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MuddBudd
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So it seems F2P wasn't enough to save City of Heroes.
I'm a bit upset by this. I don't play much anymore but I still love all my characters and buy costume bits for them all the time.
Farewell, from all of us at Paragon Studios
This morning we announced that Paragon Studios will be taking to the skies of City of Heroes for the last time.
In a realignment of company focus and publishing support, NCsoft has made the decision to close Paragon Studios. Effective immediately, all development on City of Heroes will cease and we will begin preparations to sunset the world's first, and best, Super Hero MMORPG before the end of the year. As part of this, all recurring subscription billing and Paragon Market purchasing will be discontinued effective immediately. We will have more information regarding a detailed timeline for the cessation of services and what you can expect in game in the coming weeks.
The team here at Paragon deserves special praise for all that we have accomplished over the last 5+ years. These developers are some of the most creative and talented people in the gaming industry. By now, we've all been given this news internally, but to anyone who may be reading this message after the fact; know that your hard work and dedication has not gone unappreciated or unnoticed. To any potential studios looking to grow your team; hire these people. You won't regret it.
To our Community,
Thank you. Thank you for your years of support. You've been with us every step of the way, sharing in our challenges, encouraging us to make City of Heroes better, more than everyone else thought it could be. We couldn't have come this far without you. I implore you all, focus on the good things of CoH and Paragon Studios. Don't dwell on the "how" or the "why", but rather join us in celebrating the legacy of an amazing partnership between the players and the development team.
Thank you, and I'll see you in the skies, one last time.
Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios.
So it seems F2P wasn't enough to save City of Heroes.
I'm a bit upset by this. I don't play much anymore but I still love all my characters and buy costume bits for them all the time.
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The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/08/ncsoft-weathers-6m-loss-in-q2/
The downside of course is, this is hurting their most active game that doesn't have "Guild" in the title.
It also seems like no one but the company knew this, as the game has constantly been leaking things its been working on. i24 was scheduled to hit any week now.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Yet another article about NCSoft's recent quarter
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-08-08-ncsoft-makes-q2-loss-amid-spiralling-costs
Heroes isn't listed as being Yet Another Factor, which I think is important.
This means that there's something else NC wants from Paragon that they can't get while Heroes is running.
@Jacob I tend to agree. Something else happened here because this decision makes no sense.
I went to both of the player summits they had recently here in the Bay Area, and they were all super excited to show off new content and get player feedback. These were people working their asses off to keep the game fresh.
I bought all sorts of stuff on the store.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I'm think it wasn't a Paragon Studios decision. Likely it was an NCSoft decision. So that we have some figures to work with, it looks like CoX brought in ~2,500,000 million dollars in revenue. Depending on their costs, it's quite possible that it was profitable but perhaps not very profitable. I'd have to really dig back but if their massive turnaround brought it from not profitable to slightly profitable it's possible they figure it may reverse again and lose money.
http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20120808001105&cpv=0
If Everquest (the first one) and Dark Ages of Camelot are still up, why not CoX? Hopefully another company will buy CoX/Paragon Studios... it's more successful than many other F2P MMOs as far as I know...
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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*sigh*
Well, there goes my favorite F2P MMO. Goodbye Baron Crimson, you were my most awesome character and villain ever. Goodbye Mister Meltdown. Goodbye Wight Rider, the best hero character I had, bless your cowboy-zombie heart.
His previous gig?
Warhammer Online
The dude cannot catch a break.
They had content announced and in development for like the next three months
It's likely Paragon Studios didn't know or were hoping for a reprieve.
So many fond memories from this game! First game I ever succeeded at hitting the level cap in.
Farewell, CoH. May you be resurrected in some other form (Antimatter Earth-2 Prime CoH Crisis).
God I am actually feeling grief over a videogame.
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I hope somebody else jumps in to save the day, or we get a sequel somehow, or something. But I'm not counting on it. Time to go make a picture log of my characters.
I feel bad for everyone else who did this year
It seems weird to shut down a game that at least apparently was making money; couldn't they have just spun of paragon and sold it or something?
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I will personally be on this weekend if people want to do stuff.
I don't even play much, and I know that GW2 would have kept me from it, but I really do like all my characters.
Its just really sad, and so sudden (and out of the blue)
COMPLETE. FREAKING. WRATH. I would like to know which silly goose is responsible for this decision, so that I may invoke some time fuckery and remove him from the timeline.
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They should set the character creator up to work offline before the thing ultimately goes dark. Charge five bucks or something; I'm sure lots of people would buy it.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
My first MMO.
I hope they got a CoH2 in works.
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It's been a long time since I've written any RP-type stuff, but I'm feeling like I should write epilogues for my (many) characters now.
Simon "NanKnight" Kiver, Karen "Sol'Knight" Sillia, Pyroactive, even John "Nocren" Turner and Dr. Brute are gonna get a final send off.
Wonder if they'll be an in-game event?
I *literally* just made some new characters who had powersets I was finding fun to play.
Like the rest of The Band, I think CoX helped me creatively figure out ways to create a character from scratch, something I've never really been good at. Every character currently made on Virtue has a backstory of some capacity that I could rattle off if someone asked me.
I guess now I have to actually sit there and write it out.
Shutdown protest going on at City Hall. Good to see that the players are being mature about it. Most of them anyway.
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