Pagan-Steel

I remember the "Airmen" running around Liberty. All in specific uniforms. All marching to the beat of a few Egomaniacs. You guys quit, but I dont think I noticed when, I think I was populating other servers with more toons.

Has anybody tried to cross the periodic drop of subscribers with the opening of other games? The kids in my house have jumped from one game to another over the past 7 years, while I continued to play CoH/CoV exclusively. That could be part of the problem.

I think the other part of the problem is that NCSoft is Korean, we are not. We do not think like them, and they do not think like us. They go for the grind and the gank.
I want interesting story lines, and lots of explosions.

They want the largest cash inflow for the least amount of cash outflow. And will bring out new games and content after dumping the ones that declined.

I wanted things to tinker with. Playing with Invention recipes was FUN. Mids was like a light beer when you are used to Porter. But it helped to explain what the cumulative effects of the recipes did. And then craft to that model and watch your blaster withstand AOE alpha strikes and keep blasting. YEAH that was fun.

CoH/CoV shuts down, I will go back to tinkering with my 86 Audi, and wait....

Damn went way off topic.

It seems to me. That we need a few things to save this game.
1. NCSoft has to be willing to Release/Sell the Franchise.
2. Someone has to have the cashbacking to buy it.
3. New Server space needs to be found and acquired - more cash.
4. For the game to continue as is, a maintenance team is needed
5. for the game to continue with improvements a developement team is needed.
6. for the game to survive it has to bring in the income to pay back the investor, and pay its bills (server and crew)

I beleive these are the concepts we need to address. Any discussion that does not move any of these forward is not helping, but taking up time for everyone else to have to read to see if there is anything valuable in it.

I would like positive affirmation from somebody that there are discussions goin on about NCSoft selling the franchise.

I would like to see positive reports that funding is being persued. (Investors, Kickstarter, Steam, Blizzard)

Where would I go to find these things?

I agree that NCSoft is not our enemy, however I do not think they are our best buddy either. There has to a working relationship in this.

Flames and thrashing about do not help find the pertinent information I need to keep my own hopes up.