You and me both, Kitten, There's a petition out there to try and stop them, but the chances of it actually working...

Petitions don't do anything, you know?

Wow, way to be negative

tell that to dark souls....

Yeah, but sadly they shat out a terrible port that's the most insulting release i've seen on PC in ages.

If they couldn't have done a decent job, they should have outsourced the port or not freaking done one.

awww that sucks balls =( they won't leave it free to play?

It's been free to play. As near as anyone can tell they're cannibalizing the resources, financial and otherwise, for GW2.

what's gw2?

Guild Wars 2.

You know. I didn't play a ton. A bit here and there. Had several characters. I didn't mind when it went free, made it easier to log on when I wanted.

But this. Is sad sad news.

I didn't think they were this close to closing, friends were just telling me they've been releasing new powersets, water and nature.

Wow. I'm still really not sure what to say.

Honestly, judging from peoples' reactions, it doesn't seem like there was a lot of warning. I'd be genuinely surprised if the Paragon Studios employees knew more than a few hours before the formal announcement went out.

They're closing because their corporate NCSoft Overlords closed the game down for some reason. Which is odd, because from all I've heard it was turning not only a profit, but a better profit than last year.

It could be that or any other reason, but one I've read about is that CoH is being shut down not due to profit reason but because of contractual reasons. Seems NCSoft doesn't entirely own the rights to CoH but rather had a 5-year lease contract from Cryptic Studios, and now those five years are up.

Back Alley Brawler/Chris Bruce (ex-CoH dev, works at Cryptic now) popped in on his civilian account to say that as far as he knows, that is not the case.

*shrugs* Well, whatever the case is, its quite sad to see it go to the great MMO server in the sky.

Basically, NCSoft's second quarter profits weren't as High as expected, so the corporate heads, who live in Korea, decided to cut corners by closing down Paragon Studios, the makers of CoH, which wasn't doing very well in Korea, compared to Aion or Lineage, both of which are apparently still doing well in Asia.

Now, Superhero MMO options are limited to Champions Online and DCU Online. ...And I might favor CO, myself, because I've tried DCUO...

...AND IT SUUUUUUUUCKS.

There is always WoW or FFX11

or let this be a reminder that both will be dying some day, and all your hard work will some day digital-poof

Because those totally fill the same niche as CoH/CoV. :p

Love your icon and your comment is true. Then again, I play both, so. =D

I think there is a secret society of douche bags out there that kill cool or awesome stuff too early. That, or people who go around doing it to keep said cool and awesome stuff from becoming lame. Hm. Still, I feel for ya. It sucks to lose something like that, and so many RP friends. I'd offer to RP with ya sometime, but I'm not sure how much I could offer. Unless you know a group who knows where I can find a good combat system for an RP involving an abandond space station, an nilistic cult who wishes to bring about ultimate oblivion, and a group of several people trying to stop them from bring the end of all things.

Tamias6 and I both made journals about it too. NCSoft I am Dissapoint.

that sucks, was a good game too

Well ain't that a shit in the mouth.

Hmmm, it must of not been making money for them, like TF2 is for Valve.

From what I heard, they want to remake CoH themselves using the GW2 engine, I guess to cut down on overhead. I've never been able to RP on a MMO myself!

BUt but but but but but... I just rejoined the game last month... I bought stuffs... I came back after trying a little bit of Champions. The reason I came back was because the villains were all too memorable. I loved fighting them. Everything about the game was so much fun...

... damn. There goes my hope of re-logging in on my CoV account. ... which I thought about doing... some day... maybe... <_>

See this pisses me off because ncsoft is focusing on what can make them the most money. Granted this is what companies are supposed to be doing but if you want to get rid of a game get rid of Lineage 2 or fricking Aion! Both those games are not that great and I would rather play City of Heroes over both those games combined.

Sighs.. so are you gonna go to CO , Roxi?

Uh... there are a lot of people in this journal making baseless assumptions. The simple fact is that WE DON'T KNOW WHY the game is shutting down and we probably never will. Starting or perpetuating rumors never helps anyone so knock it off.

If it were ONLY the game, you'd have a valid point. NCSoft is also shutting down the studio behind it.

My point is still valid. We don't know why they are shutting the studio or the game down. Rumors STILL don't solve anything and starting them or perpetuating them is stupid.

November 30th?!?
That seems awfully fast...

Still sucks for you and everyone else who enjoyed the experience :/

that's sad...I beta tested that game when it came out...all that work and money invested into it...shot to heck...

