Call to Action: Thank the media

If/when this goes kickstarter, slashdot.

Added the Examiner.com article, thanks for the heads-up!

also found this article around too

http://www.gamerzines.com/mmo/rumour...ns-heroes.html

Mild mannered reporter just dropped his CoH is closing article

I sent an E-mail linking the various efforts to save the game, the CoH titan forums, and the "Paragon managment is in discussion with NCsoft" bit.

I invited him to get in contact with you, Tony, and others trying to keep the game alive, as we may find dire need of his position and skills.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's spent some time with Google looking for the phrase "City Of Heroes Closing", but I found a number of links to various gaming sites that mentioned it. Some of them though didn't have any follow up from Friday about efforts to save the game.

If I were you guys (and I - meaning you - hadn't thought of it already), I'd Google up such sites and send them the press release about our efforts, "Just thought you might want more info..."

Another thought I had is how other games' forums have threads about the news and some of their reactions - might make for more good fodder in the press release, something like "other gamers expressing displeasure" or something.

I wish there was more I could add to the efforts, I feel like a level 5 hero showing up just as the 50 swoops in and takes out that purse-snatcher. I've written my letters, send the emails, signed the petitions (and got my non-gaming family to as well!) and made the little image below my post here, but it doesn't feel like enough... but my time is limited and I don't appear to have any needed skills atm, so I thought I'd toss out these ideas in case no one else has had them yet. :P

Hey all, just added the link to OnRPG added a FANTASTIC article about our efforts! Be sure to check it out and the SHARE IT with the world! We really need you all to shout this great coverage from the rooftops!

the onrpg article was excellent tony

started to make me feel a little teared up again, i have hope and believe that we will pull through this

New article in Massively: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/09...-save-the-game

You know, whatever happens to this game, the pride and love I feel right now will carry me forward. This community is beyond amazing.

Tonight after watching some TV i realized that there was an excellent opportunity for some possible TV coverage

this sunday august 9th adult swim is airing the Robot Chicken DC comics special

i figured whats the best way to get noticed than promote the save coh campaign (video game about comics) in some of their [bumps] while they are airing a comic book special

so i have submitted an email response and i have some other listed links in my post on the titan forums

in regards to my above post, elvnsword has designed a bump that could be aired on adult swim, need poeple to rate it up

a "preview" of the bump is located here

Hey all, couple of notes. First, we have another article in OnRPG, the "Gamers Rally" article I added to the top post of this thread. It even has a link to our Unity Rally coming up on Saturday. We have a friend at OnRPG!

Second, keep your eye out for more, because tonight I sent out a blast of press releases to a ton of gaming, comic book, and tech news sites. We're also bending every ear we can when it comes to bloggers. Tomorrow I'm going to start reaching out to noted personalities we've been collecting from your excellent suggestions.

Thanks again for all of your support. I'm absolutely certain that we have NCsoft's attention, and that's a very, very good thing.

I'm going to crash, I've been up WAY too many hours, but I'll be checking in tomorrow morning as soon as I wrap up some stuff for my day job.

KEEP SPREADING THE WORD!

Sweet!!! Yet another major gaming news site has picked up the press release and run an article on our efforts! Thank you, Ten Ton Hammer!

Fans Rally to Save City of Heroes (also linked in the top post)

Go! Hunt! Spred wordz!

http://www.gamezone.com/products/cit...city-of-heroes

another new article just hit up on gamezone

Okay, I have to sheepishly admit that Ten Ton Hammer was just the first site I saw after very briefly checking in this morning. (While on a conference call for my day job, in fact.) Someone forwarded me a long list of blog and news sites that we've hit. I'll post the updates a little later, but...

Mind. Blown.

I've got two VERY high priority fish to fry, and then I'm going to make a pass at updating this. I have a list right now of over 40 blogs and news sites that are carrying stories about our efforts. But I'm going to update this post ASAHP, because of two reasons: 1) In discussions, it is an extremely handy reference to show what incredible traction we're getting, and 2) I've reached out to some contacts at NCsoft who I believe will probably be keeping a close eye on how far the coverage goes.

Anyway, less posting, more working, I'll be back a little later!