An article written with PURE AWESOME!

[Mistress Urd]

Huh, really? I thought it rotated at the same speed it revolved. That means it's not actually tide-locked, which is...odd...considering how close it is to that gravitational body.

Actually, compared to some of the exo planets we have been finding, Mercury is a very distant object.  :o

Mercury is in a 3:2 sync lock. Finding out Merucry wasn't a 1:1 lock was a sad day but knowing that there is polar ice there still gives hope for something there.  8)

[Victoria Victrix]

And BOOM!

MMORPG.COM!!!!!

"The efforts of the City of Heroes players have been spreading throughout the Internet. Celebrities such as actor Sean Astin, actress Tara Platt, authors Neil Gaiman, Mercedes Lackey, John C. Wright, Laurell K. Hamilton, and web comic artist and illustrator John Kovalic"

[JWBullfrog]

And as a sort of ironic note.

http://mmogamez.ru/korea_times_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_city_of_heroes_%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%BC

The Korean times article is being reposted in... Russia.

[dwturducken]

Russians make their Korean look funny.

[Perfidus]

#SaveCoH, worldwide!

[DrakeGrimm]

City of Heroes, meet World of Heroes.

[Vasarto]

Yes, According to various sources it is traveling all around the net.
BTW TonyV

Get back to me on that Message I sent you so I can ask you whether or not I can start up and run the Titan network Facebook.
I do run one for a small game store in GP Oregon so I have experience with doing things like that.

[Arkasas]

I now have a physical copy of the article.

The old CoH background looks really nice in print. Seriously.

[Perfidus]

City of Heroes, meet World of Heroes.

I always thought if we got a sequel, that's exactly what it'd be called.

[Sin Stalker]

"NCsoft's Seoul-based spokesman Kim Yo-han said that terminating the service was a "strategic decision," adding that "nothing had been decided on selling the game or other action afterwards."

"This is a HUGELY significant break from the previous "exhausted all options" statement that NCsoft put out.  While I'm not counting my chickens yet, it vaguely sounds like they are opening up the possibility of selling the IP, which they have adamantly refused to do before."

I don't think it vaguely sounds like they are opening up about selling. Sounds like, now that the game is closed, they are giving statements which look good on paper to their investors.

I personally think they canned CoH because it lacks the ability to easily alter it into a pay-to-win model which NCsoft, Battlenet and Nexon are going into with all their games.

But hopefully I'm wrong.

[Lady Luck]

This lady Mercedes' Lackeys Deserves a special task force mission with her favorite character giving it. and this should be permanent

I would love that!
I never got to play her AE arc with my favorite character (Diana Tregarde) as the contact!

[Tubbius]

I hate to sound cynical, but the guy's note that "nothing had been decided about selling the game afterwards. . . ."

That does not automatically imply that they are considering selling anything at all as some are reading it, sadly.  :(

[NecrotechMaster]

i think ncsoft is reconsidering how they do a lot of things considering their stock has dropped about 9% in the last day or so and its dropped about 50% since the closure announcement and first unity rally

the massive amount of public negativity and losing investor confidence is finally starting to hit them where it hurts

[Perfidus]

I hate to sound cynical, but the guy's note that "nothing had been decided about selling the game afterwards. . . ."

That does not automatically imply that they are considering selling anything at all as some are reading it, sadly.  :(

No, it doesn't. You're absolutely right about that. But it clearly goes against what we were previously told, that being that "all options had been exhausted."

So either we were lied to, or they're changing their mind.

[NecrotechMaster]

No, it doesn't. You're absolutely right about that. But it clearly goes against what we were previously told, that being that "all options had been exhausted."

So either we were lied to, or they're changing their mind.

also very possible its a combination of both

[Perfidus]

That's a good point as well. They lied to us originally, and now, after all we've caused... they're finally second guessing it.

[Electric-Knight]

Well, we heard from multiple sources saying that they believed NCSoft would be open to selling after the actual shutdown.
So, that idea is not entirely a surprise, nor being based entirely on this statement.
As other have pointed out though, this most recent statement is different than the last statement we received about how they had "exhausted all options".
Regardless of how we interpret it... how others interpret it and how NCSoft's people follow it up are what matters.
Us pointing to it and bringing it up everywhere and continuing to suggest that they sell it is a good idea, no matter what. ;)

[Electric-Knight]

I could easily interpret, "...nothing had been decided about selling the game afterwards..." as speaking of the past, when they made the decision to take the "strategy" of shutting CoH down and before they "exhausted" all other options.

I honestly don't think that this is the true meaning... but the "had" (past tense) in their statement does leave that as a possibility.

Regardless, even if it is a slip-up in their game of corporate-speak... it is a slip-up. And we'll play that game if we have to.

[emu265]

That's a good point as well. They lied to us originally, and now, after all we've caused... they're finally second guessing it.

It's either that or they're trying to save face.  Either way, this is the biggest blink we've seen.  And we know that because, like you said, they have directly contradicted themselves.  Still good news, even if it's not the best news possible.



   

[Perfidus]

I'll take a blink over a steely, unblinking gaze, any day.