I honestly hope we haven't given up already. Have you given up?

Sad to see the game closing but NCSoft have made up their minds on that,they will not release the IP in case they are shown up for the incompetent twats they are if someone else made a great success of the game.They never spent a penny on promoting the game expecting the players to do it for them via word of mouth and the great video,s the the more talented players were making.I take my hats of to those who can do such great work for no reward other than their love of a great game.I will be here playing till the plug is pulled,but before I go I will take screen shots of all my characters just so that I have something to remember of the 6.5 years I have spent playing this MMO and it has been my only one.
I will also take this time to say bye to all the people I have had the honour to team with good luck in any future game that you play just make sure its not an NCSoft game as they are sure to screw their customers again when they have the next "change of focus".

I accepted that the game was being shut down not too long after it was announced. If a stable emulator appears on my radar I might check it out, particularly if it can be run offline. If Plan Z becomes more than so much vapour it might interest me. In the meantime, ChO is more than adequately filling CoH's shoes for me in every way except number of character slots - so much so that I'm not sure I'd continue a sub for CoH even if it miraculously got an *official* stay of execution.

This isn't over.

After the disappearance of the game and these forums, we will keep doing what we do. We will still have a forum and community. We will still have the ears and mouths of the gaming press. We will still have a voice. We will still have passion. We will still have loyalty to each other and to Paragon's vision. A vision that NCSoft's management was never sharp or soulful enough to completely understand.

Dev studios may fall, but thousands of fans want this vision to stand again. And, damn you NCSoft, damn you and your narrow-minded corporation to the sands of time, our vision will stand again.

It's over. Maybe some people that played CoH will someday work on MMOs and incorporate some of the concepts, but this game is dead. Any hops of sequels or fan-projects or any of that other nonsense are just pipe dreams.

"It's not CoH" only scratches the surface of what I don't like about CO, but I've ranted about that at length elsewhere. (In short: it doesn't support the playstyles I like, and major content updates are literally nonexistant, with all of Cryptic's development resources going to other games. Where CoH was constantly updating and improving, CO is just coasting and acting as a money sponge they can redirect into NWN2 and STO)

NCSoft reportedly asked for $80,000,000, utterly refusing any attempts to negotiate their price down. That's way beyond NCSoft merely thinking the game still had more life left in it than they'd thought, and is well into the realm of "asking an outrageous price just so they can claim they tried to sell it but nobody would buy it."

Yes. Game over.

Time to move on.

I honestly don't think there is any hope we can save CoX officially nor work along with NCSoft.

However an emulator will probably show up in the next years allowing us some nostalgia but it will probably be very broken until a lot of efforts, coordination and time to finally make it playable.

The damage has already been done and no matter what we wont have it all over again, it'll be stuck in the past as most good memories of the game itself. I have saved all my screenshots folder since 2005 (3.1GB), demos, videos and a few other stuff, I also have the original game box with CoH and CoV collectors edition.

It has been hard to get on, I even hide the chat so I forget what's going on and try my best to enjoy the game.

As others have said, there really is no way that COH can be restored at this point. If someone DOES buy it, they'd have to assemble a new team of Devs, they'd have their own vision for the game, and there's no guarantee that enough people would come back to make it a profitable game.

That being said, I do hold out hope that the best part of COH will live on after the game is gone. I've made friends in this game and had some awesome times. Devs have worked on this game and learned a lot from it.

Perhaps even now there's a gaming company out there-- perhaps one of those who tried to buy COH-- going, "Okay. There's a dedicated fan base out there for a game like COX-- let's see if we can make a product that they'll love."

Well....I know that CoH will be back in some form or another-- it is too beloved a game to sink for good-- but far and away most likely it will be as an underground emu.

I've got to back up my toons with Titan's program for posterity's sake. Wouldn't want to be starting over from ground zero if I had a choice about it....

I suspect, though, that the damage to NCSoft will continue for years if not infinitely, and I feel that Blade & Soul and Wildstar will be noticeably negatively impacted. And good enough for 'em. NCSoft deserves a shoe in the head even just for their longstanding reputation, never mind for this newest CoH closure.

I don't think we're going to get official City of Heroes back any time soon. However, I would not be surprised to see it sold off at some point in the future. If NCSoft gets bought, or has a change of management, or goes bankrupt, the assets could get sold off for various reasons. I do not think it will be done voluntarily, however; most scenarios for an official future City of Heroes require NCSoft to fail or at least suffer sufficient losses to cause a change in leadership.

I don't think that will happen any time soon, but I would also not be surprised if the game was available 20 years from now on something like good old games. I just plan to enjoy my final 3 weeks, save my characters with the Titan utility, and move on to other things for now. Who knows; maybe some day 15 years from now, they'll go bankrupt and we'll get our game back.