds of rounds pass through him like needles through silk fabric. The Flamethrower of Flambeeing Leandro: It is said that burning alive is the most painful death, and this weapon was engineered with this single thought in mind. The magical flames will only hurt Leandro and destroy his stupid Argentinian yurt. Upon being hosed down with fire, Leandro will suffer grievous burns all over his body and will be transported into a special "Hell ICU" where he will have Drano pumped into his veins. The cost of keeping Leandro in the Hell ICU will be $50 a day. As soon as you miss a payment, he will be euthanized by slicing him into 1mm slices starting from the feet. The Bridge Bolt of Brutalizing Leandro: An enchanted bridge bolt tied to a length of fabric. As long as the fabric is tied to your wrist, the bolt will feel like it weighs nothing, and wherever you throw it, the fabric will extend and the bolt will seek Leandro out like a globe-spanning seeker missile to strike him in his empty loving head. Everyone IRL can see Leandro get hit, but they won't see the bolt. Try attaching a GoPro to the bolt for extra laffs. The Banhammer of Banning Leandro: Actually a computer program. A single executable file that, when run, will activate the nanomachines laying dormant in Leandro's bloodstream. These nanomachines will render Leandro blind, deaf, mute, paralyzed, and bereft of any sense of touch, internal or external. He will then be transported to the Hell ICU and his body will be kept in optimal conditions, so that his retarded self will stew forever in the most hellish consciousness imaginable - a mental prison designed for the most awful human being currently alive. Normal Adult Human fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Apr 18, 2019 |
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Apr 18, 2019 10:58
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Normal Adult Human posted:A cool villain is giving you a choice: You can pick only one out of the seven artefacts below, and doing so will have no consequences for you whatsoever: 
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Apr 18, 2019 11:11
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is it actually gonna happen?
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Apr 18, 2019 12:38
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Blast of Confetti posted:if they want to have a no girls allowed club that's fine, but why not release the source code so the unwashed masses can play the dang game? The guy who made the secret cabal for secret playing of city of heroes is a reddit Forums Moderator which means he is predisposed to building a tiny fiefdom of absolute control wherein only those who pledge absolute loyalty to dear leader may be allowed to remain unharassed. Nobody would put up with his insane poo poo if there was any other option, which Leandro is aware of, which is why he has been actively sabotaging other emulation projects for 6 years. In this case, his means for doing so was to have everyone who played on the server (henceforth referred to as "sycophant") divulge their personal information to him (name, address, etc) and the personal information of anyone those sycophants recommended to receive access. Active, obedient sycophants are given more opportunities for recommendations which both increases the size of the fiefdom and reinforces leandro's hold over the sycophant. This way, if someone thinks about going against the secret cabal, Leandro is able to expose not only the whistleblower but also their friends and family.  
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Apr 18, 2019 13:12
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What makes CoX so much better than Champions Online that people tend to ignore it? I thought the latter had even more powerful character customization, and you could stand around in a hub awkwardly chatting with each other just as well.
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Apr 18, 2019 14:46
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Champions Online in it's current state hasn't been updated in years and most of the powers are locked away behind paywalls.
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Apr 18, 2019 14:52
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Champions Online, since day one, has felt like a low-budget City of Heroes knock-off, to me. I have a hard time describing what I don't like about it compared to City of Heroes in words, but I think the best I can do is that the setting isn't nearly as interesting, the combat is more button mashy and lacks weight, it has a tiny fraction of the content, there's almost no content that requires a group, group composition never really seemed to matter, most of the power sets feel rather same-y, but the ultimate thing is that I think it got, like five real content updates and then hasn't had any new zones or missions or instances or anything in, like, seven years. When I gave the game a serious try, I got to the level cap and literally ran out of things to do in a week, and that was while I was in college so it's not like I was playing for 12 hours a day. I did literally every mission in every zone, every adventure pack, maxed out my gear, I even did every group instance which was like pulling teeth because it seems like the Champions Online community despises any content which is even remotely challenging (and oh my god, talking to these people was loving ridiculous; Anyone want to do any lairs? "No, they're hard and they don't give out any reward". Well that's silly, they should give decent rewards because they're hard. "No, I don't want to have to do lairs to get good rewards". I talked to several people and they all gave that circular reasoning and it drove me mad). FrostyPox fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Apr 18, 2019 |
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Apr 18, 2019 16:26
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DC universe online is even worse. It's bad all the way down.
