ShardWarrior

Please leave politics off the forums.

YES, GENESIS! How can you be deaf with ears like that? Love that movie! 😀

Excellent idea.

No disrespect meant at all, but when? From my experience those kinds of characters are way, way more prevalent than cosplays. I see at least a dozen of them daily. Some I've literally seen over and over for months- they're always competing in costume contests in AP. I personally never report anyone but I find it very hard to imagine that someone hasn't. Another question - is there a way for us to request our accounts to be reviewed? Might be helpful for people who have questions on whether what they have is acceptable per the rules or not.

There really is nothing to debate really. The HC folk will fill us in what they feel we need to know without compromising their efforts. The rules have changed and that is their decision. Games change, sometimes we like it and sometimes we don't. Best to just accept it and move along.

They already have. The rule has changed and cosplays are no longer allowed.

Or they got tired of getting spammed by tickets and forum messages from overly paranoid and neurotic players worried about it. More than likely we will never know the impetus of the change and to be honest, we don't need to know. The rule has changed and that's that. Let the HC folk decide on what is rule breaking or not. That should not be open to debate in my opinion.

Thor is a bit of a tricky one. Marvel did not actually create the name Thor or Mjolnir as they are from Norse myth. As I understand it, Marvel can copyright the image/likeness of Thor they designed and use in their comics, movies, toys etc.. So if you were to make a hammer wielding brute named Thor in CoH but it did not look anything like the Marvel version of Thor, it's fair game. Walt Simonson - famous for working on Thor for Marvel - did a Thor series for (IIRC) IDW a while ago. I want to say the title of it was Ragnarok, but not 100% sure. I believe even DC has a version of Thor. They just can't match the likeness of the Marvel one. I would agree that no matter what, any character bearing the name Thor is going to get genericized. I imagine any character getting reported for potential violations is just going to get the name/costume reset no matter what.

Player donations are covering this

I don't think it will stop anyone, just saying the HC folk have final say just as the devs had back on live. There were no precise written rules before that I can remember. People can question it all they like. Having final say ends the discussion.

"Because we said so" is the answer and there is no questioning or debating. 😀

Safe to assume they will err on the side of caution and are going to genericize any toon that gets reported to them. No clear guidelines mean no discussion or debate which makes their job easier.

Probably going to be up to the GMs to determine what is "too close".

This just makes the game into a tedious boring slog, not a challenge.

Agreed.

I fully admit I have quite a few cosplay homage toons, but have no issue whatsoever changing them up a bit. Rules are rules Hope this means the servers are one step closer to being legit! 😀

And you don't see a distinction between requiring more stringent measures for a passenger aircraft where lives are at stake and a video game? You already have part of the answer - additional cost which isn't going to be eaten by the business. It gets passed to the consumer who won't want to pay for it.

Same here. I just found it mildly amusing.

Glad it's not going to be me getting attacked and insulted this time. 😀

Thanks. You too. ;)

That isn't my experience. Most of the time, it's an unwillingness to spend the required amount to keep backbone architecture up-to-date. And not because they're being greedy, they simply don't have the money to do it.

I've no objection to microtransactions based on the implementation.

Bear in mind that many executives, investors and business owners assume far, far more of the financial risk than the average employee with their feet on the ground and fingers on the keyboard.

And from what we speculatively know, that wasn't the cause of the shutdown.

Why should those who can afford to buy things be penalized in any way? I think it very naive to believe that if by some miracle the game is able to go legit, there will not be an item shop to fund development.