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Traekoth

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  1. Traekoth
    Responding to the original post's question:
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    Originally Posted by BricksTown Thug15 View Post
    Am I the only one not upset?
    I am not upset by CoH's closing. The sudden announcement did surprise me, but even though I have/had a fondness for the game, I was not upset to hear that the game is shutting down. The niche of the game that I most enjoyed has been dead for a long time, but I still casually followed ongoing development on the case that it would ever again be addressed (I note this in response to the posts throughout the thread questioning why those who don't play/enjoy the game are even present on these forums at all). To quote from Positron's Issue 13 Letter to the Players:

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    Originally Posted by Positron
    PvP from now on will be on our priority list. If something isn't working out, we'll be in there tweaking it and making it work, for the entire future of the product, not just Issue 13.
    Does that make me one of those bitter PvPers? Maybe. But CoH had a uniquely special and appealing potential for engaging and compelling PvP, and Issue 13 was a deathblow to that potential; counter to Positron's above remarks, PvP was -- perhaps even literally -- written off the development priority list.

    City of Heroes has had a very slow (but persistent) decline over the years, and one would be foolish to attempt to pin responsibility for this decline on any one factor, but I've always felt that the development team's general lack of regard for systems that facilitate ongoing player-driven content and interaction was a poor strategy. Systems like base building, PvP and PvP zones, base raiding, and mission architect were all relatively quickly abandoned to decay, but it's systems like these that can really harness the unique potential of the MMO genre: players as content. That's my own backseat-developer retrospective assessment of the game, anyway.
  2. Traekoth
    Just to add another data point, all three of my accounts were seemingly reactivated appropriately for the weekend event, and I logged into all three successfully on Friday. Today, however, I can log into only two of them: the third returns the typical inactive account error. None of the accounts have used a friend reactivation code, and the odd-man-out account has no peculiarity that I can think of.

    I may file a support ticket.

    Edit: Taking a closer look at the master account, I discovered the problem: the account in question, unbeknownst to me, was actually active prior to the weekend event. Oops! It expired on Friday -- after the event had started -- and thus is not credited to play for the remaining two days. It's too bad, since that account had the characters I wanted to get at!