In less than 10 days that is the absolute MINIMUM ncsoft would have earned from me if city of heroes had not been shutdown. I had 3 paid accounts and many store bought items and for the foreseeable future would of bought god knows how much more stuff from the paragon market.
Sometimes I would easily spend 30 - 50 $ a month just in paragon points, hell I was even about to buy the 3 extra enhancement trays just so I'd have that much more stuff to sell after a good farm. That's just me on my poor landscaping salary. Just looking at the city of titans kickstarter; I can only imagine what the folks that pledged 1000$ - 7500$ and even that one 10000$ pledge person spent when they played city of heroes. Well I pledged and city of titans will likely be what gets all of my spending money, come 2015 (or whenever)
I just thought that needed to be said and encourage all of you; feel free to post how much money ncsoft lost from you this almost full year without city of heroes. And for that person that made the call to shutdown city of heroes, I hope you feel as dumb as the kids do in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQr3gkk1bXM
Right now, I'm buying up the DLC for Civ5, as I'm playing that way too much right now. I have the game and its two expansions.
That's likely money that would have been spent on CoH, if it was still around. So, there.
Admittedly, they probably only lost $180 or so from me, but it depends on how much the Specialist Power Pools would have cost, and whether I would have eventually given in and paid extra for Titan Weapons (or whatever other powersets they may have released by now) like I did for Staff Fighting. I was definitely getting Sorcery and Gadgetry regardless, though.
I was on the monthly subscription, so whatever that adds up to, plus I wasn't shy about throwing down $20-50 at a time for new stuff from the Paragon Market. By now it would have probably been a new powerset or two (Radiation Armor, Psi Melee, Etc), plus any enhancements I would have wasted money on due to laziness. Not a LOT of money, but certainly more than they are getting from me now.
In the year since shut down, between my husband and I (three accounts between us) we could have spent $300 on subs and cash shop goodies. Not much compared to the multi-millions their other games are making, but instead, I haven't spent anything on any of their games in the more-than-year since the announcement. That's not to say I haven't spent money on games or even MMOs - I've spent plenty - but NCsoft didn't see a single cent.
They lost about $260-300 in subscription fees from me, plus godawful amounts in the cash shop.
Oh well. CoT got a good chunk of that money.
I didn't always keep my sub up for CoX after Freedom. It depended a lot on current circumstances. I do, however, have a monthly gaming budget and I spent that pretty freely in the store quite often. I keep receipts for that sort of thing, so I could add it up I suppose. I don't think I need to, though. It was more than the cost of a monthly sub that they were making off of me not counting when I was paying a sub on top of that at the very least.
I wonder how much these perceived "losses" measured up to whatever budget shortfalls NCSoft experienced. $10,000 for an industry giant (face it, NCSoft still is) is pocket change. $10,000 could buy a server, maybe two if you were budget conscious - but it would only be a bump in the road in the long term. The short term "crash" NCsoft's stocks experienced is pretty much over with - they've rebounded to the levels they were at in October 2012.
I wasn't a big spender in the cash shop (although I did buy stuff), but I was a faithful subscriber for virtually the entire run...and would still be today.
Quote from: Dollhouse on November 20, 2013, 04:10:39 PMI wasn't a big spender in the cash shop (although I did buy stuff), but I was a faithful subscriber for virtually the entire run...and would still be today.
I subscribed for maybe 3/4 of the time after the EU launch, but I dropped it when I was out of work in 2011, so I wasn't a subscriber when the black dawn came. Pity.
I was subscribed from the day I got the game in February of 2007, to the day it shut down. And after Freedom I spent a good $40-50 in the store each month, too. It's kind of interesting actually having money to give to other things now, since it doesn't all get spent on CoH.
I publicly griped and hollered about not spending one more dime besides my subscription fee and then Paragon Studios kept releasing so much awesome content that I began spending at least that much in the shop every month. Plus, didn't they comp us for the last three months? So 15 months x $30 (at least) is $450 (at least). GOG.com got a good part of that. Hell, so did Everquest, for a few months.
I went through my last twelve credit card statements before the shutdown. My total was $265.34. Some of that is sales tax.
With subs and my regular spending habits I'd wager NCSoft has lost at least 300$ from me over the past year without City of Heroes.