I have little hope of City being restored.
Plain and simple, we have a little information that has allowed us to make some very reasonable guesses as to why CoH was closed in the first place, but the FACT is that we don't KNOW why NCSoft shut CoH down. The only people who know that are NCSoft's execs, and they're not telling.
And without that information, we have no way to approach the situation in a manner that would allow us or a third party to negotiate with NCSoft for CoH's release. So baring some radical shift in the climate of NCSoft's corporate offices, I foresee them sticking to their established pattern of not giving a fark.
