Best case scenario...
That would be awesome.
I mean, CoH didnt have this press coverage in years.
Not even with GR, not even with the F2P conversion.
We are getting spotlight.
Wish NCSoft take this as a marketing oportunity and give us another try or decide to sell the IP to a proper publisher.
Then if I24 ever going live, its going to really stand for its tittle.
That isn't the best case scenario. The best case scenario is that we get the game back, play through I24, 25, 26, etc. until we've beaten the last of the Battalion, unlocked the Omega slot, etc., and then we get the announcement that CoH2 is ready, and don't worry, it lets people export their characters. And it looks amazing. And it has everything we want. It has ponies. And Carp Melee.
That's my best case scenario.
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That isn't the best case scenario. The best case scenario is that we get the game back, play through I24, 25, 26, etc. until we've beaten the last of the Battalion, unlocked the Omega slot, etc., and then we get the announcement that CoH2 is ready, and don't worry, it lets people export their characters. And it looks amazing. And it has everything we want. It has ponies. And Carp Melee.
That's my best case scenario. |
I could make it with that!
Before this, I had a friend who was ready to come play with me, as soon as she finished her job training. If the game stays alive, I'll be able to say I got one new player to share my favorite online addiction!
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Issue 24's title is/was Resurgence!
Let that sink in a bit. The title would galvanize our efforts, and be perhaps the biggest resurgence possible for an MMO. Now with that in mind, wouldn't you want to tell your friends about it? Wouldn't that be an excellent selling point? Ripples. Lots of them.
A success here would speak volumes about our community. And it would all be true, we are that awesome.
Don't give up quite yet.
I may be wrong, but to this point I think this is the largest and strongest organized effort to alter a game's course (be that in terms of content like Mass Effect 3, or shut-down in our case) that we've seen. I wonder if NCSoft saw this coming. I'm sure they knew there would be anger, disappointment, and some resistance.....but not something on the scale of what actually is going on here.
The takeaway here for game publishers is "do NOT piss off 40,000+ people who spend their free time pretending to be superheroes/villains."
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