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Has anyone else noticed this?

Absolut_

By Absolut_,
Posted on: 2009-06-11 19:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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I was looking at the job openings at Paragon Studios and I came across this.

I'm not sure if anyone else has seen this but this line kinda caught my eye.
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This position will be a central and influential role within the studio on City of Heroes and our next MMO.

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I wonder what else they are working on other than Going Rogue?

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Nerdrage the MMO?

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Nerdrage the MMO?

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I was gonna say COH2 but this sounds WAY better

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city of heroes 2 in q4 2011

 

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I thought the whole point of renaming the studio Paragon Studios instead of NCNC was to emphasize their commitment to City of Heroes? Seems odd to do that and then immediately start developing a new MMO, unless by "new" they mean a sequel or an expansion.

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I thought the whole point of renaming the studio Paragon Studios instead of NCNC was to emphasize their commitment to City of Heroes? Seems odd to do that and then immediately start developing a new MMO, unless by "new" they mean a sequel or an expansion.

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You do realize that development studios tend to usually have more than one project running at a time right? I mean, look at Blizzard, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, The WoWbeast's updates, and the "unnamed mmo" they've been working on....

Or how about Cryptic, the former owners of CoH..Star Trek, Champions, that new Neverwinter Nights one from the other day...

Development studios dont put all their eggs in one basket, its just not smart for them to do so...

Besides, the Paragon team has been expanding by leaps and bounds since that name change, and the reinvestment from NCsoft. They're hiring more people so they can manage running multiple projects...doesnt mean they're cutting into CoH, and the fact that they've announced a new boxed expansion just adds to the good outlook.

 

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city of heroes 2 in q4 2011

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Sounds about right.

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I thought the whole point of renaming the studio Paragon Studios instead of NCNC was to emphasize their commitment to City of Heroes? Seems odd to do that and then immediately start developing a new MMO, unless by "new" they mean a sequel or an expansion.

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You do realize that development studios tend to usually have more than one project running at a time right? I mean, look at Blizzard, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, The WoWbeast's updates, and the "unnamed mmo" they've been working on....

Or how about Cryptic, the former owners of CoH..Star Trek, Champions, that new Neverwinter Nights one from the other day...

Development studios dont put all their eggs in one basket, its just not smart for them to do so...

Besides, the Paragon team has been expanding by leaps and bounds since that name change, and the reinvestment from NCsoft. They're hiring more people so they can manage running multiple projects...doesnt mean they're cutting into CoH, and the fact that they've announced a new boxed expansion just adds to the good outlook.

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I think what peterpeter meant was that he thought the same as I did that Paragon (like the city in the game) was supposed to be committed to the City of franchise. Blizzard does have a lot of projects but they still haven't taken and made a sub studio apart from themselves and named it after WoW.

Anyways to the OP, I think what that is talking about is Going Rogue, like City of Villains was a game apart from City of Heroes it could just as well be a game apart from CoH/V.

 

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Making a City of Heroes "II" is a bad idea. Instead, place the next CoX game(s) in a different city. Let the games run side by side. Heck, CoX could be one of the few games where pulling characters from one game to another would not only make complete sense (traveling to another city), but might actually work.

When you think of a new CoX game, you think new play styles, new locations, new graphics, different power sets, etc. but nothing that would make me think you couldn't bring a character over. Sure, you might lose your enhancements, but the general power structures are still going to be around.

 

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city of heroes 2 in q4 2011

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Sounds about right.

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CoH 2.....no ring to it.......World Of Heroes sounds better.

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Well they better be working on something other than just the expansion because while it might spike the population for a month or two it won't last. It's kind of a bad sign when during peak play hours you have only two servers that hit medium load and one would expect that with Champions and DC online coming out down the road, the CoH population is going to shrink even more. Really I think they need to develop a CoH 2 because it's really going to take a new game with new graphics, mechanics, and game play to bring in more people that will stay. Don't get me wrong, CoH is a great game, I came back to it because I wanted a change from WoW, but I will always argue that the lack of what I see to be a true endgame is what causes people to leave the game in the end.

 

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Well they better be working on something other than just the expansion because while it might spike the population for a month or two it won't last. It's kind of a bad sign when during peak play hours you have only two servers that hit medium load and one would expect that with Champions and DC online coming out down the road, the CoH population is going to shrink even more. Really I think they need to develop a CoH 2 because it's really going to take a new game with new graphics, mechanics, and game play to bring in more people that will stay. Don't get me wrong, CoH is a great game, I came back to it because I wanted a change from WoW, but I will always argue that the lack of what I see to be a true endgame is what causes people to leave the game in the end.

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Load != population.

But we could ask them to downgrade the servers if red and yellow lights would help.

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Don't forget NCSoft has a new fantasy MMO in the beginning phases of Closed Beta: Aion.

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Well they better be working on something other than just the expansion because while it might spike the population for a month or two it won't last. It's kind of a bad sign when during peak play hours you have only two servers that hit medium load and one would expect that with Champions and DC online coming out down the road, the CoH population is going to shrink even more. Really I think they need to develop a CoH 2 because it's really going to take a new game with new graphics, mechanics, and game play to bring in more people that will stay. Don't get me wrong, CoH is a great game, I came back to it because I wanted a change from WoW, but I will always argue that the lack of what I see to be a true endgame is what causes people to leave the game in the end.

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Also, there is no red load now. It goes from green (light/medium) to yellow (heavy) to grey (closed due to being full). I think the last logical estimates have the sub rate at 125,000 subscriptions (prior to Architect). Considering CoX has passed the five year mark that is unreal.

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If the new game is Going Rogue then thats great. I'd love to see Preatoria as an entirely new city that has several zones, and you could go 1-50 there.

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Nerdrage the MMO?

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Will this consist of anything other than a forum?

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There will have be a game so that people have something to feel nerdrage about. It won't be a very good game, but there you have it.

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