The most productive, practical thing we can do...

our people are divided right now Half are still in Coh and the other half is in Co, Showing any Support for our Dev, might show Co Dev how things should be done.

Any Case maybe someone in The Co Community will take notice and help with our fight against Injustice.

GG is demonstrating how infantile she is to a large enough extent that I just want her to keep going and further discredit any semblance of credibility she ever might have had.

I like your idea, Two Headed Boy.

Time to pull my finger out and set my account up on the Champions forums, so I can add to your thread there.

Champions is lacking most in variety of content and stability/bugginess. Adding some of the dev team from Paragon would undoubtedly help with both of these. I'd say its in the same state that CoH was three years in, and could become a brilliant game if polished for another five years by a team of this calibre.
Its already got some features better than CoH (such as the treatment of superstrength, a staple of the medium), it could go way further.

This is a really good option to cultivate.


Golden Girl - grow up and drop the "us vs them" act. It was tiring with villains and heroes and praetorians, its even more tiresome here. There's nothing cool about stubbornly refusing to see the merit in something different.

Okay, one last thing, and this isn't to win the argument, because I really never plan on that around here.

When corporations reverse their decisions (this is similary true for democratic governments, as any South Korean could attest, ironically), like in this case about changing or cancelling a service or product, it is most often because of public outcries. And in the case of corporations especially, public outcries are often met initially with seemingly impassive silence. There can be any number of reasons why. It can even be a simple tactic. There are many moving parts in these behemoth organizations (including other corporations with their own interests at stake). But, in the end, sometimes these outcries work, if they're loud enough, if they're prolonged enough, and perhaps most importantly, believe it or not, if the so-called "unbiased" press is sympathetic enough. I said sometimes. Not every time. But when events like this become an opportunity for good PR ("We listen to our customers!"), they actually give a corporation incentive to hold off for the optimal amount of media coverage before caving to their customers demands.

Now, none of that was actually the important part. It was just stuff I bet you already know, you're a smart guy.

The important part is realizing who makes these events successful. Is it the negotiators? Shareholders? Mediators? Financially and professionally invested management? Sure, absolutely. But the biggest contributor to the success of a public outcry or media campaign is the customers, every single time. None of these talks even have a chance in Hades of happening unless and until a business's customers rally each other and the press to their cause.

It is perhaps inaccurate to confuse this campaign of action with an "Occupy" movement. There are a lot of things planned yet still for us to make our voices heard, including our community's annual charities. We're not just sitting down and taking this.

My request to you is to consider this: if this works, and City of Heroes is saved, who do you think the franchise producer will thank most of all? Lawyers? Employees? Or us? Do you think he was kidding when he asked us to keep making noise? When a circumstance like this is turned around, a consistent, maintained, prolonged and very noisy public outcry always lies at the root of it. A bunch of angry demanding customers who were willing to keep trying.

I'm not making a movie speech. Realistically, historically speaking, not every public outcry ends in failure (just ask the South Koreans). And if we do succeed here, I'll have one more question for you. What if we had all taken your advice to heart, and given up?