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This is heartening, GG, thanks for sharing. If there's a way to save Paragon Studios and COH, we'll find it.

It's not surprising the dev team would be looking to save the game. This was their baby, not to mention their job. It's heartening to hear our efforts are having an effect, though. As hopeful as I am, I did not see that coming. Corporations don't tend to react to player pressure, especially corporations which just axed a product with no warning. I'm guessing City of Heroes being basically profitable lends a lot of weight to the situation. If the game were failing, we'd have had no weight of argument.

Honestly, if this tragedy does get salvaged in the end and we do manage to help Paragon Studios stay together, I envision a much closer relationship between developers and players. But that's still just wishful thinking.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I'm definitely tempering my expectations, but that is a huge step up from where I was on Friday. If something does come out of this, my only question is where do I send the check?

I send my hopes and dreams to the staff and developers at Paragon Studios. We have a glimmer of hope and we are latching onto it. I do hope any discussion goes well, for I want to never lose City of Heroes/Villains. I've been busy doing demorecords and screenshots of my beloved Paragon City and Rogue Isles. (And our SG base, of course.)

As a devoted and passionate CoX player (6 L50 characters and at least 5 lower-level characters on Freedom alone) I beg Paragon Studios and any investors listening to please bring back our community, our entertainment, and our favorite, most excellent MMO ever.

Devs, "Never give up - Never Surrender!" As Winston Churchill once said, "If you're going through Hell, KEEP GOING."

We, the player community salute you (with hope in our hearts).

Hi everyone,

Some slightly off the wall posts nonwithstanding, this community shows a maturity and spirit its darkest days that simply has no equal! Instead of just packing our things and go quietly, we have recovered and come out guns blazing and I really hope that we end up defying the terrible odds and winning the day. But either way, I strongly believe that we are already making history (in our own small way) as we go.

Of course the guys at Paragon Studios, who were hit hardest by all this, are the very heart of this community - it is most likely that it would not exist in its current form if it were not for them. And despite Zwillingers fair words of caution, I cannot help feeling at least a little bit hopeful - it is simply inspiring to see how many people have joined.

I wish all of us could really be there with you Paragon Studio guys as you fight for your beloved game as well as for your very livelyhoods. But one look here or into the Titan Network shows you that we ARE indeed with you in spirit.

All the best, to all of you (and us)!
Zos

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Go, Paragon Studios!! City of Heroes/Villains MATTERS to our community! Please don't let it go! NCSOFT: Please support the return of a great MMO: City of Heroes/Villains!!!

As a wargamer and 40k and Fantasy rumour watcher....

I've enough salt to cause genocide to at least four species of slugs.

But this is heartening. Hopefully the more we spread this the louder our voices will become. I've noticed that when other MMOs closed and died off there was nowhere near this amount of noise.

Agh, this is just like that week following the end of Mass Effect 3. It hit me hard enough that it threw off everything. I kept bouncing between 'did that really just happen' and 'it can't end like this' to cautious optimism that things would change. Not entirely the same as what's going on here, but similar enough.

I'm hoping things end up working out in everyone's favor. The last thing I want is for the game to go away. I've been playing it for years, and it's become a part of my life.

As I've said in the game - hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

"We are heroes. This is what we do." - I'm a villain, you should be worried at what I'm going to do.

The people at Paragon Studios do not strike me as the type of people who would just lay down and give up something that has been a huge part of their lives for 10 years. I hope this works out for them.

So this is the first I've commented since the announcement. Basically, the action taken so far is to write to NCSoft (via their "Investors" e-mail address), and request that they consider selling CoH to the players and their own employees who have worked on the game, in the form of stock. I made it known I'm not interested in profiting from such ownership, that I just want the game to continue. Anybody else what likes this idea, please copycat. :D I figure, even if they think it's a bad idea, at least they're hearing from me.

I'll play the petition game as well. I'll dig around and find them. :)

I'm happy to know y'all're making yourselves heard!

W4E