I do not intend this to be a criticism on the abilities of the Legacy team or Atlas Park Revival team. This is probably the biggest rant outside of the vintage CoH posts regarding defenders.
I feel I must share some things about the turn of events regarding a deal that is NOT even completed yet. Fellow CoX players, there seems to be some rampant misinformation still swirling around.
First: The CoH Hail Mary / Legacy team initiated negotiations to buy the IP, intellectual property from NCSoft. The current understanding is that NCSoft countered by adding a binary copy of CoX I-23. There is NO indication that NCSoft has made any inclusion of the characters and CoX player data in the deal. For one, strictly speaking they legally cannot. The players in their agreement with NCSoft were afforded privacy in their agreement so NCSoft would not sell that data to third parties interested in soliciting the player base for MMO related marketing.
Second: Even if NCSoft were so inclined as to reinterpret the rules, and look the other way to bring player data to the deal, it is my opinion, the would want to do this in one big file transfer and not parcel out individual player legacy data requests. Finding individual player data records would be far more difficult than retrieving Lois Lerner's famous lost email. In terms of practicality, a Legacy player data request would be intriguing trying to make a connection from Legacy players via a master file sold to Legacy team of former CoH player data. NCSoft isn't going to individually fish out player data files, and the Legacy team isn't buying a huge player database which would be utilized fractionally for the Legacy population at a price I could only imagine.
Third: Just as surely as Statesman's character and story belong to NCSoft and that IP. Joe's Captain Underpants was never his to profit on. Joe could write fan-fiction on certain fan websites, but licenses for T-shirts, novels, songs, or movies with Captain Underpants are strictly against the user's player agreement with NCSoft. Those characters were NEVER yours, even realizing how much you enjoyed the experience with your previous characters. This is why Marvel sued NCSoft or Cryptic, not the players regarding the unlicensed likenesses of the eleventy-seven Wolverine inspired characters running around belonged to CoH.
Fourth: I don't quite understand the intense feeling of entitlementd that folks are claiming over their level 50s. We as a community have lacked any CoH fix for almost 2 years. There is a chance and I mean IF the Legacy deal goes through, that we could play our characters from the creation to however long the servers last again. Isn't that what we originally enjoyed? Isn't playing I-23 or beta I-24 what we crave? All power to the Atlas Park Revival, but this clamor over what we may get in the Legacy deal is unwarranted.
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