Get on board, or get out of our way.
As void hunter said, I'm not "in your way". However, I'm not going to join a fruitless crusade over a video game. Life is too short for that.
If you want to act like a lemming, go for it. I'm not going to get in anyone's way of making a fool of themselves. Any realistic examination of the situation will tell you that NCsoft has made up its mind. You aren't willing or able to go to the limits you would need to really get your way.
- Letter writing isn't going to cut it.
- News reports isn't going to cut it.
- Not buying anything from NCsoft is going to cut it.
What will? There is only one way short of violence that I can see, and you don't have enough money to do it: Buy controlling stock in NCsoft. I'm talking an overwhelming percentage of NCsoft stock, enough to ram through anything you want. For that you likely need to be someone on this list:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/As I said, not going to happen, especially in 2 months.
That leaves violence, though that isn't very heroic or even moderately sane.
Still, I want a FAQ set up with those questions answered:
Did you consider simply closing the studio and putting the game on "retirement" with skeleton crew ?
Not necessarily precising with who or for how much or what terms, but answer with the maximum amount of information, how many IP/license/data buyout offers did you consider ? Did you receive ?
Considering City of Heroes in its current state did not fit in your "future plans", as of August 31.'s announcement, do you even intend to use the IP in the future ?
If City of Heroes has a special place in NCSoft's heart, do you intend on putting Guild Wars 2 next to it ?
well, the last one may be snarky, but what does it cost them to answer that ?
Given my past experience working with a multi-national company, it would be my understanding the following responses:
You won't get a FAQ.
The bean counters examined the possibility of keeping the servers running, the upper management has decided that it isn't making enough money to keep going.
You will never get answers to "how many offers you dealt with", ever. Well, not unless you were upper management at NCsoft.
I doubt they have any plans for future use of the IP. Yet, they like hoarding IPs "just in case". Like hoarders they have an over-inflated sense of the IP's value and won't hear offers with realistic value for the IP. In this case it is sort of like the players "on the crusade" in that they aren't considering what it would take.
As a guesstimate, I'd say 50,000 subscribers paying $10,000 each (or a 100,000 subscribers paying $5,000 each) would be needed to be taken seriously by NCsoft.