Golden Girl
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Quote:We have - of NCsoftOriginally Posted by HwaRang
However, I will say this...in ANY country, please wash your hands!!!!
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Quote:That heroes never give upOriginally Posted by Darej
So whats this mean?
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This is the latest we have from Mercedes Lackey and Brian Clayton, the Producer at Paragon Studios:
Quote:I had a long talk with Brian Clayton today, and he was encouraging. He's going to fact-check us and the the go-to guy if it works. I have to say I feel much better about trying this since he didn't immediately shoot it down, and in fact said essentially that any longshot is worth pursuing at the moment.
For those of you worried about the Paragon staff, they've managed to get jobs for about 60 of the 80. However...Brian indicated that if CoH rises from the ashes, he should be able to get the core group together again.
We promise we'll keep you as updated as possible. Meanwhile, as Rae said, continue the pressure. Brian told me that NCSoft is definitely feeling the heat over this, it took them completely by surprise and they are very much not happy about it. -
Quote:I dimissed the chance of it being an offer - because no one would pay that kind of money for a medium-sized MMO like CoH.Originally Posted by JKedan
This number?
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=297932
The one a redname suggests is not worth speculating on and Golden Girl herself dismisses as unrealistic?
Information since then suggests that it is in fact the go-away-and-shut-up price NCSoft has put on the property. -
Quote:From what I've heard from players who's managed to escape the TORtanic, Bioware do seem to be trolling their ever-shrinking player base.Originally Posted by Brillig
Thus achieving the rare feat of ticking off absolutely everyone.
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Quote:That's an over-valuation of the property designed to put off buyers while allowing NCsoft to claim they tried to sell it.Originally Posted by JKedan
Will it cost $80 million? We need to keep that number in use somehow, right?
Plan Z will be using a lot of open source tech and tools to reduce costs and allow for greater community participation in the project. -
Quote:Transformers IV is out in 2014.Originally Posted by Ironik
there's likewise no proof God *doesn't* exist, either.
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Quote:Kickstarter projects are reasonably common now.Originally Posted by Another_Fan
As opposed to putting money in a Max Bialystock production ?
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Quote:Wouldn't being clouded by emotions mean that we'd be planning on making a game purely by a volunteer effort?Originally Posted by Another_Fan
You have no idea how hard I laughed.
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Quote:Plan Z will be raising money for the project - there's no question of doing it as a purely volunteer effort.Originally Posted by Another_Fan
No but from the way it's going expect to see them discover they need more than volunteers and all of sudden they will be raising money. At which point it will be a simple con of overly trusting people that were sad about losing something dear to them.
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Quote:There have been a number of offers from others, including a group of Paragon devs with quite substantial backing - that's what the 80 million price tag was for - to make sure reasonable offers wouldn't be able to match it, allowing NCsoft to claim that they'd "tried" to sell it, but couldn't find a buyer.Originally Posted by Brillig
I think everyone just lost their right to complain about NCSoft's "we've exhausted all options" communication. We've seen what constitutes an "attempt" to buy from the other side - and it's just sad.
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Happy Birthday
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Quote:As the old saying goes, "you can't take down Tyrant without breaking the Magisterium"Originally Posted by Another_Fan
Collective retribution against uninvolved parties is considered a War Crime.
In more pedestrian situations, trying to make random strangers unhappy because you can't get to the target of your anger is a good sign of insanity.
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Quote:Well, any NCsoft product is a target in the campaign to get them to hand over the IP and server code.Originally Posted by Terwyn
Curious. I was unaware that shutting down GW2 was on the list of things to do...
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Use Sentinel, and do NOT delete the CoH folder from your computer.
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Quote:They're the best dev team around - it wouldn't take long for them to be snapped up by other studios.Originally Posted by BlueBattler
It is good to know that so many have landed on their feet.
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Quote:Except on a meta-level.Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
It is actually quite interesting, and is in no way affiliated with NCSoft.
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Quote:That would be rather out of charater for them.Originally Posted by Bronze Knight
What ever happens to the IP now is anyone's guess. NCsoft keeping it and refuseing to sell it for "no reason" seems like an unnecessary jerk move.
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Quote:Duke Nukem Forever?Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy
What video game is 50+ years that is still around aka one that been around since 1962 I think it is to be 50?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Jeff "Arbiter Hawk" Hamilton has landed at Cryptic Studios as a System Designer as well.
He's working on STO and Neverwinter.
Even Cryptic despises CO
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Quote:Luckily, some companies do just that:Originally Posted by akaime
What society should try to do is to give a fair chance to everybody to seek their happiness.
To find out more about their visions and goals, go here: http://global.ncsoft.com/global/abou...siongoals.aspx -
Quote:Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Have they said that's why they decided to close it? If not, the decision itself isn't evidence of that particular motive but rather it's just evidence that they had a reason to close it... and the guess about the motive remains a guess - possibly an educated one based on other evidence aside from the mere decision itself.
Shouldn't they have halted development work on I24 then? Or at least, not let the devs advertise the T9 Tech Knight armor set 3 hours before the shutdown announcement? -
Quote:Don't you find CoH interesting?Originally Posted by Healix
this is the first online game that has sparked any interest for me.
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Quote:So it's a TORtanic situation?Originally Posted by Feycat
Sadly it has next to nothing to do with the actual Elder Scrolls universe. The changes they've made to the world itself are laughably bad.
Next.
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We're still doing everything that we can - but if things don't work out, then the campaign to get NCSoft to give us back our game will continue past December 1st.