Someone please debunk this rumor

Heard from a few people that NCsoft declined an anonymous offer of 80 million for CoH.


WHY WOULD YOU DECLINE THAT?!?!?!!

... why would they accept an *anonymous* offer?

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Was it from a Nigerian prince?

I think you need a more reliable source than a random comment to an article somewhere. This rumour doesn't need to be debunked. It needs to be confirmed.

As much as we all love CoH, there's totally no way that it's worth 80 million on the MMO market.

OK I am here to debunk that rumor.

I think that rumor you heard is simply someone trying to vilify NCSoft even more. Rumors like that are simply meant to create the "See I told you they were evil they wouldn't even sell for 80 MILLION!!!" I would be totally surprised if they even received an offer for half that.

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Originally Posted by DarkBlaster_NA Heard from a few people that NCsoft declined an anonymous offer of 80 million for CoH. WHY WOULD YOU DECLINE THAT?!?!?!!

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Originally Posted by Paladiamors I love you, I Burnt the Toast!

It's going to be better for everyone (the community & the people still left from the Paragon team) if you only pay attention to information coming directly from the involved parties.

To help put the "offer" in context, the entire development and marketing budget for Rift was 50 million.

Selling CoH for any amount of money, short of hundreds of millions, makes no sense for NCSoft. Imagine this: Someone buys the game, and makes it 2, 3, or even 4 times as successful as it was before (dollar-wise, anyway). That would be damned embarrassing. They'd be the laughing stock of the MMO world.

The full rumor was that Trion Worlds (publisher of the RTS game End of Nations [which isn't cooler than Dawn of War 2, I'm just sayin'] and the MMO game Rift [blows chunks compared to City of Heroes, no offense Trion, not your fault, Paragon's just that good]) offered $80 million and were subsequently turned down by Taek Jin "NCSoft" McCan'tWon't. Personally, I dug under bedrock looking for proof, but the fact that I found none doesn't mean there isn't a kernel of truth here somewhere--Trion's MMO stable isn't exactly brimming over and they might have made some kind of offer, who knows? Oh, wait.

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Originally Posted by Hit Streak It's going to be better for everyone (the community & the people still left from the Paragon team) if you only pay attention to information coming directly from the involved parties.

Probably a good idea to follow the advice of the guy who knows.

Not totally unrelated: unless we hear some interesting leaks in the future, I'll always wonder if Gamers First made or thought about making an offer. Their F2P model for Fallen Earth is a lot like Paragon's and if you look at their stable, you'll see right off the bat that they are structured around smaller performing titles and underdogs. Fallen Earth was limping when they snagged it, and need I mention APB Reloaded? Gamer's First was the first publisher that snapped into my mind when I saw COH's closure announcement.

And pretty much totally unrelated: Petroglyph, the studio behind End of Nations, is the first studio I've boycotted without having a bone to pick with their publisher. Why, you ask? Because I was excited for Mytheon, a game they started working on for another publisher, and got almost to release in development. Be sure to click the "Full Review" tab at that link and weep for a game that deserves to be played (especially all you Guild Wars fans), and also scroll down and watch the gameplay. I followed Mytheon development for a year before being accepted into the closed beta test, and loved every moment of it, bugs and all. When Petroglyph got Trion's lucrative contract, they blew off development, missed every deadline, ignored their fans (even community representatives stopped posting), and had to be SUED by Mytheon's publisher to get all their assets from Petroglyph (who now had stars in their eyes and couldn't be bothered to cooperate willfully), who then had to try to scramble an in-house team together to finish the game in a half-way presentable state and maintain the community. An admirable task by the publisher who believed in the game--but one that failed without the time and talent needed.

The saddest part is that Petroglyph used to be Westwood Studios, the original developers of Earth and Beyond, my second-favorite MMO of all time, a solid studio whose fate under EA was just as heartbreaking to watch as Paragon's under NCSoft. But in Westwood's case, it's more heartbreaking to see what has become of them: successful, totally unethical, completely uncommitted to their fans.

As I've always believed:

All problems in the universe can be traced back to either a "bean counter" or someone's brother-in-law

For 80 million someone could just make a new superhero MMO (that has more of what people want), so that rumor is right out the window imo.