I agree with everything you are doing. I have not read all the posts but, I would like to give you a couple of things to ponder. Given the time frame, I think you should have a two sided plan. Part One would incorporate all efforts to gain info/monies/man power and purchase CoH by the Titan Team. The second which would need to be implemented at the same time would be to have a team contact someone that holds this type of game / creativity close to their heart. Someone that has contacts in the field and someone that might be able to find the investors to save CoH. I am thinking that one person that fits this model is Stan Lee. Although he has had his ties with Marvel, I believe he might be able to look past Marvel to see the possibilities of owning CoH and I am sure his heart would be in it. Your thoughts
Either way, we need to gain as much info from the Paragon Devs to help us.
This is an interesting idea - not monetary, legal or programming firepower, but name recognition firepower. That's the sort of thing that gets you noticed by industry trade publications and the gaming community (that comments on 8,000 other boards we've never heard of). Stan the Man is an obvious choice. To that, I'd like to throw in well-known comics nerds like
Kevin Smith and
Joss Whedon. If you guys get a viable gameplan together, and just need it pushed, approaching this sort of audience with it would snowball the effort, and those two in particular have a history of listening to "guy on the street" voices. At the end of the day, Vak is a vigilante - it's all well and good to play the hero, but if we can get mileage out of shaming the archvillain into buckling, the objective is still met.
In the same vein, what other famous/infamous people do y'all know who've mentioned this game before?
On other notes - not a programmer; but if/when we get to the point of monetary contributions I will do what I can. I have been an active subscriber to the game for 97 months (oddly, I never moved off month-to-month) and have bought extra Paragon Points whenever a nifty item was up for sale. For around a year I had two active accounts going. I have dropped around $2K on NCSoft. It would pinch but I would exceed that in one check if it could help to keep this dream alive. When I think of the dreams, friends and history, the expense is worth it.