Why was COH killed by NCSoft?

As long as that's the case, I'm fine with that. Thanks.

Regardless of how little money CoH was bringing in, it was still bringing in money. It was not a loss to the company. If NCSoft had cut some staff or stopped the "Secret project", something to cut expenditures to make CoH even more profitable, that would make sense.

But they didn't. They killed the whole shebang, profit and all.

If John Doe is making $100,000 a year, and he finds himself getting into debt due to outside problems, he would not go to his boss and say "Hey, I'm in debt, so could you lower my salary to $98,000 a year? I think that'll help me pay off the debt more quickly." Sure, it's only a 2% decrease, but it's still less money coming in.

Because that's exactly what NCSoft did. They said "We're $6 million in the hole, so let's kill the stable project that's bringing in around $1 million a year net. That'll make us more money."

I guess I'm still in shock, I got divorced in 2003 and I remember starting that September and have been VIP ever since.. it took me through so many life changes. I remember doing the Eden trial the first time when the divorce was finalized, it was a nice break away from all of the legal stuff and a nice gift to myself to finally be out of a bad marriage. Got my girlfriend's involved and one became my fiance..all the while CoX was a constant. She knew certain times I was gonna be logged in and sometimes would login from her house just to reach me. Really became a fabric of my life. And then with mission architect, omg, I just got addicted, writing so many stories and then even started posting them to Youtube (got 23 loaded so far). No other game even comes close to the uniqueness that CoX had... this sucks big time!

I believe people who had yearly subs got their subs canceled, and are now premiums. The only people that get this month as VIP are the one and three monthers. anyone else got chopped off.

I am not even sure if the year subscribers are getting refunds.

NCSoft is also BANNED from my wallet FOREVER.

The way this is being handled shows a complete lack of customer loyalty or respect, its sicking this is seems ok to them.

Had I not already picked up GW2 id never buy it now. The only thing that's going to keep me playing that is giving the dev team a job but ill be damned if ill be picking up any of there in game RMT crap and once it hits full pay to win ill be gone, dame shame I enjoyed gw1 from launch.

*looks at his paragon tattoo* I'm going to miss you guys, so here is to the community the best dame mmo community that has ever been it has been a joy, GG, GL and try to find some were else to HF.

Good Bye Paragons!
MementoMori (Repeat Offender) Join Date 02-25-2006 It has been a hell of a good 6 years

OK, here is my theory, based in part on the corporate-speak from the announcement. (1) We know that Guild Wars 2 is having major server issues. GW2 is supposed to be a big money maker for NC Soft, but they have stopped selling on line due to the server issues. (2) We know that CoH was making a profit, but not a huge profit. CoH was not shut down because it was losing money. (3) We know that corporations are all about making a profit. (4) By the crappy way NC Soft handled the situation, we can assume that they made a quick decision and may have had a deadline. We know that the Devs had no idea this was coming.

So, what if the corporations wanted to re-purpose the CoH servers to use for GW2 in time for Christmas sales? CoH is an old game that probably won't last too much longer (in their view) and only generates a small profit while it uses assets (servers) that could be re-purposed to make a bigger profit. Considering the losses suffered by NC Soft, they might have decided to re-purpose the CoH servers rather than make new ones to deal with the GW2 Demand. NC Soft may not have anticipated (a) the server demand for GW2 and (b) the cash losses from Aion. If they had plenty of cash, they could have built new servers. But with a shortage of cash, they needed to find a way to provide servers for GW2 without spending cash. Leasing would be more expensive than re-purposing assets they already had and were using for a less-profitable purpose.

I don't know what would be involved in revising the servers to run GW2, but the rest of this theory seems to fit the corporate mind-set and the timing and the poor way in which it was handled. They had to rush to give the 3 month closing time for City of Heroes to be complete before the Christmas season. By shutting down some marginally profitable assets and changing them over, they will make more profit without incurring a significant cost.

It is kind of like a store that sells off slow-moving merchandise at a loss to clear inventory space and cash to buy new merchandise that will sell faster and turn a greater profit.

Very certain they wer forced into it by something may have been a licienceing issue or cash flow or something else suspect we will never know the full reasons for it my own personal suspicion is that it was several diferent issues - it may even have been caused by an external event (for example marvel bringing out an mmo {yes they may have pulled it back off the shelf})

After Freedom launched I noticed that there were none of the "we are making 2/3/4 times the revenue that we were making previously". Unlike DDO, LOTRO or even STO. In fact I noticed that post Freedom there were very few press releases at all, and commented on it.

Honestly I think Freedom was expected to be a DDO level of success and it wasn't. Just turning a small profit isn't enough. Thus all they can look forward to is a slow continued fall in profits so may as well pull the plug and retrieve and repurpose assets.