so many have left already.

Interestingly, the announcement of the game shutting down has actually reinvigorated my desire to play it. I also got my girlfriend back into it and managed to reform weekly runs with a small group of guys we used to play with a few years ago. It does kind of suck that everything will probably go away in December, but at least we're going to have a blast for the last few months regardless of what comes to pass.

I'd be playing the hell out of it, but I've been a bit busy lately.

Seriously, I'm not naive enough to think that people aren't checking out other games. But I'm also just as serious when I say that I really, truly believe that we have a good chance of pulling our Save Paragon City! campaign off successfully.

I know you guys are still coming to terms with NCsoft's announcement, but please, for the love of cheesecake, please don't give up on us yet. If you absolutely, positively have to check other games, then at least check in on news and information regularly. Please help us out in our Calls to Action. You may think they're pointless, but I'm telling you, they're not. Please take part in our rallies. Not just as a show of support for each other, but for Paragon Studios.

I really believe that at some point, the tide will turn in our favor. I really believe that there's a good chance that it has already. We have built up such incredible momentum. We have 200 articles on gaming press sites and blogs. We have famous people in our corner spreading the word out even further. For crying out loud, just a couple of days ago, Felicia Day put us out there in front of two million of her followers! And before that, Neil Gaiman put us out there in front of 1.7 million of his followers!

We have some fun events planned to keep everyone's morale high. We have some projects in the pipeline that focus on Paragon Studios, the players, and our creations. All of this stuff is coming together really, really well, and it's a PR force that NCsoft is going to have to face, and I honestly believe that they will do the right thing; it just makes good business sense.

So if you try other games, make sure you stay up-to-date on what we're doing, because when this is all over, that's half the battle. Once our game is safely in the hands of a company for which it is in their long term plans, we want you back. We need you back. And I for one will truly appreciate probably greater than ever what we've been so lucky to have.

Irrationally, my very first thought on reading of the impending cancellation was anger that they'd announced it on the Friday afternoon of what was, for me, a three-day weekend. Way to ruin the weekend, guys!

But afterward I was glad, because I spent those days riveted to the forums. I read at first with grief and anger, but soon I began to feel a sense of wonder:

Look at all these people. Look at the heartbreak, the stories, the memories, the friendships, the pictures, the oddball character concepts, even the humor. The determination behind the long-shot effort to save the game.

And then awe. Have you seen how much is being done? It's almost mind-boggling. One blogger (Paindancer) said he/she has known Occupy movements who would kill for this number of participants -- well, yeah. I've been active in several good causes, I've stood outside in protest -- and none of them have had anything like this much momentum, this much social networking, this many bodies showing up, in virtual space or otherwise.

And so, after a few days of grieving-and-reading, and then reading-with-my-jaw-hanging-open, I returned to the game. The first day back was pretty slow, but by the next, there were more global friends online than I've seen in a long time.

And it's been active like that ever since -- less time shopping and plotting builds, more time grabbing people and sallying forth to battle for Paragon.

Are total populations down? I can't say. I'm too damned busy teaming!

As I told a friend last night, I'll sleep in December.

I notice people saying they can't log on as it makes them sad, for me it's the opposite, I get really angry that this great game is getting cancelled. All my time and effort will be flushed away without a second thought. I have given myself some time out to peruse other games which made me even more angrier CoX was shutting down. Champions/DCUO/GW2.

Champions was terrible, I can't believe how bad the graphics were for a game brought out later than CoX and the content was minimal for game that's 5+ years old.
Their player-base is far less then CoX was.
Champions budget must have been low on the development side, looks like they only have 5-10 people working on it rather than CoX 80, maybe if CoX could have halved their budget costs on development it might have continued.(I would have been willing to not get as many new features as we were to keep the game running).

DCUO, is not bad for a solo player game, it is a long cry from a good MMO.

GW2, Won't bother saying much about this as these forums seem to already have a enough fanbois taking up too much room on CoX official forums.

Playing this game any longer is an utter waste of time other than as an online chat community. And for that....far better venues.

A lot of people are playing on Test to enjoy the Issue that Wasn't.

Justice had a good stab at the Really Hard Way iTrial badge, and we had a full league for three tries, with spare people each time. And there was an all-Brute teaming event running at the same time.

Now, part of that was that I announced it in advance. There's no doubt its quieter. But there are still peeps around and looking to just have fun, fill out their bucket list, or just stubbornly ride the coaster to the cliff at the end if it comes to that.

I count as all three of the above. >.>

Tried again just now to get a team when i got to log in screen every server was green.

its 12:15 am friday morn or thursday night depending on your place in life.


I dont think its ever been green on every server at such a prime time.

went to atlas to offer a free PL to anyone could not get more than 3 to join a free ae farm.

No chatter on the chat channels. So bummed out.....

cancelled and deleted SWTOR only game on my machine is AOE 2 lol(dunno why i put it there)

Not saying this is going to happen (please try to ignore my signature because I'll change it if we save the game) but if the game does go what will happen to your toon? What will happen to the Golden Girl persona? I know main toon definitely would go with the game because she is a Thorn Sword Guide themed toon. So with the game goes the game lore and with the game lore goes that main toon of mine. So what will happen to Gold Girl?

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Originally Posted by Golden Girl Until the sevrers shut down, Issue 24 is delayed, not canceled.

Servers being green instead of yellow have little to do with people not wanting to be powerleveled and doing something else - servers being green instead of yellow means there are less people online, period.

Unless you want to claim NCSoft made stealth server upgrades right after claiming they closed the game, but that'd be quite out there on the insanity scale, even by the standards you've set...