Okay everyone, stop and think for a moment. I want CoH back as much as anyone else here. However for all that say they would return to CoH if NCSoft relaunched it, please remember this is the company that sunsetted the game way ahead of it its time, they didn't even try to keep it alive on a zombie server until a new dev team could be brought in. It was all "tough luck, the game is closing, please play our other crap games that are coming out *Cough* Wildstar."
If NCSoft relaunches CoH what is to stop them from killing the game again? Answer: NOTHING
Please note: this is not a vendetta cry. These are facts.
While CoH fans want the game back, flocking back to NCSoft and willing to pay the monthly fee again and dumping extra cash into the paragon store to repurchase items to a game that NCSoft, a very untrustworthy company, still owns may not be the best move.
Also, let's not forget Richard Garriott and what NCSoft tried to pull with him.
This.
I would love to see CoH be resurrected, and in that regard, I was as hopeful as anyone here that the TFHM negotiators were trying hard to bring that about.
However, as long as NCsoft has *any* stake in the property whatsoever, I would not play. They have demonstrated repeatedly, afaic, that they care not a whit for their developers OR their customers, and under *no* circumstances will they *ever* see a penny of my money -- I don't trust them in the slightest, and will never do so again.
Which brings me to my second point -- the MXM dev said that the plan to put Statesman into his MoBA goes back a couple
years, which leads me to question if there was ever any "good faith" negotiations regarding the sale of CoH/V from NCsoft at all.
If a third, completely and provably unaffiliated party, were to bring the game back, I'd hop back aboard in a heartbeat. But as long as the stench of NCsoft lurks around it, it's nothing but poisoned carrion to me, and I'll give it a very wide berth indeed.
"Fool me once, shame on you ... Fool me again, get pancaked" (to hijack an old phrase and repurpose it accordingly).
Regards,
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