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Originally Posted by Starmor
I remember several years ago a character creator was released with the Korean version of City of Heroes. If we can't log on and play the game after November at least we could recreate our heroes/villains for nostalgia. Does anybody think it would be possible for NCSOFT/Paragon to re-release it to everyone with updated costumes parts? They could even charge a nominal fee for it that I'd be willing to pay.
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Hi Starmor,
Unfortunately, this is just not possible.
Reasons:
1) Legal : Since the Korean CoH Costume Creator was an offline tool, it did not provide Paragon/NCsoft any legal protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
2) Development : The developers who worked upon the Korean CoH Costume Creator are long gone. The engineers who worked on it did not come over to NCsoft from Cryptic Studios.
The costume creation process has also undergone a significant number of changes since 2005/2006 (when the application was originally developed).
Even if by some chance that a former developer or a current developer from another development group at NCsoft added all new costume pieces, auras, weapons, and color customization options..., Reason #1 cited above would prevent a standalone offline application from ever being released.
Note: My name is Jesse Caceres, and I used to be the Business Manager, and former Producer on City of Heroes at Paragon Studios. I'm just posting from my personal account since I no longer have access to my Ghost Falcon (Red Name) account.
I remember several years ago a character creator was released with the Korean version of City of Heroes. If we can't log on and play the game after November at least we could recreate our heroes/villains for nostalgia. Does anybody think it would be possible for NCSOFT/Paragon to re-release it to everyone with updated costumes parts? They could even charge a nominal fee for it that I'd be willing to pay.