The main thing is we have hope and now you know it isn't a false message - it is a real possibility and if all else fails we have a notion of how to approach NCSoft and the fact that they ARE approachable. I have said in the past once you find out some of what happened and put all the pieces together - NCSoft wasn't the ogre people thought they were.
If you still harbor resentment towards NCSoft look at the type of deal they are willing to make - have you ever heard of something like this? They are willing to set up a holding company - yes in partnership with NCSoft and allow people to License the City of Heroes brand to be official games based off the original.
They are even willing to set up a company to run the Legacy CoH and let it be self sustaining. I can't help but think that NCSoft has realized they do minimal work, they get money back in licensing and likely a cut of the Legacy server profits little. It is a perfect deal with no risk - because they can just close the game again if needed.
I know it's not a false message, but from everything you and downix have told us so far, it's also not a
fast process. Who said anything about resentment towards NCSoft? If anything, this has made me far more positively disposed towards them than I have been for over 2 years now. That said, the one detail that
has shone through these negotiations to date is that they have been prolonged ones, and may continue on for quite some time into the foreseeable future. In short, we are
not "almost there," unless one has a very...
extended definition of the word "almost."