Coyote_Seven

Indeed; if it was anyone who ragequit, it was NCSoft on Friday morning.

HERE we go!

EDIT: Also: Using silly terms meant to diminish and/or offhandedly dismiss your opponents' points of view with intentions toward sarcasm and humor, when your main argument is presumably that we should not be demonizing a game publisher by making sweeping generalizations of them, is perhaps a bit both counterproductive and ironic.

You've got a point. If only we could get a significant number of Korean gamers to sympathize with us, that might give more weight to the issue for them.

I'm sorry! I wasn't exactly clear myself. I meant to say that it's large corporations that I dislike and distrust. Indeed, the bigger and more complex they are, the more wary I am of them!

Conversely, I really like small companies. Especially ones run by families.

Thank you for reminding me why I generally dislike and distrust corporations.

I don't think NCSoft cares anymore about what anyone thinks of them. Not anyone from the U.S. or Europe anyway. They're shrinking back to their core market of Korean games for Korean players. It looks that way to me, anyway.

The superhero genre isn't really a thing in Korea, so there's very little chance of it even getting noticed there, much less succeeding. Since they no longer seem concerned about much beyond their own home nation's borders anymore, you'd think maybe they could have been nice and sold CoH to someone interested in continuing development of it. But they didn't. They just cut it off like so much ballast.

So at this point I wouldn't care if it took something like NCSoft going bankrupt and having to liquidate all of its assets, if that's what it took to get City of Heroes from them. They may have been good to us once, but their most recent action has corrupted those memories. If they really did care about us, even a little bit, they'd give this game back to us in one way or another. I'd like to hope they would do that, but I'm not convinced that they will.

I kind of feel that, with all this inter-office politics, the belt-tightening, lawsuits and even all the bad feelings they've created lately could be enough to force NCSoft to do something like sell everything they own of City of Heroes. Especially if they still don't see much of an upswing in their profits, or their current games fail to become any more popular.

We have to be poised to pounce on that opportunity, should it arise.

Indeed. They have turned toward the dark side. Betrayed, the old NCSoft is. Consumed by the new NCSoft.

[citation_needed]

I hope that's true, but...

Nothing to be sorry about. NCSoft doesn't deserve my loyalty at all. They've demonstrated that they don't care about us, so why should we even consider anything else published by them? Especially when they'd quite likely kill anything else off we might grow attached to, even if it was doing moderately well!

Titan Studios

No, that's Champions Online. Champions is pencil-and-paper. Which is a good thing now that I think about it. The publisher can't barge into your house and take all your rulebooks and character sheets when they decide to stop working on the game.

If they still have access to the Paragon Market, they oughtta make everything there cost 0 points!

You're not the only one.

Were you at CF6?