What upsets me more than anything now is the treatment we got from NCSoft.
Paragon Studios was greenlighted to release Issue 24 at any time, and produce more Paragon Store content, up until they were all suddenly fired on August 31st. They were lied to, and then caught by surprise. And these are not disgruntled employees who would take a 60 or 90 day notice badly. NCSoft shut them down this way just to show that they could.
Players were told that all attempts at selling City of Heroes had failed. Then we had people who were making offers come out of silence, telling us that NCSoft lied, that they rejected every attempt at a serious offer, and even mocked some of them by adding in crazy terms that no one in their right mind would agree to.
Then as a final insult, NCSoft supposedly "leaked out" that City of Heroes had to shut down before it could be sold because of legal issues. That's ridiculous, it was yet another attempt at earning silence from players so they could shut CoH down and make it disappear in peace.
NCSoft has not treated us players, or even their own developers, with the slightest bit of respect, or even as human beings. We've been lied to, mocked, and t-r-o-l-l-e-d, and treated like garbage. Even the new game they've been touting so much, Blood & Soul, is poking fun at us gamers, implying that all we need is over-sexualized weird looking models with a stripper dance to stare at for a few hours, and we'll be happy to throw money at them for it. They expect us to not only give up our home, but also take abuse, and then line up like good little consumers and wait for more. NCSoft is a gaming company that *hates gamers*, and makes sure we know it.
I know it's not realistic to ask everyone to avoid NCSoft, because some of you already have active subscriptions with some of their other games and are enjoying them, or want to. But beware, because this sort of treatment awaits you again someday.
NCSoft: We are insulted and angry. We deserved better. Your horrible handling of this will not go unnoticed in the MMO world.