Thanks for the article, William!

Here's to hoping we'll see a resurrection of CoH!

Also, Dampyre, if the game was losing them money, then why not let Paragon Studios buy themselves out, like they tried, and continue on their own?

If it was just about the money that would've been the smart thing to do; they'd have cut their losses and even recuperated some of them from the sale.

Instead they chose to be incredibly petty about it and kicked 80 people out without even any advance warning. And then afterwards they refuse to sell the IP to make sure the game stays dead.

If it was a famous IP, like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc... I could see why they'd want to hold onto it... but CoH's I can only see decreasing in value the longer it stays on the shelves.

Originally posted by Azaron_Nightblade

Thanks for the article, William!

Here's to hoping we'll see a resurrection of CoH!

Also, Dampyre, if the game was losing them money, then why not let Paragon Studios buy themselves out, like they tried, and continue on their own?

If it was just about the money that would've been the smart thing to do; they'd have cut their losses and even recuperated some of them from the sale.

Instead they chose to be incredibly petty about it and kicked 80 people out without even any advance warning. And then afterwards they refuse to sell the IP to make sure the game stays dead.

If it was a famous IP, like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc... I could see why they'd want to hold onto it... but CoH's I can only see decreasing in value the longer it stays on the shelves.

Read the thread, those questions were already answered.

Basicaly in a nut shell....NC Soft  decided to discontinue city of heroes....becasue they not only had the newest Guild Wars coming out, but they also wanted to support their newest game they had been hyping like crazy Blood and Soul.  If you actualy decide to look at their profits for each game you will see the biggest loser title being Lineage 2, followed by AION which has had trouble for quite a while.  As a gamer if you have played both titles you know why this is. (aside form age of game the over game play for these two titles have had alot of issues and tons of damage control that just has not worked as well as I am sure they wanted....go figure...nepotism causes this sort of thing.) 

As for it not being profitable.....it was...it just was not enough of what they wanted...in addition they decided to change focus....You can see this statement issued by them in many places including thier announcement about the sunset and in many issued statements.  What that means in video games terms is that they decided to go with a specifc genre of games and focus on that only.  Thus they went to the Fantasy style of gaming and Super Heroes doesnt exactly fall with in that genre.

I dont actualy know why they decided to discontinue it like they did.....they really made some big names in the entertainment and writing and movie industries very angry though(you could have read this on the city of heroes forums when they existed but can still read right now on the titan network forums for some juicy stuff)

But the biggest reason this is continualy being brought up... if anyone has been part of game shutdowns....I have a number of times....this time it was handled alot differently then the usual......In every game before city of heores....the number one thing companies do is try to keep players...in this case they usualy do the old we will give you the time you pre-paid for on another game title.....or discounts on other games they have or are coming out with....they did this on Auto Assault, and Lineage and Dungeon Runners and even Tabula Rasa....but with this one....they instead....didnt send out any emails....they simply gave people back credit..and that was it....any calls or emails to them where answered with a response of the game is being sunset on the date and nothing else.

So strangely enough this is why this thing keeps getting brought up like a dead horse....is becasue the players....noticed the company didnt try to keep them....they literaly didnt try to sell the game nor any other games....and they didnt seam to care they ticked off some influential big wigs in differing fields...which kind of goes way against the typical game company strategem...and what is even more strange...is the fact that many other game companies have been super supportive to a point you can tell that the moderators and workers in those other companies are just as mystified.....thus the reason you dont see the city of heroes stuff taken off the blizzard forum...or from the perfect world forums or the secret world....

Yes its very irritating to players who never played city of heroes and would never have played it and could care less....

But the mystery is there and thus....its why its brought up.

Figured I would post all of this to get people up to speed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/09/markets-korea-stocks-idUSL4N0AE2UK20130109

"We advise cutting losses on NCsoft - we see continued cannibalization of existing games and at best moderate success for new games in China," Morgan Stanley analyst Sam Min wrote in a research note on Wednesday.

Their stock is half what it was this same time last year. HALF. And still falling.

So NCSoft? About that new direction you were talking about?

How's that working out for ya? 

"we see continued cannibalization of existing games"

Not good, and a pointer to where the MMO industry is heading.

I played CoX from start to nearly finish.  I had a lapsed a few months before sunset and came back to find it gone. 

I enjoyed writing content in AE and the veteran rewards at the time.   It was my first MMO.  It was not like any other MMO at launch and I haven't found any I like better.   I've played others  including AoC, SWToR, Fallen earth, Secret world, Planetside 2, Rift.... none kept me for more than a month or three.  Waste of time and sometimes money.

I really may be done with MMOs but I am certainly done with NCSoft.  I've read every thread I could find about the sunset and reasons behind it and arguements about the profitability. 

ncsoft should sell but obviously for their own reasons they won't.  They pulled the rug out from under CoX.  It;s their choice but it's my choice to not send another dollar their direction.