NCSoft Closing Paragon Studios

I am stunned honestly, shocked, I dont know what to say, I've put years of my life into this game, and money haha. And now it's just going to waste. Get your gear together NCsoft.

Okay this is just rubbing salt in the wounds. I just got this automated email.

Hi John,

Your City of Heroes® VIP subscription on account *********** has been cancelled. This account will no longer auto-renew, and once the current paid-for time expires, you will no longer have access to VIP features in City of Heroes Freedom but you will be able to continue to play for free.

If you wish to avoid disruption to your VIP status, it's easy to upgrade again in-game or through My Account on the NCsoft site to continue to enjoy exclusive VIP benefits:

• 400 Paragon Points™ per month to use in
• the in-game Paragon Market™
• Access to all 14 character Archetypes and over 150 power sets.
• 12 character slots per server, plus slots that were unlocked or directly purchased.
• One free character transfer per month, priority queuing, and access to Exalted, an exclusive VIP-only server.
• Elite VIP content, including the Incarnate System, monthly signature story arcs, and City of Heroes Going Rogue™ expansion content, costumes and power sets for free and more!

Wow... I am totally shocked. Haven't played COH in a few months but I always thought it would be here when I came back... just never really imagined that it would go anywhere.

This is where I grew up in MMOs - heck, it was the first MMO I played... so many great memories.

I always thought Paragon would be forever

I too was shock and dismayed, everything seemed to be going well enough. This news was so sudden and abrupt.

I'm numb/shocked. Just was coming back to re-sub (now that I'm pulling a paycheck again) and see this instead.

Um...

Miss you all so much more now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arcanaville ...[I]t would be more proper to say this game is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowly dying.

Really sad right now.

CoH was my first MMO, and is still to this day my absolute favorite. I remember all the excitement and hype back from the old beta forums, the first Rikti invasion, getting a frantic phone call from my best friend telling me he'd gotten into the City of Villains beta, breaking into Atlas Park, all the community run events, seeing Praetoria for the first time and just being amazed that it actually looked like a city...

I always felt like we were some big dysfunctional family here, grouped together by a common love of FREEM and shark captains. I know there won't ever be a game quite like City of Heroes in the near future. Not one that meshes everything just right, and has a great community to boot.

So, thanks everyone. To everyone at Paragon: best of luck wherever you end up. I know any studio would be privileged to have your expertise and experience. You're some of the best devs I know.

To the community: thanks for being continually awesome. I was never a particularly loud voice in it, but I always around. You guys are some of the most dedicated and loyal people I know, and I've made some good friends being here.



Though, if I do get a parting question, what was that "insert Kickstarter URL here" bit for in one of the old coffee talks? Probably getting my hopes up (I know Zwill likes to goof around some), but uh, if there's something you guys wanna tell us...

I think what sucks the most is that both (inn my eyes) CO and DCUO absolutely suck, but they get to keep chugging while CoH gets axed. NCSoft is run by a bunch of morons. I just don't understand why they wouldn't try to sell it. I'm sure they could have found a buyer. Anything would have been better than a sudden end like this. I25 woulda have been a good epic end to it all too, make the fight against The Battalion the last fight. Go out in a blaze of glory, you know, not in a blaze of nerdrage.

Dear developers and community staff of City of Heroes, both past and present.

Thank you. You brought me into the world of MMOs. You gave me hope that there might be other MMOs out there that were just as good, though I haven't ever come across one. You introduced me to some fine people from all around the world.

To the current staff: I sincerely hope that you find good homes when the sun sets on Paragon City. If I were in a position to hire you, I would do so in a heartbeat.

I do have one last request before the lights go out on our fair city: would it be possible to release the story bible in digital format so that we might learn the eventual fate that was planned for the characters and places that we have all come to know and love?

While I was busy scrambling to get as many screenshots and costume file saves as I could, someone in-game told me that according to Positron, there's literally no one holding the reigns on the servers right now. Apparently they could go offline as soon as tonight.

Whee.