See, this is the kind of cynical comment from several people in the last few pages of this thread that have convinced me there are some here actively trolling the community, or have become "useful idiots" to those trolls.
Another example is Kistulot mocking the thread from 2013 by Leandro regarding why the community wouldn't want a server *emulator*. If one were to re-read it with a cooler, rational mind, it would be very clear to see it wan't gaslighting, but a very articulate vision statement.
Unfortunately, I think some are preying on the pain of the CoH community for fun, fanning the flames of discontent and conspiracy in a 4chan-esque manner. I appreciate the goals of the moderation team and don't envy their task, but I think a lot more of these posts should be deleted.
Making a joke is not fanning the flames, it's making a joke.
I apologize for being cynical, but it's about all I can be because the entire situation is extremely cynical. It feels as though the overall CoX community has had a pretty clear caste system in play with what is more or less, a first class citizen group who invited who they deemed worth from the unwashed masses. It's frustrating to say the least.
There are aspects that I completely understand, and there are aspects of it that were extremely cynical on the part of those involved, such as people who are in the know about an actively working private server enforcing "no private server discussion" on forums and subreddits, people actively involved in running SCoRE being involved in other efforts that have existed as little more than a placating romparoom for the members of this community not deemed worthy of access to the actual game...
the entire thing is very cynical, from top to bottom, and I simply do not have access to the sort of medication that can help me see it differently, and let me make it clear, I don't think I've ever done anything worthy of being invited, I stopped participating in the community as a whole when the game died and only occasionally pop in to places like this and the subreddit to see if any of the emulation efforts have made any kind of encouraging progress and I'm almost routinely disappointed when I do. What bums me out is seeing people who have clearly been more active right on these very forums who didn't get the nod, that breaks my heart knowing that even if I was active still I likely couldn't have sat at the cool kids table for a MMO that I loved for many years and have spent nearly as many years missing it.
The most cynical aspect is the stuff where they've said "We were going to run a public event but you all ruined it by learning about us". That is... unbelievable in lieu of this entire meltdown.
So honestly my bad, but straight up, it's hard to respond to this with anything other than cynicism especially when you see people posting "Wow even though I can't play and I might not ever be able to play, at least SOMEONE was getting to enjoy the game!" comments, it just seems like pretty blatant brown nosing, and I can barely even blame them because it seems to be about the only realistic hope the majority of the displaced CoX fanbase may have of every playing again.
