Frankly, I am not for the regulation of business by any government. At least not like this. I don't like what NCSoft did, but I'm also tired of people looking to elected officials to solve all their problems. Everything comes to an end. If you are lucky, you can witness a movement of a number of people to bring it back like Team Wildcard is doing. But leave the government out of it.
Let me put it this way. The people give government its power, right? Well, where does it come from? That's right the people. The more power we give them, the less we have. Not exactly a great thing to do, historically.
Your post helps me recognize how different all our views can be different but I firmly believe that no matter our differences, if we always genuinely work together to find the middle, we have considerably less chance of being completely wrong.
Firstly, let me say that I take great offence to your usage of the term "Everything comes to an end". It has no place in the matter of "NCSoft vs. Paragon City".
I have absolutely no idea precisely what happened but I know for sure with every fibre of my being that at no point did City of Heroes "come to an end." It was put down. A perfectly healthy Championship race horse was taken out to a field and shot in the back of the head.
I took a couple days off haunting the boards after making this post. It's something that just came to me and I wasn't entirely sure whether I was serious or not, I had enough to keep me busy; a job hunt is a full time job and whatever hours I could afford myself for leisure I put into becoming immersed in a game I was trying to finish years ago. I tried to pay no mind to what might be responded but did every so often drift off to how might an association like this work.
I believe the primary purpose would be to become an embodiment to which the public would have no choice but to say "You know what, I don't agree with everything that everyone says, but if these folks are saying etcetera about this particular matter; then it's got to be right. If it's there, it was quintuple checked and agreed upon by people who know what they're talking about, at least as a collective. "
It's not about regulation; if we start regulating things we are bound to constrict and get in the way of art. Under the banner of such an association, many of the works taken into consideration should be treated as art and it would be wrongful to stand in the way of that. The main power would come from the ability to grant company and product support and provide accurate information and dependable arguments for not supporting a company or their product.
The secondary purpose of such an organization would be to become something that the companies are genuinely afraid of. Companies don't fear anything these days because we've shown them that no matter what they do, they can solve it all by writing someone a check later. The idea is to make them have to say to each other "Look, we're not subject to every whim that comes to our door but if we don't do right by these people on the basics, if we don't have their support; we're sunk. They are reasonable but they are pissed and they are done rewarding bad behaviour"
It's very much a rudimentary idea filled with too much idealism to fit properly in the world as it functions(?) currently but who knows, perhaps with some nurturing.
As for the following, I believe part of it belongs in an entirely different forum but since you brought it up.
Regardless of the realities of life, in my world the people should never give power to their government, they lend power to a collection of people for administrative purposes. If that's not how things are where you are then I'd look into what's within your reach to change that. Elected officials are there to speak for you; if they aren't helping to solve the problems you cannot solve alone, problems that a decent population is up in arms about, then what are they really good for? I know I'm making CoH sound more important than it is; there's bigger concerns in the world, but if governements have the time to argue for a day on a matter and not get anywhere, they have 5 minutes to talk about City of Heroes.
However, I'm not suggesting that the governments come in and solve our problem. I suggest government recognition as a means of reaching up to a platform on which we actually have the means of waging a battle against an entity such as NCSoft. When they announced the closure of CoH, we lacked the power to even ask why and expect an answer. It took a month for them to deem to speak to us. There should be some manner of investigating a situation like the one that has occurred. If not to condemn NCSoft, then to clear their name(I, personally, believe NCSoft is evil and malicious, however not knowing absolutely every detail about what happened; I would be a fool if I completely dismissed the infinitesimally small possibility that they made the right decision). As far as governments go, aside from recognition of "You're pissed and want to be heard in the pursuit of genuine justice.", they would be restricted to assisting in it being a fair fight, not fighting the battle.
