I'm not gonna lie, I'm extremely excited about the new updates, and I'll have my fingers and toes crossed for the coming months until we hear one way or the other, but I do have one tiny concern. Having to rebuy costume bits and bobs I'll be irritated with, but I'll suck it up and deal, but there were quite a few veteran rewards that would require a CONSIDERABLE investment of money to re-establish, or several years of waiting. I know when the game moved to the Freedom model I calculated out how many reward tokens I would have at launch, and then how many more I would need to complete the reward shrub and how many nc points I would need to purchase to earn them, and I plunked down an extra fifty bucks that I had to skrimp and save to make sure I could buy any of the fun new stuff, and have full access to the veteran rewards. If we're starting new, I really dread the idea that, despite the fact that I was an 8 year veteran myself, I may be locked out of some of the nicer rewards for quite some time.
I'm really hoping that whoever takes over is either able to negotiate a deal for the player data, or at least provides us some way to prove/verify that we were a certain level veteran so we can at least have the rewards/perks. I don't mind if I have to start my characters over, I'd even enjoy the prospect, but certain things just aren't attainable anymore. The 7 year reward with the special star logo and Zeus/Tartarus helmets being a primary concern. My favorite toon, Ocean Knight, just wouldn't be complete without his golden helmet and the Zeus helm is the only one that fit. Either way, I'll be glad to have the city back, but there are plenty of concerns to be had in that area. If the new game-runners are willing to offer stuff like that as purchasable then I'd be willing to fund the game for stuff like that, as long as I can get it.