The closing of City of Heroes harkens back to when NCSoft also closed the futuristic-themed MMO "Tabula Rasa." That game's creator, Richard Garriott (aka Lord British), had just returned from a self-funded "space tourism" visit to the International Space Station and was in quarantine in eastern Asia when NCSoft forged a letter supposedly from Garriott, saying he was leaving the game and NCAustin, the NCSoft subsidiary from which he was directing the game's operation. This was presumably done to give NCSoft an excuse to close the game, which they quickly did. Garriott, however, claimed the letter was a forgery. He sued NCSoft and won a judgement in the amount of $28,000,000 US (twenty eight million dollars).
(Now to my personal rant.)
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Since NCSoft has shown they are nothing but a pack of liars, I will NEVER AGAIN purchase or play any game with their name on it. This includes their newest release, Guild Wars II. They will not get another penny of my money nor will I ever stop warning everyone I can about their dishonesty and underhanded business practices.
This has to harken back in some ways to the closing of the "Multiplayer Battletech: 3025" game almost exactly 11 years ago, on December 6, 2001, and the feeling of loss and puzzlement it created. Whether or not you played, CoH, I hope you can see how the sudden, unnecessary closing of a game which had been "home" to hudreds of thousands of players has caused a LOT of hard feelings directed toward NCSoft.
On a personal note, two members of my "supergroup" (guild/clan) met online at one of our ingame functions. They immediately hit it off and they started playing their characters together. Ingame interaction led to phone calls and video chats, then a meeting in person. This was no small feat as she lived in Texas and he in Australia. He came to visit her. That was all it took. Sparks flew. Later, she visited him in Australia where they were married. The next few months were pure torture as she returned to the US and he began the process of coming to live with his new bride. His permanent residency was recenly approved (YAY!) and he arrived in Texas to set up housekeeping with his wife just a couple days before City of Heroes was due to shut down. They did get to spend the last night of the game side-by-side in real life while online with the rest of us in the SG.
So, here's a salute to the players of Pin-Up Girl and Proud Citizen, may your life together be long and happy!
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I was wondering, how many CoH players do we have here in the MWO community? I found this image online. As a show of support for the community...the FAMILY that was and still is City of Heroes, I've added it to my .sig on any websites' forums on which I'm active. I would like to encourage other gamers to do the same...to display it whether or not you were ever a CoH player. Make your support known for the fair treatment of and honest dealing with players of online games by developers and publishers. Let's not allow City of Heroes to have died in vain.
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Thanks for your time...
-Irish
(aka Liberty Eagle, Virtue Server, City of Heroes - Global ID: @Power Play - coh.com Forum ID: Power_Play)