NCSoft acquires "City of" Franchise!
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Posted on: 2007-11-06 13:34 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Now THOSE are games I'd definetly sign up for if there was a station pass.
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With a general pass, I'll definitely at least check out Exteel, though I may have to find some external way to ensure that I don't spend too much money on micropurchases, heh. Aion looks like it may be interesting if my computer doesn't decide to cough up a lung rendering those beautiful screens, so hopefully it won't have the player issues I've heard Lineage has.
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So cryptic dumped City of, in favor of MUO?
Is that what happend?
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That's a rather pessimistic way to say it, but yeah. Cryptic sold CoH so they could focus more on MUO and 'other projects.'
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Is Statesman still with City of? or is he now just an MUO person?
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Statesman hasn't been with City of _ for a while now. He's been working on other projects within Cryptic.
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MUO is still the competition right?
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Yup. Cryptic no longer has to worry about conflicts of interest. I'm sure that's part of the reason they went through with this deal.
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Ok, question. Does this mean that Cryptic is no longer going to be developing CoX and that we'll have an all new development team? Or is the new office simply adding extra manpower to the existing development team?
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..... They've moved all the team that wanted to go. That's why I'm not crying too much more dooooom than necessary. They offered everyone on the team jobs, and it looks as though the important bits and many of the less visible team members did take them up on that. So: same dev team, with the same control over their product, only under a different studio name.
That is working for me, I think. I just hope that everyone up the ladder *has learned from the mistakes of other publishers* that usurp - look at the disaster area that was Sony and SWG.
Let's keep things as much the way they are, shall we 
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QFE.
Star Wars galaxies is lesson in what can go abysmally wrong when a publisher tries to interefere too much with the development side.
Thankfully, doesn't look like that is the case here.
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To everyone who's worried about NCSoft mismanaging COH and turning it into Lineage, can I point to Guild Wars?
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So cryptic dumped City of, in favor of MUO?
Is that what happend?
Is Statesman still with City of? or is he now just an MUO person?
MUO is still the competition right?
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Basically, it seems like Cryptic decided that they like other peoples intellectual property (ie: Marvel's) more then they did their own. Jack, as Creative Director for Cryptic or whatever his title is, is certainly going to be staying with Cryptic.
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Ok, question. Does this mean that Cryptic is no longer going to be developing CoX and that we'll have an all new development team? Or is the new office simply adding extra manpower to the existing development team?
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Cryptic is no longer going to be developing CoX. The vast majority of the existing CoX development team will now work for NC Soft in their CoX division.
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To everyone who's worried about NCSoft mismanaging COH and turning it into Lineage, can I point to Guild Wars?
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*em raises hand*
yes plz.
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This is really cool news, especially that the original team will remain together. Let's hope they go public, I got some bucks to lay down!
Grats NC!
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Ok, question. Does this mean that Cryptic is no longer going to be developing CoX and that we'll have an all new development team? Or is the new office simply adding extra manpower to the existing development team?
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Cryptic is no longer going to be developing CoX. The vast majority of the existing CoX development team will now work for NC Soft in their CoX division.
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Hmm put that way, one could say it might be a blow for cryptic to lose all that talent, but then again they've been in the game for a while, so they should be ok.
especially with all that MSFT $$$ coming in.
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Finance related question (for lack of a better term) - for those of us who bought both, not as GVE but "Had one, then bought the other," any chance of an extra month or something? (I doubt it, and it really won't bother me if not, even if I bought both the COH DVD and COV CE, it's just curiosity.)
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I'd be perfectly happy with a badge. Seriously - gimme an in-game shiny, and I'll be content. If you want to add a costume piece or two, that'd make me overjoyed.
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Finance related question (for lack of a better term) - for those of us who bought both, not as GVE but "Had one, then bought the other," any chance of an extra month or something? (I doubt it, and it really won't bother me if not, even if I bought both the COH DVD and COV CE, it's just curiosity.)
