Re: FREE GAME: Black Desert

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On 7/7/2025 6:35 AM, Mike S. wrote:

On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 13:55:07 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:
 

My favorite is still City of Heroes, which is now running off Homecoming
and free, no MTX.

 
I love City of Heroes. Seriously, it is right behind LOTRO for me. I
have 750 badges on my main character on Homecoming. It is the only MMO
where I actually like grouping up with others.

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My main issue was leveling up with a group was so fast paced I felt like
I was hardly doing anything besides trying to keep up.  Homecoming made
it a bit too easy to level up.  The villain side is pretty dead too, if
you want to do some of the missions they can be a bit hard solo, and
difficult to find people to do them with you.  The end game raids were
pretty awesome, but they started getting repetitive.
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It's perfectly playable solo too (though some builds struggle.)
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Sadly no supers (Villains!) MMOs that are anywhere near as fun, and it's
definately aging.  Marvel Omega was a distant second, but I miss that
one too.  The DC one isn't bad, but it's a bit too corpretized/monitized
feeling.  Of course CoH was getting that way at the end, but now that
it's on Homecoming all that's removed.

Don't recall it getting monetized at all, just the standard monthly sub
fee.  Then NCSoft execs canned it to use the budget to cover a loss and
save their jobs.

COH was always profitable, but since it made up all of 1-2% of their
profits, they could do without to not have to explain to the
stockholders where the $6mil went.

Xocyll
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