If City of Heroes came back what might stop you?

[Noyjitat]

Im surprised about the negative feedback towards incarnates and inventions. to each his own, I honestly don't think the game would of lasted many more years at all without something to do for max level characters. I know I ran 10's of 1000's of tfs and made 100s of alts. You can only beat up romulous and lord recluse so many times before it gets stale. I was really starting to run out of stuff to do. Issue 16, Incarnates and beyond refreshed that for me; and added what could possibly have been another 5 years of playtime and adventure for me. The route city of heroes was going to me looked like an inexhaustible pool of content. The boss fight experience between a tf and trial was so much different.

I certainly wouldn't call any of that pay to win. If you had been with the game since day 1 you couldn't play without being subscribed anyway. And those features were in the game before freedom launched. It was only logical to require some features to remain with the subscription only to continue making sub money.

To me the best thing to happen would be that someone bought the servers and relaunched CoX so we can continue where we left off. Unless they purged the cox servers already, our login accounts should be stored on them since they were separate from ncsoft master accounts. I hope you all wrote down your passwords and account info.

[r00tb0ySlim]

The thing that would really irk me is the loss of irreplaceable badges. But, lemons out of lemonade....

Yea, the loss of badges sucks, but I would be more than happy to do all 1202 over again.  I overlooked a lot of badges back in the day  :o

[r00tb0ySlim]

To me the best thing to happen would be that someone bought the servers and relaunched CoX so we can continue where we left off. Unless they purged the cox servers already, our login accounts should be stored on them since they were separate from ncsoft master accounts. I hope you all wrote down your passwords and account info.

Wouldn't it be wild if they announced a relaunch at PAX....talk about a trip  ;)

[Noyjitat]

I would /tearsofjoy followed by /heartexplode finally /hospital

[Lucretia MacEvil]

I would alternate between joyful weeping and shouting "about damn time, NCsoft!".  Either way, I'd definitely be grinning for the rest of the week!

[doc7924]

It would suck if I had to redo my 20 or so level 50's all over again, plus the other 30 or so toons of various levels, but if the game came back more or less the same and that was the price, I would have no problem at all with that.

Like other people said, could probably do better the second time around with all the knoweledge gained.

[Golden Ace]

I would really have a hard time trusting them.

best bet is if they sold it.

*hope*

[Kistulot]

If NCIdiocracy bundled CoX with the release of a new game, meaning that you had to buy the new game in order to get back into the City.... would you still do it?

I would do it if I had to buy an Ubisoft game to do it, and Ubisoft was responsible for a game that almost bricked an old computer of mine. While pretending their spyware wasnt to blame for it.

Good times.

[Illusionss]

... You know when they will decide to relaunch this game? I'd lay money on it: we'll get a revival notice a few weeks before Phoenix Project rolls out the gate. I. WOULD. BET. MONEY. That is TOTALLY the kind of **** they would do.

[not much money, but still.]

[Hindenburg]

I think they just want to know if we'd play.  and how much interest.

when i have ss and sj on, or even better combat jumping with IR, and im jumping around AP or any zone.  I feel free.  I mean, the game is kinda like a "inbetween" world.  Almost like a interface.  could work well for "virtual internet" whoa, i should pattent that!

And NO.  Not like second life :p

WHERE'S ELF STALKER!

@hINDEN

[Kaos Arcanna]

... You know when they will decide to relaunch this game? I'd lay money on it: we'll get a revival notice a few weeks before Phoenix Project rolls out the gate. I. WOULD. BET. MONEY. That is TOTALLY the kind of **** they would do.

[not much money, but still.]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised that if either The Phoenix Project or Heroes and Villains make it to launch that NcSoft will be looking them over carefully to see if they have any legal recourse to shutting them down. They'll definitely want to make sure none of the tech or lore they own from City is being used in another game even if they never plan on releasing anything on it again.

[Kistulot]

Thankfully both MWM and HAV are prepared for that! :)

[DarkCurrent]

I already said that the only way CoX is getting sold is due to press about replacement games.  But they'd better hurry up because no one would play the old game if a spiritual successor is on the horizon.

[JaguarX]

I already said that the only way CoX is getting sold is due to press about replacement games.  But they'd better hurry up because no one would play the old game if a spiritual successor is on the horizon.

