Everyone probably doesn't know who I am.. I don't post often here.. but I do keep tabs on things and how stuff is moving forward with the successors.. so I'll drop my dime here for once.
First off.. I was one of the Tabula Rasa players that got the shaft.. annoyingly so. Loved that game, so decided "well.. ncsoft can't be that bad, maybe it's just a cultural thing?"...
I started in alpha test for CoH.. then beta testing CoH.. and had a blast. I literally DROOLED when the launch came.. I was in game the DAY it went live. Over the years I'd drift back and forth, depending on what the rest of my world was doing at the time.
I can vividly recall calling in sick to work (thank god I don't have those jobs anymore and can admit it now!) when just about every major update went live.
I can vividly recall getting into the global chat and asking if anyone wanted to watch my defender solo Kraken (and got Dev's asking questions while I did)..
I can vividly recall spending 5 days off with NO SLEEP trying to beat the Dr. Quaterfield TF with like.. 4 different teams of people.. before they allowed you to log off and return later. (never did finish it *sigh*)
and now..
I can vividly recall my reaction to seeing my most HATED character in the game that we loved with all we where in a new game, by the same developer, with some goober stating it was a "labor of love". PUhhhh leese!
The ONLY reason the character is in another game is to maintain IP rights so they can try to run the price up on anyone who wants to license it for a successor. I don't even like that CoT is doing any sort of business with NC, and if I had known that I probably would NOT have pitched into their kickstarter to be honest. But, i did, and I'm here for the haul.. even if that haul is to put NC's collective backsides into a wheelbarrow and haul them to the dump. The will NEVER see another penny of mine, and even if this wasn't a "slap in teh face" or "intended insult".. even if Statesman is a total tool that I thoroughly enjoyed beating the crap out of (only reason I EVER took a villan to 50 was to watch my robots dismantle him faster than a Rikti falls out of their launch craft).. he was still OUR Statesman.. from OUR game.. part of OUR community.
** Stock Predictions : dump any NC Soft stocks faster than the hot pan you grabbed making dinner ***