Please wait to shut down servers until Dec 21

NCSoft - first off, thank you for a great game and great memories. While I am not looking forward to the servers closing down, and certainly hope something can be arranged to avoid it, I hope you will consider some solution to keep the servers online until Friday, Dec 21.

This is a win-win (given the situation) for all concerned. While the official word I've seen says you will take the servers offline "by the end of the year" I am hearing other news reports are saying this will happen November 30.

We all remember what happened with the Y2K issue - nothing. That didn't stop the media from reporting on anything and everything Y2K related. The same will be true with the supposed ending of the Mayan calendar. Why not have a little fun with it?

You'll get some free publicity - maybe more than you anticipated - and that will lead to greater recognition of NCSoft and its other titles. For the community, it will extend their experience with this wonderful game by a few more days.

Realizing there is a cost to you in supporting the player base, you might even consider locking out accounts in the weeks between Nov 30 and Dec 21 on a rolling basis depending on how long they have been subscribed. For instance, those with less than a year of paid service might terminate Nov 30, with others being locked out on a rolling schedule afterwards, lessening your support costs. On December 21 you will be left with your most loyal veterans on the servers, celebrating the end of an era they helped create.

As a returning player from the very early days of COH, I bought a year subscription in March. I've considered that money well spent, and it is my sincere hope that you will work with others to somehow keep the game alive. If not, I hope you will take the opportunity to make the ending of the game something special, and do it on a date with which the game will forever be associated, honoring all involved.

While this idea might be "fun" for us this would all be extra work for people who basically no longer have jobs anymore.

As crappy as the idea of this game coming to an end is we should probably consider it fairly amazing that it'll linger on all the way to Nov.30 in the first place. Besides speaking of the impending end of the world on Dec.21 how do we know that this shutdown isn't already in response to some "insider info" they have about coming events.