Reply from NCSoft

[Victoria Victrix]

I'm getting better at this!

http://www.cccpgroup.us/story.php?ID=1259

[WolfSoul]

I'm getting better at this!

http://www.cccpgroup.us/story.php?ID=1259

Is Nigel single? Because I just fell a little bit in love with him.  ;D

[marquandDance]

It's also on reddit - http://redd.it/12d7uf

[Globetrotter]

I'm getting better at this!

http://www.cccpgroup.us/story.php?ID=1259

Better? You are getting brilliant at this :-)
Everytime I see one of your posts, I scratch my humble attempts at writing something.  8)

[Victoria Victrix]

I'm just tickled to death I managed to embed the clickables in the text this time.

Want to see what I have to go through to do that?  Here's the code I have to literally put in manually:

"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill " blank">take a little nap while his ship hit a rock < /a>"

And THANK YOU so much for the Reddit!

[Electric-Knight]

Just wanted to pop in quickly to 1) Thank everyone for the continued efforts. Great job and thank you!
2) After talking with Captain-Excitement about the recent podcast with Matt Miller ( http://www.analogholegaming.com/episodes/2012/10/26/episode-233.html ), we agreed that the point Captain pulled from the podcast

...as a matter of fact, City of Heroes is the largest and most active MMO ever to be shut down. Specifically, it had more active and average concurrent daily users than any MMO ever to be shut down.

should possibly be used for us in our continued efforts to make the public, the press and everyone informed and interested in order to make NCSoft aware of how serious of a hit this can be and influence them to make real efforts to sell this beloved game.

I have to run now, but I wanted to pop on and mention this to you good people!
Take care and I hope all are well and safe if you happened to run into Sandy recently! (In the Hudson Valley of New York and managed to mostly watch her go by without much incident at all).

[Moonfyire101]

um...is it just me or is the link broken Electric-Knight? NVM it's working now

[dwturducken]

I'm just tickled to death I managed to embed the clickables in the text this time.

Want to see what I have to go through to do that?  Here's the code I have to literally put in manually:

"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill " blank">take a little nap while his ship hit a rock < /a>"

And THANK YOU so much for the Reddit!

Mmmm... Good ol' HTML. Party like it's 1999!

Anyone who has a blog can do this, right? Not quality, so much as quantity?

[P51mus]

I'm just tickled to death I managed to embed the clickables in the text this time.

Want to see what I have to go through to do that?  Here's the code I have to literally put in manually:

"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill " blank">take a little nap while his ship hit a rock < /a>"

And THANK YOU so much for the Reddit!

Yep, that's html.  I remember having to use that to make links in forum posts, back before sites started limiting what you could make posts do.

Also I broke a thread with </table> while experimenting.  Spam enough of those and everything past my post would be destroyed.

I think stuff like that is why posts aren't allowed to use straight html anymore.

[Ammon]

I'm getting better at this!

http://www.cccpgroup.us/story.php?ID=1259

That, VV, is absolutely awesome.  Great copy for search, good length, powerful message for people, and some links in there too.  Top marks.  :D

Anyone who has a blog can do this, right? Not quality, so much as quantity?

In terms of helping the effort, you don't even need a blog.  Anywhere you can post a link online, such as facebook, twitter, or G+ can all help someone else's post to do better both in reads, and in search engines.

However, yes, beyond just linking to stuff, (which anyone here should be able to do), any additional articles that can carry a message and links to pages we want to be found is a 'good thing'.  Also if you have a blog, but don't feel you have the writing skills, do feel free to offer up some guest posting opportunities.  The more volume we can create, the more weight it can all have directed in to particular hubs, such as these forums.

[Terwyn]

That, VV, is absolutely awesome.  Great copy for search, good length, powerful message for people, and some links in there too.  Top marks.  :D
In terms of helping the effort, you don't even need a blog.  Anywhere you can post a link online, such as facebook, twitter, or G+ can all help someone else's post to do better both in reads, and in search engines.

However, yes, beyond just linking to stuff, (which anyone here should be able to do), any additional articles that can carry a message and links to pages we want to be found is a 'good thing'.  Also if you have a blog, but don't feel you have the writing skills, do feel free to offer up some guest posting opportunities.  The more volume we can create, the more weight it can all have directed in to particular hubs, such as these forums.

Indeed. There is a reason why I settled on the title "Voices."

[Knightslayer]

*raises hand*

I'm the guilty party for drawing that toon, and Quinch can share the rap for the idea behind it ;D

I uploaded it to the GameKiller folder at the MMOKiller Photobucket site - feel free to drop in, browse around, and download whatever you like to use wherever you want :)

Mad skillz, Turjan, mad skillz!  ;D

[Rae]

Look at you go, VV!

[Colette]

"If what I have been told is correct, they sent their people in immediately to strip the offices..."

Dear Lord! See, that's just so ugly and crass, it's like some corporate Gestapo pounding down the door of your workplace. When the devs are free to speak, that deserves more attention.

[Victoria Victrix]

"If what I have been told is correct, they sent their people in immediately to strip the offices..."

Dear Lord! See, that's just so ugly and crass, it's like some corporate Gestapo pounding down the door of your workplace. When the devs are free to speak, that deserves more attention.

In a couple of the Twitch talks you can hear the workers breaking down the stripped cubicles in the background.

Thank you, Ammon!  Oh and anyone, and I mean ANYONE, can feel free to copy and crosspost any of the CCCP posts.  After all, this IS the CCCP and Commissar Belladonna is in charge of Propaganda.  Just link back to the original, please.

[The Fifth Horseman]

That not only summarized the entire thing very well but also wrapped it in several layers of caustic sarcasm - in an extremely appropriate fashion.  ;D

[healix]

I watched the last Twitchcast and thought........
Nothing says CoH like seeing Black Pebble wearing Mickey Mouse ears and gold boxing gloves while imitating an Irish/Scottish pirate.
That was worth seven years of playing the game...LOLOL

[Atlantea]

Yes indeed. :D

And may I just say - Tunnel Rat is ADORABLE!!!

[Twisted Toon]

Yes indeed. :D

And may I just say - Tunnel Rat is ADORABLE!!!

I was thinking "HOT!!!". But, adorable works too. :)

She won't see this will she? I mean, It'd be embarrassing if she were to know that I thought she was hot.

Um...

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[johnrobey]

Hmm for whatever reason I couldnt find the original FB post a second time.  I went to my long neglected FB acc't (2 years inactive? I hate FB) to reply to the OP on FB.  While it's nice to know I have permission to quote the CCCP (would that include simply posting this link?  http://www.cccpgroup.us/story.php?ID=1259  ) and while I loved reading NCSoft Drops the Ball, it didn't express in tone what I wanted to convey nor my perspective, as a consumer writing a company to either continue/restore a discontinued product or else sell it to another who would.   (This worked by the way when Fit was taken off the market - not enough consumer demand they said.  Whoops!  and here is back:  http://www.fitwash.com/ )

Is NCSoft simply deleting all comments, including their PR reply?  CoH is like a "family member"?  Gimme a break!  Since when does one "sunset" a family member, when that family member is still vital and all reasonable if not extraordinary measures have been taken? (Sorry, you guys already made that point but I needed to rant a little.)

If I had used the CCCP article I would have expanded the title to read NCSoft Drops the Ball and Its About to Shatter (unless appropriate action is taken swiftly.)