CatMan

I am hoping to see the game saved somehow so this is not a problem at all.

Dude, my record is broken, ok?

I think the first order of business is to make the internet safer and banning you from it.

Having played GW1 and GW2, I can seriously say that the "2" is well deserved. The game play between the two is very different.

But it ain't CoH or a CoH2 - which always bothered me. Would I have been able to move my CoH characters to CoH2? []

Sorry, should have made my post more past tense. Now that NCSoft is killing the game they will more than likely hold onto the IP as with all prior IPs they have killed off.

Depends on the details. Always the details.

But of course, enforceability is always the issue.

Now that is just wrong... simply wrong. Like hitting a man below the belt.

Yeah, Origin was great in the day.

More to the point: If anybody has shown that you don't need a publisher at any stage of the game it is Minecraft.

Excellent point about CCP buying itself out - I had forgotten that.

edit to add link to Origin information - not to be confused with EA's Origin.

Indeed. I am less inclined to play GW2 and develop an attachment to the game and my characters after all this. I've now been playing a lot more EVE Online as a consequence - a game that has been around longer than CoH and is still going.

A lot of those sales came before this debacle.

Getting rid of the TV solves that problem. []

Is it me or did the CoH/V tracking end in 2009?

Investors like predictability. Detroit complained that Japanese automakers were undercutting American Jobs - true, but it was because Detroit was being predictable - it was stuck in it's grove and was not innovating. Fuel efficiency laws required a change, to be sure, but the main driver to change will always be successful innovation (barring monopolies crushing you or Government impeding you with endless regulation and requirements).

A lot of American's resent the fuel efficiency laws because they, rightly, view it as an infringement on their right to choose. And they are mostly interested in choosing big, heavy cars that can do a job - like moving equipment or a large family. Still, there are those of us who like fuel efficiency as well.

But to the point: investors like predictability so until the Next Big Thing™, they will demand a WoW killer by expecting it to be... well, like WoW. That is the problem when you have Non-Gamers trying to drive the creation of games. They just don't get it or understand what people like - which can vary between countries as well. Consider the main market for CoH/V is Western while the main market for Aion or Lineage is Eastern. Makes me wonder what the numbers are when it comes to Development support in Korea vs the USA. Does it cost more for less income and overall interest for CoH/V to survive vs pushing another Korean MMO?

Who knows... NCSoft has the hard numbers we don't.

When Japan made smaller more fuel efficient cars in the 70s during the fuel crisis in the USA.

My wife kinda thinks that about CoH/V given the ... boob issue with them.

Still can't understand why they want to get rid of great people like ya'll

Thanks for all the fish.

Yeah, when I want pew pew pew... I play a FPS which do a heck of a lot better.

One of the things I really liked about CoH/V was how easy it was to play and enjoy the story lines in the game. Certainly there was fighting - heck, story line and fighting - who can't resist, but there was no loot. I didn't have to run over to a body and loot it.

Enhancements and inspirations dropped directly onto your character.

It was great, it smoothed the game-play out, and it was just one of many reasons I threw my years of misgivings over MMORPGs and monthly subscriptions to the wind.

I felt super.
There was a story being told and I was involved in it.
I didn't have to walk or run to get from point a to point b.

GW2 copied a lot of useful things from CoH. It failed where item drops comes into play.