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Originally Posted by Xzero45

Yo, dude, put the guns down. She actually apologized.

Originally Posted by Brillig

And my counter-point is that it wasn't a shocking surprise to all of us, and in fact should have been a surprise to none of us (if we were paying attention). Sales were flat or trending downwards, the launch of Freedom brought a very brief bump, but had no real positive effect on sales.

Reducing staff, rumors about the end, all would lead to one thing. Even fewer sales. In a situation like this, the most rational thing is to end things immediately once you've made the decision to end it. Letting things linger just keeps the costs running while the revenue goes to zero.

Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy

Wow. Good going with trivializing the Dec. 7 1941 Pearl Harbor event where merely only 2,300 people died. Yeah, the end of a game is on that level.

Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU

3 times in 3 days!

Must be some kind of record.

No, I don't work for Ncsoft, have never worked for NCsoft, although I have helped out in the past with an NCsoft ran event, and also helped organize the past 3 EU CoX player meets (these 3 were organised by a player).

I have also ran a set of forums for Tabula Rasa in the past.

So, am I affiliated with NCsoft or not?

Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU

You can also use ingame money to buy gems, and then use those gems to unlock more character slots (or what ever else you want from the cash shop). Hell, you could even spend 2000 gems to upgrade your account to the Collectors edition if you wanted.




It is just as much an MMO as City of Heroes is. So, is CoX an MMO or isnt it?



*edit* Yeah, i skipped on this one, because there is an *easy* solution to it, but there were names that were reserved at the start due to them being from GW1 players reserving their character names. Also on top of that, your *global* identifier *can* change (infact, it changed for me when I linked my GW1 account to my already established GW2 account). *side note* You can actually friend/whisper/invite people to your guild just by knowing their Character name across *all* servers in the game (EU and US). No need for the account identifier (which as i have stated previously can change).



There is less overflowing now. The main overflowing was during the initial opening period of the game, and has declined *incredibly* since then.



There is no free trial yet, but I am certain that it will come. More than likely they wanted to see what the server populations would be like *before* they open them to the unpaying masses.

And yet you can still use ingame currency to buy those items. It is only if you want to buy gems with real world money that you pay "over the odds".

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

I read the linked article when it first came out. Essentially what it says is when you have more money than you can reasonably put to work, profit margin doesn't matter, absolute profit matters. I would tend to agree. What I don't understand is why this would be considered either interesting or controversial, and what it says about NCSoft specifically with regard to City of Heroes.

If NCSoft has more money than they can currently put to work, then the only reason for shutting down City of Heroes is that it was losing money. If it was returning even a small percent profit that would likely beat investment returns on that much liquid assets. The argument put forth by others that the problem was that there were better marginal returns elsewhere would be nullified by the argument proposed by author of the linked article.

Personally I think its much more complex than that, because of the issues of repatriating cash.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

There isn't anyone from Nexon employee sitting on their BoD or anyone in common and there hasn't been any changes to the high end management of NCSoft since Nexon bought in.

Originally Posted by Brillig

Maybe the reason was they were tired of waiting for Paragon to develop a second game?

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

I'm still thinking Nexxon had more to do with this decision than we are giving them credit for. They might be getting off the hook lightly - but I cannot say for certain.

However the fact their massive share acquisition and CoH's closing happen so quickly makes one raise an eyebrow or three.

It also flies in the face of NCSoft's historically good stewardship of City of Heroes. CoH's been in the doldrums more than once and NCSoft has always been the one to keep it afloat and since they took over from Cryptic they've invested a LOT into it, Going Rogue, End Game, Freedom...

So to see it get canned like this still doesn't add up to me. There's missing parts of a jigsaw and I'm struggling to believe NCSoft would just draw a line under a profitable game that they had recently committed so much to.

Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU

Strangely enough, that is about a similar percentage drop for Apple since the launch of the iPhone5... wonder what caused it to drop so fast...

Originally Posted by Brillig

Actually, the GW2 release is too recent to be reflected in last quarter's results. We'll have to wait for the next set of earnings to see the impact.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

But still up 320% over 5 years and 150% in the last 3 years. True it's down about 40% from it's all time and yearly high but that's more of the result of a much needed correction from an overenthusiastic run up in price.

In comparison EA is down 50% over it's yearly high and down over 75% over 5 years. Activition Blizzard is down over 20% this year and around down 40% over 5 years.

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

Having your news depend on someone who's job it is to imagine fantastical stories doesn't strike me as the best idea.

To the OP: there are no more "Devs" left; officially, nobody is developing anything CoH related anymore.



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