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Apr 18, 2019 16:33
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Normal Adult Human posted:In this case, his means for doing so was to have everyone who played on the server (henceforth referred to as "sycophant") divulge their personal information to him (name, address, etc) and the personal information of anyone those sycophants recommended to receive access. Active, obedient sycophants are given more opportunities for recommendations which both increases the size of the fiefdom and reinforces leandro's hold over the sycophant. This way, if someone thinks about going against the secret cabal, Leandro is able to expose not only the whistleblower but also their friends and family. What the gently caress rofl. Almost seems like this dude was running a cult not a private server.
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Apr 18, 2019 16:36
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Normal Adult Human posted:DC universe online is even worse. It's bad all the way down. I actually liked DCUO's group dynamics far, far more than Champion's, DCUO has more content and is still getting new missions and instances and stuff. DCUO is definitely not good, but put a gun to my head and make me chose between CO and DCUO, I'd pick DCUO, though the though of eating a bullet instead might briefly cross my mind.
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Apr 18, 2019 16:39
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It may just be more blowing smoke, but apparently Leandro and TonyV (from Titan) and Bree (from Massively OP) and a bunch of other people from the CoH/SEGS community all talked on discord yesterday and prospects of getting the code into the wild are potentially improving: (from here) reddit posted:I don't have all the details, since I wasn't around for the entire conversation, but via voice chat Leandro has been communicating with the SEGS people. It also appears that another person has popped up who also possesses the server code, and conversations are happening.
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Apr 18, 2019 16:41
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I just checked and in the decade or so since I played Champions, it looks like they have added: 1 Lair A game mode called Onslaught and that's it 
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Apr 18, 2019 16:45
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kumba posted:It may just be more blowing smoke, but apparently Leandro and TonyV (from Titan) and Bree (from Massively OP) and a bunch of other people from the CoH/SEGS community all talked on discord yesterday and prospects of getting the code into the wild are potentially improving: Need a private goon server, please release the code. 
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Apr 18, 2019 16:50
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kumba posted:It may just be more blowing smoke, but apparently Leandro and TonyV (from Titan) and Bree (from Massively OP) and a bunch of other people from the CoH/SEGS community all talked on discord yesterday and prospects of getting the code into the wild are potentially improving: :do it: I want to play CoH again. Would be dope if there's a way to play offline/LAN mode too.
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Apr 18, 2019 16:52
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kumba posted:It may just be more blowing smoke, but apparently Leandro and TonyV (from Titan) and Bree (from Massively OP) and a bunch of other people from the CoH/SEGS community all talked on discord yesterday and prospects of getting the code into the wild are potentially improving: I mean going from "there is no server. what server?" to "yeah we're totally in talks about it haha yeah we even called ncsoft rofl i cant believe we're still getting away with this" is an improvement, i think. I think right now the most recent lie was "we're just making sure the game we received as a finished product 6 years ago and have been playing secretly the whole time is feature complete before the big release" Normal Adult Human fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Apr 18, 2019 |
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Apr 18, 2019 17:05
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reddit posted:I am just relaying this information as I understand it as of this moment. This... smells awfully fishy to me but we'll see
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Apr 18, 2019 18:13
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Apr 18, 2019 18:15
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kumba posted:This... smells awfully fishy to me but we'll see Interwebs 39% transferred. Standby. Yeah I'm dubious af.
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Apr 18, 2019 18:22
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FrostyPox posted:I just checked and in the decade or so since I played Champions, it looks like they have added: You have to count Star Trek Online and Neverwinter as additional content because they are all basically the same game
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Apr 18, 2019 18:23
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Baller Time posted:You have to count Star Trek Online and Neverwinter as additional content because they are all basically the same game Of those games, only Neverwinter is even passable for being fun. Anywho, the source code just now all of a sudden being uploaded to someone else to distribute else where? And of course it's being done in secret. I guess only time will tell, but i'm not holding my breath.