I dont know. I know plenty of remakes of old games and even with superior graphics I prefered the old one. :p

[saipaman]

Im surprised about the negative feedback towards incarnates and inventions.

I personally found the Incarnate content to be almost 'disconnected' from the rest of the game.  I think there was lots of potential there for 'untold tales of the Praetorian War' story arcs that would have helped glue the Incarnate Trials together into a more compelling story.

At one point, I thought about going back and doing all the Praetorian content, which certainly might have helped, but I never got around to it.

[LadyShin]

I personally found the Incarnate content to be almost 'disconnected' from the rest of the game.  I think there was lots of potential there for 'untold tales of the Praetorian War' story arcs that would have helped glue the Incarnate Trials together into a more compelling story.

At one point, I thought about going back and doing all the Praetorian content, which certainly might have helped, but I never got around to it.

I think that was the whole point of the Incarnate system - You're on top of the world, level 50, you've got gang bosses and secret organizations cowering at your feet, you've smashed the Qularr - I mean, Rikti Invasion - and suddenly you're catapulted into this whole new realm where you start from the bottom up - the challenges you've faced before are insignificant compared to the new threats. This was probably the whole purpose of the Coming Storm - waging a titanic battle on the level of a deity. I'm sure the gluing together of the story arcs would've happened eventually :)... All these random arcs...eventually twining together one by one. Nemesis plots..Pandora's box..Hamidon.. Kronos Titan Projects.. Romulus' meddling.. The Shivan invasion... All tiny pieces of a bigger puzzle. And once you got -there- ... whoa. there goes the universe, hold everything, turn it all around and upside down - everything you thought you knew was a lie. You finally discover the point behind all this madness and have to race forward and back in time, battling against the clock, enemies old and new, former allies and future friends, even yourself, to stop it. Suspense anyone?

[Energy Aura]

Energy Aura would most certainly reappear in CoH.  Level 1 or Level 50 Incarnate makes no difference.

In preparation for the eventual return I have even done several Mids builds using SOs -->IOs-->Sets to level 50 for several of my favorite Heroes and Villains. 

My hopes are that once the "underground" has gotten a working prototype server for individuals to run and host, it will be based on I24 for the most part (some stuff in the final Beta wasn't ready for prime time). And since it may be Beta based, the Paragon Rewards and Paragon Points would be easy to reacquire since Beta market was free (thus all your Vet powers would be a few clicks away).  This would also give individuals running servers a 75% functioning WW/BM since component items self populated in Beta (I believe).

This is my dream.  I'm sure 99% of us here had a group they ran with regularly and one of those individuals could run the server for your group.  Thus making it your world.  After that, characters stored on local machines could run on other servers to get more of a MMO feel for those who enjoy the social aspect.

YES I WOULD PLAY AGAIN.

Here's to all of you and your hopes and dreams...

[tazov91]

well is it? nothing would stop me playing the game again lots of fun best MMO Ever and gone still puzzles me...i look on the web alot for answers if itll ever come back...a piece of me missing..

[Angel Phoenix77]

NCSoft being involved in any way.

None of the other things would stop me at least playing casually other than compulsory open world PvP.

bingo for me as well, ive seen what nc did to tabula rasa, auto assault, and dungeon runners. :(

[srmalloy]

I personally found the Incarnate content to be almost 'disconnected' from the rest of the game.  I think there was lots of potential there for 'untold tales of the Praetorian War' story arcs that would have helped glue the Incarnate Trials together into a more compelling story.

If you did all of the Incarnate trials, you got more-or-less a 'what' for some the events of the Praetorian War, but I agree that it would have been nice to get a contact at, say, 45 that would give you an extended story arc that would have you discover villain groups that are getting equipment that shows odd designs (eventually linking them to Praetoria via an NPC hero/villain who'd left Praetoria). Once you identified the equipment, then you'd follow a trail through the suppliers of that equipment that lead up to discovery and clearing of one or more Praetorian 'forward outposts' on Primal Earth, and finally capping out with missions that send you into the Praetorian facilities on the other end of the links to those outposts to recover information from their commanders or the facility computers. At some point through this, the character would be expected to hit 50, and possibly become Incarnate, with additional missions or goals if they are that provide additional information. And all of this would result in giving more background about what Cole is doing with his invasion and explaining why we need to be doing the Incarnate trials -- and why heroes and villains need to work together to this end -- instead of having them dangling out there with no visible support.