Well hey now, they are a worldwide developer and publisher of F2P MMOs with offices in the USA after all. And they don't have a Superhero game, but they ARE used to F2P! It might be a good thing if this ever worked out. They're a professional company primarily handling MMO development and distribution already. It's not going out on a limb to picture them taking on another MMO, especially one in a sub-genre they don't already cater to.
So quit being mean and jumping on the OP for coming up with what could be a good thing, you big mean peeps you!
Ideas are not exclusive to one or two people, you know. Try to remember that we don't want to cut off our noses to spite our faces here. We all want the same thing: For CoH to get picked up by a reputable, professional MMO dev/publisher. Wouldn't it stink if the right opportunity came and went and people were so busy immediately shooting everything down that they didn't even notice? Or that so much time went by that the press forgot CoH (which has basically already happened) and any pressure NCSoft had been feeling to sell it faded away?
I mean, wouldn't it be good if *something* good and reliable from an experienced company worked out? Why should people be put down for trying? Are YOU trying? And what of a concrete nature is coming of it if you are?
Though I think it is going to be a lot harder to convince NCSoft to sell to anyone than it would be to get Aeria interested in buying CoH, keep us posted if you hear anything, Joshex! (If you even still feel like posting here anymore after the reaction you got, lol.) Let's hope this idea has merit both with Aeria and NCSoft (but I still tend to doubt NC will sell to much of anyone).
At this point, since the door has been opened and nothing concrete is happening otherwise, wouldn't it be a good idea to send the 31-page pitch to Aeria now? (The whole Google thing supposedly wouldn't even involve Google itself buying CoH anyway, so who knows, maybe they could just nudge NCSoft into selling to someone like Aeria, although why Google would bother becoming some sort of intermediary for CoH simply out of the goodness of their hearts, without getting paid, is beyond me, no matter who if anyone wants to buy CoH).
Here's a blurb on who Aeria is, and they don't appear to launch games in Asia, so maybe NCSoft wouldn't see them as much of a threat:
With a rapidly growing community of over 45 million core players and a deep portfolio of development partners, Aeria Games is a leading destination for free-to-play online multiplayer games. Founded in 2006 and with offices in the US, Germany, and Brazil, Aeria Games publishes and develops high quality online games in nine languages - English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Turkish and Russian - covering more than 30 countries.
