Goddamn it...

[Shenanigunner]

I'm not prepared to have CoX go away.

Anyone besides George still out there? Anyone up for a few last old-school
teams?

Any chance another host, like Steam, might pick up the game?

Typical... I hang out until everyone else has found another party.

[George Johnson]

"Shenanigunner" <n...@NOnitrosyncreticSPAM.com> wrote in message
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Well, when I lost my previous job I reluctantly had to unsubscribe to
City of Heroes (choice of food or fun and cannot have fun if I have no
food).

I stopped posting here for quite a while too (used to repost all of the
game update news regularly).

Best chance for the game's survival is being picked up by STEAM or Zynga
right now.
Have it be a modest cash cow in a large herd of modest cash cows or
another ready-sell title to add to the STEAM playlist library.

There are some movements in play (I alerted the COH/V player community
in-game through the "Looking for Group" channel in my "Underbear" guise),
but most are the useless "petition" nonsense and trying to ape celebrities
into voicing support for an 8-year-old game (though updated frequently) in
the media. Petitions are fine for "emotional closure" purposes (granting
the illusion that the petition signer "did something" when all they actually
did was add another number increment to a long list that very few will
read). Focused petitioning for a suitable new home for continuing the game
and transferring the player accounts intact is what is needed for a useful
goal to be gained.

Talk is many things, but usually for an orphaned game and game-studio
team, what is needed is direction and focus and most importantly the talk of
earnable profit by adopting the now orphaned game of "City of Heroes" into a
new homestead.

[George Johnson]

"Shenanigunner" <n...@NOnitrosyncreticSPAM.com> wrote in message
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Oh and one other thing to consider.
If NC-SOFT was making suitable profit with "City of Heroes" (allegedly
the most profitable NC-SOFT title), then axed it while betting to the point
of suicidal over-leveraging on GUILD WARS 2 & AION...

...what shall happen now that the reliably profitable goose of "City of
Heroes" is gone?

Yep. Financial ruin.
Short-sighted idiocy is always a punishment to the idiot and to all whom
are unfortunate to care about the idiot.

As I've been telling folks, if you have good friends in "City of Heroes"
SHARE EMAIL ADDRESSES OR PHONE NUMBERS. Convert your gaming friends into
REAL WORLD FRIENDS.

Plus, it also creates a large and very powerful networking unit of
people concerned about finding their social game a new kinder suitable home.
When the game shuts down, the communication network found in the "City of
Heroes" will also go with it plus all of the real world contact information
of your friends unless that contact information is shared before the game
shuts down possibly forever.