Alternate idea for getting CoH sold

So...no idea how legal this would be, but since they refused to listen to buyout offers for the IP and their stock has already plummeted to half of what is was worth the day before the announcement... How about we do a kickstarter to run a smear campaign against NCsoft and finish driving them into bankruptcy? If the company goes under the CEO's might sell off the IPs they're sitting on in an attempt to get enough for some "golden parachutes", and some competent developer might end up with the game, and if we're real lucky it might be a place with some of the remnants of Paragon around to offer tips.

Again, not sure if it'd be legal (and if it isn't, then ignore all this I guess), but if it is, seems like the current best bet.

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Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler That...was a Herocon 09 exclusive easter egg. The powerset will not have doves associated with it. Namely because you guys would want to color tint the damn doves, or make them hawks/ravens/flying sharks/etc and that's just a headache I do...not...want...to deal with.

Another stellar idea from the community that consistently labels itself "the most mature and reasonable MMO community on the internet"

So... one person offering a negative idea is now suddenly the entire community?

No. Just no. To all of this post.

CoH is dead. Time to let it go, gang.

Since all absurdity, extremist assortments and fake rumors from all camps have been said, let’s try to be a bit productive and realistic here:

Such a campaign, for it to do ANYTHING, will take so much money you may as well just invest that money into making a new game that fills the hole CoH will leave behind.

In addition, EVEN if you got enough money to conduct such a smear campaign, chances are you will have to resort to lies and defamation that in turn will result in you going to court and very likely lose the case. So forget about these large scale retaliation tactics. You feel you want to retaliate? Just use your voice, tell your friends (who either already care or won’t care) and perhaps (at the most extreme case) go to websites and one star their products.

But forget about the elaborate plans, if you going that far, just do something more productive and create something to fill the void.

Had a feeling posting while sleep deprived wouldn't be too good. While I admit, it sounds petty, last night at least, I had thought it for the "greater good".
Based on things I've been hearing since the close down announcement and reauters it seems it's a case of when, not if NCsoft crumbles, and if they crash quick enough then games might end up in new hands and be running again before they're all totally dead. And based on what I've seen, it seemed like all that would be required is to continue to speak the truth about their business practices, at most taking out some newspaper ads and maybe a Korean translator for a final push.
That's what I was thinking last night anyway, deal a deathblow to a jerk company, save all their current games in the processes. But guess sleep deprivation leads to odd thinking.

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Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler That...was a Herocon 09 exclusive easter egg. The powerset will not have doves associated with it. Namely because you guys would want to color tint the damn doves, or make them hawks/ravens/flying sharks/etc and that's just a headache I do...not...want...to deal with.

Generally, if you ever have to ask yourself if an idea is legal or not, it's probably best not to go any further with it.