CyberGlitch

Jerk-hacking, coming soon to a buggy emulator near you.

Burden of proof is on you. Considering the facts...Game is cancelled, bunch of amateurish "We are a REALLY heroes IRL!" delusional group wishing ensues, you are out there selling hope in a sieve, etc.

I'm pretty sure one of us is grounded in reality slick. And it's not you.

And as for personal attacks.....so nice to meet you Mr. Kettle. LoL

Ahem....this is not the hype you are looking for.....

Every game in history that has a server component controllable by players has been hacked in one fashion or another to create "new derivatives."

I have historical evidence to back up my beliefs. You have wishful thinking to back up yours. And cluelessness.

I'm sure you hope so, or your online persona becomes even more meaningless.

Oh and an update for you from this morning:

Ha, no. I'm talking completely rewriting the powers in this game.

The one sole voice of logic, reason and sanity in this asylum. Bravo.

Emulators=eventual hacked gameplay and "fixes " that won't fix anything. Stalkers with blaster nukes and tankers with Defender debuffs. Emulators will kill an already dead game, perverting the gameplay.

You are off by a minimum of 30% for tech talent in that part of the country. Even if the dev team were bottom rung newbies you'd still be low by 20%. I have support desk workers making $65k in the Midwest.

We also don't know what, if any, continuing royalty payments were going back to Cryptic. And just speculative on my part, but shuttering the business entirely may have presented far more lucrative benefit to NCSoft for tax and closing cost consideration than either selling it or putting it on life support. Businesses often have more incentive to kill a line entirely due to all the write offs they can lump in there. And not having to pay huge severances per employee contracts.

Regardless of profitability, businesses only invest money in an entity that shows signs of growth. It's called return on investment. In today's economy, with interest rates so low, there's even more demand from investors to show a big return, as just "making money," when all you can get is 2% from same, isn't enough.

And nobody disputes that this game has been shrinking for years now. It wasn't an attractive investment for NCSoft any longer. And it won't be to anyone else either, other than as a hobby perhaps.

As bad as CO is, it was written by Cryptic, the same team that developed COH. Which just proves how hopeless a "spiritual successor" to this game would be, particularly if written by a bunch of amateur freelancers.

Obstacles? They don't have to do a thing to defy your wishes.

But ride on you little broomstick cowboy! Ride on!

Same/better salary? Same/better benefits? Doubtful in either case as the "saved" COH will likely be run on a shoestring budget and a skeleton crew. And let's not forget the confidentiality and non-competes in place with the old employer will need to be removed to even allow for this. Then you are talking about everyone moving to a brand-new, high risk startup likely without any benefits program in place at all.

"Great Community" isn't enough. Even if the negotiations are successful, building a newco on the ashes of the old is a high risk maneuver. Doing it without the devs that know the code is all but impossible. And how many players are willing to pay $30/month to keep playing if that's the new price point to keep the game stable and prosperous.

Goodwill may be nice, but the entire subscriber base only managed to scrape up enough dough to pay for a couple of dinners. What if we have to pay for the developer salaries via higher gaming fees? Think everyone will go along? What about the inevitable cost-saving measures like reduced server availability, reduction in new content releases, forced server consolidation, etc? People always ALWAYS react negatively to change at first. What few subscribers remain after the reboot aren't likely going enjoy the reality that while Paragon may yet live, the city maintenance crew is going to be spread mighty thin, the taxes will be higher and any new things like power sets, content and fixes will take forever to manifest, if ever at all.

Not to mention that there it is likely that all player-created content (including all characters) won't be so easy to migrate to the rebooted version of CoH. A handful may have used the extract tool (assuming the new version allows importation), but most players could return to an empty character roster. You think that's going to be welcomed? I've seen nothing to indicate a solid plan for game continuity....sacrifices will be made and some (most?) players aren't going to like the personal sacrifice this will entail.

Guess only time will tell.

Depends on how well the code had been documented. Parachuting in a new Dev team, even for just routine maintenance, is NEVER trivial. Anyone in the business of software knows this.

Even if it is, won't be worth playing after so many have left, including the talent behind it.