in the future I strongly suggest we avoid contacting aeriagames inregards to picking-up city of heroes. even in the event that all other options have been used.
Aeria's MMO's seem to have a fad going. in this fad we would be able to look forwards to Tankers who can't hold thier own weight in PVP or PVE and blasters and trollers that are gods both in PVP and PVE.
yep. they have no concept of the whole 'balenced archetype' methodology. and it's present in each and every one of thier MMOs, Tankmages are present and there are melee tanks that can be killed swiftly in a single second assault.
then they claim that your armor wasn't good enough and you should buy items to enhance, then if you show proof of doing that they claim you should have better strategy, when you tell them how your tank can be killed in 1 second without even seeing your opponent (cause they are ranged) they still insist it's your fault. uncounterable sleep, stun and hold (no breakies) and no inherent defense or resistence to Sleep, hold or stun avaialble to tank classes.
over all they have broken PvP systems and a failure to admit it. but thats not all, in each and every one of thier games the market spirals out of control, thats right they would remove the Inf cap in city of heroes and place it at around 999 billion inf maybe even 1 trillion 999 billion that way the market can hopelessly inflate so that no-one can buy anything of use unless they first buy items from the item shop and sell them (OR) spend months saving inf to buy one small thing. they would also remove most Very rare drops from the drop pools and make them purchase only.
they also supply NO game moderation so if you're stuck you might need to wait a week or longer to get unstuck. also the game mods will argue with you if you try to report someone for cheating. "no that wasn't a UFO you saw. it was the light of the moon igniting swamp gasses"
not to mention all thier games are filled with spammers and hackers. spammers are needed because the inflated markets require so much gold that the only way to get it is to have an army of melee bots grinding gold all day. so the spammers do that and sell it.
yeah they may be a free to play company in america but they don't know the first thing about making games work, they only know how to make money, I mean why even have melee tank classes if they are trumped by ranged tanks?
PVP is mandatory in Aeria's games, though they'll tell you it's optional and technically it is, the grinding rate of XP is so slow that if you don't PVP it will take you months upon months to get to 30 and you will never grind enough money to buy the important stuff in the shops unless you PVP (cause PVP has better more worthful rewards than the rest of the games)
lastly, they keep upping the pluses, yep City of heroes got enhancement boosters to +5, in aeria's games it starts at +9 to +10 and wont stop there, eventually they will raise it to +15 then +20.
yep a scheme to keep people buying more enhancement items and taking higher risks of failure.
I used to suggest we give them a chance, but now I suggest we ignore them even if they made an offer. because they would hoplessly break our game and it would never be the same.
Also Aeria likes to disable regeneration and recovery especially during battle, in thier newest MMO's HP and such wont recover if you are fighting.
the reason for that is so they can sell 'pots' in the item mall, aka consumable HP regen and end recovery potions.