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Ok, sorry I've given you the wrong idea, no I don't think they are reading the forums here I'm pretty sure no-one at NC is that interested tbh, my worry is more people getting themselves worked up into a mob complete with torches and pitchforks, a big push by players to "punish" NC soft definitely has potential to derail the current negotiations, so from my perspective the less people venting their hate of NC-Soft the less likely something untoward will happen, I hope that makes more sense BTW we will not get our account data back, that was actually stated to be off the table, and there would be legal issues that no-one, NC-Soft or Homecoming wants to deal with. Hope that clarifies, I'm not trying to start a fight, just trying to make sure one we can't win doesn't start tldr, I'm trying to do what I can to protect what we have (and I agree with you, the servers here are much busier than they were during my play times on live)

HAH! I will give it a fresh coat of paint to soothe it's savage breast!!! (and to cover up all those unappealing arrow holes, no wonder it get riled up)

I went the other way, from small companies, (which I admit while great when I started ended up as you say) to a very big, and 100% guaranteed evil multinational

Lack of motives towards city could be both a godsend and a disaster, but most likely nowhere near either of those extremes

I actually think that might end up trickier to implement than just new tails on the same scale, you have to recalculate attachment points and make sure the animations don't interfere with the rest of the character, new styles of tail can at least utilise the settings from the existing ones

I'm honestly not sure to take this renewal as just an automatic thing as you've said, or as a result of the ongoing negotiation, if it's the latter its a good thing, the former, well it's nothing thats going to affect us either way, so I don't know about bad thing, more a doesn't really affect anything, though NC isn't as big as the companies we are talking about, so maybe they still have a smidgin of internal communication that actually means something?

I suspect even knows it exists...

been on the wrong side of that exact thing more than once in my working life, Microsoft absolutely SUCK for it

I suspect the best you will get will be "this was all part of our brilliant marketing plan!" corporate culture being what it is world wide

er you realise HERE is where the current license negotiations are for right? so you plan on leaving if HC get the license they have been working so hard to get? the Cease and Desists are still a huge threat, they can nuke all the decent sized pirate servers (thats what they are, not rogue, they are all operating illegaly) sure then people can roll their own servers, but as soon as they start actually having a player base it's very easy for NC to stomp them as well, the best you could hope for there is little private servers with maybe 20 or so players. Best possible result is HC getting a license, second best is NC keep going as they have been and ignoring the servers (though they HAVE contacted some of the server runners, just not telling them to stop fortunately) I'm personally pretty happy with how I think things are progressing, but the NC-SOFT is teh Devilz stuff is only ever gonna make things worse, sure don't trust em, don't support them by buying any of their products (I don't) but vilifying them when we need at least their disinterest is likely to hurt US more than them Sorry about the sermon, but this is one of my fears that we tick off NC-Soft enough that they drop the negotiations like they did with the previous groups

It dates from f2p and was designed to partially replace vetrans stuff

but but but I can log on again now, where are my MM cookies!!!!!!!!!!

Its very much a niche playstyle, and the exact opposite of the AT you just played

Exactly this

It could just be a scheduled TM renewal HC will not be able to share anything they know about this, helpful or not, there is an NDA in play and HC have too much to lose to break it.

can guarantee they do, however they wont for nda reasons

You are right, most of the doomsayers are absent, possibly in their bunkers waiting for the end, to answer your last bit, a bit of added optimism is always a good thing, and can help prevent the ranks of the paranoid doomsayers growing

I think your let's fix it, is actually lets re-write it from scratch, because I suspect that Ouro missions are implemented through the TF mechanics rather than the mission ones, so changing how they work is going to involve re-creating it from scratch, I agree there is no in-game reason for it, and I have no complaints about changing it, however I think there may be some VERY big technical hurdles

OMG I love that!!

I agree I think a combo of this, with the specialised enemies could completely revitalise high level content

I'm wondering, considering the continual screams of anguish caused by special enemy types like Sappers, maybe at the top end of the 50+ enemy trees adding more special type enemies?

The thing is, NC-Soft isn't out to get you (the generic you, I don't mean you Abraxus, I quoted you as I'm trying to expand on what you said) NC-Soft aren't out to hunt down and kill everything warm and fluffy in the world, NC-Soft (using it as a container for the people there) don't even think about you, about what city means to you, or us I should say, this is entirely business, they are protecting an asset they paid Cryptic cold hard cash for and then spent a LOT of their own money on, my personal feelings are they are seeing the HC negotiations as a face saving way of recouping some money from something they'd pretty much written off making anything back from. I think the trademark renewal is exactly that, a renewal to make sure they can get the most out of any agreement they reach with HC