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I'm reposting this so more people will see it. Dasher's the man.


Based on this announcement, we as players, fans and consumers should make a responsible attempt to convince NCsoft to reverse its decision in this matter.

Therefore, we are mounting a campaign of letter-writing to make a personal appeal to Mr. Taek Jin Kim, CEO of NCsoft, to reconsider the decision to shut down Paragon Studioes, and instead keep this excellent Management and Development Team intact and keep City of Heroes alive.

We invite all players who have enjoyed this game to join us in this effort. Many players have already drafted petitions, and we urge all players to support these efforts and sign them, and encourage anyone who has ever played the game to do so as well.

Most important, we want to get physical letters onto Mr. Kim's desk. E-mails make a forceful statement, but the impact of receiving 2,000 e-mails is not nearly as great as the impact of having 2,000 physical letters sitting on one's desk. Nothing impresses a CEO like a piece of paper with a name on it, because it is a tangible reminder that there is an actual paying customer behind it.

When you write to Mr. Kim, it is important to follow some simple but crucial guidelines:

1. Be polite. I cannot stress this enough. A letter which begins with criticism and outrage ends in the wastebasket. Hostility toward a shutdown only validates the decision to be rid of such customers. BE POLITE.

2. Being polite does NOT mean being deferential. As a customer, you are entitled to certain considerations, and it is not at all improper to request that your expectation of those considerations be met. Write as an equal, as one gamer to another, and make it clear that your devotion to the game represents your devotion to the NCsoft as a continuing customer. Threatening never to buy another NCsoft game is counter-productive, but asserting your continued commitment to subscribing to or purchasing items in-game from "City of Heroes" cannot hurt our case.

3. Be brief. One paragraph is all you will need. "One page: read, two pages: dead." Remember that you are writing to the CEO of a major corporation. It is not reasonable to assume he will have the time to read every letter through and through, but knowing that the first ten letters say the same thing as the next 990 will make an impact.

4. Put a Subject line before the text of your appeal. A single line that says something like "Please do not end my subscription to City of Heroes!" gets your point across and reminds him that you and the thousands of other letter writers are part of his profits.

5. Send letters to both the US and Korean offices of NCsoft. We can't know for sure where Mr. Kim will be at any given time, but knowing that he has stacks of mail waiting for him at either office is part of the message we want to send.

6. Send all letters via "Certified Mail/Addressee’s Signature Required/Return Receipt Requested". This takes a little more effort and costs a little more, but it is well worth it. According to US Federal postal laws, a letter so marked must be signed for by the address or their legal representative, which in the case of CEOs is usually their personal administrative assistants; usually it's not the receptionist or security guards. This is your best shot at getting your letters directly to where they will do the most good.

7.Don't stop at one letter! If you can mail a letter every day, that would be great! But try to send at least one every week. Keep the flood of letters going. They are expecting an initial surge of appeals. What we want to show them is an ongoing commitment to saving the game.

All letters should be addressed to Mr., Taek Jin Kim, CEO, at the two main offices of NCsoft:

In the United States:

Mr. Taek Jin Kim, Chief Executive Officer
NCsoft Corporation
1501 4th Avenue, Suite 2050
Seattle, WA 98101
UNITED STATES

In Korea:

Mr. Taek Jin Kim, Chief Executive Officer
NCsoft Corporation
157-37 Samsung-dong
Kangnamu-gu, Seoul 135-090
KOREA

These are the corporate offices. Writing to any other addresses will reach NCsoft facilities, but may not reach Mr. Kim in time, or at all.

Please get involved!

We already KNOW that the game will be GONE if we do NOTHING.

If we do SOMETHING, we may have a chance to save it!

Good luck to all of us, and start getting those letters out!

Sincerely,

DASHER

P.S. If we save this game, I swear you will never hear me complain about "Travel Power Suppression" ever again. You have my word on it!

The funny part is we have enhancement tables, salvage racks, an invention vault, etc. But I will definitely petition tomorrow. Thanks for the help!

No one in my SG has been on for 2 months (it's a very small SG) and when I logged on today, I had no power and no control. The SG registrar says my base upkeep is already paid, though. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Man, I really wanted play with the power colors...I got all excited when I checked the test server and it downloaded an 80 mb patch.

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First, a big thank you to everyone who played on the Training Room server and helped I5 to be one of our best launches ever! We’re extremely happy about how I5 went live.

Second, we’re still scouring the boards for bugs and other issues, but we’ve finished making large changes to the power sets. We’ll still be looking at issues as the arise. For instance, there are issues with Defense builds; we’re going to look at that problem more carefully (the Damage Resistance Inspirations are a step, but there's a little more to come).

Thanks for all your great feedback!

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Like I said in the PM's we exchanged, States, everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) I know in real life that played this game quit when I5 went live. I don't even know why I still have my account. Global defense nerfs, arbitrary AoE limits, nonsensical pool power nerfs, and lackluster new content are just some of the things responsible for my attitude. On the bright side, this frees me up to try games that are still fun. Thanks for ruining the first MMORPG I was able to get my gf to play and like, by the way. She's quitting since her favorite tank is no longer fun for her to play. The only reason I hung around this long was to see if anything got rolled back. It is, however, becoming evident that this isn't going to happen. In other words, thanks for the extra 15 bucks a month.

Let me add my voice to the chorus.

I don't like the stealth power changes. They make no sense. If the defense bonus is going to suppress the moment you get attacked then why have it at all? Just reduce it to the level it's going to be suppressed to since that's where it's going to be when it matters. As far as the actual stealth goes I like it the way it is on live. I don't see why it needs to change. Like everyone else has said...you want people to use more strategy yet you're taking away our options. Leave stealth the way it is.

Just for my edification...

Stamina doesn't work in Nova form. Is the same true for Dwarf form?

Wow, I actually have a few people to put on here other then my immediate friends.

First...my wednesday night folks who play with me as Terravolt:
Satanic Hamster for getting me in.
Shark Bite
Coal Miner
Desolate Joker
Two
...and all the other Isolators. You know who you are.

Also:
Grace, who got me into XoO and has been very nice to me and very patient with me. Didn't think I'd forget, didja?
I'd also like to thank all the other folks at XoO my sieve of a memory won't let me name that have sk'd me and drug me along on their missions. I swear I'll get TS working one of these days. Honest.

Also:
Fyre Starter
Blue Paragon
Max Mason
Midnight Oil
Jozzlinskool (I'm not spelling it the way it's spelled ingame because it's too damn complicated)

There are more but I can't remember them. If I remember later I'll edit you in. You guys rock.

/e clap
/e cheer
/e praise

In other words...nice work.