Kitsune Knight

I've not checked out the program, but you can start CoH directly, if you pass cityofheroes.exe the arguments -project coh

Because it's only been about 36 hours since this all went down? And if the Titan Network is seen putting out such info, it could destroy any chance of NCSoft being willing to listen to them (would you listen to people that are actively trying to sabotage your property?). What they're trying certainly isn't unprecedented. Hell, if a random person making ROMs for Samsung phones can set up a meeting with their top executives and convince them to support CyanogenMod, then anything must be possible

You're greatly overestimating the value of demo files. They don't record the scripting of the events or any of that stuff. They wouldn't really be much more help than simply having a video of the mission (especially since most NPC chatter is already on ParagonWiki).

It's not EXACTLY the first costume, there's been a few minor tweaks. But it's pretty damn close to the original. Probably my biggest mistake was not realizing you could put multiple of the same type of enhancements in a power! Fortunately, I was still quite low level at the time (not even to twenty!). Also, my first travel power was Teleport (and I still love it, even if it could use some loving...).

The PIGG files

The main issue was NCSoft going into the red last quarter. $6 million in the red put them into panic mode, which means cuts had to be made. Unfortunately, CoH was what got cut, being pretty much the smallest of the games.

To their credit, they did save CoH from Cryptic slowly bleeding it to death, and put a large amount of money into it (which allowed the dev team to expand many times over). CoH would have been gone many years ago if it wasn't for them purchasing the game.

Not that I'm happy in the slightest about what just happened.

Actually, it's not TSW causing the bluescreens (in fact, it never did crash the short time I played it), nor did it force me to update the drivers, just recommended... although apparently it used 35GB of disk space!

At this point, I'm mostly hoping that the old 259 (or something) drivers I had been on don't cause the crashes! At least if they work, I can go from there...

I've not tried TOR, but these are long. Very long. And not really much is said, and as Brillig points out, you remain silent the whole time... so it's not really a conversation, but just being talked at.


Also, I upgraded my graphics drivers since TSW was complaining... aaaaannnndddd now I'm getting irregular blue screens. Tried with two different 30x drivers, so probably gonna have to roll back and hope they go away.

THAT one I caught! Glad I wasn't the only one

Would it make you feel better if I told you I only noticed that after you pointed it out?

There's probably been more redname posts in the last 24 hours than... most any other day. Okay, half of them are part of a fight between Tunnel Rat and Black Pebble in bAss Ackward's big red name reveal thread (as Fire Man) The other half, well, they're a bit too sad to get into.

I doubt the red names have any more information than you or I on this subject, they only found out a few hours (tops) before we did. It seems quite doubtful, though, since Aion is quite a lot bigger than CoH (thanks to the Korean players), and killing GW1 right now would be a disaster for GW2's publicity (everyone would just assume GW2 will be shut down when GW3 is released).

It was apparently something the Devs were planning on turning into an EAT... but then the dev(s) responsible for it left the game, and I think no one remaining knew exactly what the full plan/story was.

A new redname emerges from the shrubs!

Based on what I saw in the last Coffee Talk, he totally deserves ninja slaps

And if I'm not mistaken, that player was me! (At least I brought up the whole 'IIRC, the engine is actually licensed from cryptic' thing, which then was said in another thread by the player I was responding to as the license had expired, and it went from there )

Right now, there's absolutely no evidence to support any theory. Hell, for all we know, a rogue government agency forced NCSoft to kill CoH, or they'd murder the debs!

I think we should all hold off on the chants for 'BOYCOTT!!!!'... at the very least until the various contingency plans have been given a chance. If everything falls through, then sure, go wild screaming boycott. But, until then, hold off.

Edit: 'player' not 'power'!

NCSoft did. Exactly why, we don't know (was it to try to make up on their books for the $6 million in losses they had last quarter? Because they couldn't renew their license with PWE for the engine? Because Positron made a joke that some big-wig in Korea found highly offensive? We can only guess).

But, NCSoft's other MMOs are much larger (apparently, the drop in income from Aion is greater than the total income from CoH). The player base might be fiercely loyal, but many of us weren't interested in NCSoft's other games anyways (oh yay, generic grindfest in a forest!).


I'm pretty sure NCSoft sacrificed CoH merely to improve their bottom line temporarily, until they can report how many truck-fulls of money GW2 has made them.

Yup, Valve purchasing CoH would gain it a massive amount of publicity. It likely wouldn't go through immediately, though... so they might do some work behind the scenes with the codebase before putting it back out there. I'd imagine they'd replace the Paragon Store with their own microtransaction system (since the Paragon Store is actually operated by a third party as it is). They'd probably also add hats. Lots of hats.

Never know what'll happen. It's certainly a huge long shot... but it doesn't hurt to try multiple different things (and Valve buying CoH is infinitely better than any other publisher I can think of!).

Edit: And I'd rank this as being about a billion times more likely to cause something to happen than a petition convincing NCSoft to un-can CoH. But it takes little effort, and it doesn't hurt, so might as well give it a shot.

The magical link!

Edit: Bah, scooped!