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I no longer think there's any real chance that NCSoft will do anything about this unless the configuration of the company radically changes.
Well...yeah. But hey, we are no worse off than we were before Nate & Crew gave this a shot, and it's amazing they even got this far given NCSoft's typical history with its shuttered MMOs. Every one I can think of (Garriott with Tabula Rasa, NetDevil with Auto Assault, Paragon Studios with CoX) all tried desperately to get their MMOs out of the
evil clutches hands of NCSoft once NC had decided to shut each of them down, to no avail. And they each had a much greater chance of success in that they each had way more experience and resources than anybody trying since then has had.
The fact that Nate & Crew could even turn NCSoft's heads concerning leasing the CoX IP never mind possibly throwing in an image of the i23 shutdown, especially so long after CoX's demise, is impressive. But clearly NCSoft really doesn't care too much about bringing CoX back or licensing it to others to continue on with, or they would have jumped on this a year and a half ago.
Heck, if CoX was in any way valuable to them, they wouldn't have shuttered it to begin with. That's the sad truth.
But it gave us something fun to think about and hope for, and we haven't had even this much of a sliver of hope since the shutdown. So thanks to Nate & Crew, and maybe some miracle will happen down the road and we'll get to play CoX again via NCSoft, or through SCoRE or what have you.