Still, the hoping of a core group of former players (of which I am definitely one!) has little to do with the actual priority level of CoX at NCSoft these days. People are getting way too antsy over a game that clearly was thought so little of that it was shuttered in the first place. I seriously doubt that rezzing it or licensing its IP are a big focus for NCSoft or that they have many people working on this.
And it will be a big job for a small group of people (and something they're doing around their jobs and families no less) to bring everything up to the pro level needed to rez and run a game, never mind make other pro games based off its IP, but all that has to happen to NCSoft's satisfaction before the wheels begin turning enough to satisfy many people here. We'll be lucky if anything at all ever happens, so let's try not to get too impatient.
I am hopeful as well things can work out, for so many reasons. Funny thing is I actually ended up with MORE reasons to want to see this succeed(*looking at you and your cruel, con artist filled fan base, CO, and your con artist DEVS). As I frequently said, City of heroes isn't dead, but wrongfully accused and in jail for the moment. It's the communities job to free it. And I want it to show people that not only can it make it, but it can make it without being a WoW clone. City of heroes didn't copy other mmorpgs for the most part, unlike it's competition, which either started out it's own game and turned INTO a wow clone, or was a wow clone from the very beginning.
I get bored of both the competitors, and I even fall asleep playing one of them(CO). Damn it, I need something that keeps me awake. A game shouldn't be so boring to play as to cause me to fall asleep even if I had two afogatos, a third coffee plus two cans of coka cola or mountain dew. I suppose more serious sam will have to do at times. I also liked the faces of city of heroes to, CO's face editor suffers the same oblivion problem of everyone having down syndrome by default while DCUO has no custom faces.
I'm just bored LOL.
And, well, of the three, city of heroes was the most entertaining and I generally never got bored playing it. Enemies were actually a danger to me and had a variety that made them interesting. Powersets were different in feel and actual practice. Controllers weren't just batteries that got yelled at for not playing a very very specific way or not being the very max level(I got yelled at in a tier 3 raid for not being geared for tier 5 or 6 as a controller cause I wasn't providing enough power and they think i'm just a pancakes battery). Support wasn't just babysitting health bars and crowd control actually WORKED IN TEAMS.
Sorry, rant over.