Marvel Universe Online Q&A

I actually have played CoH. Not a lot, but maybe 3 months worth. I loved the character creation obviously, but the gameplay was so terribly repetitive I couldn't even stick with it to level 20 no matter what kind of character I played. I mean, you fight the Trolls from level 7 to level... well, 17 is where I quit. And the grind gets unbearable around level 14 or so. It just shouldn't take that long to level up in my opinion. Not in a pure action game where you're not really exploring a world or really doing anything other than fighting.

I'd love to play an awesome Superhero game, MMO or actually, preferably a pure action game, like a third person game, but no one has made one yet.

My point was that the City of games aren't really drawing more and more people to play. They have all the market they'll ever get, and the population of the games will slowly wane due to attrition.

What I want to know is why Cryptic Studios signed on to make a game that is direct competition to their existing games.

You have to wonder how CoH and CoV is going to make out when both the Marvel and DC games release...

That was my point...

CoH and CoV I guess has been doing ok when compared to everything other than WoW.

So...

Why sign on to make a competing game?

What is the point of this game if we can't be the superheroes we love? I understand that having 100000 Spidermans going around will be pretty terrible, but I hope we will be able to create characters based on a characters archetype.