Fundraising idea for Nate and crew:
Allow players to pay ahead of the re-opening to reserve character names (across all servers) and global names. The alternative is (of course) to just roll a name in-game and hope nobody got it already.
At $20 each I'd probably pay for only 2.
At $10 each I'd probably pay for 5.
At $5 each I'd probably pay for 7.
So for me, $10 per name seems to be the sweet spot for the revival effort to make the most money from me ($50).
How much would the rest of you be willing to spend if the names were reserved for $20, $10 or $5 each?
Eh... Personally, I don't think that there should be a cost to Reserve Names, that'd be like making people buy the Peacebringer, Warshade, Arachnos Widow & Soldier Archetypes... Top of that, $5 for 1 Name? That alone is a bit expensive just for a character name...
Lineage 2 is NCSoft's baby, their signature game.
It's like choosing to hire your less talented best friend over a more talented acquaintance. Not saying it's a good choice, but that's the way NCSoft seems to handle things.
That said, just because Lineage 2 is F2P and is considered an inferior game to CoH doesn't mean it deserves to be shut down. It could still be bringing them lots of money from the korean market.
I'm not saying Lineage 2 should be shut down, I just don't think it makes sense that NCsoft has a game that's completely F2P still running, and yet shut down CoH when it was making them money, no matter how small, CoH was still making them money... At the very least, they should've tried to sell CoH before now instead of sitting on it, specially when the reason given for shutting down CoH was because it wasn't making them money