I don't know why nc chose to kill off coh. I tend to agree that they should have folded the servers into 1 or 2 and let the game live with little to no support beyond the usual, "I'm stuck" type of help. Frankly, I would have been happy if they never issued another issue. I doubt will ever get the real reason and am willing to bet at least half here wouldn't believe it anyway. That's why I say the reason they killed it is irrelevant.
Why a server consolidation and an ongoing development stasis never happened, is something that still puzzles me over a year later. You would think this would have been worth doing, just for the customer good will this would generate.
They didn't give a damn, and will never give a damn. We are trash to them.
UNLESS! Someone starts making money off a rogue server, then you'd better believe they will land on that with both feet and a team of twenty lawyers, giving not just one but a multiplicity of damns.
That is why it is essential that no money be charged for a reverse-engineering project. Nothing will get NCSoft's attention faster, and not in a good way.
That's kind of like saying, "Star Trek the original series is no longer produced. Hasn't been produced since the 1960s. But I want it back! So I am going to hire my own Kirk, Spock and McCoy. We start shooting in February. Paramount is no longer using this part of the property, so that means its a free for all."
Um, no.