As for Champions, I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit. More than any other MMO I’ve played recently, actually. It’s fast, it’s clean, and its casually fun. I don’t feel that I *have* to spend hours at a time on it, but I can if I want to. What’s your username? Add me if you want, I’m @professorbeej.

I’m glad you came to the realization that there are places where positive opinion can run free. Over at Overly Positive, I create a voice for myself that is sometimes serious and sometimes exaggerated, and my small, but hopefully growing, readership, appreciates the lack of rant, disgust, and overall naysaying you find in other places on the internet.

I can agree with you that negativity has a place on the internet, and in fact it has popularized many such places that employ it. But I do think that there is always a positive thing to see, even in the worst of news, which is part of why I write, and write constantly. Also, it’s fun to reply to negative nancies in my comments with annoyingly bright, idealistic prose, and hopefully make them laugh/forget about the bad stuff of the interwebz.

I’m glad you’re back, and hope you stay, knowing that there are places on the internet fo rboth positive and negative opinion.

Critical thinking ~is~ important. Pundits are not.

Speaking out as a customer is your best bet to have your voice heard. Although I do recommend speaking clearly. It’s easy for developers to dismiss the constant noise and I don’t blame them. It’s also important for developers to separate their customers from the pundits. Anyone betting on your game to pass or fail isn’t helpful to knowing what the actual players want or need. Reviews for the sake of reviews are just more noise.

The most entertaining MMO blogs I find are the ones from players talking about the one or two games they enjoy. There are just so many interesting details and insights to learn from someone really immersed in a game. Whether it’s a positive or critical detail doesn’t matter so much to me, so long as it’s honestly from a game you actually want to play.

@JayeDub — Maybe I just stumbled into a great build (Munitions/Telekinesis), or maybe I haven’t hit the rough stuff yet. I’m still (at 15) soloing quests a few levels above me. My biggest problem is I can never use the rewards I get because I don’t meet the level requirements, so I have to put ‘em in the bank for a few levels.

But there are SO MANY variables that it’s really hard to compare experiences, isn’t it? Like I have a great “Oh shoot!” item slotted as primary offensive that can knock off 1/3 the health of a boss villain, but it has something like a 10 minute cooldown. That’s bailed me out of quite a few tough situations. And I took a shield that absorbs energy, so I can just block to gain energy when things are going badly.

And then there’s the luck factor: will a henchman drop a health regen powerup just when you need it?

After the intitial patch day readjustment, I’ve been having a blast. One thing I do agree with is that soloing can be a bit tough at times(henchmen are a tad too strong), but I have learned that grouping is alot of fun. Champions and CoH might go down as the only two games I have actively looked to group.