Captain-Electric

This is a nuclear option, and I don't know why you'd even playfully bring it up.

Oh this is great news I'm reading! How about tokens? Are people getting their tokens???

See, I hit tier 9 just about a couple weeks before the bad news hit. I'm an (almost) 3-year veteran, so that means I paid a lot of money to reach tier 9! Why? Because I wanted those awesome Mech suit parts! (Not exactly a Transformers fan but the parts individually are VERY useful for Marvel-style power armor suits.) I was lucky enough to receive my last Paragon Token on the night I finished buying my way to the top, so I was able to snag the Mecha Armor pack with the backpacks, weapons and wings. Then the news hit, and I've been worried I'd never get to have any of the other parts.

May not seem like a big deal to others, but I'm still playing and enjoying the game while it's there and I had a concept in mind. Screw their refund, I'm using all of my points to buy power sets and other goodies to play with during the next couple months (I have a cool concept in mind for a Beta server character to take through the Issue 24 content). I don't want my stupid pocket change back, I just want City of Heroes. Arg! Those assclowns.

Lot 34: Full set Might of the Tanker, @Captain-Electric. Please, and thank you!

(And I have enough unslotters to hand it back, if by some miracle, our Primal Earth doesn't end. )

Zwillinger if you're reading, please sticky this post by Tony in General Discussion:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=297487

You'll be helping everyone to stay in touch.

Next time maybe he'll know better.

Everyone needs to read that. Not because it's unique to what many of us are thinking and feeling, but because it encapsulates it so well. Over the last couple of days, there have been a lot of divided opinions and it's caused some bitterness. But it ought to be quickly forgotten. We've all been thrown into the same mess together.

I SO want to pick and prod at your summary of virtual property as a service. Not because I disagree with you, but because I know that you're right, and I don't think it's fair. I've used the analogy before that it's like throwing away good, timeless books instead of passing them on, donating them to a library, or selling them to your local bookstore. Most of us can get away with a handful of books, but when an MMORPG publisher does this to a rich, story-filled game like City of Heroes, they may as well be burning a warehouse full of books. Books worth reading, books worth passing on. There would be no problems with this set up (virtual property as a service) if the industry had established a tradition of passing these properties on for safekeeping. Instead they're teaching us to go suck an egg, after all our investments, for all they care. What if they treated their own stakeholders this way? (Maybe they do?) And they WONDER why the MMO market is losing consumer confidence? Seriously, get a clue, suits!

NCSoft isn't obligated in the slightest to help find another home for our game, its players and our stories. This fact alone doesn't make them evil. But, watching Atari and Perfect World in the news a year or so ago, doing the unimaginable for their Champions Online community filled me with hope for the industry's acknowledgement and respect for its customers. NCSoft looks so bad compared to them, now. And after watching our own game's fans raise so much money for charities over the years, I guess I was just naively surprised to learn that our own fate would be so lacking in charity. But I've seen better, I know that publishers are capable of doing right by their customers.

NCSoft taught me that NCSoft isn't one of these publishers.

The forum shutdown date is likely to catch us off guard, without warning, and it will do no good for us to seek that information from NCSoft in advance (they will not answer).

So it's better to be proactive. I recommend we pressure the Titan Network to send out a Call to Action to abandon these forums completely, as an undivided community, on or before the moment they're shut down, and move all discussions to the Titan Network forums. You might THINK everyone assumes this coarse of action already, but do not underestimate the thousands of current and former players who are too busy with work, family and life in general to read everything that gets posted here (or just playing the game instead of reading the forums). These players will be left out in the cold if the forums are shut down without warning.

We can do this in a way that causes NO interruption for our community, but we need the Titan Network to give us the signal.

I REALLY think this is the best way to handle things, otherwise we risk splintering the forum community before the game even shuts down. That will not be optimal during a time when people will need a place to come lay their baggage and/or continue to organize themselves and keep in touch moving forward.

I sent my earlier correspondence to the new address, and I encourage everyone here to do the same with theirs!

P.S. If they'e using any of this material as testimonials to show interested parties and seek healthy bids, you really want to help them put our game's best foot forward.

Zwillinger, you have always treated me with respect and dignity as a customer, and even individually on a couple of occasions when I voiced a complaint on the forums. If I didn't complain much, it's because I was playing City of Heroes. A lot. I mean, really, a lot. I played the crap out of this game. I've been playing MMORPGs a long time and none of them ever reached into me and hooked me like City of Heroes has, and does.

My Android would send me an email anytime you uploaded your coffee talk streams to YouTube. I only ever participated in a couple (time, RL, etc), but I watched them later. I looked forward to them so much. Not just to get the scoop on new and upcoming features, but to laugh along with you and the rest of the team as they made "guest" appearances. I could tell you loved your job so much, and Andy, I just want you to know that I am so very sorry. Words cannot explain how grateful I am to have been a part of this ride and how heartbroken I am for your loss and for mine and everyone else. You may not know me, but I'll miss you so very much.

I'm still hoping for a miracle, and still going to help try and create one, but I just wanted you to know how I felt.

Just an FYI for future reference though, you can change a thread title during the first minute or so after you've made your post. I've done it a couple times to fix a typo.

So, more Foxbat, less Batman?

I'm as angry as many of you and maybe angrier than some of you, but planning to be a constant thorn in NCSoft's side is unsustainable. Believe me, they'll present plenty of opportunities for us in the coming years anyway, and so will people you know (any time someone asks your opinion about an NCSoft game is an opportunity to warn them off). In fifteen years of MMO gaming I've never seen sentiments for harassment grow into a movement. That's because most human beings cannot sustain their anger along a prolonged destructive coarse of action with no productive gain in sight; which is good, those who can often end up in jail or something.

However, I've seen more than one online gaming community come back swinging from the ashes, when they took their anger and resentment and channeled it into something to feel great about; something that could eventually erode their anger and turn it into a sense of real achievement. Entire game studios have been built on the ashes of communities cut down before their time.

Carry on! *Whistles innocently*

STICKY!!!

AND THANK YOU!!!

*Captain-Electric salutes Positron.*

*Continues to salute Positron*

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*Yep, still saluting...*

*This is getting kind of awkward...*

I'm liking these ideas, but it's making me think we'll have to push Plan Z forward a few letters to make room.