Even "the competition" misses City of Heroes

[TargetOne]

I dunno if anyone mentioned this yet, but over at the Champions Online website, they posted a short tribute about the closing of City of Heroes:

http://co.perfectworld.com/news/?p=772781

The message is respectful of the game itself, Paragon Studios, and especially, the CoH player community... which is more than NCSoft ever was.

TargetOne

[Perfidus]

I did see that. I appreciate it, but it was also strategic. They were trying to get as many of us as they could. They just so happened to have a double xp weekend, the weekend directly following Friday's shutdown.

I don't doubt the message was genuine. But there were ulterior motives.

[Perfidus]

Also hi Target, hope you're doing well. Accept my Steam invite already. :P

[Osborn]

I dunno if anyone mentioned this yet, but over at the Champions Online website, they posted a short tribute about the closing of City of Heroes:

http://co.perfectworld.com/news/?p=772781

The message is respectful of the game itself, Paragon Studios, and especially, the CoH player community... which is more than NCSoft ever was.

TargetOne

That might be legit, but it might not really be legit. Either way there's no other response for them to take other than be somber.

I mean, if they started to do a touchdown dance, they'd look like jerks.

[dwturducken]

There is a certain strategy to it. They know they're the only real equivalent, so they don't want to alienate us, like Ozzie said. At the same time, a few of the people working over there actually helped build our game. Wherever they may be, now, they feel it, too.

[Perfidus]

Yeah, that's why I feel it's both a business minded post, and a personal one. You can't tell me people like Geko and Emmert don't feel just a bit sad to see the game go. (Even if neither one of them actually work on CO.)

[Kaos Arcanna]

They could have just said nothing.

Did DC Online post anything about the COH shutdown?

[dwturducken]

Plus, a couple of devs (can't remember who, but it's in the threads, somewhere) ended up back with Cryptic, but on STO.

[Aggelakis]

Howdy! We've already got a topic going on Champion's post. Locking this topic in favor of the one that already exists: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,6545.0.html