Thanks for the info, Tarbuch. Has me a bit worried about one or two companions though. I've completed a few class stories on my characters a long time ago before I took a break from the game, notw that I'm back I still have a few companions on various characters with completed class story arcs where I haven't unlocked all companion conversations. Am I screwed with those? Reason I'm asking is that I've played them a little but I don't seem to be unlocking anymore conversations with uncompleted companions

How do new conversations with companions open up with the new system? Is it dependent on influence level and how far along you are in your class story like it was with affection level and story or is there some new system in play to determine that? Edit: I'm also wondering if the approve/disapprove notice that appears for some conversation choices has any affect. Can I have sky high influence with a companion but they still hate my guts so much that they won't talk to me?

And it's funded... with 27 days still to go. Not bad, not bad at all.

Agreed. There really is no comparing the two, at the very least in terms of expediture.

The support seems promising, I have no doubt that they'll reach their intended goal. I'd love to see a game like City of Heroes again, nothing has really managed to replace it on the pedestal of "great superhero game."

In this case that tactic, of teaching lessons etc, didn't work out well for them, alienating customers, current and potential, is not good business strategy, drawing the kind of criticism they've gotten from the industry isn't good business strategy and when they've even gotten criticism in their home country it doesn't seem like they made the right choice. Perhaps I'm unclear on the details but to the best of my knowledge NCSoft pretty much blind sided everyone with the shut down of City of Heroes, just like that an anticipated issue (update) was stopped, people were out of a job and so on. How is that good business strategy and how did they not create this bad situation themselves? Perhaps Paragon could have handled it better, I'm not sure about the details there but it seems to me that NCSoft made the situation almost impossible to start with since the moment they acted like this they made a “face issue” practically unavoidable and further exacerbated the situation by making it clear how little they cared for the customers in the west. If there is something I've missed then please inform me and I'll take a look at it. But for now I think that NCSoft's actions were bad not only in regards to how they treated and how their actions affected gamers but it was also pretty poor in regards to how they treated their employees and the shut down in general. Btw are the other examples of this kind of Korean business? I can't help but view this as a very bad way of doing this if not applied correctly, something I think NCSoft failed at in this matter.

I'm sorry but all this talk of "face issue", "teach them a lesson" as well as some of the things you put in later posts only makes NCSoft look even worse, since it makes them look petty. Saying that it's Paragon's fault that NCSoft, and according to you, Korean business practice in general is like this is a bit far fetched. In the end NCSofts behaviour and tactics in this matter don't seem to have served them well. There are a lot of gamers that are sceptical of this company because of it, and quite a few who have boycotted them as a result. Even the industry itself reacted to the way this was handled, there were even newspapers in Korea that criticised NCSoft over this.

Thanks for that :/ *Deleting distrubing mental image*

The less said about people who simply can't stop posting bile after they've stopped playing the better.

I like them.

The transfers scheduled for t he 12th will be free. Later versions of character transfers, which allow for more freedom of choice when it comes to which server you want to move to, may and probably will (that is my guess anyway) require a fee.

Won't work for alta-holics, like me. Personally I like to have several characters in various stages of playthrough. An obligation to complete 8 class story arcs, and the the 9h and 10th and so on would probably chafe regardless of who you are, as long as you're someone who wants a 9th+ character.

My question exactly. I hope it's not like with hide head slot or the match to chest feature.

If that is the argument then I don't understand the need to spend even more time here trashing the game, as well as on other forums. I'm not saying you're doing this, haven't looked at your post history. I do know that a lot of people are doing this though. Some do indeed have valid complaints and issues that they raise, others simply hang around, day in and day out, hour after hour posting complete bile over and over again. Saying that they paid for it is no justification for that.

Keeping my fingers crossed that server transfers can help you out instead then.