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You're not getting it. 1. I never said YOU were being defensive, I do now, because again, throat leaping. In fact I even named the person: Captain Fabulous. Is that you? No? So why were you all up in my shit about it? 2. Bree's comment didn't need to be addressed. At all. Like the way you position it, is that people HAD to address what she said, like they HAD to defend it. There was an option: Just ignore what she said and move on. It was a comment in the comments section not even the article itself, it has no influence on the game, the comment isn't gonna kill the game, there's no need to defend it. There was no need to screenshot it, there was no need to post it here, there was no need to insult her over it. All that did was completely prove her point right that if you bring up a criticism people leap down your throat over it. The way to "win" that was to ignore her, not completely prove her right. Because lets face it, she is right. There seems to be a group of people who are absolutely determined for whatever reason, to make sure anyone who gives feedback know that they're completely 100% wrong about everything. Both on the forums and in the discord, any sort of feedback you give is bound to be "WELL AKSHULLY'd" by someone who isn't a GM at all. Some people just do that in every thread. Like for example in the Pyrotechnic control feedback thread, someone suggested changing the name to Light control as Pyrotechnic might be confusing and people respond with "Its just a name who cares!!" like that feedback wasn't for you, it was for the GMs, its their choice to accept it or not. Nobody asked for your hot ass opinion to other people's hot ass opinions. And there just seems to be people on that thread and other threads who just sit and camp the thread and reply to every piece of feedback, making sure that person knows that they're completely wrong about everything that they said. They're FEEDBACK threads, the channel on the discord is a FEEDBACK channel, its meant for feedback, whether you disagree with it or not. But eventually you get shouted down enough that you just give up giving feedback. Then after that's done everyone goes back to being "happy" and "satisfied" in that weird Stepford Wife "everything's fine" sorta way. The same happened with the Discord channel. Feedback there has slowed to a crawl, even with this new beta and patch. Nobody goes there anymore because they just don't feel welcome or listened to there because any sort of feedback that you give ends up with some rude or consedscending remark from Take One who has just completely sapped the energy from the channel and ensures that you know you're as unwelcome as possible. Like when someone suggested a Double XP weekend the other day, did it really need that sarcastic ass remark Take One? Did they need to be belittled? Again, stop acting like this game is a poor damsel in distress that needs defending from the EVUL H8RS!!! Homecoming is not under attack because a couple of people dislike a few patch changes.

That STILL doesn't make it deserved? Like holy shit it's an article with some opinions that doesn't mean burn them at the stake. Anyways, I'm just of the opinion that leaping down Bree's throat is not the best way to disprove her criticism of "If you say anything that isn't glowing praise of the game they leap down your throat" Cause lets face it, what's her opinion gonna do? Kill the game? No, so there's no need for the extreme defense. Her statement could have very easily been ignored tbh. Now if anything, it's just further highlighted the issue as being correct.

Oh ok that means they deserve insults thrown at them then.

How am I being toxically positive when I haven't been positive about the article? Also Captain Fabulous calling the article writer a twit, saying him and Bree have no clue what they're talking about (they DO have a clue because it's THEIR opinion, they know their opinion it's their mind), claims that its a "hit piece" is not criticism that's just straight up lashing out. For what they pretty much admit later is because they have a personal attachment to the patch because they were an early beta tester and thus feels personally slighted, and is overall just taking this article WAY too personally. Look at Biostem's response to the same screenshot, THAT is criticism. Calling someone a twit is not, that's an insult. I feel like too many people over the years have mentioned the whole people leaping down their throats whenever they bring up a gripe or criticism thing. Enough that it's not longer a coincidence, it's clearly an issue being ignored. And thus questions have to be raised regarding how people behave when criticism is thrown Homecoming's way. Homecoming is not under attack, it is not some damsel in distress that needs to be saved.

So the correct response was to do a multi page crashout over it full of accusations? I think the fact you interpret someone saying "Hey I don't like this change" as "talking shit" as if they're not allowed to not like something, really kinda just shows HC's issues when it comes to being criticized. I mean there was an easy way to deal with this which was to act normal about her opinion. As others have agreed with her statement in this thread, and its something I've seen before, there's clearly an issue with some of the playerbase in regards to how they handle criticism, both harsh and like. It's like a constant perceived attack from some of you. You don't need to defend HC from EVERY single statement on the planet. Let people have gripes. All its caused is underlying dissent because people feel they can't speak up without 87 white knights descending on you to defend poor helpless CoH. Some of the stuff in the discord and forums that I've seen aggressively shut down is just plain weird. Like for example, I'd love for someone to explain what it was about Bree's statement that BOTHERED them that much to this level. Like did Captain Fabulous need to have a multi-page crashout over some internet lady stating her CoH gripe? I disagree with things said in the article and I agree with things. Either way the people in that article commited no crime yet are being made out to be bitter and malicious. It's WEIRD.

Bree makes a post about toxic positivity and how if you criticise HC you get a bunch of people leaping down your throat. A bunch of people on this thread proceed to claim she's wrong and do so by... leaping down her throat and getting insulting. Yeahhh she's VERY wrong huh?

They have especially made their opinions on farming known, and despite every attempt to stop farming, it still happens frequently and those changes just end up negatively impacting the non farming playerbase. I remember when others said that the inf changes to farming would reduce the amount of costume contests and they got shouted down. Now look where we are.

What are your thoughts on on CoH closing like literally right before the big superhero boom with mainstream audiences? Do you think CoH could have capitalized on that audience and craze at the time if it was still up? Does it make CoH closing even more of a misfire in hindsight seeing as how Superhero stuff became even MORE profitable afterwards?

1. Do any of you keep up with Superhero media these days? Especially since after CoH's closure, there was definitely a big Superhero movie boom. 2. How far along WAS CoH 2 before sunset? Was it just a maybe one day kinda thing? Was it greenlit? Was anything done for it?

I kind of wish the new controller set was a lot less Assault Rifle and more Gadgety. Cause some of the powers in there would make a REALLY good Batman style powerset. Cloaking Devices, Sleep Grenade, Smoke Grenades etc. but then the Assault Rifle stuff kinda makes it a bit more Deathstroke instead. I hope the grenade and bomb powers are taken and put into some sort of patron or ancillary power pool because those are really cool for a Batman style hero!

Didn't Live devs have a thing where whenever they announced something they just said "SOON (tm)"

mYES more costume pieces, my number one thing

Geniuses on the voting thread admitted to skewering and boosting votes because apparently winning something that was actually about touring the bases and showcasing them is so important that they have to cheat so the votes had to be redone with something in place to ensure the votes are all legitimate

The point is to look at cool bases. It was meant to be a showcase of creativity that has desended into vote bickering. Visiting the bases is more important than casting the vote, but now we have people casting votes and not visiting the bases, so its failing its entire point which is to incentivise people to visit the bases.

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