vulpish_one

This could really be a tipping point in our coverage in the MMO blogosphere! Let's blow the doors off of this thing!

I'm already starting to rethink my (previously negative) impression of G4.

Bare minimum? If you keep an updated version of the client program--like, say, the beta server install--on your computer, you can use the data from this file to create a demorecord and go back and look at your character later.

However...it could, theoretically, be used to export the character to another game. If a compatible game were to ever be made, since--to date--one has not.

I doubt I'm telling you anything you haven't already told yourself, but...these sorts of talks have to happen in silence and secrecy by their very nature. We can't really know what's being said. And I understand completely that fact is very frustrating.

For now, though, we have to act as though two contradictory things are true: (a) NCsoft is receptive to the devs' message, and (b) the talks aren't going to end in a way that we'd like. The second part means that we can't afford to rest--not yet. The first part means that any action we take has to be noble, civil, and respectable.

I hope you can sleep soon. Things will look much better after you do, I think. Even if they don't, the fight will be here, waiting for you to join in, when you wake up. We could use all of you right now, but we also need you at 100%--so take care of yourselves, too.

I apologize if any of that sounds too preachy.

Nor would I want to do that, either. But if the CNN community is only getting one shot to see what we're all about, I want it to be as good as we can make it.

Speaking of... TonyV's press release should be in the wild by now. Parts of that could be used, I'm sure.

It's a good idea, and one that's been brought up before. As I understand it, we're a little ways away from asking anyone to contribute financially to anything at this point, but should that come to pass, this option is definitely one that should be considered.

No. If vicariously being a hero has taught me anything, it's that it's not over until it's over. It doesn't look good, but that just means we have to try harder for any hope at all. Take heart, and don't stop fighting the good fight.

Absolutely, positively worst-case scenario? I might try to learn Second Life and help some friends make a CoH-like social setting there.

But I'd be on board for a fan-led spiritual successor first.

Thank you very much for taking the initiative here. Your friend's words give hope, which is a valuable thing for all of us right now.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply that I thought Zwillinger's words were a death knell--I've always thought that another publisher buying CoH was really the game's best shot at avoiding shutdown. But from the start, I've known this was an uphill fight, even for the most likely outcome.

Instead of using that as a cause for despair, though, I try to use it as motivation.

I'll be honest: from where I sit, the odds aren't in our favor. But if there's one thing the heroes I've created over the years have taught me, it's that you have to fight hardest when the odds are the longest.

Fantastic initiative and resourcefulness. We could use that energy working with the Titan Network, if you haven't signed up and started following the coordination of efforts there:

http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index....ard,134.0.html

Updated OP accordingly. Thank you.