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Because of the cross-game chat feature, a lot of people think that Champions Online will stay alive as long as both STO and Neverwinter are both financially viable for Cryptic. It's all but in maintenance mode, so it probably pays for itself and then some. Leandro has been gaslighting and lying his rear end off for 6 loving years. Why would anyone be gullible enough to think that: 1) He actually received any death threats in the first place 2) Anyone would fly all the way to Buenos Aires to kill his stupid rear end over a dead video game "I was for real going to release it really soon but then somebody threatened me! no game for you!!!" It's just more bullshit. Does anyone know anything about private servers for other NCsoft games like Aion, Lineage 1 & 2? Because if those exist then the hyperventilating some many CoXers have always done over NCsoft pulling a C&D on a CoX server is clearly bullshit. I've played on 5 different WoW servers, and I always found it really suspicious that all these supposedly tech-savvy people at Titan Network didn't seem to get that private servers are an ubiquitous thing.
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quote:Does anyone know anything about private servers for other NCsoft games like Aion, Lineage 1 & 2? Because if those exist then the hyperventilating some many CoXers have always done over NCsoft pulling a C&D on a CoX server is clearly bullshit L2 private servers are as old as L2 itself. I should know, I used to play on L2 private servers when I was a teen lol. And these servers were loving massive btw. It wasn't just a couple of hundred people playing them. Aion also has a bunch of private servers readily available.
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FrostyPox posted:Champions Online, since day one, has felt like a low-budget City of Heroes knock-off, to me. Hilariously, City of Heroes is actually the first knockoff: the broad strokes of its setting are taken almost note-for-note from the original Champions TTRPG. The apocryphal story I've heard is that Paragon was originally trying to secure the Champions license (since all of the original devs were huge fans of it), and when that fell through, they cribbed its archetypical elements to create their own unique setting.
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Private servers for Aion, and lineage 1 & 2 have existed for a decade plus. NCSoft doesn't care. The only time they took notice was over Tabula Rasa because the fate of that IP went to court when it became clear that Richard Garriot was ripping NCSoft off and scamming them.
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Vermain posted:Hilariously, City of Heroes is actually the first knockoff: the broad strokes of its setting are taken almost note-for-note from the original Champions TTRPG. The apocryphal story I've heard is that Paragon was originally trying to secure the Champions license (since all of the original devs were huge fans of it), and when that fell through, they cribbed its archetypical elements to create their own unique setting. Yeah, I realize that. It's kinda funny that CoH was a better Champions Online than the actual Champions Online. Like the Shadow Shard is Qliphtoth, there's that Asian gang in CO that was clearly the inspiration for.... gently caress, who were the dudes with the magic tattoos? The Tsoo? That Voodoo Group was the inspiration for The Banished Pantheon, etc, etc, etc. I assume those are all from the tabletop game, anyway, I've never played Champions PnP More on topic: I'll believe in an accessible private server when I see one, this Leandro guy is clearly not exactly an honest sort. I absolutely do believe he got death threats, though, because the City of Heroes community has some legitimately disturbed people in it (I mean, I have to assume they're disturbed with the kind of poo poo I've seen posted in the Facebook group from time to time. Obsessing over your hatred for NCSoft for seven loving years cannot be good for your mental health). This is true of any MMO community, though. I think it's just the CoH community is the one I've observed the most. FrostyPox fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Apr 18, 2019 |
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Apr 18, 2019 19:15
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Technical specs: (from here)
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just by how people have acted in this thread I'd believe leandro got death threats and thats pretty lovely and lame im glad he is seemingly going to be giving up the code to be scrubbed of anything that could identify the employee who leaked it
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Apr 18, 2019 19:32
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I won't believe it until I got the character creator in front of me, but I still got hope hearing all this recent news.
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Apr 18, 2019 19:35
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Wow that's like, two top end laptops.
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The Bold Kobold posted:I won't believe it until I got the character creator in front of me, but I still got hope hearing all this recent news. https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Titan_Icon :P
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