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Don't forget all funds earmarked for developing future projects is immediately freed up to be used elsewhere. That's tens of millions of dollars where new games are concerned, and Paragon was working on at least one secret project that wasn't City of Heroes.

That is stupid. NCSoft isn't going to sacrifice 3 months of digital GW2 sales waiting to get CoHs servers. Ifthey needed the servers that badly our servers would have been shut down immediately.

If you read the EULA you agreed before playing that the characters you create belong to them. They don't lose any right to that ownership just because you chose to remove your ability to play the character in their game.

The only time they give up their IP rights to the property is when

1. They don't use it after however many years required by law. and

2. They don't defend their ownership of said IP when they learn someone is violating their copyright/trademark to the IP.

It would be nice if they did that for you guys, but if they don't I suspect it's because of whatever credit/refund settlement they eventually decide to offer (if any).

Well getting the stipend is directly linked to paying for a subscription. Since they aren't accepting subscription fees they have no obligation to continue giving out the stipend.

It sucks but it's that simple.

Uhm I just want to point out that deleting characters off of your computer doesn't delete them from the game. I've watched people get characters back several months after they "deleted" them. All they had to do was provide the character name and a rough estimate of when it was "deleted" and they got the character restored with everything it had on it.

Yep. When I see an LTS being offered at the start of a game I do the math and then ask myself if I honestly believe the game will last "x" number of months the LTS is equal to in monthly sub fees. I haven't been disappointed yet.

I think it depends on the laws of whatever country you live in. From what I've seen people saying, I think in EU they might be required to refund the money. Whereas in other places they may not be so required.


If they are pulling out of the Western market as has been suggested, why would they care? If it's true then they've written off the Western market as a waste of time and effort.

And exactly how many NCSoft customers live in Seattle Washington? So they aren't local for most of the customer base and my point still applies.

Small claims are even more useless. Even if you are guarunteed to win, collecting from a person or business that ignores the judgement usually ends up costing the plaintiff more in both time and money than he's willing to spend.

The courts (at least in the US) won't go after them for you. You have to jump thru hoops.

Here's a rough idea of what it's like.

Contact the party that owes you money with a formal letter or notice. As this is your first attempt to enforce the small claims judgment, be polite and offer to work with the person. Don't make threats or harass the debtor.

Arrange for an examination of assets, which forces the other party to disclose his or her income and other assets. This can usually be done through the court.

Consider a settlement for a lesser amount. If the other party cannot afford to pay the entire judgment, he or she may be willing to settle in order to resolve the situation more quickly. This will also cut down on your collection costs.


Begin the Collection of a Judgment

Obtain a Writ of Execution (sometimes called Writ of Attachment or Writ of Garnishment) from the court in order to start the collection process. Simply take the document sent by the court that grants your judgment to the county clerk's office and fill out the proper form for your state.

Head to the sheriff's or marshal's office with your writ and ask for a seizure of assets form. You must know as many details as possible about the assets you wish to be seized. For bank accounts, you only need to know which bank the debtor uses. To garnish wages, you must know his or her employer.

If your attempts to enforce the judgment have failed, consider hiring a professional debt collector or agency.


And that's if the party you sued is local to you. NCSoft is in Korea.

Yeah, I've noticed a couple of offensive threads have been deleted so someone is still moderating the forums.

Are you sure that applies to small claims court? At one point I worked for a small corporation (medical practice) and one of my resposibilities as newest hired employee was showing up at small claims court. And I've never been to law school.

Maybe it's because most people in CoH don't PvP by choice so they aren't interested in PvP in other games either.

That I don't know I only know about Dungeon Runners because I had an account there (along with my CoH account) when it shut down.

They pushed CoH on the Dungeon Runners community when they shut them down.

Fair enough. I'll accept the balancing issue as far as that's concerned, but that does't affect the other things I find to be annoying about their UI compared to ours.

My ability to customize my UI in CoH is something I cherish, and find annoying when I can't do it in other games.

But I honestly don't expect others to agree with me since it's a personal preference.

When Dungeon Runner's shut down they offered those payed subscribers credit towards City of Heroes.

I guess they were being screwed when they were offered the choice to play this game.

And even if NCSoft lost the only legal fees they'd have to pay is the fee the plaintiff spent to file the claim.

They aren't going to pay attorney's to fight a lawsuit over $15-$200 bucks. If anyone actually shows up it'll be some local employee with a copy of the EULA and the reimbursement they offered.

To be honest the CoH UI has never been massive or in the way for me, but then I use the tools provided to customize what appears on my monitor and move items to where I want them, adjust the screen size as well as the window size which in turn gives me a glorious uncluttered view of things.

I can't do that in GW2. My power tray is stuck on the bottom middle of my screen where I personally find it to be a PITA compared to where I prefer to have it located in CoH, and my health window is stuck smack in the middle of my power tray where it's a constant annoyance

The Power Tray is also overlly restrictive. I have more powers/skills than I have slots in my power tray. In CoH if I need more slots I can just open up an additional power tray. I can have 90 powers/skills at my fingertips in CoH. I can never have access to more than 10 in GW2.

My Map is inconviently located on either the lower or upper right corner of my screen where I normally put other things in CoH and I'm forced to have it open at all times, whereas in CoH I can turn it on or off at my convenience.

Oh yes and the mission text is always floating in the upper right corner and cannot be turned off like in CoH so it's constantly interfereing with ones immersion.

No our UI here is vastly superior to GW2's

Good to hear. I was slightly concerned I was missing something.

Yeah, that goes without saying, but it's not a likely outcome. Still hoping tho.