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I'd be perfectly happy with a badge. Seriously - gimme an in-game shiny, and I'll be content. If you want to add a costume piece or two, that'd make me overjoyed.
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How about all 4 CoV pre-order helmets... (I hate having just one.)
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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So cryptic dumped City of, in favor of MUO?
Is that what happend?
Is Statesman still with City of? or is he now just an MUO person?
MUO is still the competition right?
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The decision for Cryptic Studios to sell COH was difficult as COH/COV was the foundation of their studio. A year ago Cryptic Studios signed a deal with Microsoft to develop Marvel Universe Online, which is due to the nature and genre of the material a directly competitive product.
Ultimately this decision was the best decision for the game and the community, as there is now clearly two separate groups working on both projects.
Statesman has been involved with MUO since that deal was signed, he has had a great influence on COH/COV and the development decisions in the past but currently and moving forward those decisions have rested on the shoulders of Matt 'Positron' Miller.
And yes, MUO is competition.
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Hmm put that way, one could say it might be a blow for cryptic to lose all that talent, but then again they've been in the game for a while, so they should be ok.
especially with all that MSFT $$$ coming in.
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I would assume that most of the CO* people weren't on other projects directly anyway.
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NCsoft as a corporate culture believes that studio culture should be determined by that studio. If anything the project may see a sharing of resources of some of our other award winning and current titles.
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What sort of resources, Ex?
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Not that it was addressed to me, but heres my thoughts.
NCSoft has alwasy been excellent about coding to reduce server lag, and its documented they have given support to thier 3rd party studios in this regard.
Being fully owned may boost their ability to recode to reduce server issues, whilst retaining their full IP in this area.
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Hmm put that way, one could say it might be a blow for cryptic to lose all that talent, but then again they've been in the game for a while, so they should be ok.
especially with all that MSFT $$$ coming in.
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I would assume that most of the CO* people weren't on other projects directly anyway.
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Good point.
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And yes, MUO is competition.
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Not for me it isn't. I'm happily going to say right now: no interest in it (especially if it's developed for Vista lol). If DC produced something at the same quality and type as CO* I might try it out, because I'm more fond of that universe. However, I know perfectly well that if I'm going to be spending 45$ a month (with 3 accounts active) anywhere on the internet, it's going to be RIGHT HERE.
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To everyone who's worried about NCSoft mismanaging COH and turning it into Lineage, can I point to Guild Wars?
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Dear New NCSoft Overlords,
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love, some of your players
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Marry me, please? I'll rub your feet every night while farming for Arcane salvage, just for you.
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And yes, MUO is competition.
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Not for me it isn't. I'm happily going to say right now: no interest in it (especially if it's developed for Vista lol). If DC produced something at the same quality and type as CO* I might try it out, because I'm more fond of that universe. However, I know perfectly well that if I'm going to be spending 45$ a month (with 3 accounts active) anywhere on the internet, it's going to be RIGHT HERE.
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Not to mention if what I've been hearing as rumors about how the game will be set up are true, then I have no interest in MUO at all.
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Ex, any news of a Multi-Pass type plan for NCSoft games?
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To everyone who's worried about NCSoft mismanaging COH and turning it into Lineage, can I point to Guild Wars?
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Dear New NCSoft Overlords,
PVP SERVER WITH AUTOLEVEL TO 50 PLZ
love, some of your players
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Marry me, please? I'll rub your feet every night while farming for Arcane salvage, just for you.
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LAWLZ.
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Ex, any news of a Multi-Pass type plan for NCSoft games?
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Well, they've already got steps towards that, with *any* NCSoft game time card workign for COH.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear about this (I think there were rumblings of "We'd like to do it" not that long ago, actually) before mid-08.
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You know just because Jack's not on the team, doesn't mean his Nerfbat isn't sitting right there on the desk.
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To everyone who's worried about NCSoft mismanaging COH and turning it into Lineage, can I point to Guild Wars? Insane revenue model (for the time) and very non-traditional in terms of gameplay.
I'm nervous, don't get me wrong, but still excited.