Save CITY OF HEROES

[filkertom]

You may know already that NCSoft is planning to shut down the MMORPG City of Heroes (as well as Paragon Studios, the company that develops it) by the end of the year.

This is not going over well with the large number of people who play it.

CoH is probably the primary reason I don't play MMORPGs. Once, while visiting Tom Trupinski and Lady Cheron

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[melchar]

I do play CoH and am beside myself about the shut down. There are at least 4 petitions out now [that I've seen and signed] -& several Facebook communities [CoH alumni, Justice for All are the ones I know about].

In addition to that, Steam has a communities section and there are a number of CoH groups there for commiseration. CoX veterans, City of Heroes (unofficial), CoH Virtue, Virtue remnants, the Rogues - CoH, Paragon Hub & Old Justice - are the ones I know about [and have joined under my CoH name ranthalling]

It's not so much that CoH was the best mmo to play [for hours and hours] - but the social aspect of the game has no equal. Maybe I'm just a silly, overly-sentimental girl about this, but this is hitting me hard.

[ebenbrooks]

I hear ya. It hit me hard, too. But Mercedes Lackey is not giving up; she's talking with NCSoft officials and the former head of Paragon Studios, trying to save it.

If you want to know more, join the city_of_heroes community here. There are updates every few days about efforts to keep the City alive.

[ebenbrooks]

Thanks, man, for promoting our cause. :)

[eleri]

Blade and I really enjoyed CoH/V when we were playing- we got derailed by the monthly, though, and never got back into it when it went free-to-play.

If you don't want to get sucked in, don't go buy Guild Wars 2, because suck you it will (*AHEM!) You can still come run around Uru with us, though. That won't be truly suck-in-able until all the open source stuffs gets going (Or we get Unwritten finished, and some sort of in-game integration made) :)

[peachtales]

The only reason I didn't play it after sitting in front of a friend's computer for a couple of hours with it is that it had a fee at the time (2007). I didn't realize it had gone free to play.

Ah well. Back to playing GW2. :D

[filkertom]

You kiddin'? Remember I wrote "Dervish" just based on the freakin' promo art for GW: Nightfall.

[bayushisan]

I signed the petition on Change.org and I do hope it works out. I understand there are some people trying to buy the IP from NCSoft, so there might be hope there too.

I wanted to get back into CoH so the news of it's closing was a shock.

[ladycheron]

Thanks for covering this, Tom. I got the news at WorldCon, and literally sat and cried for half an hour. City of Heroes is more to us than "just a game". There are also the Real World Hero projects, where CoH players donate time and money to various worthy causes.

I've got literally hundreds of hours of character and costume creation; pages and pages of character back stories and off-line fiction. City of Heroes is where our imaginations live. (Oh, yeah, and I have toons named Amazing Gracie, and Space Squid, too! I wonder where I got THOSE names ;).)

Our first best hope is that NCSoft will license the game, or sell it outright. But even if the game closes, the friendships made there will persist.