News?

[DrakeGrimm]

Wait, are you saying you're the fat lady? I always imagined you'd be heavier-looking.

Well, I'm not the fat lady, but I do like to feel pretty now and then. :P

[CharybdisClan]

Welp, Cryptic/PW scooped up some of our people. Good for them!

http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=689581

[downix]

Welp, Cryptic/PW scooped up some of our people. Good for them!

http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=689581

If they'd scoop up the whole team and the game itself I'd be happy. 8)

I am glad for them as well as the 38 Studio people. Had friends there.

[Kaos Arcanna]

Good to know that at least some of our Devs have secured new employment!  :)

[TimtheEnchanter]

Maybe from the inside, they can talk Cryptic into buying.  :P

[QuantumHero]

Cryptic taking us back into the nest would be almost poetic....but maintaining us and champions online...would they keep both

[downix]

Cryptic taking us back into the nest would be almost poetic....but maintaining us and champions online...would they keep both

They might, due to the different playstyles, although the engines would merge over time I'd presume.

Alternatively could sick the Paragon boys on Champions to fix it up.

Could even work on a CoH2:Champions to eventually merge them together.

[TimtheEnchanter]

Once again one of the greatest things about the lore of CoX. So user-friendly. Every character we bring into it somehow fits like a glove. I don't think the CO universe would be much of a problem.  8)

[DrakeGrimm]

Once again one of the greatest things about the lore of CoX. So user-friendly. Every character we bring into it somehow fits like a glove. I don't think the CO universe would be much of a problem.  8)

Dang it, Portal Corp! Look at what you've done now! >.>

[Segev]

Dang it, Portal Corp! Look at what you've done now! >.>

Will the OS be glad to see us for...testing?

[OzonePrime]

My hero Super Group motto is "Never Give Up! Never Surrender!"         We will Save our City!

We've sent letters. Signed the petition. Have posted the link so our fb friends can sign. Are spreading the word to all of our friends. Are willing to donate monies, time, whatever it takes to keep our city alive. Please keep us posted as to what assistance may be needed.

We are Heroes! This is what we do!

Heroes of Infinity/ Ire of Eire

[Riff]

I think I saw an official announce from Cryptic saying there was no chance of buying out CoH.

It's technically possible they could buy it of course and then do a whole "colliding universes" thing and merge into one game over time. But I can't see PWE wanting two superhero games and it's hard to see where the benefit to them is unless they buy CoH to kill it, but that seems an unnecessary expense since NCSoft seem to be doing fine without PWEs help.

[uninventive]

I know these talks are usually hush-hush...but...when should we begin panicking?

End of October?  Mid-November?  November 30th?

You choose your level of involvement.

Myself, I'll reserve outrage until two weeks before Nov. 30th if it's still all silence (I don't believe in "Hail Mary" business decisions... especially from a deliberative proceeding).  Earlier if NCSoft says officially "there is nothing for you to do" in a Press Release or other official channel.

[Victoria Victrix]

I am a pessimist.  A pessimist obsessively plans for every awful outcome she can think of.

To that end I have put Tony V directly in touch with my Secret Guy-Who-Knows-Everyone Friend.

I don't know what the end of this road will be, but I assure you, there will be no falling off a cliff until every damn plan we can think of has been tried and has failed.

Bear in mind.  Pessimists are more often pleasantly surprised than optimists.

[Sparkly Soldier]

I am a pessimist.  A pessimist obsessively plans for every awful outcome she can think of.

To that end I have put Tony V directly in touch with my Secret Guy-Who-Knows-Everyone Friend.

I don't know what the end of this road will be, but I assure you, there will be no falling off a cliff until every damn plan we can think of has been tried and has failed.

I just wanted to say (with my first Titan post!) thank you, thank you and thank you again for all that you've been doing to try to keep the game alive!  Really, this is a game for writers, artists, for people with creative streaks, and no other MMO even tries to do what it does by letting players become anyone or anything in a world with so many intersecting genres that any concept can make sense and come to life within it.  We're not just trying to save our favorite game, we're trying to save a uniquely 21st-century form of creative expression unlike anything that's existed before or even anything else that exists right now.  If that aspect can survive somehow, and it looks like everyone's doing everything possible to make it happen, then I think the essence of what made CoH so amazing and unique will live on with it.  Anyway, thank you again!

[eabrace]

That's right.  I always plan for the worst and hope to be pleasantly surprised.  :)

[Tanglefoe]

I am a pessimist.  A pessimist obsessively plans for every awful outcome she can think of.

To that end I have put Tony V directly in touch with my Secret Guy-Who-Knows-Everyone Friend.

I don't know what the end of this road will be, but I assure you, there will be no falling off a cliff until every damn plan we can think of has been tried and has failed.

I woke up this morning with a gut feeling that we would get some good news today.  That didn't happen.  In fact, I took the news of Zwill's departure as a punch to the gut and I even resubscribed to another MMO that some of my friends play today thinking it is over.  Seriously though, if you pull something off, I swear I will buy every book you have ever written, and I don't even read much.

[DrakeGrimm]

I am a pessimist.  A pessimist obsessively plans for every awful outcome she can think of.

To that end I have put Tony V directly in touch with my Secret Guy-Who-Knows-Everyone Friend.

I don't know what the end of this road will be, but I assure you, there will be no falling off a cliff until every damn plan we can think of has been tried and has failed.

Bear in mind.  Pessimists are more often pleasantly surprised than optimists.

You have my axe. /LOTR

[Gothica]

You have my axe. /LOTR

And my Pyronic Radial Final Judgement.

[TimtheEnchanter]

I am a pessimist.  A pessimist obsessively plans for every awful outcome she can think of.

To that end I have put Tony V directly in touch with my Secret Guy-Who-Knows-Everyone Friend.

I don't know what the end of this road will be, but I assure you, there will be no falling off a cliff until every damn plan we can think of has been tried and has failed.

Bear in mind.  Pessimists are more often pleasantly surprised than optimists.

Pessimist here too. I never expect something good to come, especially when it involves big business. Every year I seem to ignore more and more of the entertainment media, not to mention the news.

I seem to be a pessimist who likes kicking his own arse though, because I'll still fight against impossible odds. I guess "see a fairytale ending actually happen" must be somewhere in my subconscious bucket list.