When lawmakers take donations to their campaign fund in exchange for doing whatever the rich want, corruption will take over the lawmaking system. There's not much chance of any law forcing NCSoft, who is Korean based anyways, to not keep games like CoX from coming back.
However, as bleak as it is, I won't give up. CoX isn't likely to come back, but I'll be here if it ever does. NCSoft shut down the game under false pretenses, and took a financial blow because of it. Not enough to do much to a company like that, but it's far from the only problem they have, stocks or not. Remember that game, MasterXMaster? No? That's because it died that fast. How about the time that one of their own financial backers threatened to make a hostile takeover of their company if they didn't change certain members of their board of directors? They narrowly dodged that bullet. In short, it's a slim shot, I know, but things can change in a heartbeat. Maybe, by some miracle, someday, they'll decide to not be total jerks about the negotiation. Stranger things have happened.
Paragon Chat is nice for nostalgia, but honestly, I just find it more painful than anything else. I want my friggin' Mastermind back lol. And, Paragon Chat can't bring back the Archetypes, the combat system, the wonderful stories, etc. SEGS would be nice, but, I'm in a wait-and-see mode. Lots of similar efforts have failed, but I wish 'em luck. They'll need some serious perseverance, but perhaps they can come up with something. With any luck, they won't even get shot down by some legal mumbo jumbo. And, there's the spiritual successors. It's not CoX, and can never truly replace CoX, but at least we can get some parts back. Unfortunately, what with the spate of abandonware out there, and the long time it's taking, it's kinda looking shaky at times. Still, it would be nice to get some good successors out there!
NCSoft is a producer, not a developer. They don't make games. They make physical copies of games, box art, ads, etc. They financially back the actual development teams. But, they couldn't develop a decent game to save their life. This is just one of many producers, and most of them are a serious problem to deal with. That's why you see so many indie games these days. Many developers are sick of being told how to do their job by someone who's never had the faintest idea of how to make a game, and so they work either alone, in small teams, or perhaps in mid-size teams of 30, 50, or even 100 developers. They do it without producers. Minecraft, Warframe, Stardew Valley, and many other games were made this way. So, yeah, I don't care for NCSoft, but it's a larger problem than just them.
Anyways, I'm not one to give up. In my life, it's not been a real option. I've fought with a major disability since I was about 3 (although not diagnosed until I was 20). Now I'm 34, and still disabled. I still won't give up, and I still look for any chance to heal, find new ways to progress, and to improve. So, maybe this has hardened me a bit into never giving up lol. But, either way, I'm still hoping that one in a million chance comes up, and CoX comes back. It won't be the same, no more updates like before (although we'll see what happens), but at least it's something. Maybe NCSoft will try to throw the community a bone in an effort to clean up a rather heavily stained reputation or something. You never know.