Can I say ... We Told You So.

Do you remember all the people who said "The more superpacks we buy, the more we let NC nickle and dime us in the store, the more content and fixes we'll get"?

How are those people going to explain the shutdown?

Do you remember the apologists who insisted that CoX was not dying even when it went F2P? Why don't we hear from those people today trying to do backflips to explain why this game is going belly up if it is doing so fine?

Next is for the devs.

Remember how often when the base building community, or the badge community, or the pvp community, or the AE crowd, etc., told you during the BETA testing of an issue that certain things were wrong, or problematic, or downright disasterous and you refused to listen?

There is a real cost to not listening, isn't there? If your vision and approach were so darn right, why has CoX been bleeding customers in a way that even F2P couldn't fix?


When developers hurried to fix things that benefited the players and yet let inconveniences and bugs linger for months or years, when developers were slow to accept responsibility, slow to change, slow to fix, rarely if ever apologize, when developers sealed themselves in a forum bubble where the most fanatics and devoted live, this is what you get.


I'm sure a few will try to rationalize, or argue. But there are no better rebuttal than the fact that they are shutting this down. If their vision and the way they were doing things were so right and correct, then this product would still be profitable, wouldn't it? There are far older MMOs out there that are still going and thriving.

So Posi and folks, hope you learned the lesson here and use it in your future endeavors. To the apologists and sycophants making excuses for bad behaviors over the years...you get what you rightly deserve.

We Told You So.

Not to mention it's obvious this fellow hasn't even been reading the Dev and Community Responses.

The game was/is doing fine. The plug was pulled for reasons outside of the success of CoH.

Since I don't believe we are being "monitored" anymore...

To the OP:

City of Heroes was profitable. It was NCSoft's only profitable title. Even Aion tanked recently.

You have no facts. Go away.

You have no idea how much I hope you get hit by a truck right now.

That's how much I hate you right now. Our game was just told it has three months left and you come here saying "HURR DERR WE TOLD YERR SORR"?

I hope your first born son grows up to be a Guido. Just a giant orange moron with jelled hair and an ugly and fat orange girlfriend who's nine months pregnant and neither one of them has a stable job or home to raise the ******* in.

People have said this game was doomed every single month of the past 8 years. It was bound to happen sooner or later. I was just hoping it would be a lot later, like after I died of old age. As far as I know, the game was doing better financially the past few months than it has in several years. I don't think the PvP crowd quitting in droves after I13 is what got the game killed on the eve of I24.

But, really, I'm with VoodooGirl.

As a member of the i13 pvp community, everyone that used to tell pvpers to F off and what we want doesn't matter, well welcome to the club of feeling thrown to the curb! Goodbye game that never lived up to what it promised on the boxes it shipped in.

Miss me yet?