Lack of an alternative? Some people were pinning their CoX hopes on Disney at a point where in some of their online games character names not chosen from a list required an approval process and chat was locked down in fear you might say something to offend the kids. Imagine our game after a few kid-friendly passes.
CoX would sooner be shutdown permanently under cryptic north then. I'm trying to tell you guys cryptic north is not cryptic, it's not paragon studios. It's certainly not even eidos montreal or epic games or bethesda or id. Cryptic north was made exclusively to run CO, and they generally don't do anything right. Really, imagine CoX where buffs/debuffs/crowd control, where all secondary effects in all melee/blast sets are all nerfed to the point of not making any difference at all? So everyone would be going fire blast untill they decided to nerf that sets damage, but not anything else. Then buffing say, a knock-back less energy blast. Or better, buffing duel pistols to do 60% more damage then every other powerset in the ENTIRE game while nerfing archery a ton? YEah, they do stupid things like that with CO. Every patch, someone leaves :/.
Understand, not bashing CO itself, bashing cryptic north here because they took a game I liked and left it a smoldering ruin. I like CO, really do, but cryptic north hasn't done it any favors in the long run. Only good change they made was the vehicles change and even then, made mistakes with it.
Edit: And no, I wouldn't trust disney either. My arcs wouldn't be viable without allowing for violence as my AE archs tell a story of war and politics, and i'm anti-war. In other words, expect me to point out the really ugly sides of it.
