So, when City of Heroes is saved what will you do?

I know what I could be doing.....

/Gangnam Style

Cheering.

Crying.

Cheering some more.

Re-subbing so I can get VIP back...

Creating a new character in celebration.

And... don't you technically mean "if?"

Write thank you letters to everyone involved, tell everyone how great NCSoft is and encourage them to buy all of their games (keeping my word), then go visit City Hall, look up at Atlas, and smile the biggest goofiest smile ever.

Then, team up and fight some crime.

lets not get ahead of ourselves, we got some good news It is still a long shot. its still a long way and the best we can do is to keep up with the titan network stuff, show unity and act in large enough groups.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Finally solo the LGTF on my Necro/Dark Mastermind. It's been far too long.

The same thing I do every day, you irritating heroes.


TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!!

--- Regnar Rats, Bots/Traps

Burn the voodoo dolls.

Uh, after de-powering them.


...unlike last time. That was a bit messy. >>

Nothing. Buisness as usual.

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Make a gaming party with my friends to celebrate the thwarted apocalypse.
Hopefully recruit some of them to the game.
Start making videos again.
Make all my toons having other badges than "Stockpiling", "Ragnarok", "Apocalyptic" and "Survivalist" selected.

I'll re sub for a year, at the VERY LEAST!

If it gets saved I'll be forced to make a difficult decision about whether or not to stick with it.

Based on the wording of some of Zwillinger's posts, I'm pretty sure that there's nothing we can do to stop NCSoft from shutting down the servers.

That's not to say the game can't be saved. I'm still hoping that it will be. I just don't have any reason to believe that NCSoft will be in charge any more. I expect it to either be sold or licensed to a new publisher, should it be saved.

If a third party were to take control of CoH, it might be necessary to divorce the CoH accounts from the Master Account. That may or may not be easy to do, so it's quite possible that we'd all have to create new accounts with the new company helming the project.

So, depending on how things go, I'll either be carrying on as normal, or rerolling all my old favourite characters. I wanted to do some pretty major respecs after i24 anyways - in some ways rerolling would be easier.

I don't really understand the question, because the premise is flawed. NCSoft doesn't want the game, and the players because of how that decision was handled don't want NCSoft.

Therefore, should the game be saved, it'll be on new servers in a new building, possibly independent and not reported on these forums which will be gone. In addition to that, any iteration of the game will not be CoH as you know it. It cannot. If NCSoft considers the game engine proprietary software, then a new engine needs to be coded. If NCSoft considers that the physical hardware of the game cannot be removed and relocated, all characters will be deleted. Even if Titan Network's program to save characters is used on a broad and extensive basis, it will take significant time to re-establish all those characters with all those badges, all those rewards and all those benefits back onto servers.

There is a ridiculous amounts of ifs in this situation and it's frankly naive to think a switch will be flipped and CoH will continue as is. This whole notion really needs to be disabused from people's perspectives.



S.

To answer SuperOZ's question.

I'd get ready to answer the next threat to Paragon's safety with whatever hero I could make...


It's a simplistic answer, but I'm a simple kind of guy when it comes down to it...

For me, it has always been about the journey rather than the destination. I've been playing nearly six years and only have two 50's, but plenty of alts. If I had to start from scratch in a reborn City and Isles that would be fine with me. Many of my core characters would probably explore different powersets or even archetypes given that opportunity.

Weird
Just a couple seconds before clicking this thread I was thinking of gangnam style.

As for what I'd do? Well.. I'd solo an AV with my peacebringer.

What will I do when City of Heroes is saved?! Other than be delighted????

I'd continue to play some everyday, but many of the grieving, hurt multi-year veterans who presently find CoH too painful to play would more or less instantly return (some already have) and I'd once more be balancing my time between two very active SGs on different servers; I'd play my 50s and my low-level alts; I'd buy the Nature Affinity powerset from the Paragon Market and start that NA toon I have built on Mids; I'd finally get around to respecing a couple of old 50's still without Issue 19 Inherent Fitness (LOL); I'd continue happily to play all the content we presently have as well as enjoying Issues 24 and beyond, enjoying everything the development team had planned and expect Matt "Positron" Miller to revise, modify and implement the plans revealed in the Loregasm thread. While I might buy an account-wide 4th Enhancement tray, at minimum I'd let my VIP subscription earn me the points to buy Retro Sci-Fi, CoT, Barbarian and other costume pieces. I'd finally start that Titan Weapons toons (LOL, I have the powerset but never got around to making the alt), and long story short: the show would go on! Oh! and I'd finally get aound to finishing outfitting a couple of SG bases.

It will depend on method how it is saved actually. IF another big names buy the game than I will be getting in the line for longest subscription possible after that to show my gratitude for first year I will be buying anything from market of said publisher as long as they have a market monthly with a good sum for a personal use.

If game is saved by efforts of TonyV and Titan networks efforts than I will donating previously mentioned amount and probably more constantly to their effort to keep game alive.

In either case however unless they find a way to get paragon studios too and the engine license from Cryptic/PWE it means a couple of years at least development time. In that case I will be providing donations whoever got their hands on CoH as long as my financial situation lets me to do so only other hobby I have that eats my financial resources is MTG and I rarely plays it anymore.