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Quote:We're working on it - it's going to need a minor miracle, but giving up isn't what heroes do.Originally Posted by evilnick2093
Please, please save this game. -
If NCSoft is prepared to axe not noly one of their best known and longest running games but also an entire studio and the next gen MMO project it was working on, then I don't think the Premium/VIP difference would have changed anything.
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The "been" in the title should be "are" - we're not done yet.
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Quote:The situation here is a little differrent - if NCSoft really are "refocusing" on the Asian market, then selling off a Western-focused title might not matter to them as much as when they were still looking to play a big role in the Western market.Originally Posted by Killerkitty
the community tried to buy Tabula Rasa before too... NCsoft would rather see something burn and be buried rather than anyone else having control.
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We're not done yet.
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Quote:They were prepared to support it while they had a Western focus - but the decsion to focus on the Asian market seems to have come recently, posisbly as the result of the large investment in NCSoft by a Chinese company last month.Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
And yet they still bankrolled Freedom after that failure, so it's not a fair excuse.
Obviously Freedom wasn't launched in the east, so "Well it didn't appeal to the eastern market" isn't a fair reason for shutting down COH.
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Just a warning from Funcom's most recent financial report - TSW is currently projected to miss their lowest sales estimate for the title, so there's a big chance of F2P in the near future for it.
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Quote:It's still floating sround cyberspace somewhere.Originally Posted by Thessalia
It actually had an offline character creator, which would be so awesome to have again.
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Quote:It was sold - and it didn't sell well.Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
The ultimate point here is that NCS obviously knew COH had no eastern market, so that's just not a fair excuse to me. Why fund Freedom if your fallback for it not meeting your expectations is "Well it had no Eastern market."
No **** it had no Eastern market. It wasn't even sold in the East.
That meant that CoH was then flagged as Western-only MMO in NCSoft's eyes - which is fine if they're fosuing on the Western and the Asian markets - but not so fine if they decide to "refocus" everything on the Asian market, as they seem to be doing now. -
I was just pointing out that there was a reason that there was no mass migration from CoH to CO, and why it went F2P in a year.
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Quote:The "kinda" part being that it had no spirit?Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
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Quote:I know - the Asian failure wasn't really through any fault of CoH - it's a game based on one of the most iconic parts of American pop culture, so it'll travel well to some places, and not so well to others - and it looks like NCSoft are now focusing on one of those places that it didn't travel so well to.Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
Super Heroes are western icons. That seems like more of a cultural conflict to me- For whatever reason, Asian culture is very popular amongst the gaming-inclined folks in the west. They just didn't seem to reciprocate the feeling when it came to heroes.
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Just in case they go down sooner than expected, this is where any rescue effort will come from:
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Quote:The game is still profitable - it's not being closed because it's not making money.Originally Posted by Residentx10
This is so sad but we mentioned the F2P issue.
I tried to tell them the sub 50 content was the best content in the game but they kept pushing the incarnate nonsense. Now we don't get to see the final slots or the coming storm.
I wish they would of listened...they barely made it a year with freedom. -
Quote:Well, it failed to gain any market share in Asia, so it would have dropped down NCSoft's priority list.Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
The game didn't go wrong anywhere.
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Quote:If crazy is all we've got left, then we'll just have to be crazy.Originally Posted by Mad Grim
If those don't work, we basically create a new game with the spirit of CoH from the ground up. The Engine, the Lore, everything. If we can get the Creator right, if we can get the devs, if we don't get legal down our backs, maybe it'd feel like home.
Maybe we're crazy.
Worth a shot.
And lore-wise, the comic book setting makes it easy to avoid legal trouble while still creating a very similar setting. -
An emulator is one of the options being considered - but right now, the focus is on trying to get NCSoft reverse its decision, or sell off the game to another publisher or to a Kickstarter fan project.
If that doesn't work out, we're going to try getting them to release the IP, and maybe even the server code.
If that doesn't work out, things get complicated - but not impossible. -
Quote:It wasn't a joke.Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
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Quote:I thought that was NCSoft?Originally Posted by Tunnel Rat
HA! You guys are killing me.
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We'll miss you too - and Honey Badger - both of you did such amazing effects work.
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Quote:A rebirth of CoH as a player run game would make a lot of news - and not just on gaming sites - it'd be a story with so many hooks, and the word would get around pretty fast.Originally Posted by CuppaManga
The players, mostly. There's no way a game like CoH can be made in 3 months. By the time it's done, the players will be long gone somewhere else, and out of contact. Also, possibly some other game company with more people and money will have beat us to it.
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Quote:Friday was their last day - on Monday, they won't be back at work.Originally Posted by starphoenix
Assuming that the devs will still work on new content
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It means so much to you - and so many others - because it's an MMO, and after a certain period of time, an MMO becomes more than just a game.
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Quote:The Titan Network is basically a fan-run hub for various other fan-run CoH websites:Originally Posted by magikwand
I don't know much about Titan Network, but I can tell that if you are up for saving the Cities that we have saved countless times, I will do what I can to pitch in.
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Quote:I'm pretty sure you weren't the only one of the team that cried yesterday.Originally Posted by Black Pebble
I cried yesterday. Of course they were very macho, manly tears.
Today, it hit me that not only is the team gone, but the game will be too. Then I cried slightly less manly tears.
