NCSoft Closing Paragon Studios

Is there any history of an MMO...or any game, for that matter...being saved by its base? If not how do we become the first? We have such smart people in this community. Someone out there must have an idea. I have to believe that it is at least conceivable to save our game...

Was this posted recently and the timestamp was manipulated, or are we all not very thorough?

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...73#post4362873

I've been with this game since Sept. 10, 2004 and have played it and enjoyed the whole time.

I'll be here to the end as well, and I hope the friends I made here will stay in touch. In the end that's the most valuable thing I've gained!

-Side note, does this mean all of our character names/bios/ideas/lore we created around the game now belong to us again? :P

Well, that was unexpected. I really doubt anyone at Paragon actually knew this was coming (a couple might have known it was a possibility...). Seems like every channel on Virtue is talking about this as well... and I was excited about rolling a new Dual Pistols character later today (damn my altitus!).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

I'm just so heart broken beyond words. Please give us a way to save CoH!!!!

Jesus christ. But... there's an issue in beta, more in development, codes being given away... and suddenly this? Out of nowhere?

...I need time. This has been a part of my life for eight years.

Just wanted to post a "thanks" to all of the devs who were responsive and kept us in the loop. I think they were likely as blindsided by this as we are, and it's far more impactful for them. Best of luck to you all in future endeavors.

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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.

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Originally Posted by Brillig It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.

BTW, if this is indeed the end time, I don't think it makes sense to lock away any of the content anymore. Everything should be unlocked. All enhancements of every type freely available. From now until they shut the servers down.

This burns badly.

My heart goes out to all of Paragon Studios.
All of you did great work.

I can't believe this is happening. I won't.

Seriously, as bad as I feel right now, all my love and prayers go out to our developers. They've just had their child taken from them. Yes, I am going to miss my game and my friends, but the pain I feel is but a fraction of what they must be feeling.

I guess I should screenshot all my characters and costumes.

I'm at a loss about this, otherwise.

As you can see I don't post; however, I can't even began to fathom how they can pull the plug on CoH. I mean, from everything I have seen and heard it was still doing well. The development team had ideas for several more years at least. They ran events and many of the servers got red loaded.

I feel sorry for all the loyal players that have poured so much into the game. I feel even worse for the developers that have poured even more into the game. It sounds like they were all pretty much fired, no two weeks notice or anything. Not the way to treat people that did so awesome a job as the development team here did. Thank you for your hard work. Good luck to you all. I hope to find you again, because of the awesome job you did.


Glass

This seriously has to be some cruel joke.


It has to be.

My heart sank when I read this. Coh has been a part of my life since college. If I have to take a day off of work just to be there when they shut the servers down so be it.

Thank you to the dev team for making this game awesome for so many years. And thank you to the community for making my play experiences so memorable.

Noooooooooooooo!

I had never played any MMO's before this one, save for trying out one or two for a bit, and this game won me over to subscribing in less than a month. I've never seen any game where the imagination's given such free rein, where you can make any character with any background you like, and with a backstory that branches off into any genre you want to explore. The people at Cryptic who created the world of Paragon City, the Rogue Isles, the Rikti War and age of heroes all deserve enormous credit, and the people of Paragon Studios who cultivated that world, built endlessly on that story, the character possibilities, the missions and events and created one of the most intuitively fun games I've ever played, and THE most fun MMO ever, all deserve more credit than I could ever put into words.

You guys sparked my imagination in ways really nothing had over the past few years, and almost certainly nothing in the gaming world ever will again. Even the simplest things, like just flying and leaping over buildings... no game is ever going to capture *that*, much less a world where everybody from occult-noir Twilight Detective to magical-girl Sparkly Soldier Yuki to supernatual-avenger Astorian Shade can all fit seamlessly into the setting and create their own stories. How difficult, how nearly impossible, building such a game must be is evidenced just be the simple fact that no other MMO out there has ever, ever done it.

I hope and pray this is a hack, an accidental early release of a pre-written message or something, but it looks right now like it's genuine. Astorian Shade will never become an Incarnate and go back to Dark Astoria and challenge Mot to avenge her hometown. The rest of Yuki's AE arc trilogy detailing her future battles with the Nictus will never be written or published. New World Daughter won't be challenging Mary MacComber, redeeming the Cabal and defeating the Red Caps once and for all. All those things are bringing tears to my eyes... that a mere video game could spark such emotion that is a testament in itself of what Paragon Studios has done with this game.

It's only been a year since I joined, but thank you all for an unforgettable year spent running around the most crazy-awesome, genre-twisting setting any game's ever offered, run by developers who have always jumped into the boards and chats and treated us players like friends rather than customers. Maybe I'll post more later, but for now... I hope it's a mistake, but if not, just thank you everyone. It's been fun...