I honestly hope we haven't given up already. Have you given up?
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Ael Rhiana,
Posted on: 2012-11-08 17:31 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I gave up on giving up long ago. Now I just keep banging my head against walls until either the wall breaks, or I pass out.
Passing out is not giving up. Giving up is voluntary.
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We failed to defend CoH. There's only one thing to do now.
Interesting timing for the creation of this thread. Just finished this last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AAhnLEHQOA&lc
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Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter
Interesting timing for the creation of this thread. Just finished this last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AAhnLEHQOA&lc |
That was really well done but...
I've given up. I've been dealing with plenty of challenges in my life and losing CoH, however dear it is to me, is one challenge that I don't honestly have much energy to spend on right now.
I guess it's not so much "given up" as a recognition that NCSoft is a completely unreasonable corporation that has no interest in it's loyal customers. It clearly feels that we're not important and so it made it's decision and then reaffirmed that decision on Oct 2nd, and now it will take a cataclysm to make it change that perspective.
All we can do now is move on to other games or spend any energy we have left dealing with NCSoft and it's board in whatever way we decide is most appropriate.
Thelonious Monk
Yep it's done.
I am also not holding my breath on Plan Z either.
My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom
Nice Vid
As for giving up - Never
Even if the game goes CoX is still in my heart and as a pen and paper RPGer still a game to be played!!!!!
makes me sad with the end again not many tears left
Same
I miss playing CoH but do not have the time and/or energy to waste in any future endeavors regarding it.
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Originally Posted by JayboH
Yep it's done.
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Originally Posted by Paladiamors
I love you, I Burnt the Toast!
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Tim, you did an excellent job on that video.
To the topic at hand, given up on what? The MMORPG, City of Heroes? Yes, it's dead. They haven't unplugged the life support machines yet, but the servers will be shut down on the 30th. Nothing is going to stop that from happening.
The developers have moved on. Most of the players have moved on.
I'll be playing until I see "You have been forcibly disconnected from the server," but I'm not going to waste energy on believing that I won't see that message at the expected time.
Be well, people of CoH.
CoH was done the moment they sent all the Paragon staff home.
I don't like the game closing, but it's not the first I have seen go, it won't be the last, and I certainly won't forget it anytime soon.
Nevertheless, in a few days it will be no more.
"The side that is unhappy is not the side that the game was intended to make happy, or promised to make happy, or focused on making happy. The side that is unhappy is the side that is unhappy. That's all." - Arcanaville
"Surprised your guys' arteries haven't clogged with all that hatred yet." - Xzero45
Dum Spiro Spero
Translation: While I have breath I hope.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
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Can't imagine how long that must have taken. Cool stuff.
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Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter
Interesting timing for the creation of this thread. Just finished this last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AAhnLEHQOA&lc |
My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom
Sadly, NcSoft backed CoH ends Nov. 30th. After that I move on to editing a heroic tale full time via my YouTube partner's work. Sadly, I doubt NcSoft will ever release the IP. they could promote a LOT of good will if they did, but their silence speaks volumes. I wish Titan all the luck in the world, but CoH is soon to be another notch on NcSoft's kill sheet.
I gave up on the game being saved when the petition didn't work and it became obvious NCSoft wasn't going to change their minds.
It's closing is depressing, but I recognize one has to just move on.
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How did we fail to defend it? We can't exactly storm the server complex and take it for ourselves; it was never our property to defend.|
Originally Posted by Ogi
We failed to defend CoH. There's only one thing to do now.
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The only ones who failed CoH are NCSoft, just as they've failed several previous games and will eventually fail all of their properties.
I'm still spending the time I have left in the game, playing as much as I want to and who I want to be playing. It's really a damn shame, I'd hoped one day to be able to show this to my kids. But as it stands, unless I suffer massive head trauma between now and then, I'll still be able to tell them stories about the heroic escapades of Chad Gulzow-Man in Paragon City.
I just checked last night--my main character has nearly 209 days (5,013 hours) spent logged into the game. That's a lot of good memories, fantastic friendships that have migrated into social media, and many, many stories to tell.
Main Hero: Chad Gulzow-Man (Victory) 50, 1396 Badges
Main Villain: Evil Gulzow-Man (Victory) 50, 1193 Badges
Mission Architect arcs: Doctor Brainstorm's An Experiment Gone Awry, Arc ID 2093
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!
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Imagine Nick Fury saying it.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
How did we fail to defend it? We can't exactly storm the server complex and take it for ourselves; it was never our property to defend.
The only ones who failed CoH are NCSoft, just as they've failed several previous games and will eventually fail all of their properties. |
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Oh, well that's totally different.|
Originally Posted by Ogi
Imagine Nick Fury saying it.
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Right then, off to do something else.
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
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The time to save CoH was 4-5 years ago. It went terminal when the revenue graph took that sharp drop after I13. Plan Z at best will be a forum game.
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Originally Posted by JayboH
Yep it's done.
I am also not holding my breath on Plan Z either. |
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Actually, it's a Tony Stark quote. "Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it."|
Originally Posted by Ogi
Imagine Nick Fury saying it.
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And the original question - yeah, I've given up. I'm still playing daily, or nearly so. Should there be another rally or another petition I'll probably participate. But I no longer believe either that the servers won't be shut down or that the IP will be sold, I'm assuming that December 1st the game will be a wonderful magnificent shared memory but that's all it will be.
Do I still harbor some hope I'm wrong, that somewhere there's a deal being worked out right now? Yeah. But there's nothing I can do either to make it more or less likely.
My arcs are constantly shifting, just search for GadgetDon for the latest.
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Originally Posted by GadgetDon
Actually, it's a Tony Stark quote. "Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it."
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You are correct.
SO true.
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Originally Posted by Another_Fan
The time to save CoH was 4-5 years ago. It went terminal when the revenue graph took that sharp drop after I13. Plan Z at best will be a forum game.
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Originally Posted by Paladiamors
I love you, I Burnt the Toast!
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"We gave it a hell of a run, guys. Now let's try to have some fun.
I'm gonna put on "The Thong Song", and we'll tear this place apart."
I don't know what's left to do. NCSoft has made their decision quite clear by demanding way more money than the IP is worth (when they bother to reply to investors at all). I sent my plea to NCSoft's CoHSunset e-mail address, and never got a response, so I suspect that was tossed into the circular file.
I don't have any video game inside connections. I can't put any pressure on anyone, NC Soft or otherwise. I don't have any media connections to make NC Soft look bad. I can just follow what others who do have those connections do, and even they're doing less and less.
The devs moving on is what really clinches it for me. Even if NCSoft changed their mind and let another company buy the game today, Paragon Studios has scattered to the four winds. There's nobody left to develop it.
I'm extremely sad about finally finding a game that was perfect for me only to have it killed while still actively developing, and I don't know where I'm going to go from here.
I haven't exactly "given up", I'm still hoping that somehow the efforts being put forth turn someone's head (and would be happy to contribute if I can), but I'm no longer hopeful that NCSoft can be made to care or is even paying attention anymore.
.... and yet, as I type that, and edit that, and reword that.... it makes me angry all over again that they should be allowed to get away with this. I still have NCSoft's CEO's e-mail address. Maybe I'll try re-sending my CoHSunset e-mail to him.
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Originally Posted by Another_Fan
The time to save CoH was 4-5 years ago. It went terminal when the revenue graph took that sharp drop after I13. Plan Z at best will be a forum game.
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Originally Posted by mauk2
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We're still doing everything that we can - but if things don't work out, then the campaign to get NCSoft to give us back our game will continue past December 1st.
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