Miller's Loregasm!

[eabrace]

So, what possibilities does this open?  New devs, new publisher, new story, same game?

I'd say definitely new publisher since NCsoft already decided they're done supporting the title.

New devs?  Certainly a few at least.  Regardless of what happens here, we can't expect (or ask) all of the former Paragon employees to sit around and wait to see what happens if they can find another job and resume paying the bills.  The faster negotiations are wrapped up, the more developers we would be likely to retain.  But even if they'd wrapped up last week, the fact of the matter is that some developers are still going to have offers on the table that might pay better to consider.  Any way we paint there, there would be some turnover in the group of developers that would be coming on board.

Same game?  Hopefully.

New story?  Maybe some new threads at least.  See thoughts above on new developers.  And with new writers come new story ideas.

Paragon Studios reconstituted and working on some completely different project, trusting to the loyal base of CoH fans to get them through the tough early years of establishing their product?

I could support that.  (Well, not all by myself, obviously...)

[chaparralshrub]

Personally, I'd like some fresh blood. Some of the things they did in the Who Will Die story arc I just plain didn't like (actually, I really didn't like the concept at all, but I'm particularly cheesed with one of the people they killed off). I'd like to see some re-writing/re-thinking on their part.


Basically, if I'm playing a hero in CoH, I want to be able to play and fight along side of the signature heroes in the game. If I'm a villain, I want to be able to kill them myself instead of having NPCs do it for me. While this doesn't preclude having a well-written story in which some of the major NPCs die, I would rather said story basically remain a "what if" and not be made canonical so that said NPCs are no longer available for other stories and, especially, PC missions.

[laufeyjarson]

Many of the things in the big list of answers were marked as being made up quickly.  Many others were clearly things they could rethink.  I don't think this big discussion gives away the farm.

[Luna Eclypse]

"Why did the Nicti turn humans into wolf-like creatures?

MM: Because Jack wanted werewolves in the game. Oh you wanted an in-universe answer? Um, the Nicti wanted werewolves in their organization."

That got a spit take laugh out of me. I love the joking and ribbing at Jack.  ;D