The development team has an unstated desire to compete with Duke Nukem: Forever's development cycle. Teasing people with little updates seems to be part of the plan. Am I the only person who doesnt care to hear about a game until its out?
As I mentioned there is very little for a large group of people to do in this game the largest team you can have is 8 people to a team so to keep a group of 50+ active in a game with little content outside of combat is a challenge(this was before badges and such). It's no different than a scavenger hunt. Those who found more people got more mod points on the group site. it was also funny to go through the gallery and see all the fanboy creations that NCSoft should have controlled a little better. lets face it when you have entire clans based on protected material running around its out of hand.
I did RTFA this contract was done 4 years ago for characters he created how many decades ago? Stan Lee deserves every penny for these Stories he created. If your a janitor then yeah 9-5 hourly wage is to be expected. but if your a genius that provides an industry wide breakthrough I dont care who you work for you deserve a cut.
There was a similar story a little while ago on/. about the japanese gentleman who got very little out of inventing the blue LED's. several people commented that this wouldnt fly in other countries. I think this goes to show that at least in the USA we belive in giving people thier due for works of genius.
NCSoft is partly to blame for this problem they are not out to protect anyones IP. I played CoH for afew months after it came out and ran a fairly large group on the protector server. Anyone whos played CoH knows theres not much for a group to do as a group. So I set up a website with what I called a wall of shame and sent some 50+ members out to take screenshots and report all the IP protected characters. We had ALOT of pictures and reported a ton of characters but none of them would get banned. We're talking about obvious characters here too like nightcrawlers and collosus super men and wonder women everywhere. After reporting so many characters we talked to some GM's who said they aren't really concerned with banning these people they just warned them and that was it. I dont play CoH anymore but I still have all those pictures and such on my HD somewhere. In the end it seems all they tried to do was slap some loose rules in place and call it good. BTW clay crayons and such dont come shaped like copyrighted characters out of the box without paying for the use of IP which is why no ones sueing crayola Play-doh and Bic
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The development team has an unstated desire to compete with Duke Nukem: Forever's development cycle. Teasing people with little updates seems to be part of the plan. Am I the only person who doesnt care to hear about a game until its out?
As I mentioned there is very little for a large group of people to do in this game the largest team you can have is 8 people to a team so to keep a group of 50+ active in a game with little content outside of combat is a challenge(this was before badges and such). It's no different than a scavenger hunt. Those who found more people got more mod points on the group site. it was also funny to go through the gallery and see all the fanboy creations that NCSoft should have controlled a little better. lets face it when you have entire clans based on protected material running around its out of hand.
I did RTFA this contract was done 4 years ago for characters he created how many decades ago? Stan Lee deserves every penny for these Stories he created. If your a janitor then yeah 9-5 hourly wage is to be expected. but if your a genius that provides an industry wide breakthrough I dont care who you work for you deserve a cut.
There was a similar story a little while ago on /. about the japanese gentleman who got very little out of inventing the blue LED's. several people commented that this wouldnt fly in other countries. I think this goes to show that at least in the USA we belive in giving people thier due for works of genius.
NCSoft is partly to blame for this problem they are not out to protect anyones IP. I played CoH for afew months after it came out and ran a fairly large group on the protector server. Anyone whos played CoH knows theres not much for a group to do as a group. So I set up a website with what I called a wall of shame and sent some 50+ members out to take screenshots and report all the IP protected characters. We had ALOT of pictures and reported a ton of characters but none of them would get banned. We're talking about obvious characters here too like nightcrawlers and collosus super men and wonder women everywhere. After reporting so many characters we talked to some GM's who said they aren't really concerned with banning these people they just warned them and that was it. I dont play CoH anymore but I still have all those pictures and such on my HD somewhere. In the end it seems all they tried to do was slap some loose rules in place and call it good. BTW clay crayons and such dont come shaped like copyrighted characters out of the box without paying for the use of IP which is why no ones sueing crayola Play-doh and Bic