can we get some sort of confirmation on that
Read back through this very thread. There are multiple quotes from Nate from CoX Facebook posts saying it was only ever a longshot anyways, etc. And there are other bits of info on potential reasons Statesman/Tyrant got chucked into Master X Master, and some comments also from Nate, regarding the fact that dead trademarks can expire if left unused. Nate said he even has to release t-shirts for City of Titans to keep its unused (dead) trademark going for the same reason (CoT isn't live yet of course).
Honestly, even the brand manager at NCSoft whose decision it was to bring Statesman into MxM has said he can't get us CoX back in recent MxM interviews. He got approval to move Statesman into MxM back in 2014, which is the time period when Nate's TFHM group was attempting to rez CoX/lease the IP. Clearly NCSoft wasn't taking that too seriously as they approved the MxM thing instead.
Luckily, we have Paragon Chat. To me, that's the closest thing we're ever going to get to seeing CoX running ever again. It's been 5 years since the closure, and several years since the final TFHM group (of which there were others previous to that even) tried anything to save our city. Paragon Chat has really grown since its inception, and I'm hoping it keeps charging forward. It's way better than zero. Have you tried it?
We also have several spiritual successors, all of whom seem quite intent upon coming to fruition. Name one other shuttered MMORPG that has that!
So all hope is not lost, even though it may not be focused on rezzing CoH anymore. At least we do have similar things to look forward to!