I'm simply being realistic.
What exactly have we done other than reminisce about or game and share treasured memories?
These aren't bad by any stretch of the imagination but I don't think it qualifies as a lot - unless you're talking about the Kickstarter for City of Titans?
I remain sceptical because there is a bare minimum of information being generated and some of what has been said flies in the face of information that we were told previously - by people on this forum.
That information was that NCsoft were not prepared to sell the IP for CoH - even after lengthy negotiations with interested parties.
I'm not disinterested or negative here and I'd be delighted if I was wrong. I want the game back as much as the next person here.
I'm just not seeing what has changed from NCsoft's perspective?
And, to respond to your asking what I meant, we have actually done a lot, though not every effort has been successful, like any of the letter-writing campaigns. Yes, the CoT Kickstarter was a big, public win, on many levels, but look all the way back to the announcement.
We gathered here, which is actually kind of a bigger deal that such a simple statement would suggest. A lot of people have come and gone, and there are a lot of lurkers. I've done all three. The members with the orange dots (or Codewalker...) could likely give more information, there, though it would still be anonymous data. This thread alone has had over 6000 views, though that doesn't say how many are repeat visitors. Some threads are well over 100,000, but, again, the numbers could be meaningless.
In the three months that we had after the announcement, we stirred up press interest. We also saved a
lot! We made videos, we saved as much raw data as we could, we saved zones as much as we could, and we started digging up and sometimes passing "hard" copies of the game, versions that had been sold on physical disks that could be reinstalled on machines.
Yes, we had campaigns. None have borne fruit, but, god, did we rally. We did little things, like sending the devs to dinner, and we did big things, like the Kickstarter. Some of us have supported Valiance, in their own way. We've come together to send cards to family of members, here, when they were sick (or losing their battles). We've helped out members directly when things were tough. Not all of us could give to all of the efforts. I know that I found myself in thin times, financially, during the whole of the Kickstarter, which still irritates me, but we have, all of us, done what we could, when we could.
Ironwolf saw an opportunity to do something, and he started with something so simple that the rest of us either didn't think of it, or we thought, "No! Surely
someone has tried that!" Maybe nothing comes of it, but it's at least another attempt, another sign to NCSoft, and perhaps the larger gaming "world," that
WE'RE STILL HERE!You may not agree with me. You may think that Ironwolf is stringing us along. You may think he's kooky, that we all are for pinning any hope at all on what he says. But you're still here.
And we're all here with you.
That goes for you, too, Ironwolf. For better or worse, crazy or crafty, full of it or -- You get the idea.
/em holdtorch