I'm definitely going to ask around about this. I know one of the senior editors of CapsuleComputers personally, so if anyone can find out the reason behind the move, he can. I actually had a lot of interest in trying out CoH.

I think it hit the dev team off guard, too.
They just added a new powerset not last week.
And now the ingame store is closed, so you can't buy anything.

Well they found out just that day, there was no warning, no buildup just bam hi, you all gots no job, get out

aw fuck balls.

I started playing shortly after that went live, and still log in once a month to beat up random bad guys...
backpackhealer shale be no more



but this is typical, I find something I like and they stop carrying it.

Roxi, you've seen the petition I take it + the Titan Network crew working on a Kickstarter to buy the rights and such to the game right?

NCSoft's hurting badly for money--they haven't really had a hit since City of Heroes and lost huge cash on Aion after the initial sales. It's dumb to kill off City rather than say Aion, but...that's business, I guess. Word is they want to consolidate everything, and City's just too old to bring along.

I wish Kickstarters and petitions luck; I don't think NCSoft is going to let anyone have the game.

Well,there's always Champions On-Line.

I loved CoH/V..... I wasn't terribly great at it but it WAS a ton of fun. Especially for roleplay.

I've never liked NCSoft as far as big executive decisions like this go. I still miss Tabula Rasa; I wonder if Richard Garriot ever successfully sued them for that.

Sounds about right.

Yeah, NCSoft killed both MMOGs I played (AutoAssault and Tabula Rasa) and so I decided to never give them money again.

That sucks. So a free-to-play model didn't work for them?

*Hugs RoxiKat*

I remember it before it first opened... when my friend was one of the Beta Testers.

I thought that game would never end...

*Hugs* Man I can't believe it's shutting down. While I do certainly hope for either a kickstarter to help bring it up or maybe at least an emulator with private servers. I've already began my process of making my CoH characters more disconnected from CoH and make them live in their own universe.

And BTW Roxi, I'm the guy who plays Funkatronic Felina on CoH.

All my sympathies. My other CoX friends are pretty broken up about it too. :/

That sucks. Have you taken screenshots (or recorded gameplay videos) to at least have something to remember it by?

City of Heroes was my first MMO, and still remains my favourite to this day. Can't really believe its going. Champions Online and DCU just don't compare to it. :/

its incredibly saddening

I am curious why they decided to do this?

probabaly caus ethey are selling it off to someone else and they backed out instead, so no buyers to afford the servers and thus.. beign a micro paymnt game, their income wont allow them to afford the upkeep costs now that DCU is F2P as well.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :(

Well there Might be Hope:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/show.....d.php?t=296213

I still don't get how they're closing CoH, which has the highest PROFIT margin. There's rumors that it's because Aion and Trek have a "larger player base" (despite the fact that those players are giving in *less* money with *more* overhead)

Other rumors are that they're sucking up the resources to boost Guild Wars 2.

Me? I think it's because City wasn't "theirs". Aion, Trek, all of those, that was created under NC's watch. City already existed, NCSoft stepped in and bought when Paragon Studios split off from Cryptic, and as foolish and self-destructive a move as it is, there's a certain hard-dying aspect to Asian corporate mentalities (especially in game/entertainment companies) that "Our way and our products are better, no matter what the consumer base and financial reports state". I'm not trying to be racist, honestly, but I've just read SO MANY stories of people working for companies whose HQ is in Japan or Korea that basically state the same thing..

Blah. City will be missed, not for the game (though it is awesome) and not for the hours spent playing (they were not wasted) but for the COMMUNITY. The fans, the PLAYERS of that game, were a family, it's HONESTLY a group I've never seen the like of anywhere on the internet.

It's all a Nemesis plot!

I hadn't played in a long time,I switched to Champions Online, but Mistress America, My patriotic Dominatrix looks better on City of Heroes.

Sorry to hear its such a big hit to you Roxi. Personally Im surprised the game lasted this long.

MMO do seem to have an experation date. It's one of those unfortunates natures of MMOs. If the user base is lucky, there might be a spin off; some thing like the server code being released or some thing hacking together their own server code.

If your looking for an alternative, have you considered The Secret World? The game has many cool quest types with their own fun mechanics. The game doesn't have classes, so you can build a healer, and then at any time switch to DPS or switch to tank. (assuming you've built those decks)
Truthfully it's the most fun i've had in a MMO to date.

There's DC Universe Online for those of you that want a superhero MMORPG fix.

So is this a financial move or a "we need those servers for Guild Wars 2" move? It sucks either way.

Yeah, I'm kind of pissed/bumbed about it as well. It was the only MMO I played and enjoyed, even if it was solo.