I recently had a... spirited... conversation with a person in-game on the Beta server. Not gonna name names, outta respect for the guy's dignity, but he was claiming that "a better superhero MMO would come along, and CoH would be forgotten." And he claimed he had "inside tips" and that we should "trust him."
The response basically consisted of just about me and everyone else on Beta saying "dude you're full of it." He's right that a better superhero MMO might come along, but if it does, it'll only be because Titan Network developed it. Even then, CoH won't be forgotten, because the MMO we're working on is dedicated to the memory of CoH. NCSoft will never know success in the superhero MMO market again, if they're ever inclined to reenter it, because they've made enemies of all the fans they might have had. Even if they hadn't, they still gutted Paragon Studios. Those devs have other jobs now, and they're the only people in the market with proven success at making a super hero MMO.
I often think that honestly, had NCSoft tried to sunset City of Heroes in a responsible fashion, with considerations to the playerbase and an attempt to have a legitimate reason for shutting it down, we might not be so outraged right now. But they didn't. They took the most heavy-handed, arbitrary, unreasonable attitude they could towards us, and that is the main reason for our outrage. Then NCsoft had the gall to meet our (polite) requests for information or reconsideration with a silence so thick a Warwolf couldn't tear through it.
The response we got here can only, only mean fear. I think it's finally dawning on them just what kind of hornet's nest they've kicked. What kind of monster they've awoken. They're begging us to go back to sleep and let them continue unopposed.
Nope. I don't know about you, but this monster doesn't like rude awakenings.