Gentlemen and Ladies.
Whether you or I or anyone else would want to give NCSoft another dime is immaterial to the point being made. There may be a studio that makes such an impressive game, that unfortunately NCSoft is in control of... or that in the future, NCSoft reverses course and becomes less asshole... whichever the case is, there may yet be a day where we'd want to get into that game.
The point of their requiring a new account to play that new toy when you already had one in the first place is the very weirdest thing a company can do... especially in less than a year. And they have free games, not requiring one red cent, so there's that, we could play those because we want to.
If there's anything that proves NCSoft is trying like hell to shrink back to a Korea/Asian only company, foregoing and forsaking accounts for only being used for CoH is definitely a smoking gun.
Man. I just don't GET that. That's just... oddball.
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So, I went there, and verified it myself. I had to reset my password, it did, verifed I'm me, got in... bam. Create a new account. o.0
Ok, so here's the real deal. Apparently, the old account ways of having a specialized account name were still allowed, but sometime ago, NCSoft decided that they weren't gonna do this anymore, and require you to sign in with your email, sorta like Netflix or Pandora or such.
BUT, the old, grandfathered accounts, such as CoH, were left in there as a legacy thing.
As soon as they purged the game from their records, and you had no other games to play on that account, the account effectively died right then.
The 'create new account' now requires you to have your email. That's all. It's not some conspiracy, it's a washing away of an old system they'd rather you didn't use anymore.
Mostly I see it in Aion boards, and not a lot of that, but if you really wanted to play Lineage or whatever, you can contact support and get your old account moved to the new one... However, if it says "you have no games that work anymore" there's no point to this, just start over. I think I had Exteel and Autoassault once, and CoH. So yeah, mine's not good anymore, and I don't have an email version account there. T
Terminated.
Not taking sides, just hadda figure that one out, it's just that kind of weird to me.
And yes, it is exactly as the thread is titled. NCSoft doesn't care about us. And the account info is likely gone gone gone, so anyone with a hope of 'maybe we can get our stuff back...?' No. Not unless you had Sentinel+'d or whatever'd your stuff beforehand and can get it imported into whatever comes back as CoH.
/In case that matters. :p
