Lady_Sadako

Jim Hague worked on the (never released) CoH roleplaying game. We know that much.

Rather than by NC West? Are you sure?

This is getting surreal. At what point in the development process of Blade and Soul do you imagine NCsoft took the decision to cancel CoH and close Paragon? And do you imagine the decision came from NCsoft West, or from NCsoft in Korea?

Bear in mind here that the Western launch date for Blade and Soul has not even been announced yet. You're asking people to believe that the mere announcement of concrete plans to bring Blade and Soul to the West is somehow tied in with the closure of CoH.

In order to know what sort of state their finances would be in in Autumn 2012 when they began localisation work (in Seattle) on Blade and Soul in early 2011, they'd have to be psychic, not just 'not stupid'.

If you look over the earnings statements of that time, they were still expecting Guild Wars 2 to launch by the end of 2011.

Once again: blaming Blade and Soul's launch for the closure of City of Heroes is just plain wrong.

Of course I do. Such advance planning is entirely at odds with the suddenness of the closure of Paragon and the cancellation of CoH. That's why it's ridiculous to think that it was somehow planned to coincide with Blade & Soul's Western launch. Obviously I don't like the decision to cancel CoH any more than anyone else and I'll protest it every step of the way, but claiming it's down to Blade and Soul is just wrong.

A question for you: do you fully understand the distinction between NCsoft and NCsoft West?

Do you seriously think NCsoft were planning in advance to cancel CoH and close down Paragon when localisation work began on Blade and Soul more than a year and a half ago?

No, it's not. You're mistaking the announcement of Blade & Soul as the beginning of a process. It's the opposite. NC West has been working on bringing Blade & Soul to the West for years at this point. They are finally ready to announce it.

There were some screenshots from CO in development that used City of Heroes maps, as I recall. There was quite a flap about it back then.

I thought the consensus back then was that #9 was reference to the events of Issue 15, specifically the return of the 5th Column.

The iron turns into crystal - Reichsman imprisoned in suspended animation

their doomsday shall be missed - the triumph of the 5th delayed owing to their defeat

When a pair of fives arrives - the 5th Column of Primal Earth teaming up with the 5th Column of the Axis America dimension

The spinning rod lives again, then destroyed in evil's den - the Column is the 'rod', and it was destroyed in their own headquarters in Striga Isle (see the Mender Lazarus arc)

Mere prelude to what bright hell, comes from drinking of the well - the freed Reichsman himself, who got his powers from the Well of the Furies

Actually, it's the Internet. You're only accessing it from the USA.

Oh go on. Just a little gloat. You've earned it, surely.

I'm glad we don't, because I wasn't suggesting that we should. I was asking if this scenario could happen.

Going by Positron's reply elsewhere, the answer seems to be 'yes it could, but we've thought of that':

I'm happy with that.

I'm putting the discussion down very slowly and walking backwards away from the zombie.

Now I'm wondering whether someone could deliberately mess up the raid at its final stage by attacking when they shouldn't.