NCSoft's Official Response to Us
By
Acroyear2,
Posted on: 2012-10-02 13:55 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I stayed positive from the day the news broke because the chance was just sitting there for another publisher/developer to pick up the IP and carry on.
But now.....
...now I begin to morn.
:-(
Credit goes to FrankyT49 for animated avatar
List of toons on Union Handbook
Leon Tasker: "Dunelm Group! What is your profession?"
Dunelm Group: "OOOOORRRAAAAH!"
Me: Hey! What's all this laying around stuff? Why are you all still laying around here for?
You: What the hell are we supposed to do, ya moron? The game is done. There's nothing to fight for anymore.
Other You: Let it go. War's over, man. NCSoft dropped the big one.
Me: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Me: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard of something to say]
Me: The tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
"I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams." Aunt May SM2
i dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone...good bye Paragon
I guess we're supposed to think:
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Uh, no.
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Trying to find GW2 in my list of programs to uninstall & dont see it. How do you uninstall this game?
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Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
My response to NCSoft - They will never see one more penny from me!
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Well then, all that remains now is to find a way to target and destroy NCSoft. Pretty simple. Let's get started.
Stand UP.
FIGHT BACK!
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Actually...no - that's exactly what they'll be expecting us to do! |
Originally Posted by King_Moloch
Well then, all that remains now is to find a way to target and destroy NCSoft. Pretty simple. Let's get started.
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So I won't give them the satisfaction. They tried to wait us out - we didn't give up. They folded their hand first.
Why should we react now? Looks like they didn't like being outwaited. So I say we outwait them some more
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Can I have your stuff?
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Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
My response to NCSoft - They will never see one more penny from me!
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At the most, all they're going to do is thank us for the support. Any plans they may have (or plans for plans) like forming a new studio to create a new super hero IP and spiritual successor to CoH, they're not going to talk about or even hint about at this stage.|
Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
We can only wait to see if people from Paragon Studios will speak about their end of things.
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I can't say I'm surprised. NC had zero reason to budge on the IP because all they'd be doing is enabling a competitor. They didn't want the game being saved and they don't want anyone else to have it. I doubt they seriously entertained reasonable offers, and considering they just plan to sit on the IP, even $200 in pennies would be more than it's going to make then for the next three years.
Nope. Better to sever ties with these a-hats and start over someplace green. What we still need to do is throw our support behind 'Formerly Known as Paragon Studios' and show them we want a future with a quality superhero MMO made by them in it.
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Already uninstalled - sorry.
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Originally Posted by American_Knight
Can I have your stuff?
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Originally Posted by Paladiamors
I love you, I Burnt the Toast!
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Control panel
add/remove programs
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Originally Posted by hercules
trying to find gw2 in my list of programs to uninstall & dont see it. How do you uninstall this game?
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Originally Posted by Paladiamors
I love you, I Burnt the Toast!
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That doesn't destroy your stuff, just give him your login credentials.
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Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
Already uninstalled - sorry.
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If talks have failed, it's because NCSoft wasn't negotiating in good faith to begin with.|
Originally Posted by BlueBattler
If talks are over, then I'd like to know what caused them to fail ...
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Which, in my mind, thinks it's knives time.
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Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Nope. Better to sever ties with these a-hats and start over someplace green. What we still need to do is throw our support behind 'Formerly Known as Paragon Studios' and show them we want a future with a quality superhero MMO made by them in it.
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Not surprised, but I did my grieving when the first announcement came down. Goodbye CoH, it's been an excellent run. Drat, I was looking forward to I24 too :/
When I get a chance, I'll have to post a thread with all the CoH memorabilia I've accumulated, just as one last hurrah. Will have to wait after I move into our new house though.
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From what I've heard about Guild Wars 2's account security, a few hundred people probably have that info already anyway.
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Originally Posted by Brillig
That doesn't destroy your stuff, just give him your login credentials.
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!
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Y'know, I've heard that argument a lot, but I've never bought it because there are only 2 other superhero MMOs out there, and one of them was effectively fostered by NCSoft when they bought the IP for City of Heroes from Cryptic who immediately left to make Champions Online. And NCSoft (like just about every other MMO publisher out there) subscribes to the "fantasy games make up 85% of the MMO market so any other genre ain't worth spit" mindset.|
Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
NC had zero reason to budge on the IP because all they'd be doing is enabling a competitor.
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| They didn't want the game being saved and they don't want anyone else to have it. |
NCSoft have always come across to me like the wannabe kid in the playground - they big themselves up, but when something doesn't go their way, they act like whatever it is never happened, because if it never happened it can't make them look bad, right?
Wrong...
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That was the Japanese. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The Germans bombed London.|
Originally Posted by SilverPharaoh
Me: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
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With that corrected, I'm not surprised by this announcement. As I always live by, expect the worst but hope for the best. Well, the worst has happened. But don't give up.
This is just an incentive to make even MORE noise.
Shout at them now. Shout until your lungs can't take anymore, then shout some more.
Also, I wouldn't put all my hopes into an emulator. With as petty and selfish as NCSoft has shown itself so far, it'll slap down a C&D on that emulator in no time flat.
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If you're on the internet, you can hear that about every single site's security.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
From what I've heard about Guild Wars 2's account security, a few hundred people probably have that info already anyway.
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That's actually a quote from a movie.
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Originally Posted by Scythus
That was the Japanese. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The Germans bombed London.
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Originally Posted by Scythus
That was the Japanese. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The Germans bombed London.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtU_fYe6gE
meme stuff, see - Teh Interwebs is full of it
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"Germans?"|
Originally Posted by Scythus
That was the Japanese. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The Germans bombed London.
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"Forget it, he's rolling."
Animal House
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You haven't watched Animal House I assume: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI
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Originally Posted by Scythus
That was the Japanese. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The Germans bombed London.
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In his defense though, the only that is more prevalent on the Internet than memes is people being completely and utterly wrong.
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Originally Posted by Turjan
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Indeed.|
Originally Posted by Katze
You haven't watched Animal House I assume:
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Originally Posted by Brillig
In his defense though, the only that is more prevalent on the Internet than memes is people being completely and utterly wrong.
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You don't, NCsoft cancels it.
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Originally Posted by Hercules
Trying to find GW2 in my list of programs to uninstall & dont see it. How do you uninstall this game?
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At this point, CoH's condition must be downgraded to "hope for the best, expect the worst."