New efforts!

[Tubbius]

I keep seeing sidebar ads for Master X Master, most of them fronting Statesman.

:/

Really, NCSoft?  Not falling for it.

[Prism Almidu]

Ghost Widow is unlockable too, through one of their crossover levels that takes place in Independence Port. You fight the Council, with the bosses of the level being Ghost Widow and Arakhn. Statesman shows up but leaves when the dispatcher NPC calls for aid in Atlas... Nostalgia all around.

[Power Gamer]

Thing is, I never wanted to play as States or Ghost. This is why MCUO did not appeal to me.

I want to play as a character I designed, in a world where I choose the path to take, without all the wonky pay-to-win so common to MMORPGs.

[WildFire15]

Ghost Widow is unlockable too, through one of their crossover levels that takes place in Independence Port. You fight the Council, with the bosses of the level being Ghost Widow and Arakhn. Statesman shows up but leaves when the dispatcher NPC calls for aid in Atlas... Nostalgia all around.

Can't say the devs aren't showing some love for CoH if they're going that far.

[Power Gamer]

I wouldn't call it love of CoH, more like contempt.

At best it's a crossover with a dead-IP. (pun intended)

[Tyger42]

I keep seeing sidebar ads for Master X Master, most of them fronting Statesman.

:/

Really, NCSoft?  Not falling for it.

I see ads on YouTube now and then before videos for it. People wonder why I suddenly start flipping off my phone and shouting obscenities at it...

[Victoria Victrix]

Just one more reason to forever boycott NCSoft.  The only way I would play one of their games is if I could somehow drain them of money and resources by doing so.

[AudreyWinter]

Just one more reason to forever boycott NCSoft.  The only way I would play one of their games is if I could somehow drain them of money and resources by doing so.

That would make for a funny inversion of a charity event. Marathon gaming for justice!

[Vee]

Just one more reason to forever boycott NCSoft.  The only way I would play one of their games is if I could somehow drain them of money and resources by doing so.

Mxm is free to play. So if you never bought anything your playing it would technically be draining their money and resources, however infinitesimally.

[WildFire15]

I wouldn't call it love of CoH, more like contempt.

At best it's a crossover with a dead-IP. (pun intended)

If it was contempt, NCSoft wouldn't have let them put States and GW in MxM in the first place, let alone a full level with what could be a set of unique enemies (which would have taken a chunk of design and development time).

[MyriVerse]

Contempt for the players, perhaps.

[Thunder Glove]

I wouldn't call it contempt, I'd call it extreme cluelessness.  "What people liked about CoH was the NPCs, right?  So all the CoH fans will flock to another game if we put in the same NPCs, right?  Right???"

[Power Gamer]

I call it contempt because they clearly have the resources ($$$) to develop a game with these characters. And yet they will not relaunch the popular game that, given the entertainment culture (movies and tv), would make it a hot item.

Instead they would rather sit on the ip, thumb their noses at us and give us something we didn't want, this is why I call it contempt.

The cluelessness came about when they shut down CoX in favor of launching other unproven properties.

[Keldian]

It's my understanding that that stuff is there because one of the designers is a fan.  Our problem isn't with designers but with business guys.

[Power Gamer]

They can't include it without the business guys signing off.

[Tyger42]

I call it contempt because they clearly have the resources ($$$) to develop a game with these characters. And yet they will not relaunch the popular game that, given the entertainment culture (movies and tv), would make it a hot item.

You do make a good point here. With superheroes being such a hot item in entertainment these days, a GOOD superhero MMO would potentially have a huge draw.

[Surelle]

It's my understanding that that stuff is there because one of the designers is a fan.  Our problem isn't with designers but with business guys.

I think it's the business guy, the brand manager for NCWest, who is a CoX fan.  He's the one who got the approval to do this back in 2014, when Nate's TFHM team was trying unsuccessfully to get NCSoft to lease the IP and a shutdown-night image of the CoX server.  NCSoft did this MxM crap instead.

I'm with Mercedes on this one.   :P

[Tubbius]

Just one more reason to forever boycott NCSoft.  The only way I would play one of their games is if I could somehow drain them of money and resources by doing so.

Does this mean you won't be doing billboards for them saying that you're a real gamer because you love MXM?

Awwwwww.  :(

[Dev7on]

New petition up folks if your interested...?

https://www.change.org/p/ncsoft-ncsoft-to-allow-city-of-heroes-ip-to-be-purchased-or-re-release-the-game

Signed it.

[Taceus Jiwede]

I call it contempt because they clearly have the resources ($$$) to develop a game with these characters. And yet they will not relaunch the popular game that, given the entertainment culture (movies and tv), would make it a hot item.

Instead they would rather sit on the ip, thumb their noses at us and give us something we didn't want, this is why I call it contempt.

The cluelessness came about when they shut down CoX in favor of launching other unproven properties.

It's not contempt because they don't even know or care who you or we are.  It's apathy at the most, business at usual at the least.   But to think NCSoft cares about us enough to be spiteful, wishful thinking. 

To you it may be a war or personal.  But to them, it's just a job.  They probably don't even think about it when they go home so don't loose sleep over it, they aren't.