Quote from: Viking on March 06, 2008, 01:30:20 PM

Quote from: BlueBard on March 06, 2008, 12:53:01 PM
Here's my problem with XP Debt.

I don't get it because I screwed up, most of the time.  I get it because some other knucklehead is in blind charge mode.  Or I forgot to turn off team teleport on a given toon and some knucklehead sucks me into a losing fight.  Or because I'm trying to be a good teammate and help some other poor schmo survive the fight when our ever-present knucklehead draws in even more aggro.

What does that teach me?  Not to play MMO's?  Great marketing, there.

That's a bit of an excessive leap of logic, I would submit.  By your description, that should only teach you not to team with the knucklehead, or to find some way to throw that knucklehead under the bus - all in the name of heroism, of course...

Well, when I'm playing at midnight at levels all of my FR contacts have bypassed long ago, and playing heroside when they're mostly villainside, I don't have a lot of choices in who to team with.

I'm the Pick-Up Team Poster Child.  And knuckleheads don't put that fact (that they're knuckleheads) in their tells.

Most of the time lately, though, Teaming has been very good even for PUG's... I assume most of the knuckleheads have moved on to other games.  I haven't seen a wipe in awhile.

Quote from: Verfall on March 06, 2008, 02:56:01 PM

I don't think we'll see the genre properly done till either CoX2 or another company steps up to the plate. The only reason many of us have stuck around in CoX is because of the friendships, not the game itself.

I admit I don't know.  There were a lot of fantasy MMO's out there before WoW but even EQ2 did nothing to stop the nuke that is WoW.  Sometimes a game can come out and blow everyone else out of the water, regardless of it's flaws.  And a sequel, even to a popular game, is no guarantee.  EQ and EQ2 were/are much more successful than CoX, in a more saturated genre, and WoW still crushed them.  I would fully expect CoX2 to be a much better game than the one we have now but that won't necessarily translate into a larger fanbase.

That being said, do you think it's time for CoX 2.0?

DK

Quote from: Dweomer Knight on March 07, 2008, 08:28:19 AM
That being said, do you think it's time for CoX 2.0?

If NCSoft wants the brand to continue, then yes. They need to get working on a full sequel, quick-like.

Only problem is, if they are working on CoXv2 they are on the hush-hush.

CO is blaring from the rooftops that they're coming and they're better than CoX, even though they're basically a website and some vaporware at this point.

NCSoft needs to get out in front in a hurry and let people know they aren't standing still.

It's my opinion that if NCsoft were working on CoX2 they would have announced it. If they had anything to show they would have done it to try to steal some of CO's thunder.

NCsoft hasn't quite beefed up their team yet. BaB said they are still hiring. With the small team they have just working on new issues has been difficult. They don't have the man power to work on CoX2 yet.

-MJB