Is CoH the oldest MMO to go down?
By
BrainBrillo,
Posted on: 2012-09-01 07:52 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Oldest to go down is no good milestone. Oldest to survive is what we need.
Maybe we could give NCsoft a medal for killing the best MMO ever.
A very sharp metal.
That spontaneously combusts when put around the neck of a corporate executive.
CoH set a very high bar with character creation when it launched and to this day no other MMO has come that has come close to truly rivaling it.
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agreed, or something radioactive. Btw everytime i go into a thread and see your sig it makes me tear up again.
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Originally Posted by Mad Grim
Oldest to go down is no good milestone. Oldest to survive is what we need.
Maybe we could give NCsoft a medal for killing the best MMO ever. A very sharp metal. That spontaneously combusts when put around the neck of a corporate executive. |
The nature of the beast with MMOs is that once you're established, you have a core of fans who we'll never leave until the lights go out. The granddaddies of the modern MMO, Ultima Online and Everquest, are still going after well over a decade. Countless MMOs have folded, but most of those never really caught fire in the first place, and died within two to four years - Tabula Rasa, Matrix Online, Asheron's Call 2, etc.
My question is - is CoH the oldest MMO to formally close it's doors? By my math, it will barely edge out Star Wars Galaxies - SW:G ran from June 26th 2003 to December 15th 2011 (about 8 years, 5.5 months), CoH will run from April 28th 2004 to November 30th 2012 (8 years, 7 months).
I know it's an odd thing to think about with everything ending in a few months, and I'm sure there's some minor MMO I'm forgetting, but I'm hoping CoH achieved some sort of milestone with it's run.