NCsoft files for trademark for "City of Heroes 2"

Spotted by: http://supererogatory.tumblr.com/pos...ndup-april-1st

Let the theories fly!

Why else would the hiring page mention "our next MMO?"

With the way many requests are met with skepticism about working with the current engine, which is licensed from a now distinct company, this isn't a surprise.

I do think that 2 should import current characters and content (even in oro form) though.

Arc and Chad, after having taken your thoughts under careful consideration, I have revised my initial post.

Interesting.

I'm generally of the opinion that MMOs and sequels just don't mix; it seems like the most likely outcome is the same playerbase split over two separate games.

But perhaps watching Asheron's Call 2 detonate has jaded me. If NCSoft is serious about this, let's hope they prove me wrong.

-D

CoH is a good property with a loyal customer base and is the sole money-maker for a given company (Paragon Studios). If they feel that making a new engine is the best way to stay relevant and profitable, then more power to them and I wish them good luck!

[EDIT]...I got neg-repped 140 points with the message "wow u r dumb" for this post. The irony is shattering o_O

I am just wondering if they will follow their pattern...and have the already customers....able to transfer their hard earned titles and characters and stuff to the new game...and if it will be some huge huge upgrade so to speak.

or if it is a brand new game....does that mean we would have to spend time leveling up from ground zero again...taking tons of time to collect the accolades and rewards and unlocking all the stuff we had to unlock before???....

I mean there was alot of things still planned for city of heroes....but if thats being put into the newer game instead....makes we want to stop playing and maybe try the newer version.....though i dont know if i will be able to deal with starting out from scratch again.

My own personal opinion for ultimate game design is to always have upgrades....so if a brand new version of something comes along....the old characters and such will be able to be transfered over....

I mean dont get me wrong....i could forsee an entirely new game engine and such for a game being made and the ability to transfer the character data from the previous game to the new one being possible....its been done in many games before...and considering characters are stored onthe server...it wouldnt be difficult to create a system of transfer...might not transfer everything....but it would keep alot of things....

I always wanted to be able to grandparent my characters and account one day....to maybe a younger generation....thought it would be an interesting concept....a 100 years down the line....the updates and expansions keep happening making the game alot different then it is today....and there would be old characters still there with differing powers and abilities then the newer ones in the game....

At the Meet and Greet I attended in Boston recently, mentioning "City of... 2" would elicit a vague "I can neither confirm nor deny" type of response from anyone I spoke to from the dev team.

Like others have said... it takes years... so... that's the first part we need to keep in mind...

However, on to the subject of transferring/porting over existing characters...

It doesn't matter if the game is entirely different, it is still possible to grant an approximation of a player's/character's previous achievements.
The simplest form of which would be starting the CoH1 character off in CoH2 as advanced: Some percentage based system of advancement... how far along the scale of progression they are [CoH- level 1-50 = CoH2 advancement 0-100%]. Choosing powers/powersets/whatever the options would be... would just be open to the player to choose (Your blaster could now be an axe wielder, if you were to so choose).

Now...

All that being said...
It seems unlikely they'd want to allow a player to have completed advancement without playing (a single bit of) the new content.

That being said...
This team has always been pretty spiffy and loves the playerbase so much... Who knows what they might come up with.

As for myself... Its seems like a great move to make the CoH1 playerbase feel as though they are porting from one game to the next. Otherwise, as was said earlier, they could end up with a split population between the two games... and that could hurt the new title (Might not, but it could).
However, to what degree you allow players to have advanced within a brand new game... that's a tough tough call. Allowing grandfathering and initial advancement could turn off new/potential players.

Best idea could be... starting the new game on a level of power that matches CoH1 level 50.

What if CoH2 were more like World of Heroes... Or Universe of Heroes? (Galaxy of Heroes!)

A lowest level character is more like a level 50 CoH character...
And advancement puts people more on par with cosmic forces.

Of course... that too has problems... (Never mind the monumental development/design obstacles [although, could be totally worth it and immense]) as many people certainly enjoy playing a far-less-than-cosmic-level character.
It'd still be possible to accomplish this and include smaller/street-level heroes/criminals... But yeah... It'd be a bit tougher. Still, that could be the way to go, hehe.
Okay.. get working on that...
Level 1... Is level 50!!
Go!!!!!




Honestly... a sequel is a favorable eventuality...
It is either... a sequel one day...
Or a dead CoH.

With this team and the great run this game has had so far (And should continue for some time now)... I'd be happy to see them continue.

Let's hope we get a full virtual-reality/holodech version soon!

If CoX 2 is made on a brand new engine I would like to see it include functionality that would allow the existng playerbase to port over their existing characters as "Golden Age" heroes and villains. If, for whatever reason, you choose to keep your Golden Age character you can continue to play it but if you want to upgrade your character it would be cool to have a retcon feature that works kind of like respecs do now save for the fact that you would have to reselect your powersets and/or archetype and start at level 12.


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City of Heroes 2: WORLD OF HEROES

I think that any sequel wields more power if it has some identity of it's own.

Oh! It all comes together! They've been hinting about it for literally YEARS!

CoH2 = The Coming Storm!

A new invasion, a changed world, it all makes sense I tells ya!

*runs off frothing*

I like the name Galaxy of Heroes, implies a continuation of City of Heroes without having to name it City of Heroes 2. World of Heroes makes sense as well, its just too close to the juggernaut of MMOs and we don't want people to think we're "WoW in tights!"

Well if they are in fact making a coh2, it would be a really, really, really good idea to figure out some way for existing customers to transfer their characters to the new game in some manner.