Golden Girl

I'm the same - although we've gotten used to the ramped up flow of content since Freedom launched, I'm totally ok with an extended "quiet period" if another publisher takes over the game.

From what I've read, the license for the engine is open-ended - SOE would get it with the rest of CoH.

Social networking is a double-edge sword for even the biggest corporations - here's a neat little story about how a MacDonald's Twitter campaign took an unexpected and unstoppable turn:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1223678.html

However, we're still in the peaceful negotiation stage, so I don't suggest any excessively negative campaign against NCSoft just yet.

Right now, the key thing to get across to the media is that a popular, profitable, long-running and family-freindly MMO has been axed by NCSoft with no definite reason given for the closure, and that thousands of players are doing everything that they can to convince NCSoft to sell the game rather than close it - this sums up the situation, and shows NCSoft to be in the wrong, but still leaves an opening for them to make a graceful departure from CoH by accepting the wishes of the fans.

And if they are, I'd also sub to DCUO as sign of gratitude, even if I'd never play it.

I've got a few ideas for that already - but that's only if we get to the war stage.
Right now, we're trying for a peaecful solution, using the very resonable pitch of "if you don't want the game anymore, then please sell it to someone that does - selling it will actually get you some money, which the planned shut down won't".

People have been reporting that they've been unable to log on to the Beta server - we were assuming that the "all development ceases at once" stuff meant just that, and that all the non-live servers had been shut down.

We're the Resistance - right now, we're on the Warden path - but a switch to the Crusader path is still an option.

We might still see it - don't give up just yet.

They had a lot to do with it - basically, they got hit by the WoW-train, and decided tto try and make their game more like WoW, but with lightsabers - which,m interestingly, was the same design thought behind EA/Bioware's recent MMO.
That kind of thing happening to CoH is unlikely, as it's already 8 years old, and is the leading title in its marketplace - there's not a bigger title that it "has" to try and match.

If you want a huge positive, then you just need to look at the EverQuest franchise - the original version is 13 years old, and still being run and updated, along with the 8 year old sequel - and a 3rd version of is currently in development - so SOE seems to be not only happy to keep open and update older games, but is also apparently totally fine with running multiple versions and investing in a successful IP - and if that was the angle they were going to take with CoH, then the future would be looking not only very safe, but also rather bright.

Don't give up just yet.

I support any and every attmept to save the unique community and game that we have here.

You might also be interested to know that there's a rumor currently going around that the mind-bogglingly wealthy SOE is making an effort.

It applies to all accounts.

Any, very importanly in the current MMO market, it has an established hybrid payment model - it's not like they're picking up a struggling title and then adding a F2P option in the hope it'll work - what they'd get in CoH is a stable and profitable title with an established F2P system.
For any buyer, CoH is very much a "pick up and play" title that can generate a profit without needing any extra investment above the level it was receiving from NCSoft.

So far, NCSoft is too good at those.

I'm trying to think of a situation on CoH that I'd regret more than a total shut down of the game.

CoH also has a ratehr unique and complex engine with years of twaks and fixes - why hire someone who didn't know how it worked and spend time training them when there are developers out there and available who kow the whole thing inside out?
Plus, there's the whole retun on their investment angle - if they buy the game, they'd very likely want it -and especially the Paragon Market - up and running as soon as possible - and there are unfinished power sets and cosutme parts already on Beta, as well as a whole Issue, and the people who worked on it are still available to continue working on it.
I just can't why SOE buy the game, then put it into maintenance mode for a few months while they hire and train a whole new dev team for a relaunch, rather than just rehiring the original devs and getting the subs and market cash flow back up and running within a week.

It's still the biggest and most popular superhero MMO in the market, and still profitable - it's also a well-loved and respected title that would bring class to any company's stable of titles.

Hopefully, the fact that they do seem to be short of money, and September is the last month of this financial quarter, a offer for the game could tempt them to sell.

If that's not a typo, then I like your use of "love".

I was thinking that - we're into the last month of Q3 now - I think that it could be very hard for them to turn down a multi-million dollar boost in September.

That's the problem - the studio wa working on CoH and another project, so they'd need a new project to work on.
But going by how SOE seemed quite happy to develop, launch and run EQ2 beside EQ1, then they could green light COH2 from the studio - or possibly go for a GR-style paid expansion as part of a bigger investment in their recent purchase, in the same way that NCSoft bought CoH then backed a dumper truck full of cash up to the studio door and asked the devs what they'd like to do with the game - which then brought us power customization, the AE, a graphics revamp, side switching, Praetoria and the Incarnate system.