'CoH is Dying!!!!'

A sign of the times overheard in Victory Badges -- I listened in on a couple players tonight who were discussing what dire straits the 'City of' franchise is in. Despite being after 12:00 AM EST in a channel long ago broken by the 'full channel bug', about 10 other players joined the conversation.

Topics brought up:

- AE killed the game.
- PVP changes killed the game.
- Free server transfers killed the game, especially for PVPers (except in RV).
- Hami raids used to happen every week. Now they're non-existant. Ergo, the game is dying.
- Atlas Park is no longer laggy. Ergo, the game is mumble mumble.
- When the game started, everyone was outside street-sweeping. Now they're not. Ergo murmble mumble mumble.
- Too many taskforce teams make it difficult for other people to get teams. (Not quite sure I understand this one.)
- CoH should be free to play, with a cash shop for microtransactions.
- Microtransactions suck and are mumble.
- Dual pistols look great! Maybe the game will revive with Going Rogue.
- Servers should be merged.
- Free server transfers are a prelude to the servers being merged.
- Existing servers should be merged down into just four: Virture, Freedom, Justice, and Victory.
- A new server should be created solely for PVP.
- A certain other superhero game and a space game suck really bad.

So put on yer doom hats, because NCSoft is in mumble DEEP TROUBLE mumble mumble.

I admit it, the mumbling made me lol.

Youre late.. doom posts should be done friday to sunday.

Sorry to say, but CoH/V's Q4 2009 revenue was way down, it didn't meet its 2009 revenue target and the set revenue target for 2010 is less than it was for 2009 (19 000 million Won in 2010 vs 25 000 million Won in 2009).

So the financial indicators are that NCsoft doesn't see CoH/V growing in 2010. Or even staying stable.

Maybe GoRo brings players back. Maybe Paragon Studios got by some soft numbers into NCsoft's financials on the back of Aion doing fantastically. But the Q4 financials painted a very interesting story.

Trolling for suckers?

My uncle has a friend whose dog is one of the lead developers for City of Heroes, and he said that Posi and War Witch were loading a hovercraft with gold and they were going to pilot it to Hawaii just before shutting off the servers.

They weren't going to tell the others, though. Sorry you had to find out this way guys


P.S. Mr. Barkington says spear melee is coming with i18.

I've been playing since Issue 6; and for the whole time, the game has been "doomed". Doom here, doom there, doom everywhere.

Y'know, while my experience is totally anecdotal, I am a returning player that has been gone for years. I am also noticing a lot of other people who say that they have returned to the game from others. I also don't find it hard to team when I want to and the market seems to be real healthy, blueside at least.

I am not sure where the doomsayers are getting their info but the game seems pretty solid at the moment, even if it isn't thriving as much as some would like.

Bah, this game has been dying from mumble mumble for ages. If the devs don't get off their lazy butts and mumble mumble soon then mumble mumble and dead by Christmas!

I've about had enough of this freakin' mumble mumble, I may just have to leave and go to that other Mumble Mumble Online Role Playing Game.

"Move on, there's nothing left to see".

Come on, seriously, US players don't have the right to complain on this matter because all the EU players that have left this side of the pond thinking US was the paradise of non-stop teaming, WE are the ones with almost no support, WE are the ones with no GR box on shelves, WE are the ones with our ranks weakened because all the people that bought an US account to have much more people to play with, and even tho it's fairly easy to arrange daily tfs, sfs, RWZ raids, Hami raids, etc.

THAT'S what I look for and what I understand by "MMO", and the difference between this game and others outside, the capability of TEAMING through FREE regular issues, and as long as I can find a team or a regular SG to play with I don't really care the economic figures of NCSoft or Paragon Studios.

So as I said, close this D00m thread and move on.

Oh?

Game's doomed again?

*yawn*

That's nice, I'll be sure to tell everyone I run across in-game that they shouldn't be playing because the game is doomed.

Both sides can find stats to support their point of view (who would ever produce stats to shoot down their own argument?? O.o ) so I can only offer my little tale of hope...

I was suffering CoX burnout through lack of content.

Bought CO.... got bored and felt it was lacking in substance and was clunky in comparison with CoX, but it did take me away for a while.

Bought STO with lifetime sub.

Had to fight for a refund on multiple deductions from my account for 1 month of CO play over Xmas

Got refund for those monthly charges PLUS accidental refund of lifetime sub


Came back to CoX invigorated.


Just my little story. Make of it what you will but I hope and feel that I'm not alone.

These threads are more obnoxious than the whiners.