IF Score went public right after the shut down or during the first few years especially when sales talks seemed to be moving along, things would have imploded.
NCsoft very likely would have shut ScoRe down and ceased all talks and we'd be left in the cold.
That being said, it is a shame that they had to be private for so long and discourage rumors about their server, but as the Discord has shown, it only takes ONE TROLL to cause panic, and dare I say....discord. That is what happened this past week and now they are picking up the pieces.
If NCSoft gets their head out of their corporate assets and sanctions a community with Titan overseeing it, that would be great. However if Score still sticks to their plan to create private server packages even if NCsoft sanctions a community then that is even better.
NCsoft could turn around and shut down a sanctioned community for all we know and we'd be all left in the cold again.
Also private servers will exist even if a sanctioned community does happen. I am quite confident that once a "private server for dummies" package is available to download I shall work to get my own server up and running, it may not be overnight, and I would still want to use the sanctioned community but I will still have a private server of my own.
NCSoft is losing this fight at long last and as some have mentioned it is possible that different people are running the show over there and we might get a more reasonable response.
As to the person that swiped the i24 code and player database so that Score could get running and now we all have a chance to return to our city.......
.......THANK YOU.